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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.
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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
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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.
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English
Poetry (600-1900)
The complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to
the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets
drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
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The
Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth
century. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes
by 50 poets.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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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
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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
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- 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
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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. |
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- GPO--U.S.
government publications
- WorldCat--OCLC
catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
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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. |
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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.
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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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