General Reference

  • American FactFinder is a search engine that provides access to the population, housing and economic data collected by the Census Bureau. American FactFinder can be used to retrieve data from the 1990 and 2000 Census, Population Estimates, Economic Census and Surveys and American Community Survey (ACS). Some of the data from these programs not be available for rural communities.

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  • Repair information for most major manufacturers and makes.

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  • Encyclopedia Britannica

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  • The Marketing, Management, Accounting and Economics & Finance directories help authors select journals that are most likely to publish their manuscripts. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers.

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  • This database offers images, text and multimedia representing a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums. It highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.

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  • Career Library provides access to online career guides, occupational profiles, company research, diversity profiles, industry research, career surveys, and more.

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  •  Comprehensive information resource for career and college research.

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  • CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

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  • Credo Reference currently has over 400 titles from 60 different publishers all aggregated on a very user-friendly platform.  Our newly launched interface allows for seamless, outbound searching into other e-resources with just one click. 

     

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  • Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

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  • Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 157,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 210,000 titles into one source.

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  • ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Brought to you by the UNCW Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs 
    Currently available from on campus only.

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  • 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.

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  • Comprehensive U.S. legislative information.

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  • Classification Web provides a web interface for browsing and searching LC Classification (LCC) schedules, LC subject heading (LCSH) lists, LCC and LCSH correlations, LCSH and Dewey Classification correlations, and LCC and Dewey Classification correlations.

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  • Ebsco's scholarly articles and criticisms, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, & poems.

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  • Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, Gale's Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

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  • Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

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  • Mergent Online, source for global business and financial information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies, and 17,000+ non-U.S. public companies, as well as extensive corporate and municipal bond, UIT, and dividend information.

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  • Search over 18,000 stocks and mutual funds to determine where to invest your money. Identify stocks and funds that meet your criteria and read reports prepared by Morningstar. Obtain an analysis of your current portfolio or see how the stocks and funds you select work together to form a balanced portfolio.

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  • Seminar style audio-visual talks presented by leading world experts on the latest developments in the study and understanding of neurodegenerative diseases.

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  • Database providing title, author, and subject recommendations for readers of fiction and nonfiction.

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  • A readers' advisory tool designed specifically for children in grades K-8.  Readers may select from information provided to find similar books that appeal to them.  

     

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  • The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

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  • Play Index enables users to search some 44,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. The database covers a wide range of plays written or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

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  • Public opinion polls.

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  • An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

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  • PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 25,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,600 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes over 900 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

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  • The Public Affairs Information Services Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62. The PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.

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  • Directory information for 10.5 million businesses. Locate every business in the U.S. by company name, location, or type of business. In addition to contact information, ReferenceUSA provides full corporate affiliation linkage, multiple contact names, FAX and toll free numbers, single point mapping, and credit ratings.

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  • Journal price, e-mail and Internet address.

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  • U.S. government business and trade information. Password required inquire at Reference Desk.

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  • U.S. Census Bureau.

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  • Select the "Medical Dictionary" link once connected to Health Source Plus: Nursing/Academic Edition.

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  • Search ThomasNet.com, the most comprehensive resource for industrial information, products, services, CAD drawings, and more…
     

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  • Online tide schedules.

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  • North Carolina through Florida Keys Online tide schedules

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  • Database of journals, magazines, newspapers and full-text electronic resources published in more than 200 countries.

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  • The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched an internet-bas

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  • Value Line Investment Survey is an investment information service covering some 1,700 equities.

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  • Provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from, where data is available.

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  • Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of US Politics; The World Almanac for Kids; and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.

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  • Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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  • Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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