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Electronic Databases: History and Genealogy
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|  Accessible Archives
Coverage: It makes available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. Its primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy. Its full text search capability and digital imaging permits the user to search and manipulate information in ways never before possible.
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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 America History and Life via EBSCOhost
| Coverage: Contains over 400,000 bibliographic
citations and abstracts from over 2000 journals. Citations
include journals of state and local historical societies,
the social sciences and humanities, and leading historical
journals in related fields. Historical coverage of the
United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography via Greenwood via NC LIVE
Coverage: A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled
through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
 America's News Magazines via NewsBank
Coverage: It is a collection of 26 full-text magazines, covering general news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, and sports.
Annals of American History via Britannica via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the
original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through
speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, interviews, biographies, landmark court decisions,
editorials, and more. Photos and multimedia included. 2,100 entries from 1493 to present.
 Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science, Institute for Scientific Information.
Coverage: This index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. |
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 Biography and Genealogy Master Index via the Gale Group.
| Coverage: Provides a comprehensive compilation of bibliographical citations indexing over four million contemporary and historical figures from around the world. |
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) via Proquest Information and Learning
| Coverage: A gateway to full-text ethnic news articles across the United States. |
 Expanded Academic ASAP via Gale
Coverage: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images. 1980 - Current. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale
| Coverage: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries. |
 Global NewsBank via NewsBank
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.
 GPO Access via US Government Publications Office
Coverage: GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993.
 Greenwood Digital Collection via Greenwood
Coverage: The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of complete all searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. It includes the series Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
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HeritageQuest via HeritageQuest via NC LIVE
Coverage: Provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing
family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over
25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections.
Historical Abstracts via EBSCOhost
| Coverage: Bibliographic citations and abstracts
from over 2000 journals, books, and dissertations. Historical
coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding
the United States and Canada)in all branches of world
history, including political, diplomatic, military,
economic, social culture, religious, and the history
of science, technology, and medicine. |
 History Resource Center: U.S. via Gale Group
Coverage: It is a diverse, electronic multidimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. It creates a virtual library of the essential tools needed for the study of U.S. history through extensive inter-linking and cross-referencing — modeling the natural multidimensional research process of students.
 History Resource Center: World via Gale Group
Coverage: It is the newly updated version of one of out most popular electronic resources. It combines a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources with easy-to-use search functionality supporting undergraduate and high school research and curriculums.  Humanities International Complete via EBSCOhost
Coverage: Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records. Major subject areas include literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture and multi-disciplinary humanities titles, with a special emphasis on literature and the literary arts. Title coverage goes back as far as 1929. |
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 JSTOR
| Coverage: Archive of over 100 full text scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Does not include issues from recent volumes usually the last 2-5 years. |
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 LexisNexis Academic via LexisNexis
| Coverage: Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. These sources include U.S. Federal and State case law, codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, company financial information, and industry and market news. |
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 MarciveWeb Docs via US Government Publications
Coverage: MarciveWeb Docs is a general index to federal government documents published from 1976 to the present and is updated monthly. It indexes many types of documents including agency publications, annual reports, census data, congressional hearings, and statistical publications.
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 |
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|  NetLibrary via NetLibrary
Coverage: Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
 New York Times via ProQuest Company
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
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 Observer Index [Raleigh] via ProQuest Company
Coverage: Covers North Carolina and the world. Indexes articles from 1995 to present. Includes a few complete articles from 1988 to 1994 and most articles from 1995 to present.
 NewsBank NewsFile Collection via NewsBank
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. 1992-- present
. Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost
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.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press via NC LIVE
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. Contains
materials from Colonial times to 1950.
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Carolina Information Resources via NC LIVE
| Coverage: A selection of external links to
other information about North Carolina's culture, history,
business, education, agencies and public programs. |
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PAIS International
| Coverage: The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
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PBS Video Collection via NC LIVE
Coverage: A selection of nearly 250 PBS programs, including films from award winning
documentarian Ken Burns, and series such as Scientific American Frontiers, American
Experience, and Frontline. These videos are available using video stream and require Adobe
Flash Player Version 9.0 or higher.
 Project Muse via Johns Hopkins University
Coverage: Provides online access to the full text of the John Hopkins University Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and Mathematics.
 ProQuest Dissertations & Theses via ProQuest Company
Coverage: Includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles
added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
 ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post via ProQuest
Coverage: Includes historical backfiles of Christian Science Monitor (1908-1995), New York Times (1851-2005), Wall Street Journal (1889-1991)and Washinton Post (1877-1992).
 ProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest
Coverage: Includes all of North Carolina Newsstand and many full text articles from: Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), New York Times (1980 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present), The Washington Post (1987 to present). |
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| Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina via NC LIVE
Coverage: Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173
large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily
manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from
different years.
SIRS Knowledge
Source via Social Issues Resource Series, Inc.
| Coverage: Full text searchable database of
many subjects including the sciences, medicine, business
and economics, government, international studies, African
American studies. Coverage: 1989 - present. |
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Science Citation Index via Web of Science.
| Coverage: Indexes and abstracts major sources
in the Social Sciences. May also do a cited reference
search. 1994 to present. |
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 Spanish Reference Center (Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol) via Britannica
Coverage: Comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language containing 47,000 articles, 8,300 images, 390 maps, 500 tables, 65,000 dictionary entries, comprehensive atlas, and timelines of general history, art, and cultural. |
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 United States Newspapers via NewsBank
| Coverage: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. |
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