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Academic OneFileDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers
Comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly research
  • Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
  • Full-text New York Times content (1995-)
  • Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Updated daily

Access Newspaper Archive - (Available only inside the Library)
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Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the world's largest archive of online newspapers, is providing this valuable research tool. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.

Access ScienceDiscus
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For high school, college-level and adult researchers
Gateway to authoritative information in all major areas of science and technology, featuring the online, fully illustrated version of the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
  • Research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
  • More than 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms
  • Headline news from Science News Magazine
  • Biographies of prominent scientists
  • Links to evaluated related Web sites
  • Learning resources and study guides
  • Updated daily

AncestryPlus - (Available only inside the Library)
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With over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, AncestryPlus is the most comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available. Included in AncestryPlus are the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index,and much more.

Biography Resource CenterDiscus
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For all age groups
Comprehensive source for biographical information
  • More than 335,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout history
  • Quick reference information on nearly one million people from Who’s Who sources
  • Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected biography Web sites

Book Review Index Online PlusDiscus
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Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Business and Company Resource CenterDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicast’s PROMT databases
  • Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4,000+ indexed titles; 2,900+ full-text)
  • Investment and broker research reports
  • Company and association directory listings from a number of sources
  • Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share and more
  • Twenty-minute delayed stock quotes

Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac-Gale)Discus
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For all age groups
Full-text articles from more than 100 U.S. and international newspapers
  • New York Times (1995-); Christian Science Monitor (1996-); The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC; 2000-); Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1996-); and 40+ other domestic papers
  • Times (London; 1985-) and 60+ other international papers
  • Updated one to three days after publication of the print newspapers

Educator's Reference CompleteDiscus
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This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Encyclopedia AmericanaDiscus
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For grades 8 and up
In-depth information, current events and news archive for student researchers
  • More than 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects
  • More than 100,000 related full-text periodical articles
  • Links to more than 150,000 selected Web sites
  • Weekly news feature, teacher resources and links to U.S. and international news sites
  • Interactive atlas, dictionary; 4,500 black-and-white and color images

Expanded Academic ASAPDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines
  • Millions of full-text articles from 2,000+ scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
  • Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals

Gale Virtual Reference LibraryDiscus
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For middle school students and above
A selection of 24 cross-searchable reference e-books covering a variety of subject areas, including health and medicine, language and literature, history, social studies, science and more
  • Full-text articles
  • Photos and other illustrations

General Business File ASAPDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical resource for business, management and investment topics
  • Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newspapers and newswires (3,300+ indexed titles; 2,600+ full-text)
  • Investment and broker research reports
  • Company directory listings

General Reference CenterDiscus
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For high school students through adults
Magazine, newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general interest
  • Millions of full-text articles from more than 900 general magazine titles
  • Reference information from encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs
  • Coverage of school subjects, current events and consumer interest topics

Grolier Multimedia EncyclopediaDiscus
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For grades 5 and up
Reference information and news on all subjects with learning tools and multimedia
  • More than 40,000 encyclopedia articles with associated pictures, flags, maps and media, including video, sound, animations, panoramas and cutaways
  • Links to thousands of related periodical articles and Web sites
  • Weekly news articles with news quiz and related Web links
  • Monthly Brain Jam e-zine with teacher resources and student activities

Grolier OnlineDiscus
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Welcome to the world's most respected online encyclopedias and reference resources.

Health and Wellness Resource CenterDiscus
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For advanced middle school students through adults
Portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users; includes “Alternative Health Module” content
  • Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
  • More than 700 health-related videos from Healthology, Inc.
  • Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
  • Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles and herbal medicine information
  • Access to health news and key health Web sites

Health Reference Center AcademicDiscus
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For college-level and other adult researchers
Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
  • Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals
  • Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines
  • Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets

Heritage Quest
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Access the Heritage Quest Online database for census data, family records, and local histories. Through this database you'll have access to Periodical Source Index, Freedman's Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pensions, and the Bounty Land Warrant Index.

History Resource Center: U.S.Discus
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For high school students through adults
Complete overview of the most-studied events, issues and current information in U.S. history that have been selected as relevant in the undergraduate curriculum
  • Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm’s digital archives, including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, and more
  • Encyclopedic and critical articles, essays and biographies
  • Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
  • Historical bibliography
  • Links to digitized special collections
  • Audio and video clips of historic speeches and events
  • Multimedia maps and images
  • Country and era overviews
  • Chronological timelines

History Resource Center: WorldDiscus
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History Resource Center: World offers students and researchers award-winning reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps, integrated into a comprehensive, cross-searchable database.

Drawing on themes and trends from the current history curriculum and World History textbooks, History Resource Center: World provides coverage of the 20th century.


Hoover's Online Business Information
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Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. Hoover's editorial staff of some 80 editors and researchers brings vital business information and knowledge to its coverage, updating the site daily to bring our visitors and subscribers the most up-to-date business information in the industry.

InfoTrac OneFileDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals
  • Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a single database
  • More than 25 million full-text articles on all subjects from more than 5,000 periodical titles
  • Articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and children’s periodicals
  • New York Times indexing (1980-) and full-text (1995-), other major newspapers and 8,000+ periodicals

Junior Edition - K12Discus
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For middle school students, their teachers and parents
Magazine, newspaper and reference sources on all subjects
  • Full-text articles from 130+ magazines, with full image for 60+ titles
  • Maps, articles from reference books and newswire articles
  • Includes short stories, poems, quizzes, experiments and activities
  • Toolbox to help students learn research and writing skills

Kids InfoBitsDiscus
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For K-5 students, their teachers and parents
Articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects
  • Full-text articles from 120+ children’s magazines, reference sources and newspapers
  • 2,500 searchable images and maps
  • Reading levels assigned to most articles
  • Includes activities, recipes, experiments, poetry and stories by children
  • Teacher Toolbox to help teach research and writing skills

LegalTracDiscus
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Index to law and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles
  • Indexing of more than 1,400 titles; full-text articles from 100+ titles
  • Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals and international titles
  • Law-related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest titles

Literary Index
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Access the Gale Literary Index to search for biographical information and literary criticism.

Literature Resource Center - LRCDiscus
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For high school students and above
Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for literature, featuring the online versions of these Thomson Gale print series: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twayne’s Authors Series and Scribner Writers Series
  • More than 415,000 full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals
  • Nearly 44,000 critical essays
  • Nearly 6,000 links to authoritative related Web sites
  • Nearly 5,000 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
  • More than 122,000 author biographies
  • Nearly 3,000 author portraits
  • Merriam-Webster’s® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

LitFinderDiscus
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LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.

New Book of KnowledgeDiscus
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For grades 3 and up
Reference information on all subjects with current events and educational features
  • More than 9,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects, with pictures and maps
  • Related articles from children’s magazines; related Web sites appropriate for children
  • Weekly news articles and pictures with lesson plans
  • Links to student activities, educational games and teacher resources

Nursing Resource CenterDiscus
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Thomson Gale's Nursing Resource Center is being designed to meet the needs of nursing students at community colleges, universities, and vocational or technical high schools across the United States. Available on Gale's PowerSearch platform, this resource will bring together in one easy-to-use interface important titles from Gale and Macmillan with excellent, thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy will complement the core reference texts. The Nursing Resource Center provides authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers, class assignments, and those preparing for their clinical experiences as they learn how to care for and treat patients.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterDiscus
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets -- and exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information Plus reference series of statistics, government data, information on legislation and more.

Reference USA
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ReferenceUSA compiles the most accurate database of nearly 13 million U.S. businesses, churches, associations, schools, physicians, government organizations, and corporations.

SC NewspapersDiscus
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For all age groups
Archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia, SC; December 1987-) and The Greenville News (Greenville, 1999-)
  • Locally written articles, including news, editorials, sports, business, arts and features
  • Letters to the editor and major newswire articles
  • Obituaries and death notices (although this coverage is incomplete prior to 1999)
  • Added features from NewsBank: Current Events, Special SC; January Reports, NewsBank Maps and America’s News Magazines
  • Updated one to two days after publication of the print newspaper (Note: See thestate.com and greenvilleonline.com for free access to the most recent one to two days of coverage)

Science Resource CenterDiscus
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Part of Gale's science product line for students, the Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

The Science Resource Center reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including:

  • Earth Science
  • History of Science
  • Life Science
  • Physical Science
  • Science and Technology
  • Science as Inquiry
  • Space Science
  • And much more


Scribner Writers SeriesDiscus
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For high school through college level
Essays on the lives and works of 1,600+ important authors from around the world
  • In-depth coverage of noted novelists, playwrights, poets, short story writers, essayists, journalists, critics, philosophers and writers for children and young adults
  • More than 40 essays on special topics in literature, including gothic novels, nature poetry and others

SIRS DiscovererDiscus
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For students in grades 1 through 9, their teachers and parents
Articles, pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
  • Age-appropriate, full-text articles and images selected from 1,600+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources
  • Reading levels assigned to all articles
  • Maps, pictures, photo essays, activities, biographies, country facts and current events
  • Links to age-appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators

SIRS Knowledge SourceDiscus
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For advanced middle school students through adults
Articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
  • Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources
  • News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
  • Special features on literature, terrorism and other topics
  • Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
  • Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court decisions

Small Business Resource CenterDiscus
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When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Access to Small Business Resource Center is like having experts on call 24 hours a day. Created by subject experts and a librarian advisory board and designed for success, nothing has been overlooked. Small Business Resource Center -- perfect for public and academic libraries, chambers of commerce and small business development centers -- covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business." Whether the aspiring businessperson searches by existing business topics, types, sample business plans or creating their own, search results will be returned quickly and are designed for easy readability and use.

Student EditionDiscus
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For high school students, their teachers and parents
Articles and reference information on topics most-often researched in high schools
  • More than 3 million full-text articles from 400+ periodical titles
  • Newswire articles and articles from reference sources
  • Selection of maps and historical images

What Do I Read Next?Discus
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For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Readers’ advisory resource for recommended fiction and nonfiction
  • Recommendations on 100,000+ book titles for children, young adults and adults
  • Plot summaries, author information and award lists
  • Find recommended books by series, subject, reading level, genre, setting, etc.
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