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NC LIVE

NC LIVE provides North Carolina residents and students with
access to high quality information - searchable collections of
magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books,
historical materials, maps, and much more - covering a wide
range of topics. Individual databases are listed below.

North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education (NC LIVE) offers
the citizens of North Carolina online access to complete
articles from over 9,000 newspapers, journals, magazines,
and encyclopedias, indexing for over 20,000 periodical titles,
and access to over 22,000 electronic books.

NC LIVE is available free of charge to library patrons, students,
and educators from four communities of interest (COIs) --
public libraries, community colleges, the state's university system,
and members of the North Carolina Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities.

NC LIVE is generously supported by the General Assembly and the citizens of North Carolina. Generous support for some of the independent college and university libraries has been received from The Duke Endowment and The Cannon Foundation.

Funding for NC LIVE depends on the General Assembly. Contact your local representatives to encourage continued support. To locate the representatives in your area, visit the General Assembly's web page.

NC LIVE can be accessed from within an affiliated library and
accessed from home with a PIN.
Contact your local library for this information.

When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. The collection is scheduled
to include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters
and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to
1950, plus 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.
Books In Print With Reviews--Use this unbiased, authoritative, and comprehensive database of over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. These titles are retrievable by title, author, subject, publisher, publication date, ISBN and more. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from magazines and journals.

NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. In addition, three powerful search techniques allow readers to
look for books by entering descriptive terms that appear in subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records. NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture
books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and
books for adult readers.
  • MasterFILE Premier--multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 316 full text reference books, 88,000 biographies, 83,500 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags.
  • Academic Search Elite--This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
  • Business Source Elite--This business database provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985.
  • Newspaper Source--Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.
  • Primary Search--Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
    This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
  • EBSCO Animals--Provides 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.
  • The Serials Directory--The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains over 182,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from over 85,000 publishers worldwide.
  • ERIC--the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
  • CINAHL--the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 800,000 records.
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition--Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 text pamphlets, 253 full text reference books, 88,000 biographies, 83,500 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags.
  • Middle Search Plus--Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition--This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
  • Health Source - Consumer Edition--With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
  • Military & Government Collection--Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 titles.
  • Regional Business News--This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Clinical Pharmacology--Clinical Pharmacology provides access 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.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete-- Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
  • Pre-CINAHL--A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
  • American Humanities Index--The American Humanities Index, produced by Whitston Publishing, is a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present.
  • InfoTrac OneFile--A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP--From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
  • General Reference Center Gold--A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
  • InfoTrac Custom Newspapers--A database of full text news articles from over 150 newspapers.
  • Scribner Writers Series--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.
  • Student Edition--Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • Junior Edition--Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • Kid's Edition--Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more.
  • LegalTrac--this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.
  • Professional Custom Journals--Collection of Professional Journal Articles
History Products
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Daily Life Through History
Historic Events of the 20th Century

Literature Products
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
Literature in Context
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • The New Book of Knowledge--for 3rd graders and up
  • The New Book of Popular Science and Technology
  • Lands and Peoples--Countries, Cultures, & Geography
  • Multiple Dictionaries
  • Atlas
Kiplinger Finance & Forecasts is a new online business database that gives you a single source for the entire editorial output of Kiplinger.
netLibrary is billed as the world's premier provider of electronic books (eBooks), netLibrary helps academic, public, corporate and special libraries create a richer, more productive learning environment for their patrons. By combining the time-honored traditions of the library system with electronic publishing, netLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books.
  • GPO--U.S. government publications
  • WorldCat--OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
PsycINFO--contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
  • ABI/INFORM Archive Complete---Search respected historical business journals for a unique perspective on topics covering corporate strategies, management techniques, accounting, marketing, advertising, ethics, case studies, and much more. Deep backfiles encompass full runs of some of the most important business journals of the last century, all in cover-to-cover full page images, just as they were printed.
  • ABI/INFORM Dateline--Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
  • ABI/INFORM Global--Explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage.
  • ABI/Inform Trade & Industry--Covers more than 700 publications to help researchers study and compare specific trades and industries.
  • Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles--Brief information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
  • ProQuest Newspapers--Search the full collection of newspapers, such as, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, North Carolina Newsstand, Washington Post, & Wall Street Journal.
Digital Sanborn Maps provides academic and public libraries digital access to several large-scale maps of many North Carolina towns and cities dating from 1867 to 1970.




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