Research Databases

Business

Education

General

Humanities

News

Science/Health

Social Science

 In addition to databases listed under each subject heading, all databases under "General/Interdiscplinary" are appropriate for any subject.

BUSINESS


EDUCATION

  • Education Full Text: Indexes and abstracts articles from over 450 core education periodicals with full text of over 250 of them
  • ERIC via EBSCO: Index to education journals and documents; links to full text of some journals. Much better search options than ERIC via the web
  • ERIC via the web: Index to education journals and documents; full text of documents (but not journals) from 1993-2004


GENERAL/INTERDISCIPLINARY


HUMANITIES

  • 20th Century African-American Poetry:  Over 6,000 poems by 46 of the most influential African American poets, 1901-1998
  • 20th Century American Poetry:  Modern and contemporary American poetry; 36,000 poems by 217 poets
  • 20th Century English Poetry:  Modern and contemporary English poetry; 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets
  • African-American Poetry:  (1750-1900)  Nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the late 18th and 19th centuries
  • American Poetry:  (1600-1900)  Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century
  • CAMIO: Database of art images
  • Classical Music Library: Streaming audio of thousands of classical recordings, with some reference data as well
  • Classical Scores Library: Database of thousands of music scores (printable)
  • Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers: Analysis of current popular fiction. Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • English Poetry:  (600-1900)  Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900
  • Faber Poetry Library:  Collection of some of the most influential poets of the 20th century
  • Literature in Context: Expands one's understanding of the historical, social, and cultural context that shaped classic literature through a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary. Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • Literature Resource Center: Full text of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, other literature reference works and many literature journals
  • MLA: Index to journals and books concerning literature, criticism, languages
  • ProQuest Religion: Index of journals covering religious affairs and religious thinking, most full text


NEWS

  • America's Newspapers: Full text of over 20 North Carolina newspapers including Charlotte and Raleigh, along with several well-known national newspapers
  • CQ Researcher: Full-text reports containing in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues
  • CQ Weekly: Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering
  • New York Times: An index to the New York Times, full text from 1999; indexing from August 1986
  • Newspaper Source: An index to national and regional newspapers, including the Charlotte Observer, some full text
  • ProQuest Newspapers: Full text of the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Also searches North Carolina Newsstand.
  • Wall Street Journal: Index to the WSJ since 1981, some full text


SCIENCE & HEALTH

  • American Society of Microbiology journals: Search ASM journals. Abstracts available from 1992-1997; full text 1998-present. Most recent 6 months not available.
  • BioMed Central: Full-text of selected peer-reviewed journals in the medical and biological sciences
  • BioOne: Full-text of over 80 scholarly/peer-reviewed journals in biology/life sciences
  • CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, includes legal cases, drug records, clinical trials. Full text
  • EBSCO Animals: Short informative articles about individual animal species
  • HealthSource: Consumer Edition: Index to health related journals and pamphlets, some full text
  • HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition: Indexes nearly 1000 nursing and medical-related journals, with full-text of 400 journals
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Searchable; abstracts available 1990-96, full text 1997-present, recent issues not available
  • PrimateLit: Index to scholarly research on nonhuman primates
  • PubMed: Access to Medline journal index and other scientific journals, with links to full-text for some
  • PubMed Central: Full-text of selected journals in the life sciences
  • Scirus: Searches several databases of science journals. Citations and abstracts only.


SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • American Slavery:  Life histories of slaves compiled from over 4000 interviews with former slaves. Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • Annals of American History: Primary source material in full text
  • CQ Researcher: Full-text reports containing in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues
  • CQ Weekly: Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering
  • Daily Life Through History: Offers a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history, through text, pictures, maps, and much more. Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • HeritageQuest: Genealogy database, includes census data from 1790-1930
  • Historic Events of the 20th Century: Online guide offering in-depth insight into the seminal events of the last century. Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • In the First Person: Index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives, with links to free full-text and audio files for much of the content
  • Literature in Context: Expands one's understanding of the historical, social, and cultural context that shaped classic literature through a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary. (Great for history research!) Now part of Greenwood Digital Collection.
  • Military & Government Collection: Full text of military and government-related newsweeklies, pamphlets, and journals
  • North American Women's Letters & Diaries: Full text of letters and diaries of famous and not-famous women, from colonial times to 1950
  • North Carolina Periodicals Index: Index to articles in magazines published in and about North Carolina
  • PsycArticles: Full text of all APA journals and other psychology journals
  • PsycINFO: Index to psychology journals, citations only but has some linked full text
  • Sanborn Maps - North Carolina: Historical maps of 158 North Carolina towns

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