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Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

ACM Digital Library (Full Text)
A full-text collection of over 35 journals published by Association for Computing Machinery. Articles are on all aspects of computer science.

ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications (Full Text)
Articles from 33 ACS publications which appear online anywhere from two weeks to three months before the article is available in print. Coverage extends back four years.

African American Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

The African American Experience(Full Text)
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.

America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1876(Full Text)
Includes Early American Newspapers, Series I.
350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.

American Drama 1714-1915 (LION) (Full Text)
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented.

American National Biography (Full Text)
Biographical information on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. ANB contains profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.

American Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

America's News Magazine(Full Text)
Use this database to find magazine articles from popular news magazines.

Archive of Americana Full Text
Searches Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800, Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819, and Early American Newspapers, Series I.

Art (Full Text)
Full text for over 100 journals plus abstracts and indexing of international, art-related publications. Full text begins in 1997 and indexing in 1984.

ARTstor (Full Text)
A collection of over 300,000 images which documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures. The focus of the collection includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (Full Text)
A collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included. Information dates as far back as 1949, and coverage continues through the present.

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Biography Resource Center (Full Text)
Combines over 300,000 biographies on more than 220,000 people.

BioMed Central (Full Text)
Over 100 open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.

Britannica Online (with Webster's Dictionary) (Full Text)
Latest article database, including articles not in the print edition, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year (1994 - present), with thousands of web links selected by editors.

Business and Company Resource Center (Full Text)
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 & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text). Investment and broker research reports. Company & association directory listings from a number of sources. Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more.

Business Source Premier (Full Text)
Provides full text for over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

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Canadian Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
This unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 Canadian poets from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network (Full Text)
Electronic access to Commerce Clearing House publications in such areas as securities, banking, trade regulation, information technology and product safety/liability. This source covers over 58,000 companies, listing stock dividends, splits, reorganizations and other capital structure changes over the last 100+ years.

CenStats Databases (Full Text)
Contains U.S. Bureau of the Census databases such as County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Census Tract Street Locator, U.S. Counties and Building Permits.

Charleston Net (Full Text)
Contains the Charleston Post and Courier and a variety of information about Charleston.

Chicago Manual of Style (Full Text)
The 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style Online.

Christian Science Monitor (Full Text)
Full text of the current day of a respected international daily newspaper published Monday through Friday.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Full Text)
Comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. The database also provides full text for 218 books/monographs. Full text coverage dates back to 1937.

CINAHL (Full Text)
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, this database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1,000,000 records. Now includes the Pre-Cinahl database.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Full Text)
Contains the full-text of articles in The Charleston Mercury, The New York Herald and the Richmond Examiner from Nov. 1860 through April 1865.

Classical Music Library (Full Text)
Over 30,000 classical music tracks with 2,000 more added each month. This service also includes thousands of program notes and hundreds of playlists. Please exit database when finished. Our license is for three users at a time.

CollegeSource Online (Full Text)
Contains over 4,000 United States and international college and university full-text catalogs.

Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text)
Combines the CommSearch database and the Mass Media Article Index. Contains full-text to over 60 journals in addition to journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communications studies.

Computer Source (Full Text)
Focusing on information and current trends in high technology, this database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Contemporary Authors (Full Text)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Women's Issues on Health and Human Rights
Citations to information on women in over 150 countries. Journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets from disciplines such as sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Covers 1995 to the present.

Country Studies (Full Text)
Contains the on-line versions of books previously published in by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. 102 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations.

County and City Data Book (Full Text)
Electronic versions of the 1988, 1994 and 2000 County and City Data Books.

CQ Electronic Library (Full Text)
Includes CQ Researcher, a source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day, CQ Weekly, a source for expert coverrage of the U.S. Congress such as status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government.

Custom Newspapers (Full Text)
Contains full-text of the Charleston Post and Courier beginning Jan. 2001 and the last 365 days of the New York Times and over 100 domestic and international newspapers including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch as well as the London Times. For a complete list of newspapers covered, click here.

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Dictionary of American History (Full Text)
This is the third edition (2003) of the most comprehensive encyclopedia on American history, comprising ten volumes in printed form. The 4,400 signed articles range in length up to 7,000 words. You can see the table of contents here. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Dictionary of National Biography (Full Text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus (Full Text)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3047 texts in the corpus.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Full Text)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. As of 2004, there are over 750 journals included.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (Full Text)
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database 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.

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Early American Fiction 1789-1850 (LION) (Full Text)
Facsimile page images and keyword-searchable full text for more than four hundred works of American prose fiction published before 1850.

Early American Fiction 1789-1875 (LION) (Full Text)
Early American Fiction 1789–1875 offers the full text of more than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 (Full Text)
Contains full-text images of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages and is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement.

Early English Prose Fiction (LION) (Full Text)
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500–1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form.

ebrary (Full Text)
A collection of over 27,000 electronic books covering all academic subject areas. A web browser plug-in is required to read ebrary books. Click here to download the ebrary web browser plug-in.

EBSCO Animals (Full Text)
Encyclopedia of Animals (EBSCO 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.

EBSCO Electronic Journals Service (Full Text)
Indexing to thousands of journals and full-text to over 300 journals principally in the sciences.

Education (Full Text)
An education database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. It also contains full-text for over 100 journals.

eHRAF World Cultures (Full Text)
The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (LION) (Full Text)
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles.

Emerald (Full Text)
Fulltext access to current journal articles covering numerous aspects of management including accounting, business management, environmental management, library science, marketing, professional development, and more.

Encyclopedia Americana (Full Text)
Thousands of articles on all subjects from a respected encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia Britannica (with Webster's Dictionary) (Full Text)
Latest article database, including articles not in the print edition, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year (1994 - present), with thousands of web links selected by editors.

Encyclopedia of Animals (Full Text)
Encyclopedia of Animals (EBSCO 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.

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Full Text)
Covering the fields of astronomy and astrophysics this encyclopedia includes the full text of over 2,750 articles, plus links to the primary literature, and is frequently updated with new material.

Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, 2002 (Full Text)
Information on the full spectrum of communication, from careers to information technologies, in an interdisciplinary fashion. Emphasis is on both historical and current issues, topics, and people. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of Education 2nd edition, 2002 (Full Text)
A comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 2002 (Full Text)
3,000 articles on Modern Asia from a global perspective. Historical articles emphasize people, places, events, and developments that have had a lasting influence on Asia. Articles also cover Asian relations with Western nations, the relations between nations within Asia, and also the flow of people, goods, and ideas within Asia and globally. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa 2nd edition, 2004 (Full Text)
Covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United Nations' involvement in the region. Each country in the region is reviewed, detailing its population, economy, and government. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd edition, 2004 (Full Text)
This fifteen-volume set is the second edition (2004) of one of the most important reference works in the field. Heavily revised from the first edition (1986; edited by Mircea Eliade), the set contains over 3,000 articles which provide a cross-cultural approach to the study of religion. You can see the table of contents here. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of Sociology , 2000 (Full Text)
Articles covering core issues such as race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy and abortion have been updated and expanded, and completely new articles have been written on topics such as the Internet, privacy, and epidemiology. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

English Drama (LION) (Full Text)
A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.

English Poetry, Second Edition (LION) (Full Text)
This collection builds on the original English Poetry collection (Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources) with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems.

ERIC (EBSCO version) (Full Text)
The Education Resources Information Center provides index and full text to journal articles, government studies, books, dissertations, and other material on education and related fields. Combines citations of sponsored reports, from Resources in Education, and over 750 journals, from the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers 1966 to the present.

ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education) (Full Text)
The new Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) online education database provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), are available for free.

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The Faber Poetry Library (LION) (Full Text)
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.

FedStats(Full Text)
Statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909(Full Text)
396 pamphlets published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia(Full Text)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America(Full Text)
Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns. Also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans, and Amish. Each essay lists organizations and research centers; name, address, and contact information for periodicals, radio, and television stations; and a further readings section. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Gale Virtual Reference Library(Full Text)
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. in the fields of Education, History, Law, Multicultural Studies, Religion and Social Science.

GalleryWatch CRS Reports (Full Text)
Includes abstracts and the PDF full text for more than 25,000 CRS Reports and is updated daily, Content spans from 1993 to the present and covers a range of subject areas including economics, the environment, foreign affairs, immigration, medicine, civil rights, national security, terrorism, and more. Current and archived versions of each report are included, providing comprehensive coverage of edits and amendments.

Gateway to 21st Century Skills(Full Text)
Access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet

Google Book Search(Full Text)
Over 10,000 full text books many of which are older and no longer copyrighted. Limited access to almost 100,000 additional works. To limit your search to full text click "Full view books". Click here to learn more.

GPO Access(Full Text)
Electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government such as the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, etc.

The Greenville News (Greenville, SC)(Full Text)
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. Paid advertisements are excluded. Coverage from 1999 to present.

Grolier Encyclopedias(Full Text)
rolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana and The New Book of Knowledge.

Grove Art Online(Full Text)
Online version of the 34-volume text covering all forms of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s. Includes 41,000 articles and 10,000 color images. NOTE: Only one user at a time can access this database.

Grove Music and Musicians Online(Full Text)
Online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music including New Grove Dictionary of Opera. NOTE: Only one user at a time can access this database.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center(Full Text)
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.

Health Source: Consumer Edition(Full Text)
Access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals and indexing and abstracts to over 300 additional periodicals. The database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition(Full Text)
Includes more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on the nursing and allied health fields but also covers many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.

History Resource Center (Full Text)
Provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

Human Relations Area Files(Full Text)
A collection of ethnographic texts arranged by culture and subject, eHRAF contains more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Cultures range from ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, to indigenous and immigrant groups in North and South America.

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IEEE Computer Society Journals(Full Text)
Online access to the entire IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, including 23 magazines and journals (archived to 1988) 1,700+ conference publications (archived to 1995) with more than 150,000 articles and papers.

Informaworld (Full Text)
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Infotrac Business and Company Resource Center(Full Text)
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 & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text). Investment and broker research reports. Company & association directory listings from a number of sources. Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more.

InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index(Full Text)
An index to over 1,700 scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers. Provides full text to over 800. Covers most academic disciplines including arts and the humanities, social sciences, science and technology.

InfoTrac General Business File ASAP(Full Text)
Information on companies, markets and industries. 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.

InfoTrac General Reference Center(Full Text)
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources. Find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc.

InfoTrac Health and Wellness Resource Center(Full Text)
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.

InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic(Full Text)
A database providing access to over 40 full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources including consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

InfoTracJunior Edition(Full Text)
Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, etc.

InfoTrac Kids InfoBits(Full Text)
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

InfoTrac LegalTrac(Full Text)
Indexes articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and state cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are articles on: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.

InfoTrac OneFile(Full Text)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.

InfoTrac Student Edition(Full Text)
Designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, etc.

Institute of Physics Archives(Full Text)
Full text of the Institute of Physics journals from the late 1800's to 1994. Currently, our full text subscription does not extend beyond 1994.

Internet Library of Early Journals(Full Text)
Full text for at least 20 years for the following 18th and 19th century journals: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

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JSTOR(Full Text)
A collection of full-text articles from over 150 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to the last 4 or 5 years.

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Latin Americanist Research Resources Project(Full Text)
The purpose of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project is to create a prototype for fully connected collections for Latin American studies.

LexisNexis has been replaced with WestLaw Campus Research, an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Library Literature & Information Science(Full Text)
Indexes articles and book reviews from key library and information science periodicals. This database contains over 242,000 English and non-English records dating back to 1980.

Library of Southern Literature(Full Text)
Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works.

Literature Online(Full Text)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literature Resource Center(Full Text)
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

London Times
The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)(Full Text)
London Times 1985 to present(Full Text)

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Making of America(Full Text)
A full-text library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

MAS Ultra -- School Edition(Full Text)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. It also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Mergent Online(Full Text)
Electronic access to Mergent's (formerly Moody's/FISOnline) Manuals. These include Mergent Banking and Finance Manual, Mergent International Manual, Mergent Public Utilities Manual, Mergent Transportation Manual, Mergent OTC Manual and all the News Reports that go with each of these products. Information includes corporate history, Business Properties and subsidiaries, Officers and directors, Long-term debt, Income statement, Balance sheets, and more.

Military and Government Collection(Full Text)
A collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent offering current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

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National Newspapers(Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times (1980 to present), Washington Post (1987 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present) and Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present).

National Trade Data Bank(Full Text)
Extensive international and national trade information published by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Naxos Music Library(Full Text)
An online collection of recorded music in streaming audio-- primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Naxos contains 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 CDs.

NetLibrary(Full Text)
Over 14,500 electronic books for searching and reading.

New York Times (current)(Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times from 2002 to present.

New York Times (historical)(Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2001.

Newspapers(Full Text)
Contains full-text of the Charleston Post and Courier beginning Jan. 2001 and the last 365 days of the New York Times and over 100 domestic and international newspapers including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch as well as the London Times. For a complete list of newspapers covered, click here

Newspapers of the World(Full Text)
Contains full-text of 225 newspapers from 55 countries for the past 60 days only. Newspapers are searchable by country of origin.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction (LION) (Full Text)
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s.

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Occupational Outlook Handbook(Full Text)
The Government's premier career guidance publication, provides essential information about job outlook in a wide range of occupations and the qualifications that will be needed by tomorrow's workers.

Ovid Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals (Full Text)
Collection of searchable full-text nursing journals.

Oxford African American Studies Center (Full Text)
Includes the complete texts of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, The Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, and The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, plus selected articles from many other reference works published by Oxford University Press. The database also includes over 6,000 biographies and over 1,000 images, as well as maps, charts, tables and primary sources with additional commentaries.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(Full Text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Oxford English Dictionary(Full Text)
The complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series, as well as draft material from the current OED project.

Oxford Reference Online(Full Text)
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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Periodicals Archive Online(Full Text)
Index to articles from 1770 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 350 journals.

The Perseus Digital Library(Full Text)
Full-text of resources in the humanities concentrating on ancient Greece and Rome, English renaissance, the city of Londdon, history of science and the American West and Midwest.

Post and Courier (Charleston newspaper)(Full Text)
Contains the Charleston Post and Courier (plus archives) and a variety of information about Charleston.

Primary Search(Full Text)
Focusing on elementary school research Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.

Project Muse(Full Text)
Searchable access to scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

PsycARTICLES(Full Text)
An online database containing more than 25,000 searchable full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations from 1987 to the present. PsycINFO contains links to the full-text articles in PsycARTICLES.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection(Full Text)
This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO(Full Text)
The APA's index of journals, books, dissertations, and reports on psychology and related fields. Includes indexing from Psychological Abstracts. Covers 1887 to the present. PsycINFO also contains links to full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association from 1988 to the present.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States(Full Text)
The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. It includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. The material is presented in chronological order.

PubMed(Full Text)
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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Regional Business News(Full Text)
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Safari Tech Books Online(Full Text)
A collection of 58 technical books dealing principally with computer science (XML, HTML, Java, Linux, Unix, etc.). To see the titles which we subcribe to, click on the BookShelf option near the top of the page. Only one person at a time may use this database so Please log off when you are finished .

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina(Full Text)
Over 2000 Sanborn Maps of over eighty cities in South Carolina from 1884 - 1923 as well as over two hundred unpublished draft maps of additional cities in the state. Originally conceived in the late 18th Century, fire insurance maps provided structural and urban environmental information necessary for insurance underwriters.

ScienceDirect(Full Text)
Full-text access to over 1,200 journals in the scientific, technical and medical fields. Over 1.5 million articles available.

Scribner Writers Series(Full Text)
This database contains lengthy essays on the lives and works of about 1,600 important authors from around the world.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe(Full Text)
A reference database for children in grades 1-9 which promotes research, reading, writing, language and computer skills. Full-text articles and graphics are selected from over 1,200 carefully selected domestic and international publications. Articles are assigned reading levels based on educational content, interest and readability level. Additional content includes an Encyclopedia, The World Almanac® for Kids, Biographies of U.S. Presidents and Country Facts. Updated daily, the online version includes Current Events, Maps of the World, Spotlight of the Month and research strategy worksheets. Elementary and Middle Edition Student Workbooks and an Educator's Guide are included.

SIRS Knowledge Source(Full Text)
Full-text access to thousands of articles from magazines, journals and newspapers. Subjects covered include arts, business, government, humanities, health, social sciences, science and technology.

Social Trends and Indicators(Full Text)
Provides detailed statistics on social issues paired with expert analyses of the statistics. Statistics are gathered from respected sources, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Social Security Administration; data is also gathered from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and stock exchanges. Additional features include appendices presenting highly detailed historical data series and a cumulative index. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics(Full Text)
Data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States

South Carolina Legislature Online(Full Text)
Detailed information on calendars, journals, meetings addresses, biographies, committees for the South Carolina House and Senate. Also includes information on pending legislation, budgets, publications and more.

South Carolina Newspapers(Full Text)
Includes The State (Columbia) from 1987 to present and the Greenville News from 1999 to present. 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. Paid advertisements are excluded.

South Carolina Statistical Abstract(Full Text)
Detailed statistical and census information about South Carolina.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (Full Text)
Provides full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. Contains more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985.

The State (Columbia, SC)(Full Text)
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. Paid advertisements are excluded. Coverage from 1987 to present.

Statisical Abstract of the United States(Full Text)
A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.

STAT-USA(Full Text)
Vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Dept.of Commerce.

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Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet(Full Text)
The Library of Congress's full-text database of information about federal legislation such as summaries and full text of bills, voting records and more. Also includes the latest Congressional Record.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers(Full Text)
Provides information on 155,000 companies, 60,000 product & service classification headings, and 124,000 brand names. Access is free but requires individual registration to search. Updated annually.

The Times Digital Archive(Full Text)
The complete digital edition of The Times (London) including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Coverage is from 1785 to 1985.

The Times (1985 to present)(Full Text)
Full text of The Times (London) including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Coverage is from 1985 to present.

Twayne's Authors Series(Full Text)
Over 600 books full-text dealing with American, English and world authors. The authors covered are primarily but not exclusively literary figures.

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry (LION) (Full Text)
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day.

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U.S. Census Bureau(Full Text)
Census 2000 data and much more.

United States Historical Census Data Browser(Full Text)
Data describing the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

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Value Line Investment Survey -- Standard Edition(Full Text)
Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, 90+ industries, the stock market, and the economy. Click "Log on" at the top of the page.

Victorian Women Writers Project(Full Text)
Full-text of works by British women writers of the 19th century.

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Wall Street Journal (Full Text)
Full-text of the financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance. Covers from 1984 to the present.

WestLaw Campus Research (Full Text)
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

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West's Encyclopedia of American Law(Full Text)
Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide. It's part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

World Almanac(Full Text)
Database of The World Almanac, first published in 1868. Covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, and much more.

Wright American Fiction(Full Text)
A database of early american fiction consisting of over 1,700 novels and other works of fiction published between 1851-1875.

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