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• ABC-CLIO Ebook Collection

  History and literature ebooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.

• ABI/INFORM Collection

  Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.

• Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection

  Journal articles, reference reports, proceedings, and dissertations covering current news and topics as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues.

• Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database

  Full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

• African American Poetry

  Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.

• Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection

  Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics.

• American Poetry

  Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.

• ArchiveGrid

  Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.

• Arts & Humanities Database

  This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

• Asian & European Business Collection

  This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.

• Australia & New Zealand Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand.

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• Biological Science Database

  Research on animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, health and safety science, entomology, and more.

• Business Market Research Collection

  This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analytica, and Snapshots.

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• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

  Articles spanning Canadian agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and more, including scholarly content.

• Canadian Newsstream

  Over 300 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features.

• Career & Technical Education Database

  Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text

  Database of nursing and allied health journals with additional materials that include nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheets, audiovisuals, and continuing education modules.

• Computer Science Database

  Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware.

• Consumer Health Database

  Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.

• Consumer Reports

  Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.

• Continental Europe Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries.

• CQ Researcher

  Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

• Credo Reference

  A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.

• Criminal Justice Database

  Research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.

• Cypress Resume

  Cypress Resume is the simplest, most effective tool for resume creation on the market today. Specifically designed for job seekers skittish about writing, Cypress Resume allows anyone to create a professional resume in a matter of minutes.

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• Data-Axle Reference Solutions

  Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Data-Axle makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more. Formerly known as ReferenceUSA.

• Digital Library on American Slavery

  Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is a freely available and searchable database focused on bringing to light the names of enslaved individuals from court petitions, historical newspapers, and deed records held by Register of Deeds offices across North Carolina.

• Digital Public Library of America

  The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research, and more.

• Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina

  Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in 158 North Carolina towns and cities across a century of change.

• DigitalNC

  Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

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• Earth, Atmospheric Aquatic Science Database

  The Earth, Atmospheric Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

• East & South Asia Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries.

• East Europe, Central Europe Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries.

• Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete

  Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.

• eBooks on EBSCOhost

  Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.

• Education Database

  Research on primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

• eLibrary

  This easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for schools and libraries of all kinds, as well as additional subject-based material.

• Engineering Database

  This database provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

• English Poetry

  Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset Training Course

  This online, self-paced course will help you recognize opportunities that others overlook and determine whether starting a business is right for you.

• Entrepreneurship Database

  Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journals, business cases, and more.

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• Faber Poetry Library

  Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.

• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

  Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

• Films on Demand Video Collection

  Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Also includes content formerly in the NC LIVE Video Collection.

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• Gale Ebooks

  Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

• Gale in Context: Biography

  Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.

• Gale Literary Sources

  Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

• Gale Literature Resource Center

  Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

• Global Breaking Newswires

  Global Breaking Newswires provides timely access to newswire content from around the globe as well as growing archive of news.

• GreenFILE

  GreenFILE is a free research database covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources.

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• Health & Medical Collection

  Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.

• Healthcare Administration Database

  Research supporting professional healthcare management and healthcare administration.

• HeritageQuest

  Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.

• Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection

  Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.

• History Study Center

  A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

• HomeGrown Ebooks Collection

  Ebooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.

• hoopla

  Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers that support apps. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.

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• India Database

  ProQuest Indian Journals is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India.

• International Newsstream

  International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

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• Just for Kids Streaming Collection

  The Just for Kids Streaming Collection gives children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy.

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• Latin America & Iberia Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal.

• LawHelpNC

  Find information and links about your legal rights, the law, the courts, legal forms and more.

• LearningExpress Library Complete and PrepSTEP Academic

  Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

• Library Science Database

  This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles.

• Linguistics Database

  This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

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• MasterFILE Premier

  General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.

• Materials Science Database

  The collection contains materials science related full-text articles and the entire range of bibliographic records from the Materials Research Database.

• MedlinePlus

  Common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.

• MedlinePlus Drugs, Herbs and Supplements

  Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs, and supplements.

• Merck Manual Professional Version

  Explains disorders, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, and how they can be prevented or treated. For doctors and medical students.

• Middle East & Africa Database

  This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries.

• Military Database

  Articles from topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.

• Morningstar Investment Research Center

  Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.

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