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Academic Search Premier   Multi-disciplinary database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Source: EBSCOhost.  
African-American Poetry   Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey. Coverage: Indexed from 1750 to 1900.  
AllData   Contains vast amounts of Automotive Repair information available to the professional repair shops, technicians, do-it-yourselfers and consumers. Provides reference materials with full size image and diagrams. Also includes unabridged OE wiring diagrams, trouble code diagnosis and technical service bulletins.
Due to licensing agreements, AllData can only be used at Levine and North campuses.  
American Poetry   Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey. Coverage: Indexed from 1600 to 1900.  
America's Newspapers   Full-text content of 29 U.S. newspapers, each the complete electronic edition of record. In addition, 15 North Carolina newpapers are offered.
Source: Newsbank  
Annals of American History   Explore the rich and varied history of the United States with Encyclopædia Britannica's Annals of American History Online. This valuable online chronicle 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, and interviews.
    * Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more.
    * Photos and multimedia included

Source: Britannica.  

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Bills from the NC General Assembly   Links for bill look-up and full text search of bills from 1997 to present; session law/chaptered bill search; tips for finding bills; simple bill inquiry; and much more legislation information.  
Books in Print   Books in Print provides bibliographic information on more than 5.6 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audiobook and video titles, including publisher data and reviews. Users can search or browse by author, subject, or award. Looking for something to read? Check out Books in Print’s Reader’s Advisory page or Fiction Room, which allows searching by recurring character.  
Books in Print (for patron use)   Books in Print provides bibliographic information on more than 5.6 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audiobook and video titles, including publisher data and reviews. Users can search or browse by author, subject, or award. Looking for something to read? Check out Books in Print’s Reader’s Advisory page or Fiction Room, which allows searching by recurring character.  
Britannica Online   Full-text, illustrated encyclopedia online.  
Business Source Premier   Full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Source: EBSCOhost  

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CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online   Provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
Source: RLG.  
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)   The CDC, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is dedicated to promoting "health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." Of special interest to the consumer are the resources about diseases, conditions and other special topics arranged under "Health Topics A-Z".  
Chadwyck-Healey   A collection of full text databases of African-American, American, and English poetry.  
Charlotte Observer   This is the online database provided by Newsbank from 1985 - Current.  
Child Care & Early Eduction Research Connections   Research Connections offers a comprehensive and easily searchable collection of nearly 9,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education.  
Chronicle of Higher Education   The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.  
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) w/ Full Text   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. Indexing for 2,717 journals and full text for 320 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1982-present. Updated monthly.  
College Source   Provides online catalogs for over 7,400 colleges and universities, cover to cover. Includes page format to represent 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Table of contents and indexes are hyperlinked to ease finding detailed information which includes complete course description, academic policies, faculty information, admission requirements, campus maps, etc. Requires Adobe Acrobat.
Coverage: 1994-present. Updated daily.  
Consumer Health Resources   Recommended health websites for NCLive. Lists numerous useful free websites under the following categories: general resources, specialty resources, North Carolina specific resources.  
CQ Researcher   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.
Source: CQ Press  
CQ Weekly   Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
Source: CQ Press  
Crime in North Carolina (Uniform Crime Report)   Law enforcement agencies report the number of offenses and associated crime data used to calculate the Crime Index and Crime Rate. The UCR Program collects data on the age, race and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations. Statistics are broken down by county.  
Criminal Justice Periodicals   This database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database has more than 65 titles available in full-text.
Source: Proquest  

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Economic Development Information Systems   Includes profiles of counties and industries in North Carolina. Provides a searchable database of available industrial properties, and comparisons between states for multiple indicators such as population, taxes, infrastructure, and labor force.  
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography   The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.  
Emerald Insight   The world's leading publisher of management journals and databases, Emerald features 160 full-text journals in the fields of management, information science, and engineering.  
Enciclopedia Universal en Español   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.
Source: Britannica  
Encyclopedia of Animals   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.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1990-present.  
English Poetry   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.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey. Coverage: Indexed from 600 to 1900.  
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)   Comprehensive database indexes 750 journals in the field of education including information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).
Source: EBSCOhost. 1966-present. Updated monthly.  
EXPLORING Poetry   Provides information on over 275 frequently studied poems in literature. Units covered include images, themes, critics, etc.
Source: GaleNet. Updated semiannually.  
EXPLORING Shakespeare   Contains information on most frequently studied plays of William Shakespeare. Contains complete text of plays, essays on the characters and themes in plays, biography of playwright, essays of Globe Theatre, Elizabethan Theatre, contemporary society.
Source: GaleNet. Updated semiannually.  

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Faber Poetry Library   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 SylSource: Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey.  
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia   Contains over 25,000 records with full text for each topic.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: Current. Updated Annually.  

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Gale Virtual Reference Library   Gale Virtual Reference Library provides respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in E-Book reference title format.
Source: Gale  
Greenwood Digital Collection   Greenwood Digital Collection offers high-quality, scholarly reference information, now in e-book format.
Source: Greenwood.  
Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians   You can now search the entire text - all 25 million words - with sophisticated search tools, or click directly to hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to musical sites around the world.
 

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Health Source: Consumer Edition   Provides consumer oriented information on may 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. Includes the Clinical Pharmacology drug database.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984-present, indexing; 1990-present, full text. Updated daily.  
Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition   Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. Also includes integrated results from Clinical Pharmacology and access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984-present, indexing; 1990-present, full text. Updated daily.  
HeritageQuest   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.
Source: HeritageQuest  
HIV InSite   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.  

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Learning Express Library   Provides an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help students succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Due to liscencing agreements new Learning Express Library users must first sign up for an account using an on-campus computer.

Source: LearningExpress Library  
Literature Resource Center   Gale's Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
Source: Gale Group.  

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MAS Ultra - School Edition   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.
Source: EBSCOhost.  
MasterFILE Premier   Covers general reference, business, health, multicultural materials, etc. Over 3,100 titles indexed and abstracted.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984-present, 1990-present full text. Updated daily.  
Medem   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.  
MEDLINE Plus   The National Library of Medicine's consumer-oriented site, contains full text quality resources on common diseases and conditions arranged under "Health Topics" as well as drug information, directories of health care providers, medical dictionaries and more.  
MEDLINE Plus en Espanol   Health information from the National Library of Medicine in Spanish.  
Military & Government Collection   Offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies, for all branches of the military. Includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. Also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.
Source: EBSCOhost.  
MorningStar Investment Research Center   Combines in one timely database all the fund and stock information necessary for in-depth research. In one database, you have comprehensive information on both mutual funds and stocks, and each fund and stock report is loaded with critical data and decisive analysis.
Source: Morningstar  

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NC Health Info   Access to web sites of local health services, providers and programs serving residents of North Carolina. NC Health Info offers an initial collection of 1435 web sites serving North Carolina citizens in all 100 counties.  
NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Services Database   Provides abstracts on criminal justice publications including Federal, State and Local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research. Subjects areas include corrections, courts, law enforcement, juvenile justice, drugs and crime and crime statistics, and victims of crime.
1970-present. Updated weekly.  
NCLive   A gateway to online access to complete articles from over 4,000 newspapers, journals, and magazines; two encyclopedias; and indexing for over 10,000 periodical titles.  
netLibrary   Provides easy access to the full text of more than 22,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
Source: netLibrary.  
New Book of Knowledge   This is a 7 million-word encyclopedia for children, with a current events site updated weekly. It is maintained by Grolier encyclopedia's editorial staff. It also includes a color atlas section, adult and children’s dictionaries and thesauri, and an English to Spanish dictionary.
Source: Grolier.  
New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians   You can now search the entire text - all 25 million words - with sophisticated search tools, or click directly to hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to musical sites around the world.  
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)   ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, with complete coverage from 1851-2003 . Every issue of this title includes the complete paper –cover to cover - with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. An additional year of content is added annually.  
Newspaper Source   Contains abstracts and indexes of newspapers including New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions), Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1995-present. Updated daily.  
NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Codes Online   Covers the prevention of fire and explosion through the regulation of conditions that could cause fire or explosion and panic.
Requires password.  
North American Women's Letters and Diaries   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.
Source: Alexander Street Press.  
North Carolina Community Newspapers   Links to North Carolina newspapers available on-line in full text. Some may provide only recent issues or selected stories.  
North Carolina Information Resources   A selection of external links to other information about North Carolina's culture, history, business, education, agencies and public programs.  
NoveList   A readers' advisory service that is searchable by author, title, series name, and plot (including character, topic, time period, and setting) to retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles related to books of interest. Readers may select from information provided to find similar books that appeal to them. Updated and expanded monthly, the service also includes author read-alikes, lists of award-winning fiction, and book lists arranged by genre and subgenre, feature articles, school content and more. Includes about 6,000 Booklist book reviews, links to web sites, reviews for award winning books, etc.
Varies. Updated monthly.  
Nursing Resource Center   Gale's Nursing Resource Center meets the needs of nursing students at community colleges and 4-year institutions. Students can search through millions of pages of content including animated depictions of human anatomy, encyclopedias, diseases and conditions, multimedia, and much more!  

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O*Net   A comprehensive database that identifies and describes important information about occupations, worker skills, and training requirements. It is the nation's new primary source of occupational information.  
Occupational Outlook Handbook   Published by the US Dept. of Labor, it provides comprehensive descriptions of most occupations. Includes general information as well as nature of the work, working conditions, employment, training, other qualifications, and advancement, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information.  
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center   Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVRC features pro/con viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.  
Oxford English Dictionary   The Oxford English Dictionary is the premier authority on English language and speech from its first publication in 1884. It provides definitions to over 500,000 words, access to over 2.5 million quotations, pronunciation, spellings, and etymology, and access to the 20-volume Second Edition of the OED.  

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PBS eVideo Collection   This NC Live collection has over 200 videos from acclaimed PBS series including "Frontline" and "American Experience." The collection includes Ken Burns' series " Civil War" , "Baseball", and "Jazz" as well as many other critically acclaimed titles.  
Primary Search (Children's Journals and Sources)   Provides information geared towards young children and young adults. Includes 116 indexes and abstracts from popular publications, 109 full text pamphlets, and full text articles from 33 magazines. Also includes Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for kids and the World Almanac of the United States.
Source: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1990-present. Updated weekly.  
ProQuest Newspapers   Includes North Carolina Newsstand and many full text articles from Christian Science Monitor (1988-present), Los Angeles Times (1988-present), New York Times (1999-present), Wall Street Journal (1984-present), and the Washington Post (1996-present).
Source: Proquest.  
ProQuest Nursing Journals   More than 250 leading full-text journals in nursing and allied health.
Source: Proquest.  
PsycInfo   PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
Source: EBSCOhost  
PubMed   Provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.  

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RCL (Resources for College Libraries)   Updated regularly, RCLweb offers the most current core title selections for your collection development, reference, and acquisition needs.  
ReferenceUSA   Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone numbers, on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. health care providers, and 95,000 Technology Companies and 280,000 Executives Database.
Source: infoUSA  
Regional Business News   Abstracts for 67 regional business publications, includes some full text for 52 of those titles. Contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. A collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world.
Source: EBSCOhost.  

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Sanborn Maps North Carolina   A digital collection of maps to more than 11,000 of 158 NC towns and cities produced for fire insurance companies for over a century. Very detailed maps includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
Source: ProQuest.  
Serials Directory   Provides bibliographic listings for over 150,000 serials publications including 8,000 newspapers. Ability to search subjects, titles, publisher and prices for popular serials. Also Contains data for over 87,000 publishers worldwide.
Source: EBSCOhost. Current. Updated monthly.  
ShopKey5   Completely searchable database of automotive information available to our automotive students. ShopKey5 includes the latest vehicle coverage, late-breaking TSBs, wiring diagrams, and ShopKey's industry-standard parts and labor guide. (Only available on campus)  
SpringerLink   SpringerLink is a leading provider of online information for scientific, technical, and medical subject areas. The SpringerLink website provides a single platform through which users can access the broad spectrum of titles available in the collection. The site allows users to search and access full-text articles from the more than 1,000 journals published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer-Verlag. Source: Springer  
State Center for Health Statistics   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.  
State Data Center   The North Carolina State Data Center (SDC) is a consortium of state and local agencies that provides information and data about the State and its component geographic areas. The site includes population, economic, and income data as well as county profiles and rankings.  

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Turfgrass Information File   The Turfgrass Information Center (TIC) at the Michigan State University Libraries contains the most comprehensive public collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world.  
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry   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.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey. Coverage: Indexed from 1901 to 1998.  
Twentieth Century American Poetry   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.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey.  
Twentieth Century English Poetry   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.
Source: Chadwyck-Healey. Coverage: Indexed from the 8th century to the early 20th.  

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Wall Street Journal   Covers latest news, with perspectives that range from local to national.
Source: ProQuest. 1984-present, indexing; 1995-present, full text. Updated daily.  
Westlaw   Westlaw is the premier legal research database with access to thousands of statutues, case law materials, public records, and other resources. [Note: Westlaw requires a separate password. If you do not have a password, Westlaw will need to be accessed at CPCC Libraries.]  
World Data Analysis   Offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world and tools for making comparative charts and tables.
Source: Britannica  
WorldCat   World's most comprehensive collection of bibliographic records from library catalogs worldwide. It contains full bibliographic descriptions and cataloging information for materials including: books, serials, sound recordings, manuscripts, audiovisual, maps, scores and computer-readable files.
Source: OCLC FirstSearch. Coverage: 2150 B.C.- present. Updated daily.  

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