| Alphabetic List of Databases |
| ABI/INFORM Complete |
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| ABI/INFORM Complete is a full-text database that provides a wealth of business related information, including thousands of journals and company profiles. The Complete version consists of three ABI/INFORM resources: Dateline, Global, and Trade & Industry. Each database can be selected and searched separately and the Complete version has an archive that dates back to the 1960s in some cases. |
| Academic OneFile |
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| Academic OneFile is a comprehensive database provided by DISCUS that contains more than 8,000 journals, the majority of which are provided in full-text. It also includes hundreds of podcasts and news transcripts. |
| Academic Search Premier |
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| Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,172 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. |
| Access Science |
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| Access Science features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It contains over 8,500 online articles and over 110,000 definitions. |
| ACM Digital Library |
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| The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full-text from ACM journal and newsletter articles, and conference proceedings. It is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. |
| African-American Biographical Database |
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| The African American Biographical Database is a resource of first resort when you are looking for biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, for African Americans. From the famous to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans. |
| AGRICOLA |
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| AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. Although the AGRICOLA database does not contain the full-text materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to full-text documents online, with new links added daily. |
| America: History & Life |
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| A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. Links to full-text via JSTOR when available. |
| American Chemical Society Publications |
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| The American Chemical Society's Web Editions are the online versions of the ACS print journals with access to the current year plus the preceeding four years. They are full--text articles with all supplementary material deliveried in two formats: HTML and PDF. |
| American Civil War Research Database |
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| The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Millions of soldiers and thousands of battles and photographs can be searched in this powerful resource. |
| American FactFinder |
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| American FactFinder is an online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data that presents the results from four key data programs:
--the 1990 Decennial Census
--the 1997and 2002 Economic Census
--the 1996-2002 American Community Survey
--the July 1, 2000 to July1, 2002 Population Estimates Program |
| Annual Reviews |
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| Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading authors. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Its publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines. |
| Anthropological Index Online |
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| Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library of the British Museum which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.. |
| Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) |
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| ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is provided by CSA and 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.
ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. |
| Armed Conflict Database |
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| The Armed Conflict Database is a project produced by the IISS Defence Analysis Department that aims to provide an interactive and user-friendly source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. It seeks to cover international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive and user-friendly source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees/ and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact time sheets online. |
| ArticleFirst |
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| ArticleFirst describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of nearly 13,000 journals from a wide variety of disciplines. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. Subjects include business, science, the social sciences, humanities, medicine, technology, and popular culture. |
| Arts & Humanities Search |
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| Arts and Humanities Search fully covers over 1,300 journals in the field. It indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals including selected articles from social science and science journals. |
| ARTstor |
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| ARTstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related cataloging data about those images. The ARTstor Charter Collection is derived from the several source collections, which are themselves the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. These include: The Image Gallery (a deep and broad collection of images of world visual art and culture); The Art History Survey Collection; The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch (which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries); The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (wall paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines); and The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection. |
| ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts |
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| Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners. |
| BasicBIOSIS |
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| BasicBIOSIS covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors. It includes popular and scholarly journals. |
| Biography Resource Center |
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| Biography Resource Center, provided by DISCUS, includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. |
| Biological Sciences |
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| This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents. |
| Biology Digest |
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| Biology Digest covers domestic and international literature in the areas of life science. Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduate and high school students. The latest developments in biological research are given and often include comprehensive abstracts. |
| Black Thought and Culture |
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| 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. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. |
| Book Index with Reviews |
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| Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. Information such as pricing, availability, summaries and other basic details are provided. |
| Book Review Index Online Plus |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. Book Review Index Online Plus includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. |
| Books & Authors |
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| Books & Authors, provided by DISCUS, enables searching for a vast array of information about plot summaries, author information, award lists, and much more. The information that is provided comes from over 30 different sources. |
| Business & Company Resource Center |
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| Business & Company Resource Center, provided by DISCUS, brings together company profiles, histories, chronologies and full text articles from international trade and business journals and industry newsletters. Includes Predicasts' PROMT, Newsletters ASAP and Thomson Financial's Investext Plus databases. |
| Business & Industry |
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| Contains important facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries. It covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies. |
| Business & Management Practices |
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| Business Management contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management. It provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. |
| Business Dateline |
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| Business Dateline includes information about library resources that describe regional business activities and trends and major stories on local firms, their products and executives. It provides online articles from regional publications, Business Wire press releases and major newspapers. |
| Business Source Premier |
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| Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. |
| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts IDS |
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| CSA has been publishing abstracts and indexes to scientific and technical research literature for over 30 years. Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials science and engineering, aerospace, social sciences, and humanities. |
| Chemical Abstracts (Via STNEasy) |
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| ACCESS RESTRICTED TO SPECIFIC TIMES. Available M-TH 5pm-5am; Fri 5pm-Sat 6pm; Sun 8am-Mon5am. Chemical Abstracts via STNEasy is the most current and most comprehensive chemistry bibliographic database available from CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service). Topics include Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Macromolecular chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical, Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. |
| ChemIDplus |
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| ChemIDplus provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine databases with direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains over 367,000 chemical records, of which over 142,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by Name, Synonym, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code and Structure. |
| Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption |
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| Note: this is a free service but you must get your user ID and password at the reference desk.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption focuses on child maltreatment, including physical, sexual, emotional and psychological abuse and child neglect. Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant; conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. |
| Chronicle of Higher Education |
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| The Chronicle of Higher Education is 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 an online CV's, salary databases, and more. |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text |
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| CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. |
| Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective |
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| This database contains the full-text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. |
| Clase Periodica |
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| CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together they offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. |
| Clinical Pharmacology |
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| Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names. |
| College Source |
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| College Source features over 10,000 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. It also provides access to information on assessment testing and career information. |
| Commerce Business Daily |
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| Commerce Business Daily lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. The GPO publishes a new edition of the Commerce Business Daily every business day. |
| Communication Abstracts |
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| Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. CA has recently expanded its coverage to include international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions. |
| Compendex |
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| Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. |
| Computer Source |
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| Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. |
| Conference Papers Index |
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| Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. |
| Contemporary Women's Issues |
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| Contemporary Women's Issues provides access to global information on women in over 150 countries. It indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Included are links to full-text articles for many articles. |
| Country Studies |
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| The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Because the original intent of the Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. |
| Criminal Justice Periodical Index |
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| Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI) provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. The database offers ASCII text, image, and Text+Graphics coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. It also includes complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals. |
| Custom Newspapers |
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| Custom Newspapers, provided by DISCUS, provides full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers. The U.S. newspapers include New York Times (2000 - ); Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), Atlanta Journal-Constitution and over 40 other domestic newspapers. Also included is the Times (London) and over 60 other international papers. |
| DISCUS |
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| DISCUS (Digital Information for South Carolina Users) - South Carolina’s Virtual Library provides all South Carolinians with access to an electronic library of essential information and learning resources. It currently provides general online encyclopedias from Grolier Online; full-text topical resources from SIRS; Gale Group Resource Centers covering biography, health, and a guide to recommended fiction and nonfiction; and InfoTrac full-text magazine, newspaper & reference databases (also from the Gale Group). |
| Dissertation Abstracts Online |
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| Dissertation Abstracts Online offers dissertations and theses abstracts from institutions in the North America and Europe. It selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. |
| EBSCO Animals |
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| EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic. |
| EbscoHost |
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| EbscoHost databases offer access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals published by many of the world's most prestigious academic publishers. Subjects include Education, Literature, Nursing, and Psychology. |
| EBSCOhost -- Business |
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| Includes Business Source Premier, Regional Business News and Academic Search Premier. |
| EBSCOhost -- Education |
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| Includes ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, Professional Development Collection, and Academic Search Premier. |
| EBSCOhost -- History |
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| Includes World History Academic Search Premier and Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. |
| EBSCOhost -- Literature |
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| Includes MLA International Bibliography, MLA Directory of Periodicals, and Academic Search Premier. |
| EBSCOhost -- Nursing |
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| Includes CINAHL Plus with Full Text, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology. |
| EBSCOhost -- Psychology |
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| Includes PsycINFO, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, and PsycARTICLES. |
| EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service |
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| Ebscohost Electronic Journal Service provides access to a variety of journals covering a wide range of subjects. This database allows you to browse by journal title, article title, full-text and abstracts of articles. |
| Educator’s Reference Complete |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. |
| EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements |
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| CSA provides EIS and this one resource provides detailed abstracts of government issued impact statements, also indexing them for easy reference. EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. This resource is searched along with Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management. |
| Encyclopedia Americana |
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| Encyclopedia Americana, provided by DISCUS, blends the depth and accuracy of the print edition with the currency of an online reference work. Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and curriculum topics. |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management |
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| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, a 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. This resource is searched along with EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements. |
| ERIC (Via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ) |
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| The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. |
| ERIC (Via EBSCOhost) |
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| ERIC provides full-text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information,citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP, provided by DISCUS, covers information from the arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. It meets research needs across all academic disciplines. It provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full-text and images. |
| FactSearch |
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| FactSearch is a specialized database of full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues derived from newspapers, periodicals, newsletters and government documents. |
| FirstSearch |
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| FirstSearch is a Web-based information system comprised of a multidisciplinary collection of databases. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
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| The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format. The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. |
| Gale's Literary Index |
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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 about 146,000 author names, including pseudonyms, variant names and listings for over 193,000 titles into one source. |
| General Business File ASAP |
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| General Business File ASAP, provided by DISCUS, provides analysis of company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. It offers access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings. |
| General Reference Center |
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| General Reference Center, provided by DISCUS, is a general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use it to find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. |
| GEOBASE |
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| Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in 2,065 sources on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology and much more. |
| GeoRef |
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| CSA provides the GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 60,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. |
| GeoRef In Process |
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| CSA provides the GeoRef In Process database contains records that are, literally, in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. The majority of the records originate from non-English language literature that was not necessarily published recently. GeoRef In Process does NOT contain the most current records and should not be confused with a database of Recent References. When the GeoRef indexers complete the editing and indexing of an In Process record, then the record will appear in the next GeoRef monthly update. In Process records may lack a few fields or contain minimal data in some fields. However, most records do contain descriptors (index terms) and because all areas of geoscience are covered in the In Process file. Selecting both GeoRef and GeoRef In Process performs the most comprehensive search. |
| GPO Monthly Catalog |
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| GPO Monthly Catalog covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). |
| GreenFILE |
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| GreenFILE offers a wealth of information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. It contains scholarly, government and general information with about 400,000 records. |
| Greenville News |
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| SC Newspapers: Columbia & Greenville (NewsBank) is an archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia) and The Greenville News. Includes locally written articles, letters to the editor and major newswire articles. Death notice coverage is incomplete prior to 1999. An added feature is Special Reports from NewsBank covering topics in the news with reprints of stories from a variety of sources with related photographs and maps. |
| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia |
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| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, provided by DISCUS, provides reference information and news on all subjects with learning tools and multimedia. Includes more than 40,000 encyclopedia articles with associated pictures, flags, maps and media, with video, sound, animations, panoramas and cutaways. It contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web. |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies |
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| The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. |
| Hands on Health – SC |
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| Hands on Health – SC is part of the project, Go Local – South Carolina. The project is part of a national effort to make health resources more accessible by identifying and describing health resources throughout South Carolina. Users may search by type of service, health topic or location. Hands on Health is freely available over the Internet. |
| HarpersWeekly |
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| The web version of Harper's Weekly covers the 18,500 pages of the magazine published during the American Civil War era and Reconstruction periods of history. Harper's Weekly provided detailed information and insights on political, military and social issues and events prior to and during the Civil War and through the years of Reconstruction. |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center |
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| Health and Wellness Resource Center, provided by DISCUS, is a portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users. It provides access to full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals as well as health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines. |
| Health Reference Center - Academic |
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| Health Reference Center - Academic, provided by DISCUS, has full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals; health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines; and articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets. Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to more than 550 scholarly full-text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. |
| Historical Abstracts |
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| Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online |
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| The online edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States provides detailed statistical information covering a vast array of topics, such as slavery, migration, poverty and much more. The resource is fully searchable and downloadable, with approximately 37,000 data series. This powerful tool allows users to create customized tables and spreadsheets using data that is fully accessible online. |
| History E-Books |
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| The American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book (ACLS-HEB) Project currently has over 1200 titles. These are works of major importance to historical studies—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. The books are organized in general categories and include American History, European History, Eastern European History, Middle East History, and History of Technology. HEB plans to add approximately 250 books annually, as well as a carefully selected list of new electronic titles that have the potential to use web-based technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. |
| History Resource Center: US |
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| History Resource Center: U.S., provided by DISCUS, is the most comprehensive online collection of historical information ever gathered into one source, is an integrated collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents. |
| History Resource Center: World |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS – South Carolina's Virtual Library. History Resource Center: World offers students and researchers award-winning reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps, integrated into a comprehensive, cross-searchable database. Drawing on themes and trends from the current history curriculum and World History textbooks, History Resource Center: World provides coverage of the 20th century. |
| InfoTrac OneFile |
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| InfoTrac OneFile, provided by DISCUS, is a comprehensive periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals. It has over 22 million full-text articles on all subjects from over 5000 periodical titles including articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and children’s periodicals. |
| Institute of Physics (IOP) |
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| The Institute of Physics (IOP) publishes a range of popular journals in physics and related subjects, including the renowned Journal of Physics series. The full-text contents, including the archive, date back to 1874. More than just electronic versions of the printed titles, the online journals are used by researchers in universities, laboratories, corporations and organizations around the world. This User Guide will help you to make the most of the online service. |
| IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
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| The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. |
| Japanese-American Internee Data File |
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| This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual and includes the name; relocation project and assembly center to which assigned; previous address; birthplace of parents; occupation of father; education; foreign residence; indication of military service, public assistance, pensions, and physical defects; sex and marital status; race of evacuee and spouse; year of birth; age; birthplace; indication of the holding of an alien registration number and/or Social Security number, and whether the evacuee attended Japanese language school; highest grade completed; language proficiency; occupations; and religion. |
| Journal Finder |
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| Journal Finder, formerly known as TDNet, is a journal management system, providing access information about all journals (both print as well as electronic titles) available to users of the University of South Carolina Upstate library. For more information click on "About TDNet" after you are connected to Journal Finder. |
| JSTOR |
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| JSTOR offers full-text on-line access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered on-line after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting issues. |
| Junior Edition |
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| Junior Edition, provided by DISCUS, provides magazine, newspaper and reference sources on all subjects. There are full-text articles from 130+ magazines, with full image for 60+ titles. The Toolbox helps students learn research and writing skills. |
| Kid's InfoBits |
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| Kids InfoBits, provided by DISCUS, provides articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects. It includes full-text articles from 120+ children’s magazines, reference sources and newspapers. Teacher Toolbox helps teach research and writing skills. |
| Kluwer |
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| Over 600 full-text journal titles are provided by Kluwer, generally covering material from 1997 to the current issue, with some material prior to that date. The subject matter treated by the journals is both broad and comprehensive. |
| L'Annee Philologique |
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| Bibliographic records in Philology: the study of language, its history and development; or the study of literary and non-literary texts, especially older ones (Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, 2001).The database contains 375,000 bibliographic records for the years 1969 to 2001, with 12,500 new records added each year. Publication information for articles is accompanied by a brief abstract |
| LegalTrac |
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| LegalTrac, provided by DISCUS, is an index to law and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles. It includes major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals and international titles. |
| Lexis-Nexis™ Academic |
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| Full text news, legal, business, medical news and reference information from more than 5,600 publications. Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations and SEC filings. |
| Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) |
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| LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is provided by CSA and is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists.
LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. |
| Library Catalog |
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| The library catalog is an online catalog listing books, periodicals, videos and other materials available in the entire University of South Carolina Library system. |
| Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) is provided by Ebsco and 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 back as far as the mid-1960s. |
| Liebert Online |
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| Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This critical mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Liebert Online is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts |
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| CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. |
| Literature Resource Center |
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| Literature Resource Center, provided by DISCUS, allows access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. |
| LitFinder |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and 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. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more. |
| Magazine Research Center |
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| The Research Center provides users with a series of reference tools that aid in research in U.S. popular periodicals, the culinary arts, contemporary quotations, and the world of sports. Because our policy is to identify the most specific subject possible in our indexing, you will often find the information you are seeking under the name of a specific person or corporate name. |
| MAS Ultra - School Edition |
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| MAS Ultra - School Edition, designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 650 titles. Every full text article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). |
| MathSciNet |
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| MathSciNet is a comprehensive resource covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. Reviews of the mathematical research literature are also included in this database produced by the American Mathematical Society. |
| Media Review Digest |
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| Media Review Digest provides comprehensive review coverage of educational media and includes reviews of entertainment resources from over 200 review sources. It covers approxiamately 100,000 mediagraphic items. |
| MEDLINE (Via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts IDS) |
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| MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical subject areas. |
| MEDLINE (Via EBSCOhost) |
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| MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. |
| MEDLINE (Via FirstSearch) |
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| MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical subject areas. |
| Military & Government Collection |
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| Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, the Military & Government Collection offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. This database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals as well as including full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. |
| MLA Bibliography |
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| MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals |
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| The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. |
| National Transportation Library |
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| The National Transportation Library is a repository of documents and databases related to transportation from public and private organizations around the country. |
| NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) |
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| NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) offers more than 180,000 abstracts from criminal justice publications, including Federal, State and local government reports, books, journal articles and unpublished research. Also, search for full-text documents from the NCJRS web site and the web sites of federal and state agencies. |
| NetLibrary |
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| NetLibrary provides access to the library’s collection of eBooks. eBooks are digital versions of print books - - available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week from any location in the world. |
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