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Arts and Communications

Business, Behavioral and Social Sciences

Humanities

Music

Nursing

Science and Mathematics

Teachers Education and Sports Professions 

General Information

Biographies

An African Biographical Dictionary

Biography in Context (Gale)

Biography Index Past & Present (H.W. Wilson)

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)

Chamber's Biographical Dictionary

Current Biography Illustrated (H.W. Wilson)

Marquis Who Was Who in America, 1607-1984

Marquis Who Was Who in America, 1985-Present

Computing

Computer Source

Dictionary of Computing

Dictionaries/Thesauri

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Chamber's 21st Century Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

Respectfully Quoted

Roget's II New Thesaurus

Word Origins

E-book Collections

E-book Collection (Ebsco)

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Encyclopedias

The 9/11 Encyclopedia

Britannica Academic Edition

The Columbia Encyclopedia

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous

Associates Program Source

Auto Repair Reference Center

Federal Depository Library Program

Professional Development Collection

Vocational & Career Collection

Newspaper Collections

AP NewsMonitor Collection

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

InfoTrac NewsStand Custom Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus

Wall Street Journal

Ready Reference

Academic OneFile  

Academic Search Complete

American Environmental Leaders: from Colonial Times to the Present

CredoReference 

EBSCOhost Research Databases  

MasterFILE Premier

Notable American Women, 1607-1950

Notable American Women, Completing the 20th Century

Opposing Viewpoints in Context  

Points of View Reference Center

PowerSearch (Gale databases) 

Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

TOPICsearch 

World Data Analyst 

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Arts and Communications

Academic Search Complete 

Academic OneFile

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) 

The Bloomsbury Guide to Art

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

Chamber's Film Factfinder

Computer Graphics Companion

EBSCOhost Research Databases 

Encyclopedia of American Folk Art

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text 

Great American Court Cases

Hospitality & Tourism Complete

If the Paintings Could Talk

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences III Collection)

Key Concepts in Journalism Studies

International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text  

MasterFILE Premier

National Gallery Collection

National Gallery Companion Guide

PowerSearch (Gale Databases)

Shakespeare's Theater: a Dictionary of His Stage Context

TOPICsearch 

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Business, Behavioral and Social Sciences

Accounting

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection)

Business/Economics

Business Abstracts with Full-text (H.W. Wilson)

Business and Company Resource Center

Business Source Complete

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology & Economic Behavior

Collin's Dictionary of Business

Collin's Dictionary of Economics

Dictionary of Business

Entrepreneurial Studies Source

Guide to Economic Indicators

Regional Business News

Small Business Reference Center (Ebsco)

Small Business Resource Center (Gale)

U.S. Census 2000: State & County Statistical QuickFacts

Wall Street Journal

International Studies

GLOBAL issues in Context

International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics

International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family

International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center

Women's Studies International

Law

Collin's Dictionary of Law

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full-text

Dictionary of Forensic Psychology

Great American Court Cases

Handbook of Forensic Psychology: Resource for Mental Health & Legal Professionals

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full-text (H.W. Wilson)

Political Corruption in America: an Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed

Political Science

The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science

Campus Research (Westlaw)

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Political Science Complete

Psychology

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behavior

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health, and Medicine

Dictionary of Conflict Resolution

Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Ready Reference

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete

EBSCOhost Research Databases

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection)

MasterFILE Premier

Professional Development Collection

PowerSearch (Gale)

TOPICsearch

Vocational & Career Collection

Sociology

The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology

Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution

Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology

Collin's Dictionary of Sociology

Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices

Gender and Education: an encyclopedia

Key Concepts in Social Research

Social Sciences Full Text

Women's Studies International

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Humanities

English Resources

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete 

Biography in Context

Biography Index Past & Present (H.W. Wilson)

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) 

Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts on File) 

Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson) 

Books & Authors  

Current Biography Illustrated (H.W. Wilson) 

EBSCOhost Research Databases  

Essay & General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson)

Federal Depository Library Program  

Humanities Full-text (H.W. Wilson) 

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences III Collection) 

MasterFILE Premier 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts 

Library Literature & Information Science Full-text (H.W. Wilson) 

Literary Reference Center 

Literature Resources from Gale

MLA Directory of Periodicals 

MLA International Bibliography 

Oxford English Dictionary

Play Index (H.W. Wilson)

PowerSearch (Gale Databases) 

Reader's Guide Full-text Mega (H.W. Wilson)  

Roget's II New Thesaurus

Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson) 

TOPICsearch  

Ready Reference: English

African-American Writers: a dictionary

All Things Chaucer: an encyclopedia of Chaucer's world

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story

Encyclopedia of African-American Writers

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: the 20th Century

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Holocaust Literature: an Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work

Palgrave Guide  to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000

Word Origins

History Resources 

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete 

Annals of American History  

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 

CultureGrams  

EBSCOhost Research Databases 

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 

History Reference Center 

Jewish Studies 

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences III Collection) 

MasterFILE Premier 

Military & Government Collection 

Original Sources 

Oxford English Dictionary

PowerSearch (Gale Databases) 

TOPICsearch 

U.S. History in Context  

Women's Studies International 

World Data Analyst 

World History in Context

Ready Reference: History

The 9/11 Encyclopedia

Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

Black Firsts

CIA World Factbook (geography)

Companion to British History (Routledge)

Conspiracy Theories in American History

Encyclopedia of African History

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers

From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women

A Guide to the Ancient World

Reader's Companion to American History

Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

Slavery in the United States: a Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia

The Underground Railroad: an Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

Women in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia

Religion Resources

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete 

ATLA Religion Database  

EBSCOhost Research Databases  

Jewish Studies 

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences III Collection) 

MasterFILE Premier 

PowerSearch (Gale Databases) 

Religion & Philosophy Collection  

TOPICsearch

Ready Reference: Religion

Atlas of the Bible (Andromeda)

Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology

Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

Collin's English-Greek Dictionary

Encyclopedia of Classic Philosophy

Feminist Philosophies, A-Z

The Holy Bible, King James Version

Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible

Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece

Need to Know? Islam

The Qur'an

The Religious Right: a reference handbook

Spanish Resources

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete 

The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

Business Spanish Dictionary (Peter Collins Publishing)

Collin's Spanish Dictionary

EBSCOhost Research Databases

Escolar 

Fuente Academia

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection) 

PowerSearch (Gale Databases) 

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Music 

Academic OneFile 

Academic Search Complete 

EBSCOhost Research Databases  

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Dictionary of Music

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection)

MasterFILE Premier

Naxos Music Library 

The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

Opera: the Great Composers and Their Masterworks

PowerSearch (Gale Databases) 

TOPICsearch 

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Nursing

Academic OneFile 

Academic Search Complete  

Alt Health Watch 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text 

Consumer Health Complete 

Ebrary Nursing and Allied Health Collection 

EBSCOhost Research Databases 

Health and Wellness Resource Center 

Healthfinder.gov 

Health Reference Center Academic  

Health Source - Consumer Edition 

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition  

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection) 

Liebert Nursing Online

MasterFILE Premier  

MEDLINE with Full-Text

Nursing Collection II - OVID 

Nursing Resource Center  

PowerSearch (Gale Databases)

ProQuest Nursing 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  

PubMed.gov  

TOPICsearch

Ready Reference: Nursing

American Heritage Medical Dictionary

Bailliere's Midwifes Dictionary

Bender's Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology

Black's Medical Dictionary

The Brain Book: an illustrated guide

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health, and Medicine

Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease

Dorland's Illustrated Medical History

Encyclopedia of Women's Health

The Human Body Book: an illustrated guide

Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms

Key Concepts in Nursing

Macmillian Dictionary of Toxicology

Mosby's Dictionary of Nursing, Medicine, and Health Professionals

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Science and Mathematics

Academic OneFile 

Academic Search Complete 

AccessScience  

ACS Publications 

AGRICOLA 

Applied Science & Technology Full-text (H.W. Wilson) 

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson) 

Computer Source 

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full-text  

EBSCOhost Research Databases  

General Science Full-text (H.W. Wilson) 

GREENER: Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources

GreenFILE  

IOP - Institute of Physics 

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection) 

MasterFILE Premier 

PowerSearch (Gale Databases)

Science in Context

Science Reference Center 

TOPICsearch  

Ready Reference: Science & Mathematics

American Environmental Leaders: from Colonial Times to Present

Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution

Collin's Dictionary of Biology

Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology

Dictionary of Biology and Embryology

Dictionary of Forensic Psychology

Dictionary of Microbiology

Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management

Encyclopedia of Insects

Guide to Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils

Macquarie Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

One-Hundred and One Botanists

Princeton Companion to Mathematics

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Teacher Education and Sports Professions

Academic OneFile

Academic Search Complete

EBSCOhost Research Databases

Education Full-text (H.W. Wilson)

Educator's Reference Complete

Encyclopedia of Special Education

ERIC

Gender and Education: an Encyclopedia

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences III Collection)

Key Concepts in Education

Key Concepts in Sport and Exercise Sciences

Learning Express Library

MasterFILE Premier

PowerSearch (Gale)

Professional Development Collection

Teacher Reference Center

TOPICsearch

K-12 Resources

BrainPop

Britannica Learning Zone

Kids InfoBits

MAS Ultra - School Edition

Middle Search Plus

NoveList K-8 Plus

NoveList Plus

Points of View Reference Center

Primary Search

Searchasaurus: Elementary School Research

Student Research Center: Middle School Research

Student Research Center: High School Research

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 DISCUS (Digital Information for South Carolina USers) is the state's Virtual Library. It provides all South Carolinians with access to an electronic library of essential information and learning resources.

 The electronic resources funded by PASCAL (Partnership Among South Carolina's Academic Libraries) build on the general-level information resources furnished by DISCUS.

 Newberry College provides the Wessels Library with funds to purchase the balance of the electronic resources.