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Academic Search Elite via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
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 via Chadwyck-Healey (NCLive)
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  
Indexed from 1750 to 1900.
 

ACA

American Chemical Society  via Appalachian College Association
Provides indexing and full-text access to scholarly journals that serve the scientific and academic communities and advances the practice of chemistry and its related sciences.
 

American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey (NCLive)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Indexed from 1600 to 1900.
 

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography   via Greenwood (NCLive)
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves
 

ACA

ATLAS Full-text Plus   EBSCOhost via Appalachian College Association
The full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA).  This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
 

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Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who’s Who ®   
Gale via Appalachian College Association
Combines award-winning biographies from the Gale Group sources.  Includes full text articles from hundreds of periodicals.  The Complete Marquis Who’s Who ®  provides quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.   
 

BioOne    via Appalachian College Association
Provides access to the full text of current research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
 

Business Source Elite via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
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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CINAHL via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982, abstracts for over 250 journals, indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material. Full text for over 300 journals is provided via integrated links to Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition and Academic Search Elite.
 

Clinical Pharmacology via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
Provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs.   Patient Education records are available in English or Spanish, and there is the ability to limit a search to records in Spanish.
 

Consumer Health Resources  (NCLive)
Recommended Health Websites for NC LIVE
 

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select   Gale via Appalachian College Association
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
 

Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers   via Greenwood (NCLive)
An in-depth analysis of current, best-selling fiction providing details about the complexities of these carefully selected titles.
Regular annual updates cover new works by the authors in the collection.
 

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Daily Life Through History   via Greenwood (NCLive)
Offers a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.
 

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Encyclopedia of Animals via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Includes many complete articles from 1990 to present.
 

ACA

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences   via Appalachian College Association
A major reference for the biological sciences. Includes 3,000 peer-reviewed and continuously updated articles.
 

English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey  (NCLive)
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.   
Indexed from 600 to 1900.
 

ERIC (Education) via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
Indexes over 750 journals in the field of education from 1966 to present.
Includes full text of ERIC Digests from 1967 to present.
 

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Faber Poetry Library via Chadwyck-Healey  (NCLive)
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.   
 

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost  (NCLive) 
Full text of over 25,000 subject entries in the encyclopedia.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (ACA) offers access to multivolume reference works published by Thomson Gale.
 

Grove Dictionary of Art Online via Appalachian College Association
Contains articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts with comprehensive coverage of all countries and historical periods. Entries cover both the fine and decorative arts and include biographies of artists.
 

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians   via Appalachian College Association
A comprehensive source of detailed information on music history, instruments, composers, performers, and musical genres.
 

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Health Source: Consumer Edition via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional   health care publications, and thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and  medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports   medicine.
 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
 

Historic Events of the 20^th Century  via Greenwood  (NCLive)
This one-stop resource invites the reader to discover how events of the last century have shaped and continue to influence today’s events. Teacher lesson plans are included.
 

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Ingenta     
A database of current article information from an extensive list of journals published since fall 1988.  
 

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JSTOR  via Appalachian College Association
Provides digital access to the complete archival files of selected scholarly journals. Full image articles from respected journals in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.
 

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Lexis-Nexis   via SOLINET
Provides in-depth information on business, government, legal, and medical subjects.   Contains full text articles from key journals and is valuable for business, management, tax, and legal research.

Access Lexis-Nexis through proxy agent
 

Literature in Context   via Greenwood (NCLive)
Curriculum-based Literature in Context series is a rich collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.
 

Literature Resource Center –LRC, Scribner, Twayne United States, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors   (Gale) via Appalachian College Association
Contains information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes citations to criticism, explication, monographs, and websites. In-depth biographical and critical coverage is available on major authors.
 

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MAS Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost  (NCLive)
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  (NCLive)
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.
 

MEDLINEplus  (NCLive)
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.
 

Middle Search Plus via EBSCOhost   (NCLive)
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.
Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles.
 

Military & Government Collection   via EBSCOhost (NCLive)
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
   

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)   via Appalachian College Association
Contains citations to information on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The database is international in scope and includes relevant journal articles, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.  
 

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netLibrary via netLibrary (NCLive and Appalachian College Association)
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
 

Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost    (NCLive)
Provides abstracts and indexing 1995 to present for: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions), Christian Science Monitor (some full text) and USA Today. Selected full text coverage for The News & Observer. Includes some complete articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.
 

North American Women's Letters and Diaries mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:mso-fareast-language: via Alexander Street Press   (NCLive)
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women.   
Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.
 

North Carolina Encyclopedia   via NCLive
Includes links to information that students of all ages request about the state, its history, people government, and educational institutions.
 

North Carolina Information Resources   via (NCLive)
A selection of external links to other information about North Carolina's culture, history, business, education, agencies and public programs.
 

NoveList via EBSCO NoveList    (NCLive)
A readers' advisory service. Helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.
Includes many book reviews.
 

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Oxford English Dictionary Online via Appalachian College Association
Traces the usage of words through quotations from a wide range of English language sources. It is the accepted authority on the history and development of the English language, providing an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words.
 

Oxford Reference Online (via Appalachian College Association)
Desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works. The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
 

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PA Research II   (ProQuest)   via NCICU
Information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics, including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences.
 

Polling the Nation    via Appalachian College Association
A social science database incorporating more than 700 polling sources such as Gallup, Harris, and Fox. Replaces the original print reference, American Public Opinion Index 1991-2001.
 

Primary Search (Children's Magazines) via EBSCOhost    (NCLive)
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
 

ProQuest Education Complete    via NCICU
More than 500 titles including primary, secondary, and university-level topics, with nearly 300 in full text. Includes the indexing and abstracts from Education Abstracts plus many addition titles.
 

ProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest Company   (NCLive)
Includes North Carolina Newsstand (Business North Carolina, Fayetteville Observer, Winston Salem Journal, News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.), News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) - limited coverage, Wilmington Morning Star), Wall Street Journal, New York Times
 

PsycArticles contains full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, with coverage from 1988 to present. The database includes all materials from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. 
 

PsycINFO (Psychology) via SilverPlatter PsycINFO (NCLive)
Indexes over 1300 journals in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to present.
 

PubMed   (NCLive)
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed 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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Regional Business News  via EBSCOhost   (NCLive)
Contains abstracts for 67 regional business publications, with full text for 52 of those titles.
 

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Sanborn Maps North Carolina  via Sanborn Maps North Carolina (NCLive)
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 Full Text Select
Covers over 320 science journals with full-text articles, many of which are peer reviewed.  Coverage includes a broad range of significant science literature with full-text articles, indexing and abstracts.  (Off Campus Access)

Searchasaurus   via EBSCOhost   (NCLive)
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, Encycloped of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collection, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search.
 

Serials Directory via EBSCOhost    (NCLive)
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.
 

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage via Appalachian College Association
An online source of comprehensive and reliable financial analysis and investment research that provides access to eleven databases: Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Stock Reports; Industry Surveys; Corporation Records; Mutual Fund Reports; Outlook; Bond Guide; Stock Guide; Earnings Guide; Dividend Record; Security Dealers of North America.
 

Statesman's Year Book World   via Appalachian College Association
A source for current political, economic, and social information about the world's countries. Country profiles provide data on political parties and leaders, population, economics, climate, natural resources, education and legal systems, environment, culture and international affairs.   
 

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Twayne Author Series—Twayne World, English, and US Authors (Gale) via Appalachian College Association
Contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual world, US, or English authors for a total of 600 individual full text titles.
 

Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey   (NCLive)
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    (NCLive)
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   (NCLive)
Containing tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry provides an overview of poetry written in the 20^th century by both established and emerging writers.
 

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Wall Street Journal via ProQuest Company    (NCLive)
Index of articles from 1981 to present.
Includes many complete articles from 1984 to present.
 

WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch   (NCLive)
Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide.