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Title:
Academic ASAP, Expanded
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database for research in all academic disciplines,
including education.
Title:
Academic Search Premier
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1965 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Designed specifically for academic institutions, it is the world's largest
scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text 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 all
8,172 journals in the collection.
Title: African American Biographical Database
Via: Web
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1790-1950
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Includes
profiles and full-text sketches; provides biographical detail
and narratives on the lives of Black Americans.
Title: Biography
Resource Center
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A comprehensive database of biographical information on
more than 220,000 people from all time periods, geographical locations, and
fields of endeavor. The index combines approximately 300,000 biographies from
Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete
Marquis Who's Who. It also includes full-text articles from nearly 250
periodicals. Searches for people based on one or more personal facts such as
birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or
gender, or combines criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
Title: BookSense Best Sellers
Via: American Booksellers Association
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: 1999 to present
Full-Text: No
Description: Lists of current bestsellers in trade hardcover and paperback, fiction, non-fiction,
mass-market, children's
interest, children's illustrated, and children's fiction series.
Title:
College Source Catalogs
Via: Career Guidance Foundation
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Virtual library of over 31,000 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover original page format
covering 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional, and international schools.
Title: Current
Research @ University of South Carolina
Via: ProQuest/UMI
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1996 - present
Full-Text: Yes, for USC dissertations
Description: Accesses abstracts of dissertations and theses published
by UMI from 1996 to the present and the full text of USC dissertations and
theses published from 1996 to the present.
Title: Custom
Newspapers
Via Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international
newspapers New York Times (January 2000+); Christian Science Monitor; Post
& Courier (Charleston, SC), Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 40+ other
domestic papers Times (London) and 60+ other international papers. Updated 1-3
days after publication of the print newspapers. A complete list of newspaper
titles with beginning date of coverage is available on the Gale Web site.
Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Online
Via: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Title: Encyclopedia
Americana
Via: Grolier (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card
may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Site consists of three encyclopedias: New Book of
Knowledge Online (for children), Encyclopedia Americana Online (for in-depth
research) and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online (for quick reference)
Title:
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Title:
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Selected full-text reference works in the following fields: Arts, Biography, Business,
Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Science, and Social Science.
Title:
General
Reference Center
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences,
sports, etc. Publications: Magazines, reference books, and newspapers.
Title:
Greenville News
Via: Gale Group/Newsbank (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1987 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description Archive of full-text articles from the Greenville News newspaper.
Locally written articles - news, editorials, sports, business,
arts, features Letters to the editor and major newswire articles. Special Reports from
NewsBank - topics in the news with reprints of stories from a variety of
sources with related photographs and maps Note: Updated 1-2 days after
publication of the print newspaper.
Title:
Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia
Via: Grolier (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Site consists of three encyclopedias: New Book of
Knowledge Online (for children), Encyclopedia Americana Online (for in-depth
research) and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online (for quick reference)
Title: In the First Person
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: No
Description: Index of more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world.
Indexes letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives.
Title: Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Via: Reed Elsevier Inc. (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID ard may
access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text documents from 6,000 news, business, legal, medical,
and general reference publications. Included in the
service are several national newspapers including the New York Times
(1977 - present) and Washington Post (1977 - present) and the Chronicle
of Higher Education (1997 - present, with no embargo on current issues).
Title:
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1969 - present
Full-Text: No
Description:A UK-based database containing abstracts on artificial intelligence, book reviews, CD-ROMs, the Internet,
computer science applications, information science, librarianship and library management, and online information retrieval.
Title:
Library
& Information Science Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and
indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in automation, cataloging,
censorship, children's literature, circulation, classification, copyright
legislation, internet software, library equipment & supplies, preservation
of materials, publishing, web sites, and more.
Title:
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Via: EBSCO
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage:
Full-Text: No
Description:A US-based database containing abstracts on librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.
Title:
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1985 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full text from nearly 600 popular general interest and current events
publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In
addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more
than 650 titles.
Title:
OneFile
- InfoTrac
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A compilation of all the DISCUS databases brought
together, providing a one-step approach to searching.
Title: Opposing
Viewpoints
Via: Gale Group
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database that analyzes current issues, from abortion to
United States foreign relations, and beyond, with opposing viewpoints.
Title:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Via: Oxford University Press
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides 50,000 signed biographies of men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from
the earlies times to the end of the year 2000.
Title: Oxford
English Dictionary
Via: Oxford University Press
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Online version of the OED.
Title:
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Via: Oxford University Press
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works
published by Oxford University Press in a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database. Also contains information
from the Oxford Companions Series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, providing an additional 140,000 entries,
including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.
Title:
Physical Education Index
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1970 - present
Full-Text: No
Description:
Abstracts on physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology,
motor learning, recreation, standardized
fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and
training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical
therapy are also covered.
Title:
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Via: UMI: University Microfilms
Access: Restricted to North/South campuses
Coverage: 1861 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains over 2 million entries of doctoral dissertations published from 1980 and masters theses published
from 1988. More than 600,000 documents available in PDF format for immediate free download.
Title:
Readers'
Guide (Current Events) Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and
indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in African Americans, aging,
astronomy, biography, business, children, computers, consumer education,
current events, education, environment, film, fine arts, foreign affairs,
health, history, medicine, music, news, politics, religion, science, and more.
Title: SIRS Researcher
Via: SIRS (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid
USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Four primary databases which can be searched
concurrently or separately: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS
Renaissance, and SIRS NetSelect. Full-text articles on subjects in the
humanities, social sciences and sciences. Also, information on U.S. Supreme
Court decisions; recommended web sites, and an awards recipients directory.
Title:
State Newspaper
Via: Gale Group/Newsbank (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1987 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description Archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia, SC)
newspaper. Locally written articles - news, editorials, sports, business,
arts, features Letters to the editor and major newswire articles. Includes
most obituaries; death notice coverage begins March 1994. Special Reports from
NewsBank - topics in the news with reprints of stories from a variety of
sources with related photographs and maps Note: Updated 1-2 days after
publication of the print newspaper. See The State.com for free access to the
latest 1-2 days of coverage.
Title:
Virtual Reference Shelf
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A database of freely available basic reference
resources, compiled by the Library of Congress.
Title:
Web of Science
Via: Thomson ISI
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1945 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic database containing three
citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present); Social Sciences Citation
Index (1956-present); and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Searches in any of three for
topic, person, place, and cited reference.
Title:
What
Do I Read Next?
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Reader's advisory database, helping librarians and users
identify adult, young adult, and children's fiction and nonfiction titles of
interest. Gives brief book descriptions, notes important characters, provides
author information, and indicates book awards for over 80,000 recommended
titles of contemporary mainstream fiction, classic works of fiction, and
popular nonfiction.
Title:
Wiley Interscience
Via: Carolina Consortium
Access: Restricted to North/South campuses
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides access to over 300 peer-reviewed journals,
reference works, online books, current protocols titles, and databases
in Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Education,
Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Math & Statistics, medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Astronomy,
Polymers & Materials Science, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
Title:
Wilson
OmniFile Full-Text Mega
Via: HW Wilson
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text articles from the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences, including business, education, fine arts, history, law, and librarianship.
Title:
World Almanac
Via: OCLC, FirstSearch
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Includes the contents of The World Almanac and Book of
Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S.
Politics and The World Almanac for Kids.
Title: WorldCat
Via: OCLC FirstSearch
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB
Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Description: Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member
libraries around the world. Includes manuscripts written as early as the
12th century.
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