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Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)  DISCUS
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) Collegiate DISCUS
Full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Access: the Supplementary Index to Periodicals
A unique indexing resource for popular periodicals. It does not duplicate any indexing in the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and any indexing found in WilsonWeb. It indexes approximately eighty-five of the most important popular periodicals. Access also indexes new national publications as they first appear and most major city and regional magazines not indexed in the Readers’ Guide.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

AccessScience: Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online Collegiate DISCUS
Over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and more.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ACS Web Editions                       
Full text of articles from over 30 chemistry journals.  Searchable by article title, keyword, author,
and/or journal title.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

African-American Biographical Database
Extended biographical narratives of thousands of African Americans, assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Agricola (COS)                            
Index to 3.3 million records of journal articles, theses, patents, software, and reports about agriculture. 1979-present
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access. 04/10/2008America:  History & Life                        
History of the U.S. and Canada; indexes over 2,000 journals and dissertations.  Some Full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

New! American Civil War Research Database
The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. The database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs, thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature
A searchable bibliography covering America's foreign relations from the colonial era into the 21st century. Includes more than 16,000 annotated entries, puts emphasis on journal articles and essay collections, and features special sections on bibliographic, historiographic, and biographic sources in each chapter. No full-text, other than annotations.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Annee Philologique                      
Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history,
mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Annual Reviews
                           
Yearly compilations synthesizing the primary research literature and identifying the principal
contributions in 8 fields: Anthropology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biochemistry, Cell and
Developmental Biology, Environment and Resources, Genetics, Immunology, and Microbiology.
Off-Campus Access Available?  NOT AVAILABLE

Art FullText (WilsonWeb)
                       
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals since 1997 is also included.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Go to http://usclancaster.sc.edu/library/remote/referral
See Off-Campus Access Handout for password.

ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
                        
Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science,
business, the humanities, and popular culture (no full-text).
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization
number  & password.


ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries (CSA)
                           
Index with abstracts. 1971-present.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (CSA)
An index, with abstracts, to more than 650 journals in health, social services, psychology,
sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Biography Resource Center + Who's Who
 DISCUS                   
Full-text.  Covers over 320,000 people from across all disciplines. Combines nearly 415,000
biographies from more than 780 volumes of over 130 respected sources, with over 2.5 million
full-text articles from 250 magazines.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Biological Sciences (CSA)
                       
Index with abstracts. 1982-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Biology Digest  (CSA)
                             
Index with abstracts. 1989-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. For research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Book Review Index Online Plus DISCUS
Includes more than 5 million review citations, plus more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic,
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Books in Print                              
Catalog of new books and other materials currently in print and available for sale.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Go to http://usclancaster.sc.edu/library/remote/referral
See Off-Campus Access Handout for password.

Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)DISCUS                            
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated
in this database.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
 Collegiate DISCUS                        
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full
text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text
(PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
An extensive array of information about children's books and other children-focused media. In addition, the database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of children's books, with an average of 1500 new reviews added monthly.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Chronicle of Higher Education 
The No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.  Users may also sign up to receive The Chronicle's Daily Report by e-mail, free.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

CINAHL (EBSCOhost) Collegiate DISCUS                           
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and
researchers. This database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health
journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1,000,000 records.  No full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)  Collegiate DISCUS
A comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. Contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

CollegeSource
A virtual library representing over 30,000 college catalogs in full original page format with 2-year,
4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.


Communication Abstracts (CSA)
                        
Index with abstracts. 1977-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Compendex
                      
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database indexing 5,000 engineering journals
and conference materials.  Some full-text links to ScienceDirect. 1884-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Computer Source (EBSCOhost)
Collegiate DISCUS                       
Contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer
science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and
software. Provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Conference Papers Index (CSA)
                         
Index with abstracts. 1982-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

COS Expertise
                              
Database of detailed, first person profiles of more than 480,000 R&D professionals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

COS Funding Opportunities                             
Over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Criminal Justice Abstracts                      
Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice,
police, courts, punishment and sentencing. Contains indexes and summaries of international
journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of
topics in criminal justice.  1968 - current
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Current Research @ USC: A Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses
Full-text dissertations and master's theses produced by University of South Carolina students
from 1997 to the present.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
 DISCUS                        
Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. & international newspapers, including the New York Times
and the Charleston Post & Courier.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

Educator's Reference Complete DISCUS
A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. Content is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography - Human Relations Area Files                              
Provides primarily descriptive information on the cultures of the world.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements (CSA)
Abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. 1985-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Encyclopedia Americana & Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia DISCUS                         
Full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Encyclopedia Britannica
                          
Full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Mgmt (CSA)
                    
Index with abstracts. 1967-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ERIC (CSA)
                     
Index with abstracts. 1966-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Collegiate DISCUS                     
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations
and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ERIC (FirstSearch)
                      
Annotated references to nonjournal material and to journal articles.  1966-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization
number  & password.


Expanded Academic Index (InfoTrac)
 DISCUS                          
Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers, many with full text and images.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Facts.com: Issues & Controversies                    
Full-text.  Chronologies, illustrations, maps, bibliographies and contact information augment
the balanced, accurate coverage of 600 controversial current and historical topics.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

FedBizOpps/Commerce Business Daily (COS)
                       
Lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of
government property, etc.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Federal Register (COS)                          
Lists U.S. federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents,
agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Funded Research  (COS)
                        
Data from NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR, and Medical Research Council, UK (MRC).
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Gale Virtual Reference Library DISCUS
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

General BusinessFile ASAP (InfoTrac) DISCUS                      
Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals
and company directory listings with full text and images available.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

General Reference Center (InfoTrac)
 DISCUS                        
General interest database; articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many
with full-text and images.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

GeoRef (CSA)
                          
Index for 2.2 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and
theses covering geosciences.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

GeoScienceWorld (CSA)
A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database of full-text peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Global Books in Print                              
See Books in Print.

GPO (FirstSearch)
                       
Index to government documents published since 1976.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes.
See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization number & password.

New!GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE's collection includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Mostly indexing and abstracts; very little full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

HarpWeek: Harper's Weekly                             
Full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Health & Wellness Resource Center
 DISCUS                            
Including the text of the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, provides reference material and
full-text articles from magazines, journals, and pamphlets and links to appropriate Web sites.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Health Reference Center – Academic (InfoTrac)
 DISCUS                     
Index to articles on all aspects of health and medicine.  Intended for informational purposes only.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Collegiate DISCUS                     
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Historical Abstracts
                     
History of the world from 1450-present (excluding U.S. and Canada); indexes and abstracts
articles from over 2,000 journals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources and the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Users can create custom tables, which can be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

History Resource Center: U.S. DISCUS
Access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

History Resource Center: World DISCUS
Offers reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps about the 20th century.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

IOP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals  Collegiate DISCUS
The Journals of Physics series, covering the key sub-disciplines of physics. Over 40 established journals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

InfoTrac General OneFile DISCUS                        
News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.  Some full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

InfoTrac: All Databases
  DISCUS                        
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
               
Originally published for the National Research Council, ICT offers data on physical,
thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source
used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering. The full text of the original
print version is available in PDF format (full-text searchable), including the original index.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association                   
Full-text access to the Journal of the American Medical Association
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes.
See Off-Campus Access Handout for username & password.

JSTOR
                             
Full-text of many scholarly journals with coverage back to first issues, although recent
coverage is not included for most titles  Medford Library subscribes to the Arts &
Sciences I Collection, the General Science Collection, and the Ecology & Botany Collection.
Off-Campus Access Available?  NOT AVAILABLE

Knovel Critical Tables
                             
kCT is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical
compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical
compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Tables to more than
13,000 compounds.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

LegalTrac (InfoTrac)
 DISCUS                 
Index to articles from all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association
journals and legal newspapers.  Covers national and international law.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

LexisNexis Academic
  Collegiate DISCUS                            
Searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600
sources (especially newspapers), selected to meet academic research needs.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Liebert Online  Collegiate DISCUS
Full text of journals from Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, with topics related to Biomedical
Research/Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Clinical Medicine/Surgery, Complementary/Alternative
Medicine, Engineering/Informatics, Law, Psychology, and Public Health/Policy.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (CSA)                            
Index with abstracts. 1973-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?
  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts (CSA)
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and
other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online
information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends
to the mid-1960s.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)  Collegiate DISCUS                        
Biographical and critical full-text drawn from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale’s Literature Criticism series.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

LitFinder DISCUS
Contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

LLMC Digital                              
(Law Library Microform Consortium )  World's largest collection of legal literature and
government documents in microform. Over 7,500 titles, over 98,000 volumes, of interest
to researchers in law and history.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

MathSciNet
                      
A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940; signed
reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database
and links to original articles.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Medford Library Online Catalog                           
Catalog of books and other library materials in Medford Library and other USC Libraries. 
Includes links to netLibrary’s eBooks.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Free


MEDLINE (CSA)
                        
Index with abstracts. 1993-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?
  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
 Collegiate DISCUS                      
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.  Allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. No full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

MEDLINE (FirstSearch)
                             
Indexing articles about biomedicine and health, MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's database of 11 million indexed journal citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 medical journals. 1966-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization number  & password.

Merck Index
A searchable encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks, CAS registry numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, and chemical structures.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost) Collegiate DISCUS                              
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.  Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

MLA Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
Collegiate DISCUS                       
bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the This bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. No full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

NetLibrary
                       
Full-text of some 25,000 books in electronic format.  Titles are listed and linked from the
LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG
.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes, after establishing a personal netLibrary account at the netLibrary website from an on-campus computer.

New England Journal of Medicine
                      
Full-text of the New England Journal of Medicine
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. See Off-Campus Access Handout for username & password.

NewsBank Newspapers - The State (Columbia, SC), The Greenville News (Greenville, SC) DISCUS
  
 
Full-text content of local and regional news. Paid advertisements excluded.  1987-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Expanded (EBSCOhost)
 Collegiate DISCUS                        
Full text for more than 200 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Go to http://usclancaster.sc.edu/library/remote/referral
See Off-Campus Access Handout for password.

Nursing Resource Center DISCUS
Important reference information with nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy complement the core reference texts.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.


Oceanic Abstracts  (CSA)
                       
Index with abstracts. 1981-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center DISCUS
An online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors, plus Topic Overviews.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

OVID Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals Collegiate DISCUS
Fifteen of the most respected nursing titles with 100% searchable full text. Full-text begins (usually) with 1996 issues. Unlimited access to all tables of contents and bibliographic citations for every journal, plus free tables of contents for more than 1000 biomedical e-journals.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Great Britain's past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Oxford English Dictionary                       
Full-text definitions, word histories and quotations.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

PAIS International (CSA Illumina)
Identifies over 500,000 sources related to policy approaches of concern to governments, including economic, political, and social background information and statistics. The scope is international, with access at global, regional, national, and local levels. 1972 - current.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

PapersFirst (FirstSearch)                        
An index of papers presented at conferences.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes.
See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization number  & password.

Physical Education Index (CSA)
Database indexes articles from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications in the field of Physical Education.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (CSA)                     
Includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, 1871-current.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Plant Science (CSA)                     
Index with abstracts. 1994-present.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Proceedings (FirstSearch)
                       
An index of conference publications.
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes.
See Off-Campus Access Handout for authorization number  & password.

Project Muse
                    
Includes the full-text of over 300 quality journal titles, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Go to http://usclancaster.sc.edu/library/remote/referral
See Off-Campus Access Handout for password.


ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
More than 2 million entries on doctoral dissertations and master's theses written since 1861. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. More than 600,000 documents are available in PDF format for immediate free download.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Collegiate DISCUS
Provides reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more, with abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the APA. 1985 to present.
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PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
Over 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Ninety-seven percent is peer-reviewed.

Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost) Collegiate DISCUS                 
Provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Science Resource Center DISCUS
An in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.
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ScienceDirect                   
Over 1800 journals from Elsevier Science. Over four million full-text articles and over 59 million abstracts from all fields of science.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Science's Next Wave
                   
Weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. Published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Scribner Writers Series DISCUS
                           
Full-text.  15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
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SIRS Government Reporter
DISCUS                   
Full-text of Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs
Off-Campus Access Available? Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

SIRS Knowledge Source
DISCUS                         
Full-text; search portal for SIRS databases
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SIRS Renaissance DISCUS
                       
Full-text articles on Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities
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SIRS Researcher
DISCUS                         
Full-text of articles for General Reference, Social Issues, Health, Science, and Business
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SKS WebSelect DISCUS
                            
Links to selected Web sites for general reference
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Small Business Resource Center DISCUS
Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Smithsonian Physical Tables                   
Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Easy to navigate and full-text searchable.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)
                          
Index with abstracts. 1980-present.
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Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
                              
Index with abstracts. 1963-present.
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SourceOECD
                   
Full text of monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, and statistical databases of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, covering economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation. The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy.
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SpringerLink
The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, with over 1,250 peer reviewed journals and 10,000 eBooks online.
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TDNet
                              
Directory of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers available electronically in our library, many in full-text. Results will link you to the electronic resources containing full text or the reference to the articles listed.
Off-Campus Access Available?  Yes. Use EZProxy Access.  

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