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  • 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 will not be available for rural communities.

  • Search engine to Citations of anthropology articles from the Royal Anthropological Institute.

  • Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Service provided by GPO Access with the official record of the United States Congress.

  • The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. Includes multidisciplinary scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text.

  • Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal research communication for scientists and engineers.

  • The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over 2,479,000 science research citations with continued growth through regular updates.

  • Citations to articles and reports in education.

  • GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) is an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government.

  • Database from GPO Access of rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and more.

  • Film Literature Index Online annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.

  • Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

  • Gateway to searchable databases from the federal government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.

  • GreenFILE focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.

  • Current month & monthly archive of Newspaper articles.

  • HighWire Press provides access to free content from a number of Open Access journals, including Duke University Press online journals.

  • An in-depth index of more than 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

  • Historic books and periodicals published by UNCW or about UNCW are available through the Internet Archive.  Titles include: the Campus Communique faculty and staff bulletin, Code of Student Life and Student Handbook, Fledgling yearbook, Undergraduate and Graduate catalogs, and UNCW Magazine.

  • From the North Carolina central repository of demographic and statistical data.

  • Citations to medical literature.

  • NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 8.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. Some full-text articles, as well as astronomy preprints, are available, including digitized historical astronomy and astrophysics literature.

  • NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

  • Database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts with summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

  • Full text of laws, regulations and court decisions for different nations of the world.

  • The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. Collections include North Carolina Memory, North Carolina College and University Yearbooks, North Carolina Newspapers, and more.

  • NC DOCKS is the shared institutional repository of five University of North Carolina System universities: ASU, ECU, UNCG, UNCP, and UNCW. It provides open access to various research in digital form produced by the faculty and graduate students of the member universities, including but not limited to peer-reviewed literature, working papers, student terminal projects, and technical papers.

  • Offers access to free web sites of local health services, providers, and programs serving residents of North Carolina.

  • Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries

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    The News & Observer Index is an alphabetical list of names and subjects, with references to the newspaper articles in which they occur and a guide to help find references to articles with more information about a particular topic.

  • Visit the website to search and browse more than 300 directories from cities and towns across North Carolina from the 1860s to the 1930s.

  • Information about North Carolina's culture, history, business, education, agencies and public programs.

  • Website from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with information about careers.

  • Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 7500+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

  • Resource Advisory:

    Access is free but users must register first.

    The world's premier online information system on coral reefs, and provides information services to coral reef professionals involved in management, research, monitoring, conservation and education. Also included is full-text to first through the tenth International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) Proceedings.

  • SciELO is a multinational effort to provide open access to scientific research journals produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.

  • The Scitation Database provides the most current indexing and abstracting of more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals and conference proceedings. It provides abstracts for the more than 80 journals published by the American Institute of Physics and it member societies.

  • The SORA project is an open access electronic journal archive providing access to an extensive ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years.

  • This resource offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.

  • The SPIRES database contains preprints, technical reports, and citations in the fields of high energy physics, astrophysics, particle and atomic physics, and accelerator physics.

  • North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles.

  • Website from the U.S. Census Bureau. The paper version is available in the Reference Section.

  • Online tide schedules.

  • TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas.

  • Historic books and periodicals published by UNCW or about UNCW are available through the Internet Archive.  Titles include: the Campus Communique faculty and staff bulletin, Code of Student Life and Student Handbook, Fledgling yearbook, Undergraduate and Graduate catalogs, and UNCW Magazine.