Alphabetical List of All Databases

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PapersFirst

Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.

Philosopher's Index

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Physical Education Index

The surge of academic, professional and personal interest in the field of physical education has resulted in a huge volume of scholarly and trade literature. Since 1970 CSA Physical Education Index has been covering this vast collection of material. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Beginning in January 2001, enhancements to the database include the addition of abstracts, e-mail addresses, expanded publisher and author information, and other data to facilitate access to the fulltext.

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. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Proceedings

Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Proquest Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD)

This is the place where you can come to learn how your campus can assist you with your dissertation/thesis needs - from links to the campus writing center to important information about deadlines.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

No longer available due to funding cuts. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the APA and eight journals from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage now spans from 1987 to the present.  All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

PsycINFO

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. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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Redbooks (Use Firefox for database access; Allow security exception on first time use)

The Advertising Redbooks provide current, detailed data, including:
• Agency accounts, specializations, gross billings by media, and contact information for agency personnel
• Advertisers with significant spend on advertising annually
• Specific advertising data such as approximate annual advertising spend by media and agencies retained by the Advertiser
• Information on nearly 125,000 brand names

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. This database is updated on a daily basis.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.

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SAGE Reference Handbook Collections offer more than 150 authoritative, award–winning, international, and interdisciplinary handbooks across the social sciences. These collections are hosted on the award–winning SAGE Reference platform

Official state government web site. Leads to all South Carolina state government web pages.

ScienceDirect

Science In Context (formerly Science Resource Center)

Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. The Science Resource Center reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms. Primarily designed for use in K-12 schools, but also useful for undergraduate science students. (Provided by DISCUS.)

Science.gov

Science.gov contains reliable information resources selected by federal government agencies as their best science information. Two major types of information are included—selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials. (The specific content varies by database.) The selected Web sites can be explored from the science.gov homepage. The Web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simultaneously from the search page.

SciFinder

SciFinder retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) as well as the MEDLINE® database from the National Library of Medicine. All records are in English. The CAplusSM  database contains over 30 million documents from over 10,000 journals and 150 countries, covering the literature from 1907 to the present. the MEDLINE database covers biomedical literature from more than 4,800 journals and 70 countries.

You must register with SciFinder to use the database. Click here and follow the instructions to register to use SciFinder. You will create your own username and password as part of the registration process. Registration must be done from an on-campus computer. Once you have registered, you may use SciFinder from off-campus.

SCIWay   South Carolina Information Highway

SCIWay (South Carolina Information highway) is the largest and most comprehensive directory of information about South Carolina on the Internet. It includes thousands of links to other South Carolina Web sites and other online resources. SCIWay is organized by subject areas–such as education, history, jobs, real estate, and tourism.

Scribner Writers Series

See Literature Resources from Gale

SEC Corporate Filings via Free Edgar (web)

FreeEDGAR provides convenient searching and navigation features to access SEC filings filed through the SEC’s EDGAR system.

SIRS Discoverer® Deluxe 

Provides young researchers and readers with wealth of information on topics of high interest. Articles and graphics are selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability. The database also includes: Biographies of every U.S. president, complete information on more than 100 countries and Photo Essays depicting social issues and global concepts through visuals accompanied by brief text. Additional content databases included are: The World Almanac for Kids® and an encyclopedia.

Children now have safe and organized access to the best web sites using the new Discoverer WebFind component of SIRS Discoverer. Each web site linked from WebFind is evaluated for its research value, high interest, credibility, age-appropriateness and reliability. SIRS editors select sites that have content and text that is appropriate for elementary and middle school students. Sites that have banner ads, contain inappropriate text or images, or demand that visitors provide personal information are not included in WebFind. Children and their teachers and parents can locate sites of interest by subject, by keyword, or by browsing. Reading level of each site is indicated. Web sites of topical and seasonal interest are highlighted as "Top Picks" and monthly "Spotlights."

SIRS Issues Researcher

Covering the Leading Issues most studied and debated by students. (Provided by DISCUS)

SIRS Government Reporter

This is a valuable source for current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more. (Provided by DISCUS)

SIRS Renaissance

SIRS Renaissance - Current Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities provides current, dynamic information from more than 700 domestic and international sources. (Provided by DISCUS)

The articles provide diverse information on the following topics: Architecture & Design, Culture, Film, Radio, Television & Video, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion, Visual Arts.

SIRS Researcher

SIRS Researcher provides thousands of full-text articles on a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are selected from around 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. Information can be found in four different databases: Full-Text Articles, the main database, and three additional content databases - Today's News, World Almanac® Excerpts and Maps of the World. (Provided by DISCUS)

Small Business Resource Center

Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business." (Provided by DISCUS.)

Social Work Abstracts

The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers. (Publisher's Description.)

Something About the Author Online

Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. Something About the Author Online includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

South Carolina Information Highway (SCIWay)

See SCIWay

SPORTDiscus

Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is dynamic reference work maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.

STN

See SciFinder.

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Tax Research Network

Federal and State Tax, Business Entity, Financial and Estate Tax. Published by Commerce Clearing House (CCH).

Telephone Directories

See AT&T Telephone Directories

The Baseball Index (TBI)

The Baseball Index (TBI) is a free catalog to baseball literature. It encompasses books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything else that may be of interest to the baseball fan or researcher. It is an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to catalog the entirety of baseball literature, from the earliest references to the present day. TBI is the creation of volunteers. Their hours of work and financial contributions have made your TBI research possible.

Remember, TBI is an index to baseball literature. It is a guide to what has been written about baseball subjects. It does not include the full-text of the sources referenced.

Thomas - Congressional Legislative Information

Information on current Congressional activity from the Library of Congress. Includes bills, Congressional Record, votes, laws, etc.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (web)

Thomas Register on the Internet provides free "instant" sourcing information compiled within 60,000 industrial product heading categories with comprehensive specifications and availability information from thousands of manufacturers. You must register individually with the website before using Thomas Register.

Turnitin.Com

Developed as a series of computer programs to monitor and discourage the recycling of research papers, Turnitin now provides electronic revision and grading of papers, an online grade book, and a calendar of assignments. In order to set-up courses in Turnitin, Winthrop University faculty must first contact Gale Teaster (323-2311 or teasterg@winthrop.edu) to obtain the University's user name and password. After 5:00 p.m., please contact the Reference Desk (323-4501).

Twayne's Author Series

See Literature Resources from Gale

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Mostly statistical information on the U.S. economy from one of the government's major data gathering agencies.

U.S. Census Bureau

Statistics about all aspects of life in the United States, collected by the government.

U.S.A. Trade Online

STAT-USA and the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau publish USA Trade Online, where you can find specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

U.S. History In Context (formerly History Resource Center: U.S.)

History Resource Center: U.S. is a diverse, electronic multidimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. It creates a virtual library of the essential tools needed for the study of U.S. history through extensive inter-linking and cross-referencing - modeling the natural multidimensional research process of students. Unlike other sources that contain only periodical or only bibliographic information, History Resource Center: U.S. brings together a broad collection of facts, primary documents and scholarly analysis. (Provided by DISCUS.)

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Valueline

The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. For more information see What is Valueline?

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Who's Who

See Biography In Context

World History In Context (formerly History Resource Center: World)

World History In Context is a comprehensive online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity up to the present. The database also features a significant amount of newly available reference content - supported by additional primary source materials - and periodic content loads. This virtual library provides the resources needed - credible multicultural, global and research-based content - to study world history within a flexible and convenient electronic search tool. (Provided by DISCUS.)

World Almanac & Book of Facts

The World Almanac database includes the contents of:

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids

WorldCat

Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

A guide to music information available on the WorldWideWeb, compiled by the library at the Indiana University School of Music.

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Xreferplus

See Credo Reference

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