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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

  • CINAHL Plus with Full-Text

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 426 are not found with full text in any version of Academic SearchT, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health CollectionT. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo."
    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."
    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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    * A full-text, open-access source of peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journal articles
    * Includes journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community

    "The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."
    Health and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC)
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    For advanced middle school students through adults
    (1980 - present)

    * Portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users; includes "Alternative Health Module" content
    * Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
    * Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
    * Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles and herbal medicine information
    * Access to health news and key health Web sites

    Health Reference Center-Academic
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    For college-level and other adult researchers
    (1980 - present)

    * Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
    * Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals
    * Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines
    * Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets

    Health Source: Consumer Edition
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines
  • includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books
  • contains more than 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
  • Health Source Nursing Academic Edition
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing 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 drugs."
    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

  • Liebert Online
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This service delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This critical mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Liebert Online is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law."
    MEDLINE
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a 'full text database'."
    Military & Government Collection
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "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."
    Nursing Resource Center
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.

    PLOS
    (Public Library of Science)


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    "PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Open access to 7 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
    PubMed

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    "PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
    Science Resource Center
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.


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