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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

On-Campus | Remote Access

  • Nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles
  • 41 complete titles from the Information Plus reference program
  • More than 275 primary documents
  • 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
  • Nearly 5,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
  • Nearly 4,600 topic overviews that provide context for the issues
  • More than 775 court-case overviews
  • 334 profiles of federal agencies and special interest groups
  • 2,000 links to reviewed and subject-indexed Web sites
  • More than 135 full-text periodicals and newspapers
  • Podcasts from the Weekly Presidential Radio Address

  • 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

  • New York Times Full-Text (1851-2006)

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    For more recent full-text coverage, please access any one of the following databases:

  • Academic OneFile
  • Custom Newspapers

  • The State Newspaper
    (via NewsBank)


    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Full-text coverage of The State going back to 12/1/1987
  • PLUS! Access to America's Newspapers! Users have access to over 1300 newspaper sources from across the United States!

  • America's Newspapers
    (via NewsBank)


    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Access to over 1300 newspaper sources from across the United States!

  • Oxford African American Studies Center

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from the African American National Biography project and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature."
    Custom Newspapers
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    For all age groups

    * Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers
    * New York Times (2000-)
    * Christian Science Monitor (1996-)
    * Post & Courier (Charleston, SC; 2000-)
    * Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1998-)
    * 40+ other domestic papers
    * Times (London; 1996-)
    * 60+ other international papers
    * Updated 1-3 days after publication of the print newspapers.
    * Complete lists of newspapers included, with beginning dates of coverage

    The Chronicle of Higher Education

    On-Campus | Not available remotely

    The Chronicle is a 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. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

    *This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.

    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


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    Last modified: 12/3/09
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