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Academic Search Premier
Collegiate Discus

On-Campus | Remote Access
"The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles."
Expanded Academic ASAP
DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

On-Campus | Remote Access

For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
(1980 - present)

* Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines
* Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
* Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals

Academic OneFile
DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
  • Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
  • Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Updated daily

  • Business & Company Resource Center
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students

    * 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
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
    Career eBook Collection
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

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    For high school students through adults Customized collection of more than 250 electronic books for vocational needs

  • Titles focused on career selection, résumé and cover letter writing, interviewing, changing careers, test-taking strategies and more
  • Keyword and phrase searching possible in an individual title or across the entire collection
  • Features include embedded dictionary and thesaurus, a linked table of contents, page bookmarking and note-taking
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals."
    Computer Source
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer SourceT provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles."
    General BusinessFile ASAP
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
    (1980 - present)

    * Articles from academic and general business, industry & management periodicals, newspapers and newswires (3300+ indexed titles; 2600+ full-text)
    * Investment and broker research reports Company directory listings
    * InfoTrac interface

    LegalTrac
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
    (1980 - present)

    * Index to law and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles
    * Indexing of over 1400 titles; full-text articles from 100+ titles
    * Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals and international titles
    * Law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles

    LexisNexis Academic


    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
  • Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information; foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
  • Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789

  • Regional Business News

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This database provides 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. This database is updated on a daily basis."
    Small Business Resource Center
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.


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