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Subject List of Databases

 

To access databases from home, users will need a password or a 14 digit barcode. To apply for the NC LIVE or Intelecom password, please fill-out the Off-Campus Access form. The 14 digit barcode is located on the back of your picture employee or student ID card.

 

Animation, Film, & Television (Back to Top)

CAMIO  NC LIVE

Collection of art images
Image Search Images of art and more

Business & Investing (Back to Top)

Business ServiCenter NC LIVE

Support and guidance for North Carolina businesses in their efforts to succeed and grow
Business Source Premier  NC LIVE Access 1105 full-text journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, investment, and more
CQ Researcher Online  NC LIVE In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy
CQ Weekly  NC LIVE Coverage of the U.S. Congress: bills, votes, amendments, committees, etc.
LexisNexis Academic  Access to full-text business resources with a full range of credible sources for business  information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings
Morningstar Library Edition  NC LIVE Comprehensive information on mutual funds and stocks
Regional Business News  NC LIVE Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States
Reference USA  Detailed residential, business, healthcare, and technical company listings

Career & Vocational (Back to Top)

Careerjet An employment search engine for the USA; in one simple search, Careerjet gives the job seeker access to a massive selection of jobs that are compiled from various Internet sources
Career Insider Powered by Vault - Downloadable versions of industry & career guidebooks, Vault premium profiles of major employers, industry overviews, and occupation profiles
Career Library  NC LIVE Comprehensive information resource for career and college research

Criminal Justice & Criminology (Back to Top)

Bills from the NC General Assembly Bill information form the General Assembly
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context   Online library of current event topics-the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors
LexisNexis Academic  Access to full-text legal publications with access to primary source material such as case law, statutes, and regulations or access to secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic
National Criminal Justice Reference Service A bi-weekly electronic newsletter that includes links to full text publications, notices of upcoming trainings and conferences, funding announcements, and other resources

School Law Bulletin 

 

Features articles with in-depth legal analysis and summaries about issues and trends in school law

E-books (Back to Top)

eBooks on EBSCOhost   NC LIVE Online access to print versions of books, includes fiction and non-fiction

 

MyiLibrary NC LIVE

Variety of topics including language learning, medical, health, history, and more
E-videos (Back to Top)
Films on Demand Offers higher education institutions thousands of full-length streaming videos and clips
Video Collection  NC LIVE Full-length streaming videos and clips from a variety of categories from Frontline, Masterpiece, art21, and more
Education, Psychology, & Sociology (Back to Top)
Academic Search Complete NC LIVE
 
Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975
CQ Researcher Online NC LIVE In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) NC LIVE The ERIC database is the largest source of educational information. Search for ERIC documents and journal articles
 
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context   Online library of current event topics-the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors
LearningExpress Library NC LIVE Practice tests and tutorials
North Carolina Curriculum  From the Department of Public Instruction

PsycINFO NC LIVE

Citations of peer-reviewed journals, books, and reports in psychology field

General (Back to Top)

Academic Search Complete  NC LIVE Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975
CQ Researcher Online  NC LIVE In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context    Online library of current event topics-the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors
Gale POWERsearch Cross-searching capabilities, users can search the Biography Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, Nursing Resource Center, and the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, one, several, or all databases simultaneously
LexisNexis Academic  Access to full-text news publications to a wide variety of authoritative sources
MasterFile Premier  NC LIVE Full text information dating as far back as 1975 including more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags

NC LIVE Video Collection NC LIVE

Access thousands of online videos
Newspaper Source Plus   NC LIVE Full text coverage national and international newspapers 
Sharpe//Online Reference  Interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and Global history and culture explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues

TOPICsearch  NC LIVE

Articles & reports on current events, controversial issues, & popular discussion topics

Government & Politics (Back to Top)

Bills from the NC General Assembly Bill information form the General Assembly
CQ Weekly NC LIVE Coverage of the U.S. Congress: bills, votes, amendments, committees, etc.
Economic Development Information System Searchable profiles of North Carolina counties
GreenFILE NC LIVE Access to full-text government and law articles
LexisNexis Academic Access to full-text news publications to a wide variety of authoritative sources

Military & Government Collection NC LIVE

Military related periodicals, journals, and other publications

History (Back to Top)

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection NC LIVE E-book collection emphasizing history & literature
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography NC LIVE Life histories of former slaves
Gale Biography in Context Combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources including full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search
North American Women's Letters and Diaries NC LIVE Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950

Sharpe//Online Reference 

Interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and Global history and culture explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues

Legal (Back to Top)

Bills from the NC General Assembly Bill information form the General Assembly

LexisNexis Academic
 

 

Access to full-text news publications to a wide variety of authoritative sources

Literature & Poetry (Back to Top)

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection NC LIVE E-book collection emphasizing history & literature
African-American Poetry NC LIVE African-American poetry 1750-1900
American Poetry NC LIVE American poetry 1600-1900
English Poetry NC LIVE English poetry from 600-1900
Faber Poetry Library NC LIVE 20th Century poetry
Literary Reference Center NC LIVE Scholarly articles and criticisms, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, & poems
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry NC LIVE African-American poetry 1900-1999
Twentieth-Century American Poetry NC LIVE American poetry 1900-1999

Twentieth-Century English Poetry NC LIVE
 

English poetry 1900-1999

Medical & Health (Back to Top)

AHEC Digital Library An online resource that improves access to current medical literature and other quality health information resources for North Carolina health care professionals. Anyone can access the AHEC Digital Library as a guest.

New Database Anatomy.tv

Interactive parts of anatomy with visual effects (For off-campus access, please contact Vanessa Bass, Gretchen Bell, Ernest Avery, or Lionell Parker to obtain the username/password)
CINAHL w/Full Text NC LIVE Journals, dissertations and books for nursing and allied health research
Consumer Health Complete NC LIVE Magazines, journals, & reports on many areas of health, wellness, & medicine
Health Source: Consumer Edition NC LIVE General health, nutrition and medical journals
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition NC LIVE Contains scholarly and peer-reviewed journals for nursing and allied health
New Database National Library Alliance --
Stat!Ref Online Medical Database
A medical database with access to 35 publications with full-image and full-text distributed by the National Library Alliance
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For off-campus access, please contact Vanessa Bass, Gretchen Bell, Ernest Avery, or Lionell Parker to obtain the username/password)
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
 
Access direct patient care to health care administration includes over 400 titles within current and authoritative publications in the nursing curriculum
Nursing Resource Center Easy-to-use searches for disease and drug overviews, care plans, journal results, animated anatomy, and physiology diagrams

Occupational Health & Safety

Online magazine for health and safety
 

Reference (Back to Top)

Auto Repair Reference Center NC LIVE Hobbies and Interests
Britannica Online Academic Edition Comprehensive research encyclopedia including articles from journals and magazines (OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS CLICK HERE)
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia NC LIVE General interest encyclopedia
Gale POWERsearch Cross-searching capabilities, users can search the Biography Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, Nursing Resource Center, and the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, one, several, or all databases simultaneously
Gale Virtual Reference Library NC LIVE Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
INTELECOM Online Resources Network Comprehensive selection of video clips covering a range of key concepts and topics within an academic discipline
MyiLibrary NC LIVE Full-text online books. Variety of topics including language learning, medical, health, history, etc.
NC LIVE Video Collection NC LIVE Videos from PBS on a variety of topics
North Carolina Encyclopedia Facts about North Carolina
Oxford English Dictionary Online Covers words from the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean, and it also offers etymological analysis, variant spellings, and pronunciation
Reference USA NC LIVE Detailed residential, business, healthcare, and technical company listings

Sharpe//Online Reference 

 

Interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and Global history and culture explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues

Student Research Center NC LIVE

Access articles on current issues, education resources, and homework help
Teacher Research Center NC LIVE Access education and teacher resources and journal, magazine, and newspaper articles

Science & Technology (Back to Top)

Science Reference Center NC LIVE

Science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, & other sources

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