Philosophy
Physics & Astronomy
Psychology
Science
Sociology
U.S. Government

Anthropological Index Online (FREE ACCESS)

Annual Review of Anthropology

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography - Human Relations Area Files
Descriptive information on the cultures of the world.

WilsonWeb Art Database
Indexes and abstracts articles from 427 periodicals, including the full text of 120 titles (since 1997). Also indexes reproductions of works of art.  For off-campus access, go to http://usclancaster.sc.edu/library/remote/
referral (See Off-Campus Access Handout for password.)

SIRS Renaissance (SIRS Knowledge Source)
Provides current, dynamic information from more than 700 domestic and international sources on Architecture & Design, and Visual Arts, among other topics.  Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics, including art reproductions, photographs, illustrations and maps. 

World Wide Arts Resources (FREE ACCESS)

MoMA (FREE ACCESS)
Museum of Modern Art

Artchive (FREE ACCESS)

WebMuseum (FREE ACCESS)

Art Tours (FREE ACCESS)

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries (CSA)

Biology Digest (CSA)

Biological Sciences (CSA)

Plant Science (CSA)

Annual Review of Cell & Developmental Biology

Annual Review of Genetics 

Annual Review of Immunology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Business Source Premier
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.

Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)  
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database.

Commerce Business Daily (Community of Science)

General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)
Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.

Small Business Resource Center
Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.

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 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.

ACS Web Editions
Full text of articles from over 30 chemistry journals from the American Chemical Society.  Searchable by article title keyword, author, and/or journal title.

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.

See also the Community of Science listings under Resources for Faculty.

Knovel Critical Tables
kCT features 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.

TOXLINE (CSA)

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.

WebElements (FREE ACCESS)
In-depth information about each chemical element, with thousands of graphics and even multimedia.

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Computer Source (EBSCOhost)
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.

ACM Digital Library
Access to full-text journal articles in computer science. Available on USC System computers only. 

AccessScience 
Over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from its Yearbooks, and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

SHAREWARE.COM (FREE ACCESS)
Huge site for shareware on the Internet
 
Open FAQ to the Rescue (FREE ACCESS)
See if what you need to know about the WWW is here

Learn the Net (FREE ACCESS)

Finding Information on the Internet (FREE ACCESS)
Two tutorials on how to use the Internet

BrowserWatch (FREE ACCESS)

Search Engine Watch (FREE ACCESS)

WorldWideWeb Acronyms & Abbreviations (FREE ACCESS)

University at Albany Libraries Internet tutorials (FREE 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. 1968 - current

South Carolina Code of Laws (FREE ACCESS)

U.S. Gov't Agencies on the Web (FREE ACCESS)

CIA (FREE ACCESS)

FBI (FREE ACCESS)

U.S. Department of Justice (FREE ACCESS)

Justice Information Center (NCJRS) (FREE ACCESS)

Legal Information Institute (FREE ACCESS)

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (FREE ACCESS)

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information (FREE ACCESS)

Critical Criminology (FREE ACCESS)

Internat'l Law Enforcement (COPNET) (FREE ACCESS)

Zeno's Forensic Page (FREE ACCESS)

CJ Mega Site (FREE ACCESS)

AllLaw (FREE ACCESS)

USC Law School Links (FREE ACCESS)

SC Dept of Public Safety (FREE ACCESS)

SC State Agencies (FREE ACCESS)

FindLaw (FREE 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.

Environmental Sciences & pollution Management (CSA)

Educator's Reference Complete
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.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

ERIC (FirstSearch)
Journal articles and reports in education.

The 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. 

LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts (CSA)
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals.

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.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
An extensive array of information about children's books and other children-focused media. The database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of children's books, with an average of 1500 new reviews added monthly.

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.

ERIC (CSA)

SCTLC: South Carolina Teaching Learning Connecting (FREE ACCESS)
Lesson plans and curricululm and assessment resources linked to the SC curricululm standards, by the SC Department of Education

Knowitall.org (FREE ACCESS)
Educational resources and programs, including video and images, developed by SC Educational Television

MLA Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
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.

Literature Resource Center
Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, LRC has information on literary works from all time periods writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.   LRC sources include Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, Gale's  Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Scribner Writers Series
Lengthy essays on the lives and works of about 1,600 important authors from around the world.

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.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA)

Communication Abstracts (CSA)

What Do I Read Next?
Identifies over 80,000 recommended titles of interest, giving brief descriptions, important characters, and author info.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
An extensive array of information about children's books and other children-focused media. The database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of children's books, with an average of 1500 new reviews added monthly.

SC Literary Map (FREE ACCESS)
Information on SC authors, by county.

See also Research Resources for non-literary research for English class research. 

LitFinder
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.

American Studies Texts Online (FREE ACCESS)
Core texts in American literature and history, with full-text, from the Univesity of Virginia

HOW TO CITE SOURCES

MLA Style Guidelines  (FREE ACCESS)
From the MLA homepage, choose "MLA Style" then "Frequently Asked Questions About MLA Style," then "How do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?"  See also Dr. Lisa Hammond's webpage on Citing Internet Resources using MLA.

Foreign Languages for Travelers (FREE ACCESS)

LasCarolinas (FREE ACCESS)

Latin American Network Information Center (FREE ACCESS)

Costa Rica Internet Directory (FREE ACCESS)

Spanish (FREE ACCESS)

GeoRef (CSA)

GeoScienceWorld (CSA)

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.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA)
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

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.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) 
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.

Health Reference Center - Academic  Indexes over 200 health-related journals and includes the full-text of the current 5 years of more than 180 academic journals, plus other pamphlets and articles.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Searchable online version of the journal. 

JAMA:  Journal of the American Medical Association 
Full-text of articles from recent issues.

Liebert Online
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.

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.

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.

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
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.

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.  Includes references to articles since 1966. 

Medline (CSA)

MEDLINEplus  (FREE ACCESS)
MEDLINEplus will help answer health questions, by topic.  Also contains a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

PubMed (FREE ACCESS)
PubMed indexes many of the same journals as Medline, but also includes the many citations that are not about biomedicine and health, primarily from general science and chemistry journals.

Medscape (FREE ACCESS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (FREE ACCESS)

National Library of Medicine (FREE ACCESS)

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (FREE ACCESS)

FOR THE LAYPERSON

Health & Wellness Resource Center 
Indexes about 700 health/medical journals, most with full-text, many with images. Hundreds of health-related pamphlets, and links to carefully-selected core of health/medical websites.

Hands on Health - South Carolina (FREE ACCESS)
Health and wellness Web sites selected for SC residents by the Medical University of SC Library.

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (FREE ACCESS)

U.S. HISTORY

America: History & Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, from over 2,000 journals. Includes references to articles and book reviews.

History Resource Center: U.S.
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.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
When complete, 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.

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.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
A resource for U.S. history and U.S. women's history, this information is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes 76 document projects with more than 2,200 documents, 30,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,640 primary authors.

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.

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.

HarpWeek
Full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

BRITISH HISTORY

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.

WORLD HISTORY

History Resource Center: World
Offers reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps about the 20th century.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals.  Includes references to articles and book reviews.

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.

LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts (CSA) 
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) 
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.

OVID Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals
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.

Nursing Resource Center
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.

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
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.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Expanded (EBSCOhost)
Full text for more than 200 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
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.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

Philosophy Research Base  (FREE ACCESS)
Links to large philosophy sites and to specific subject subsections in those sites.  Mostly Western philosophy, but includes some links for non-Western.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (FREE 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.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (FREE ACCESS)

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
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.

PsycINFO
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.

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.

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.

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.

Web of Science
Primarily Science Citation Index Expanded, 1987-2001. Over 700 scientific journals.  Little full-text.

JSTOR 
Includes full text of 36 scholarly journals in General Science and Ecology & Botany. For the list of journals included, go to Browse JSTOR Journals by Discipline.

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.

See also other Community of Science listings under Resources for Faculty.

Wiley InterScience
Provides web-based access to over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases in the Sciences, Business, and Social Sciences.

AccessScience 
Over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from its Yearbooks, and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

Science Resource Center
An in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

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.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
Database of interpretive questions in Women's History and documents that address the question. More than 1,731 documents, 22,000 pages, and over 600 links to other websites are included. Also has a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's History.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

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.