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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

  • 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."
    CQ Researcher Online

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    (Congressional Quarterly) CQ Researcher Online offers:

    * Access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports published after January 2001
    * Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news
    * In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy
    * Reader-friendly organization that provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources

    CQ Weekly

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    (Congressional Quarterly) CQ Weekly offers coverage of virtually every act of Congress, including:

    * In-depth reports on congressional issues
    * Nonpartisan news and analysis
    * An archive dating back to 1983
    * Ability to search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter

    History Resource Center: U.S.
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    History Resource Center: U.S. provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate curriculum, the content combines:

    * Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc
    * Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Thomson Gale original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews
    * Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
    * A historical bibliography
    * Links to digitized special collections
    * Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events

    History Resource Center: World
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

    LexisNexis Academic
    Collegiate Discus

    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."
    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."
    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."
    PsycARTICLES

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
    Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
    SIRS Knowledge Source
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Not available remotely

    For advanced middle school students through adults

    * Articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
    * Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources
    * News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
    * Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other topics
    * Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
    * Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court decisions

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

    SocINDEX with Full-Text

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers."

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