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Directories for the fields of:

Business (Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing)
Computer ScienceBusiness Information Systems
Education (Educational Curriculum & Methods, Educational Psychology & Administration, Educational Technology & Library Science)
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nursing and Health Administration

Find acceptance rates, manuscript guidelines, and review process information for journals.  Search by topic areas, words in journal name, acceptance rate, type of review process, or publisher.
Category: Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Economics, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Computer Science, Education, Library Science, Nursing, Psychology, Public Health
Material Type: Directories, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Citations of papers and articles in multiple databases including: AFSA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Abstracts, ERIC, LLBA, Medline, Metals Abstracts (METADEX), Oceanic Abstracts, Plant Science, Pollution Abstracts, Risk Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and TOXLINE.
Category: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Engineering, Environment, Marine Science, Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, Science - General
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Proceedings, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Date Varies
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), provides full text to journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Only those journals to which USC-Columbia subscribes are available full text.
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
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A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
Category: Foreign Language & Literatures
Material Type: Books
Access: On & Off Campus
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New users register using “Click this link to create a User ID."  Once registered, use email address and password to log in on the CCH IntelliConnect Research page. IntelliConnect is the Commerce Clearing House platform which provides a single point of access to 48 databases in the following practice groups: Health Care & Benefits; Tax & Accounting; Business Compliance; Financial Services; and Legal Professionals.
Category: Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Finance
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
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The Charleston Advisor publishes critical reviews of online resources for libraries. To maintain a high level of accuracy and integrity, all reviews are peer-reviewed by experienced librarians.
Category: Library Science
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1999 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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The standard day-by-day directory to special days, weeks and months as well as holidays, historical anniversaries and fairs and festivals. Each edition of Chase’s Calendar of Events has more than 12,000 listings. 
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
Coverage: Current
Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 38. Most recent print edition is available at Ref GT 4803 .C48

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A database containing financial accounting, tax, audit, and corporate governance resources.

Note: Some modules have limited concurrent users. Please exit a standard when not in use and logout of Checkpoint when you are finished.

Tax content includes: IRS Tax Code, Regulations, Rulings, and Practice Aids; International, Federal, State, and Local Tax Libraries; Payroll Library with employment laws and regulations; Federal tax cases; State Citator and more.

Financial and Audit content includes: AICPA, PCAOB, and SEC Libraries; authoritative standards from IASB, FASB (Codification and pre-Codification standards), COSO, AICPA, GASB, and PCAOB; and related guides and technical practice aids.

Corporate governance content includes: Sarbanes-Oxley Reporter and cases; interactive checklists for internal controls and risk assessment; and related guides and interpretations.

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The Chicago Defender was the most influential African-American newspaper of the 20th century. With the majority of its readership outside the Chicago region, it served as the de facto national black newspaper in the U.S.
Category: African-American Studies, History, Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Searching this archive of The Chicago Tribune archive and viewing abstracts and citations is free, but viewing articles requires a fee. The Thomas Cooper Library subscribes to The Chicago Tribune. Check the Library Catalog for holdings.
Category: General Purpose Databases, Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Newspapers
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Coverage: 1985 - current
Notes: Access is to index only. The Thomas Cooper Library Reference Department has the print indexes for 1972-1991.

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Covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade. Professional literature for the children's librarian—both periodicals and books—is also covered. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists, books within Children’s Core Collection encompass a wide variety of topics, including social sciences, science, math and reading.
Category: Education, English Literature, General Purpose Databases, K-12 Resources, Library Science
Material Type: Reference Sources
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CLCD identifies children’s literature, (infant to young adult, fiction and non-fiction) by author, illustrator, subject, genre, age or grade level, language, Lexile Range and publisher. CLCD includes over 900,000 records of books and media, many including reviews.
Category: Education, English Literature, K-12 Resources, Library Science
Material Type: Book Reviews, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Full text access to the newspaper The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Academe Today is a daily e-mail newsletter summarizing the latest news from The Chronicle of Higher Education with links to the complete news article. This service is made available through the USC Libraries system-wide subscription.

Signing up is simple: Go to https://chronicle.com/services/?slm to create a free Chronicle account. Once you have confirmed your e-mail address, you'll receive your own copy of Academe Today the next weekday morning (Eastern Time).
Category: Education
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1989 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Freely search selected American newspapers, including South Carolina papers, from 1860-1922 or use the U.S. newspaper directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present.  Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress.

Since 2009, the University of South Carolina Libraries have received two grants from NEH to make many late 19th and early 20th century South Carolina newspapers accessible.  Learn more about the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program.
Category: General Purpose Databases, History
Material Type: Newspapers
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CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. Early articles that were previously included in Pre-CINAHL are now available here.
Category: Consumer Health, Exercise & Sports Science, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1937 - current
Notes: Coverage List

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The American Civil War Research Database is an online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. The database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.

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Provides full text access to selected articles published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865 from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer.

Begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Since the major events are described in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, their opposing perspectives are readily available for comparative evaluation. Includes descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies as well as other topics of the day.
Category: History
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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The first volume includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

Classical Scores Library, Volume II focuses on major composers not represented in the first collection; new contemporary self published scores by major living composers around the world; and critical editions of compositions that are lesser known but often studied.

Both collections are indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher.
Category: Music
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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The Cochrane Library Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials – all the current evidence in one single environment.
Category: Exercise & Sports Science, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology, Public Health
Material Type: Industry Information, Journals, Proceedings, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
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Features over 10,000 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. Also provides access to information on assessment testing, career information, college application services, college guides, counseling etc.
Category: Education
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Current
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Indexes 90,000 poems published in 550 anthologies, with complete text of 8,500 poems and quotations from 1,500 poems. 
Category: Comparative Literature, English Literature
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
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Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 46.

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 Federal Business Opportunities, or FedBizOpps for short, is the government wide single-point-of-entry on the internet for all Federal government contracting opportunities. It lists all major Federal government solicitations, contract awards, subcontracting opportunities, surplus property sales and foreign business opportunities.

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CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Category: Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1915 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Coverage includes literature in the areas of communication processes; interpersonal communication and relations; economics and communication; communication and society; health communication; political communication; regulation of communication; public relations; advertising, marketing, and consumer behavior; mass media; journalism and news media; popular culture and the media; communication and information technology;  and communication theory and research.
Category: Journalism & Mass Communications, Public Health, Social Sciences
Material Type: Journals
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The Engineering Village platform provides access to Compendex, the comprehensive database for Engineering research, and Inspec, the premier database for physics and related areas.

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Provides online access to society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.
Category: Computer Science
Material Type: Journals, Magazines, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1988 - current
Notes:  Conferences are covered from 1995 - current.

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The database provides both technical journals and consumer computer titles covering the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Category: Computer Science
Material Type: Journals, Magazines
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1985 - current
Notes: Coverage List

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A searchable collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and other publishers.
Category: Computer Science
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1947 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
Category: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Environment, Science - General
Material Type: Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1982 - current
Notes: Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.

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Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information.
Category: Political Science, Social Sciences
Material Type: Government Information
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1970 - current
Notes: User Guide

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This collection presents more than 500 documents that chronicle the events of the Japanese nation’s constitutional development. The collection includes transcripts of debates in the Japanese Diet, translations and annotations of other documents from the archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, from the National Diet Library, and from diaries and memoirs of leading Japanese participants in these events. The collection is supplemented by a detailed chronology and an introductory essay by each editor. 
Category: History
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
Coverage: 1945 - 1947
Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 47.

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A resource for consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men's & women's health, and children's health.

CHC offers access to 4,100 evidenced-based full text health reports written for the lay person covering diseases, conditions, injuries, and procedures. Includes full text for more than one thousand consumer health pamphlets & leaflets from trusted organizations. Many consumer-friendly drug information resources including Clinical Pharmacology are included in CHC. In addition, 5,000 Spanish-language health reports and a Spanish-language health newswire are provided.
Category: Consumer Health, Medicine
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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Directory of public, private, American and foreign companies. Provides information about the parent companies and their worldwide divisions and subsidiaries.
Category: Business, Business-Finance, Business-Marketing
Material Type: Company Profiles, Directories, Industry Information, Statistics
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Current data. In addition, 1993-2009 historical company data is now available and searchable.
Notes: The license agreement allows only two users at a time, so try again later if you have access problems.

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This encyclopedia of psychology and related fields has over 1200 entries contributed by experts worldwide.
Category: Psychology
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 4th Edition (2010)
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Designed to meet the needs of the R&D scientific community by providing announcements of COS funding opportunities, COS funding alerts, and profiles of researchers from over 1,600 institutions worldwide.

Find links to tutorials for registering and using it from the USC Office of Research and Graduate Education's Grant Training webpage.
Category: Science - General
Material Type: Industry Information, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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CQ Researcher provides reporting and analysis of current issues in the news. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. Each provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Category: Criminal Justice, General Purpose Databases, Political Science
Material Type: Reference Sources, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1991 - current
Notes: Index

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Use the Table of Contents on the left to explore different sections of the handbook.
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry, Engineering, Physics, Science - General
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 90th Edition
Notes: Now you can search the handbook by chemical structure. Simply download the intuitive Marvin Sketch Java Applet from ChemAxon and then draw your structure query. Search over 10,000 compounds.

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Use to find quick facts, images or background information on various topics in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Category: African-American Studies, Anthropology & Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business-Accounting, Business-Economics, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Consumer Health, Counseling, Criminal Justice, Education, Engineering, English Literature, Environment, Exercise & Sports Science, Film Studies, Foreign Language & Literatures, General Purpose Databases, Geography, Geology, History, Hospitality & Tourism Management, Journalism & Mass Communications, K-12 Resources, Law, Library Science, Linguistics, Marine Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Nursing, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Public Health, Religious Studies, Science - General, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, South Carolina Research, Sport Management, Statistics, Theatre & Dance, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Biographies, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias, Reference Sources
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Indexing and full text of resources related to criminal justice and criminology.
Category: Criminal Justice, Social Sciences, Social Work
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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CultureGrams helps you and your students discover the world with concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations. Local experts document the unique, intimate details of each country's customs, traditions and daily life. CultureGrams offers an equality of coverage detailing 25 different aspects of the country and its culture.
Category: Business, Business-International Business
Material Type: Reference Sources, Reports, Statistics
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Current
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Content of the printed monthly magazine Current Biography (1940 -) in a searchable, electronic format.
Category: General Purpose Databases, Library Science
Material Type: Biographies
Access: On & Off Campus
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The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields.
Category: Statistics
Material Type: Books, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1975 - current
Notes: Indexes the entire contents of core journals, in most cases from 1975 to the current end year, and pre-1975 coverage for several of them, selected articles since 1975 from about 1200 additional journals, and about 11,000 books in statistics.

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