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  • Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Sept. 1991 - present
  • The definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Search across all CQ Electronic Library collections: CQ Almanac Online, CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, The CQ Researcher Online, CQ Weekly. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1972 - present
  • CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1991 - present; updated weekly
  • Contains more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Retrieve articles by citation, browse, or search across nearly 50 million pages of content.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • News, business, legal and reference information.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present; updated continuously
  • Comprehensive U.S. legislative information.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication; some files go back to 1789 and may be updated daily, weekly, monthly, annually, or as the material becomes available
  • Current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1990's - present; updated weekly
  • Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The Public Affairs Information Services database provides information on public affairs, public and social policies and international relations. PAIS includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1915 - Present
  • SAGE Journals Online offers full text access to more than 485 journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, Humanities, Science and Technology.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
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  • Premier database for literature on the science, technology & management of marine, freshwater, & brackish water environments & organisms.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1971 - present; updated monthly
  • ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • CenStats provides access to several popular Census Bureau databases, including: Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex, USA Counties, and 1990 Public Law 94-171 Data.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Service provided by GPO Access with the official record of the United States Congress.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Only CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1983-present
  • The Current Digest provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1949 -present
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    The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - 2002; updated annually
  • Digests of Environmental Impact Statements. Includes detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Print version: 1979-1984 / Online version: 1985 - present; updated bi-monthly
  • This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1967 - present; updated monthly
  • Gateway to searchable databases from the federal government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication; updated irregularly
  • Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: July 1976 - present
  • This five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Pre-Colonial America - present
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1907-1984
  • This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
  • Database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts with summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present; updated weekly
  • DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified primary documents – totaling more than 420,000 pages – are included in the database.

     

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - 2002; updated annually
  • Full text of laws, regulations and court decisions for different nations of the world.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • 57,000+ biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
    From the earliest times to the year 2000.

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  • Public opinion polls.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1986 - present
  • Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by title; updated monthly
  • North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Website from the U.S. Census Bureau. The paper version is available in the Reference Section.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: current; updated annually
  • Full text access to current bills in U.S. Congress.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1995 - present; Updated Continuously
  • The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched an internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • World Development Indicators Online, published by the World Bank, is a comprehensive database of development information covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection includes data on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: Current; Updated: Annually
  • Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily
  • The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
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  • Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word. The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal depository library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1976 - present; updated continuously
  • It is a collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 4th Century BC- 21st Century
  • Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) online edition delivers exact page-images of the original bound reprint edition, containing more than 100,000 cases, together with the Indexes and Book of Charts.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1220 - 1867
  • This resource offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Database from GPO Access of rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and more.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1980 - present; updated daily
  • The Federal Register is updated on a daily basis. It's coverage is comprehensive and begins from inception (1936).

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Contains 38 volumes of primary sources, includiing approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • A computerized data bank containing statistical table of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1950 - present
  • Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • The Legal Classics library offers more than 1,800 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Frederick William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Edwardo Coke and many more!

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • From the North Carolina central repository of demographic and statistical data.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1960's - present
  • Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Information about North Carolina's culture, history, business, education, agencies and public programs.

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  • Selective index of articles in North Carolina periodicals.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1992 - present; updated regularly
  • Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.

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  • You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

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  • Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1890 - 1982
  • Regional business periodicals covering 80+ business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

     

    [Details] Coverage Dates: past 30 Days; updated daily
  • Multidisciplinary section of the Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the social sciences.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 2002 - present
  • SpringerLink offers online access to several fully peer reviewed journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

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  • A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

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  • This library includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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  • This database contains records for over 5 million items cataloged as dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations, in WorldCat, including titles provided by NetLibrary. The database allows users to quickly and efficiently retrieve records for theses and dissertations.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication