Electronic Databases : General Sources

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Access: NCCU campus, and remote.  Students, faculty, and staff may access these databases from any campus location (or via NCCU's Web VPN). For remote (off-campus) access, you can obtain a password from the Reference Department.
These databases are on CD-ROM and are located in the School of Business.
Accessible only on NCCU campus.  Any student, staff, or faculty member may access this database from anywhere on campus (or via NCCU's Web VPN).
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nclive logo Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering a wide variety of subject areas from 1984 to present. Includes many complete articles from over 1,000 journals including 380 journals dating back to 1990.

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WWW logo Books24x7 ITPro & BusinessPro Library Collections
Coverage: Referenceware is the largest online book resource offering unobstructed access to the complete unabridged contents of thousands of the latest and best business and technology books, as well as to expert summaries of popular
business books.

nclive logo Britannica Online Academic Edition via Britannica via NC LIVE

 Coverage: Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an

 online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals,

 news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more.

nclive logo Britannica Online Public Library Edition via Britannica via NC LIVE

 Coverage: Encyclopedia Britannica Public Library Edition searches the Britannica Online

 encyclopedia as well as magazines, Web sites, and videos. You can also explore Learning

 Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the

 appropriate age level. The Public Library Edition is geared toward high school students and up.

 Your search results will include Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

 articles as well as media, web sites, and videos. Finally, from Merriam-Webster, you will see

 results for the dictionary and thesaurus as well as the notable quotations.

Business and Company Resource Center via Gale Group
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company, and industry, news and information.
Business NewsBank via NewsBank
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Full text news sources about business from over 500 sources in the US. 1993-- to present.
nclive logo Business Source Premier via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 1500 business magazines and periodicals from 1984 to present, including The Wall Street Journal. Includes many complete articles from more than 750 business periodicals.

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CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork via Commerce Clearinghouse
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: State, federal and international news on taxation.

nclive logo CINHAL w/Full Text via EBSCOhost

Coverage: Indexing for 2,717 journals and full text for 320 journals. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/ complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Access via NCCU only CQ Researcher Online via CQ Press

 NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.

 Coverage:  The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on   

 issues shaping our world. Each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written

 by a seasoned journalist. Published 44 times a year, CQ Researcher reports offer in-depth,

 non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health,

 international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

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nclive logo EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Includes many complete articles from 1990 to present.
Access via NCCU only Encyclopedia Britannica Online
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Online version of the popular reference tool, Encyclopedia Britannica.
nclive logo ERIC via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Indexes over 750 journals in the field of education from 1966 to present. Includes full text of ERIC Digests from 1967 to present.

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nclive logo Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Full text of over 25,000 subject entries in the encyclopedia.

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Global NewsBank via NewsBank
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from over 1000 translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents. Coverage is from 1996 to present.
nclive logo Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia via Grolier via NC LIVE
Coverage: Based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia, this online encyclopedia is an 11-million-word repository of text, images, and multimedia that is updated monthly.

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nclive logo Health Source: Consumer Edition via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine.
nclive logo Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals.

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LegalTrac via Gale Group
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage:This database finds articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals. Legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law are also included.
Literature Resource Center via Gale Group
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

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nclive logo MAS Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school and junior college libraries. Includes reports and special issues from over 460 of the most wanted K-12 magazines, Essential Documents in American History (a database of over 1,000 original historical documents including The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), over 3,000 charts, tables and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, Magill's Book Reviews, and searchable full text for 145 Macmillan Books. Total coverage includes over 1 million articles.
nclive logo MasterFile Premier via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present. Includes many complete articles from more than 1500 periodicals from 1990 to present
nclive logo MEDLINEplus via National Library of Medicine via NC LIVE
Coverage: MEDLINEplus has extensive information for health professionals and consumers from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on hundreds of diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
nclive logo Middle Search Plus via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents in American History, and coverage of the CIA World Factbook. Includes nearly 400,000 articles.

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nclive logo netLibrary via netLibrary via NC LIVE
NOTE: Registration on campus is required.
Coverage: Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.

nclive logo New York Times via ProQuest Company via NC LIVE

  Coverage: Index of the newspaper from August 1986 to present. Contains complete articles

  from the most recent 90 days of the paper.

News and Observer via NewsBank
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Complete full text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. 1991 - present.
News and Record Index [Greensboro] via NewsBank

NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.

Coverage: The News & Record is a daily newspaper that serves the Piedmont Triad, and provides national and local news, sports, features and opinion for the counties of Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Davidson, Almance and Forsyth. Indexes the newspaper's articles from 1990 to present.

NewsBank NewsFile Collection via NewsBank
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events from more than 500 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. 1991-- present.
nclive logo Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing 1995 to present for: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions), Christian Science Monitor and USA Today. Coverage includes everything except obituaries (exclusive of famous people), sports tables, ads/classifieds, stock prices, and weather. Includes many complete articles from the Christian Science Monitor from 1995 to present, and some complete articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.
nclive logo North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press via NC LIVE
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Remote access coming soon. Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.
nclive logo NoveList via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: A readers' advisory service. Helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested. Includes many book reviews.

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nclive logo Primary Search (Children's Magazines) via EBSCOhost via NC LIVE
Coverage: Indexing and abstracting of 116 children's magazines from 1984 to present. Includes many complete articles from 35 children's magazines from 1990 to present. Also includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.
nclive logo ProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest Company via NC LIVE
Coverage: Includes North Carolina Newsstand (Business North Carolina, Fayetteville Observer, Winston Salem Journal, News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.), News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) - limited coverage, Wilmington Morning Star), Wall Street Journal, New York Times.

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   nclive logo ReferenceUSA via InfoUSA via NC LIVE

    Coverage: Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone

    numbers, on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S.

    health care providers, and 95,000 Technology Companies and 280,000 Executives Database.

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SIRS Knowledge Source via Social Issues Resource Series, Inc.
NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus.
Coverage: Full text searchable database of many subjects including the sciences, medicine, business and economics, government, international studies, African American studies. Coverage: 1989 - present.

nclive logo Spanish Reference Center via Britannica via NC LIVE

 Coverage: Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the cornerstone of the PlanetaSaber product, is the

 most comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia available today. It features 145,000

 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish

 elementary encyclopedia, images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials

 specifically designed for younger learners.

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nclive logo Wall Street Journal via ProQuest Company via NC LIVE
Coverage: Index of articles from 1981 to present. Includes many complete articles from 1984 to present.

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