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  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly databases offering 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]

  • CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

    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]

  • CQ Electronic Library

    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]

  • CQ Political Reference Suite

    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]

  • CQ Researcher

    The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.  [Details]

  • HeinOnline

    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]

  • JSTOR

    Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.  [Details]

  • LexisNexis Academic

    News, business, legal and reference information.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   LexisNexis YouTube Channel

  • LexisNexis Congressional

    Name change:  LexisNexis Congressional has changed its name to ProQuest Congressional.  Please look for ProQuest Congressional in the eResource/Database a-z list under the letter P.

     [Details]

  • Military & Government Collection

    Current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies.  [Details]

  • Points of View Reference Center

    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]

    Tutorial:   Points of View Reference Center

  • Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)

    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]

  • Sage Journals Online

    SAGE Journals Online offers full text access to journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, Humanities, Science and Technology.  [Details]

  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

    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]

  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts - (ASFA)

    Premier database for literature on the science, technology & management of marine, freshwater, & brackish water environments & organisms.  [Details]

  • ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

    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]

  • CenStats

    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.  [Details]

  • Congressional Record

    Service provided by GPO Access with the official record of the United States Congress.  [Details]

  • CQ Weekly

    Only CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. [Details]

  • Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

    The Current Digest provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. [Details]

  • Digital National Security Archive - (DNSA)

     

    The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available.  [Details]

  • EIS (Environmental Impact Statements): Full-Text & Digests

    Digests of Environmental Impact Statements. Includes detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government.  [Details]

  • Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

    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]

  • GPO Access

    Gateway to searchable databases from the federal government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.  [Details]

  • GPO Monthly Catalog

    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]

  • Historical Statistics of the United States

    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]

  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

    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]

  • MasterFILE Complete

    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]

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)

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

  • National Security Archive

    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]

  • Nations of the World (nations and associated jurisdictions)

    Full text of laws, regulations and court decisions for different nations of the world. [Details]

  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

    Allows one user access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

    57,000+ biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
    From the earliest times to the year 2000.  [Details]

  • Polling the Nations

    Allows one user access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

    Public opinion polls.  [Details]

  • Project MUSE

    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]

  • State Data Center

    North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles.  [Details]

  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

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

  • Thomas

    Full text access to current bills in U.S. Congress. [Details]

  • UNdata

    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. [Details]

  • World Development Indicators Online

    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.  [Details]

  • World FactBook

    Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [Details]

  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.  [Details]

  • Worldwide Incidents Tracking System

    The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents. [Details]

  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly databases offering 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]

  • CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

    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]

  • CQ Electronic Library

    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]

  • CQ Political Reference Suite

    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]

  • CQ Researcher

    The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.  [Details]

  • HeinOnline

    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]

  • JSTOR

    Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.  [Details]

  • LexisNexis Academic

    News, business, legal and reference information.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   LexisNexis YouTube Channel

  • LexisNexis Congressional

    Name change:  LexisNexis Congressional has changed its name to ProQuest Congressional.  Please look for ProQuest Congressional in the eResource/Database a-z list under the letter P.

     [Details]

  • Military & Government Collection

    Current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies.  [Details]

  • Points of View Reference Center

    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]

    Tutorial:   Points of View Reference Center

  • Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)

    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]

  • Sage Journals Online

    SAGE Journals Online offers full text access to journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, Humanities, Science and Technology.  [Details]

  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

    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]

  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts - (ASFA)

    Premier database for literature on the science, technology & management of marine, freshwater, & brackish water environments & organisms.  [Details]

  • ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

    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]

  • CenStats

    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.  [Details]

  • Congressional Record

    Service provided by GPO Access with the official record of the United States Congress.  [Details]

  • CQ Weekly

    Only CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. [Details]

  • Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

    The Current Digest provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. [Details]

  • Digital National Security Archive - (DNSA)

     

    The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available.  [Details]

  • EIS (Environmental Impact Statements): Full-Text & Digests

    Digests of Environmental Impact Statements. Includes detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government.  [Details]

  • Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

    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]

  • GPO Access

    Gateway to searchable databases from the federal government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.  [Details]

  • GPO Monthly Catalog

    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]

  • Historical Statistics of the United States

    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]

  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

    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]

  • MasterFILE Complete

    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]

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)

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

  • National Security Archive

    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]

  • Nations of the World (nations and associated jurisdictions)

    Full text of laws, regulations and court decisions for different nations of the world. [Details]

  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

    Allows one user access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

    57,000+ biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
    From the earliest times to the year 2000.  [Details]

  • Polling the Nations

    Allows one user access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

    Public opinion polls.  [Details]

  • Project MUSE

    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]

  • State Data Center

    North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles.  [Details]

  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

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

  • Thomas

    Full text access to current bills in U.S. Congress. [Details]

  • UNdata

    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. [Details]

  • World Development Indicators Online

    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.  [Details]

  • World FactBook

    Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [Details]

  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.  [Details]

  • Worldwide Incidents Tracking System

    The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents. [Details]

  • Cambridge Journals Online

    Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.   [Details]

  • Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)

    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. [Details]

  • Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)

    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]

  • Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

    Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.  [Details]

  • English Reports, Full Reprint

    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]

  • Environment Complete

    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]

  • Federal Register

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

  • Federal Register Library

    The Federal Register is updated on a daily basis. It's coverage is comprehensive and begins from inception (1936).  [Details]

  • Federal Surveillance of African Americans

    Black Americans of all political persuasions were subject to federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution. The FBI enlisted black "confidential special informants" to infiltrate a variety of organizations. Hundreds of documents in this collection were originated by such operatives. The reports provide a wealth of detail on "Negro" radicals and their organizations that can be found nowhere else.  [Details]

  • Historic Documents

    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]

  • International Data Base

    A computerized data bank containing statistical table of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.  [Details]

  • Legal Classics Library

    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]

  • LINC

    From the North Carolina central repository of demographic and statistical data. [Details]

  • NCpedia

    Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries [Details]

  • North Carolina Information Resources

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

  • North Carolina Periodicals Index

    Selective index of articles in North Carolina periodicals. [Details]

  • Oxford Journals

    Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.  [Details]

  • PBS Video Collection

    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.  [Details]

  • ProQuest Congressional

    The ProQuest Congressional service provides users with efficient, targeted access to the most comprehensive collection of historic and current congressional information available anywhere online.  [Details]

  • Readers' Guide Retrospective

    Allows one user access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

    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]

  • Regional Business News

    Regional business periodicals covering 80+ business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

      [Details]

  • Social Sciences Citation Index

    Multidisciplinary section of the Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the social sciences.  [Details]

  • SpringerLink

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

  • TOPICsearch

    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. [Details]

  • Treaties and Agreements Library - United States

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

  • Wiley Online Library

    A multidiscipinary collection of academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.  [Details]

  • WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
    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]


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