Alphabetical Listing of Electronic Databases

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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.

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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 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. African-American Poetry Index via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900. 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. Contains historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. Indexed from 1600 to 1900. 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. Art Index via H.W. Wilson Co. Coverage: This database offers indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.   In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. 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. ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts via CSA Coverage: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Audit Fee Data via Standard & Poor's Corp. NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus. Located in the School of Business. Coverage: Provides annual audit fees, information system consulting fees, and other fees paid to the auditor.

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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. Biological Abstracts via SilverPlatter Company Coverage: Provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide journal literature in the life sciences from 1995 to present. Subjects include anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, botany, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, human biology, microbiology, physiology, reproduction, and zoology.   Biological Abstracts/Reports, Reviews, & Meetings (BA/RRM) via SilverPlatter Company Coverage: Provides the same coverage as Biological Abstracts with bibliographic references to meeting papers, books and chapters, review articles, and U. S. patents. 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. Business and Company Resource Center via Gale Group 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 Coverage: Full text news sources about business from over 500 sources in the US. 1993-- to present   Business ServiCenter via NC Government Resources Coverage: The Business ServiCenter has been established by the North Carolina Department of Commerce in partnership with the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), the North Carolina Community College System, and the North Carolina Industrial Extension Service. Industry specialists offer advice about existing programs and resources that are designed to improve the profitability of companies. Business Source Premier via EBSCOhost 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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CAB Abstracts via Institute for Scientific Information Coverage: ISI CAB Abstracts provides authoritative research information on agriculture, environment and all related applied science disciplines. It use CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES and CAB Registry Numbers. It explore data from journals, books, proceedings, monographs, technical reports, and more. Its backfiles available to 1910. Cabell's Directory via Cabell Publishing, Inc. Coverage: Publishing directories of publishing opportunities in the following areas: accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork via Commerce Clearinghouse Coverage: State, federal and international news on taxation. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via NC LIVE Coverage: Information regarding health promotion and disease prevention The Chronicle of Higher Education Coverage: It is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. 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. Classical Music Library via Classical.com Coverage: Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource, a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. The music moves from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. User can listen and learn at any time from any computer, while simultaneously searching and browsing the reference database.   Communication & Mass Media Complete via EBSCOhost Coverage: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 301 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core"). In addition, CMMC features over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. COMPUSTAT (Research Insight) via Standard & Poor's Corp. NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus. Disks are in the School of Business. Coverage: Time series financial and market information through three databases: COMPUTAT (North America), COMPUSTAT (Global), and Daily Prices. Analyzes over 11,000 active U.S. and Canadian companies, over 10,000 inactive companies, and more than 15,000 global companies. CQ Electronic Library via CQ Press Coverage: CQ Electronic Library provides access to over 3,000 journals, magazines and newspapers articles on current and controversial issues. CQ Researcher Online via CQ Press 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. CQ Weekly via CQ Press Coverage:  Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering. Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection via CSA Coverage: It covers such subjects as Criminal justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence. 1976-Current. Current Contents Connect via Web of Knowledge Coverage: 1998 to the present. It covers agriculture, behavioral sciences, clinical medicine, life sciences, computer, technology, electronics, engineering and art & humanities.

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Faber Poetry Library via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.  FAITS (Faulkner's Advisory for Information Technology Studies) Coverage:  Library of reports covering IT infrastructure, wireless technology, security, data networking, technology vendors, and more. Useful for tracking technology trends, strategic planning, competitive analysis, market awareness, and product/vendor evaluation. FAITS is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind online technology reports library that was created especially for use by the academic community. Continually updated and fully searchable, FAITS contains hundreds of reports that are clearly written, consistent in format, and easy to understand. Reports are designed to help students, educators, and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, trends, market conditions, products, services, and vendors driving the information technology industry. FARS (Financial Accounting Research System) via FASB NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus. Disks are in the School of Business. Coverage:  This database includes Original Pronouncements from the AICPA and FASB, Current Text (including General Standards and Industry Standards), and EITF Abstracts (issues discussed by the Emerging Issues Task Force).  Food Science and Technology Abstracts  via ISI Web of Knowledge  Coverage: 1969 to present.  A source of information on food science, food technology, and human nutrition for professionals working in the food sector at all stages of the food manufacturing cycle. It includes Journals books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents and legislation.   Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost Coverage: Updated annually, this database includes over 25,000 full text records, covering an array of subject areas. Full text of over 25,000 subject entries in the encyclopedia.

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Healthfinder via NC LIVE Coverage: A gateway consumer health information web site whose goal is "to improve consumer access to selected health information from government agencies, their many partner organizations, and other reliable sources that serve the public interest." A variety of menu lists on its home page link to online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health, as well as prevention and self-care. The developer/sponsor of this site is the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services with other listed agencies. Health Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: Social studies of health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, community/public health nursing. 1982-Current. Health Source: Consumer Edition via EBSCOhost 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. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost Coverage: Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals.  HeritageQuest  via HeritageQuest  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.   HIV InSite via NC LIVE Coverage: A project of the University of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute. Designed as a gateway to in-depth information about particular aspects of HIV/AIDS, it provides numerous links to many authoritative sites. HOTS (Hospitality Operation Training System) via Training Technology International NOTE: Accessible only on the NCCU campus. Located in the School of Business. Coverage: HOTS is an advanced computerized business simulation in which up to 99 teams manage hotels in a competitive market place. 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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Inspec  via ISI Web of Knowledge  Coverage: 1898 to the present. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Inspec® is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in the fields, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Communications, Control Engineering, Computers and IT etc. International Financial Statistics via International Monetary Fund Coverage: IFS is a monthly database produced by the International Monetary Fund which provides time series data covering approximately 26,000 economic concepts which show major economic aggregates used in the analysis of economic developments and includes data on exchange rates, balance of payments, banking and financial systems, fund positions, interest rates, government finanace, international liquidity and banking, national accounts, employment, population, prices, production, and trade. ISI HighlyCited.com  via ISI Web of Knowledge Coverage: ISIHighlyCited.com is an Internet-based, free-access product that collects the work of the world's most cited and influential researchers. Visits to this Web-based resource will help you gain insight into the body of work that a particular researcher has developed and track its influence across diverse scientific fields.   ISI Proceeding Via ISI Web of Science Coverage: 1990 to present. Source publications for ISI Proceedings include, books, journals, reports, series produced by publishers or societies, sets of preprints (when preprints are the only publications from a conference) and International proceedings (includes papers published in English and other languages)

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Job Openings via NC Government Resources Coverage: Provides links to North Carolina state government jobs, federal government jobs, the American Job Bank, employer websites, and job fairs.  Journal Citation Reports via ISI Web of Knowledge Coverage: Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journals@Ovid Coverage: Includes over 45 essential and highly cited scientific, technical, and medical journals. 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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Lab Tests Online via NC LIVE Coverage: Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases. If you are a medical professional, this site can serve as a quick reference tool or as a resource for keeping up with advances in laboratory science.  Learning Express via Learning Express Library Coverage: Practice Examinations Review Online (Example: GMAT, GRE, MCAT, Praxis, etc.) LegalTrac via Gale 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. 1980 - Current. 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. Library Literature & Information Science via H. W. Wilson Co. Coverage: Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. Providing enhanced access to your periodical collection, this database also steers users to valuable information on the Web with hotlinks to sites mentioned in articles.  LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Literature Online (LION) via Proquest Information and Learning Coverage: A cross-searchable full-text database of poetry, prose, drama, literature and criticisms. Literature Resource Center via Gale Group 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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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. Market Insight via Standard & Poor's Coverage: Includes Standard and Poor's industry surveys, company financial data, EDGAR reports, trends and projections, and country equity market data. MAS Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost 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. MasterFile Premier via EBSCOhost 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 MathSciNet via American Mathematical Society Coverage: MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature from 1940 to the present.   Mayo Clinic Health Oasis via NC LIVE  Coverage: An excellent consumer source of information. Editors of the site include over 1,200  physicians, scientists, writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit institution with    more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research and education. The site is an  extension of the Mayo Clinic commitment to provide health education to patients and the  general public.   Medem via NC LIVE  Coverage: A project of the leading medical societies in the United States. Some of the founding  societies include the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and  the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The site was developed to provide "a  trusted online source for credible, comprehensive, and clinical healthcare information, and  secure, confidential communications." The "Medical Library" is divided into four major  categories: Life Stages, Diseases and Conditions, Therapies and Health Strategies, and  Health and Society. MEDLINEplus via National Library of Medicine 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. MedlinePlus Drugs & Supplements via National Library of Medicine Coverage: Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia. Merck Manual Home Edition via NC LIVE Coverage: As part of its commitment to ensuring that all who need and want medical information can get it, Merck provides the content of their Merck Manuals on the web for free . Registration is not required, and use is unlimited. The web publications are continuously updated to ensure that the information is as up-to-date as possible. Mergent Online Coverage: Entitles access to the following products: U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, U.S. Earnings Estimates, International Earnings Estimates, U.S. HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History), International HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History), Unadjusted Equity Pricing, Mergent Equity Research Reports, Factsheets Plus Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Expanded Long-Term Debt, Executive Biographies, Competitor Reports, Industry Reports (North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America). Middle Search Plus via EBSCOhost 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. Military & Government Collection via EBSCOhost Coverage: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies. Military & Government Collection includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets. MLA International Bibliography via EBSCOhost Coverage: The MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Morningstar Library Edition via Morningstar Coverage: Comprehensive information on mutual funds and stocks. Music Index Online Coverage: The Music Index ONLINE edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually. Covering all styles and genres of music. It duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

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  Oxford Music Online
  Coverage: Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of the New Oxford Dictionary of Music and  

  Musicians, The New Oxford Dictionary of Opera, and the New Oxford Dictionary of Jazz. It provides

  written music examples, biographies, bibliographies, illustrations, sound archives and etc.

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PAIS Archive via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records. The PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. The PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.   PAIS International via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 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. 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.   Physical Education Index via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: CSA Physical Education Index has been covering this vast collection of material. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.   PILOTS Database via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection via CSA Coverage: Political science, American government, policy studies. 1974-Current. Primary Search (Children's Magazines) via EBSCOhost 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. 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 (PQDT) via ProQuest 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). PsychINFO (Psychology) via EBSCOhost Coverage: Indexes and abstracts over 1300 journals in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to present. Public Administration Abstracts via EBSCOhost Coverage: Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.   PubMed via National Library of Medicine Coverage: Provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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ReferenceUSA via InfoUSA Coverage: Detailed residential, business, health care, and technical company listings. Regional Business News via EBSCOhost Coverage: Abstracts for 67 regional business publications. Includes some full text for 52 of those titles. RIA Checkpoint via RIA Note: Required pre-registration and user ID is provided (free of charge) at the link above. Coverage: Full text federal, state, and local tax material Documents includes, tax codes, regulations, letter rulings, revenue rulings, cases, the Federal Tax Coordinator 2d., and tax journals RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Coverage:  The RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is comprehensive international index of scholarly writings on all types and aspects of music. It provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festschriften, films, videos, iconographies, ethnographic recording, concert reviews and etc. from 1967 to the present.

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Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina 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. Science Citation Index Expanded via Web of Science Coverage: A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1945 forward. Some of the disciplines covered include: Agriculture, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. ScienceDirect via Elsevier Science Coverage: Provides scientific, technical and medical (STN) research that offers access to more than 1,100 journals across sixteen fields of science, including the social sciences. Searchasaurus via EBSCOhost Coverage: Colorful and fun graphical search interface intended for elementary and middle school students. EBSCO databases searchable through this interface are: American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collections, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search. Serials Directory via EBSCOhost Coverage: Provides up-to-date information and pricing for popular magazines and other serials. Contains listings for over 150,000 U.S. and international titles, including 8,000 newspapers. Also includes data on over 87,000 publishers worldwide. 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. SocIndex with Full Text via EBSCOhost Coverage: SocINDEX™ with Full Text provides the same comprehensive indexing and abstracts as SocINDEX™, as well as full text for 241 "core" journals dating as far back as 1895, and full text coverage of 72 "priority" journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers. Social Science Citation Index via Web of Science Coverage: A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward.  Social Services Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Sociological Abstracts via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Coverage: abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. 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. SPORTDiscus via EBSCOhost Coverage: Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,200,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.   State Center for Health Statistics via NC LIVE Coverage: SCHS is responsible for data collection and research, production of reports, and maintenance of a comprehensive collection of health statistics. They have published a wide variety of reports in the past and are in the process of adding them to their Web site. Currently included are several compilations of mortality statistics (including one devoted to cancer), the "North Carolina Pocket Guide" of health statistics, "Vital Facts about Life in North Carolina", and a start toward providing pregnancy and birth statistics.

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The Division of Public Health of the NC Dept. of Health and Human Services via NC LIVE Coverage: Provides a site covering a wide range of programs and services, all aimed toward protecting and improving the health of the people who live and work in North Carolina. Includes information such as fish consumption advisories, ozone levels, pfisteria health precautions, links to local health departments, how to get birth certificates, etc. Twentieth Century African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets. Indexed from 1901 to 1998. Twentieth Century American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets. Twentieth Century English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey Coverage: Containing tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.

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Wall Street Journal via ProQuest Company Coverage: Index of articles from 1981 to present. Includes many complete articles from 1984 to present. The Web of Science via Institute for Scientific Information Coverage: ISI Web of Science consists of five high-quality databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Westlaw Campus via West Coverage: Westlaw is a web-based legal research tool that provides access to cases from the courts of all 50 states and the federal courts; statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated; the federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; the American Law Reports; and American Jurisprudence. WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch