DISCUS - South Carolina’s Virtual Library provides all South Carolinians with access to an electronic library of essential information resources, through school, college, and public libraries. Databases provided by DISCUS are so noted in their descriptions.

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EBSCO Animals

EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers 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. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

EBSCOhost Research Databases

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

EconLit

Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Published by the American Economic Association.

Educator's Reference Complete

This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. It provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. 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. (Provided by DISCUS.)

Electronic Collections Online

Indexes scholarly journals in all subject areas, including: agriculture, library science, anthropology, literature, business, medicine, economics, philosophy, education, political science, fine arts, psychology, geography, religion and religions, history, science, language, social sciences, law, and technology.

Encyclopedia Americana

The Encyclopedia Americana Online is published by Grolier Publishing Company, a division of Grolier Inc., from the Encyclopedia Americana database. Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and curriculum topics. Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can now be used either as a stand-alone source of current information on almost any topic or as a guide to the resources of the World Wide Web (Provided by DISCUS)

ERIC (EbscoHost)

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. ERIC documents since October 2002 ("ED" numbers) are available in PDF format at GPO Access.

ERIC (FirstSearch)

References to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. ERIC documents since October 2002 ("ED" numbers) are available in PDF format at GPO Access.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Part of General OneFile. Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. (Provided by DISCUS)

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FactSearch

The FactSearch Database is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Web links to free full text are included frequently. FactSearch is the FirstSearch implementation of the A Matter of Fact database produced by Pierian Press, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Findarticles.com

FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed.

FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources

This comprehensive guide includes links to resources in over 30 practice areas, case law and codes, legal associations, law schools, law reviews, and more.

FirstSearch

OCLC FirstSearch  is a service of the world's largest library cooperative, connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in 31 databases.

Free Medical Journals.Com

The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. Over 800 medical journals are available in full-text.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, 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. For a list of titles included, click here: Title List

General BusinessFile ASAP

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General OneFile

Gale's General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 11,000 titles and backfile coverage from 1980 — from mainstream to specialized sources — and an intuitive search interface make this a source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile. (Provided by DISCUS.)

General Reference Center

Part of InfoTrac. Also known as Magazine Index. Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. (Provided by DISCUS)

GEOBASE

Records covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.

GPO Access

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.

GPO Monthly Catalog

Records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government.

Grateful Med

See PubMed.

Greenville News

See South Carolina Newspapers: Greenville & Columbia

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia was created for students at the upper elementary level and in junior high school, high school, or college and for the inquisitive adult. (Provided by DISCUS)

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). Grove Music Online is regularly updated to ensure it remains the most up-to-date music reference work on the internet. (Publisher's description)

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Health & Wellness Resource Center

Health & Wellness Resource Center is a comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information. Including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. See periodical and reference source title list: http://www.galegroup.com/tlist/hwrc.htm (Provided by DISCUS)

Health Reference Center - Academic

Health Reference Center - Academic provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text formats. Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. See periodical and reference source title list: http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5005.html (Provided by DISCUS)

Health Source - Consumer Edition

This database is a collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Heraldonline

Heraldonline.com is a service of The Herald, the leading daily newspaper in York and Chester counties. This website serves as an index for the Herald. Articles can be retrieved from the library's microfilm collection at no charge or printed from the website for a per article fee.

HighWire Press

HighWire Press is one of the two largest archives of free full-text science journals on Earth. As of 1/2/01, it is assisting in the online publication of 207,023 free full-text articles and 858,274 total articles.

Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database includes annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square—over half a million entries in all.

Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is a  leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.

History Resource Center: U.S.

History Resource Center: U.S. 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. Unlike other sources that contain only periodical or only bibliographic information, History Resource Center: U.S. brings together a broad collection of facts, primary documents and scholarly analysis. (Provided by DISCUS.)

History Resource Center: World

History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity up to the present. The database also features a significant amount of newly available reference content – supported by additional primary source materials – and periodic content loads. This virtual library provides the resources needed – credible multicultural, global and research-based content – to study world history within a flexible and convenient electronic search tool. (Provided by DISCUS.)

Human Resources Management

All aspects of Human Resources Management, Payroll, Pension/Benefits, Employment Law, Safety/OSHA/Workers' Comp, Health Law, and Food and Drug Law. Published by Commerce Clearing House (CCH).

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