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Full text of over 70,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides covering all aspects of American life from colonial times to the early 19th century.  It combines Evans (Series I and Supplement)  and Shaw-Shoemaker (Series II and Supplement).
Category: African-American Studies, English Literature, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, South Carolina Research, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Books, Government Information, Maps, Newspapers, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1639 - 1819
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. 
Category: English Literature, History
Material Type: Books, Electronic Books, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1473 - 1700
Notes: This subscription also includes access to the Text Creation Partnership which has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files. For more information on this project visit http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo

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EBSCO is a large provider of various databases including Academic Search Premier. 
This is a vendor which the library system has subscribed to several resources. Listed below are all the resources from this vendor. Clicking on the name of a resource will take you to the full details page for that resource. For more information on this vendor click on Full Details.

AGRICOLA - Agricultural Online Access
Alt HealthWatch
America: History and Life
AP NewsMonitor Collection
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Art Full Text
Art Index Retrospective, 1929 - 1984
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
Auto Repair Reference Center
Biography Index Past and Present
Book Review Digest Plus
Book Review Digest Retro, 1905 - 1982
Children's Core Collection
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication Abstracts
Computer Source
Consumer Health Complete
EBSCOHost Electronic Journals Service
EconLit
Education Full Text
Education Full Text and ERIC
Education Index Retrospective, 1929 - 1983
ERIC (EBSCO)
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective, 1900-1984
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Fiction Core Collection
Fuente Academica
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Graphic Novels Core Collection
GreenFILE
HAPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Historical Abstracts
History Reference Center
Hospitality and Tourism Complete
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective, 1908 - 1981
IPSA - International Political Science Abstracts
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective, 1905 - 1983
Literary Reference Center
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MasterFILE Premier
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Middle and Junior High School Core Collection
Middle Search Plus
Military & Government Collection
MLA - Modern Language Association International Bibliography (Literature)
MLA Directory of Periodicals
NetLibrary
Newspaper Source Plus
Nonbook Materials Core Collection
NoveList K-8 Plus
NoveList Plus
Philosopher's Index
Points of View Reference Center
Primary Search
Professional Development Collection
PsycARTICLES
PsycCRITIQUES
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
PsycINFO
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction
Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890 - 1982
Regional Business News
Religion and Philosophy Collection
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
Science Reference Center
Searchasaurus
Sears List of Subject Headings
Senior High Core Collection
Short Story Index
Short Story Index Retrospective
Small Business Reference Center
Social Work Abstracts
Student Research Center: High School
Student Research Center: Middle School
Teacher Reference Center
TOPICsearch
Vocational and Career Collection

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This portal provides access to all online journals that the University Libraries subscribe to via EBSCOhost.
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: For access to all online journals that the University Libraries subscribe to, please visit the e-journal collection

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EconLit is the American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. EconLit contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals.
Category: Business, Business-Economics
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1969 - current
Notes: The User Guide pages also list Subject Descriptors used in EconLit with links to comparable headings in the JEL Classification System.

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Covers an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks in the field of education.
Category: Education, Exercise & Sports Science, Physical Education
Material Type: Book Reviews, Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1983 - current
Notes: H.W. Wilson index.

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Search ERIC and Education Full Text at the same time.  Convenient, but if you are wanting to dig deep you might be better off searching each separately.
Category: Counseling, Education, Exercise & Sports Science, Physical Education
Material Type: Book Reviews, Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Date Varies
Notes:  ERIC is the premier U.S. national bibliographic database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education.

Education Full Text includes comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks in the field of education.  H.W. Wilson index.

 

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Indexing to over 800 education periodicals.  
Category: Education, Exercise & Sports Science, Physical Education
Material Type: Book Reviews, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1929 -1983
Notes: H.W. Wilson index

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. 

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EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts.
Category: Biology, Engineering, Environment
Material Type: Government Information, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1985 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Spanish language encyclopedia. The Enciclopedia Hispanica CD includes all the text, maps, graphs, photographs and tables from the print version as well as a dictionary encyclopedia. It also includes a polyglot dictionary which converts Spanish into English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, a synonym/antonym dictionary, and a section on grammar. 
Category: Foreign Language & Literatures
Material Type: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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 06. Print version is available in Thomas Cooper Library Quick Start at Call Number AE 61 .E52 2000

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A Spanish-language encyclopedia for students age 6-12.
Category: K-12 Resources
Material Type: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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Includes articles on all aspects of the Islamic World.  Our subscription is for the First Edition, published 1913-1936.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Art, History, Religious Studies
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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Internet version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

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Incorporates the fundamentals of life, engineering, mathematical, and information sciences with the methodologies and systems of biomedical engineering. Articles are included in the following areas:
  • Biochemical Engineering
  • Biomedical Education
  • Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation
  • Human Performance and Reverse Engineering
  • Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Engineering
Category: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Engineering, Medicine
Material Type: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Access: On & Off Campus
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Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work is widely considered the cornerstone of reference in its field.
Category: Social Work
Material Type: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 2008
Notes: The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Clearly arranged in A-Z format, each article is fully cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and the most important scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes a comprehensive index and topical outline. Comprehensive in coverage and international in scope, the Encyclopedia is a valuable resource to social work practitioners, scholars, and students alike. 

20th Edition also in print at the Thomas Cooper Library.


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Represents basically the complete canon of English poetry containing over 183,000 poems and 2,700 poets. Full text poems. May also include accompanying texts such as dedications, notes and epitaphs.
Category: English Literature
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 8th - 20th Century
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from 1473 through 1800, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Subject headings appear in records for items published in 1700 or earlier. 
Category: English Literature
Material Type: Reference Sources
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Coverage: 1473 - 1800
Notes: ESTC is freely available from the British Library. This title is also available on CD-ROM in Thomas Cooper Library - Reference Department.

Includes the former Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) and the two print short-title catalogues covering 1475-1640 (Pollard & Redgrave) and 1641-1700 (Wing).

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Entrepreneurial Studies Source™ offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
Category: Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Economics, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Hospitality & Tourism Management
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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Environment & Energy Publishing provides comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy. E&E’s online publications include Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, E&E News PM, and Land Letter as well as E&E TV daily news reports and Onpoint, a webcast program.
Category: Engineering, Environment, Political Science
Material Type: Government Information, Newspapers, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 1500 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications in the fields of aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energy resources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements, hazardous waste, industrial hygiene, microbiology, risk assessment.
Category: Biology, Engineering, Environment
Material Type: Books, Government Information, Journals, Proceedings, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1981 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC leads you to articles, books, and documents.
Category: Counseling, Education, Exercise & Sports Science, K-12 Resources, Library Science, Physical Education, Social Sciences, Social Work
Material Type: Journals, Proceedings, Reports
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Coverage: 1966 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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ERIC is the premier U.S. national bibliographic database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education.
Category: Counseling, Education, K-12 Resources, Library Science
Material Type: Books, Journals, Proceedings, Reports
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Coverage: 1966 - current
Notes: This free version of ERIC does not link articles to our online journal collection.  USC-Columbia students, faculty, and staff may either search a subscription version of ERIC which links to our online journal collection via the Find Text button or search for specific articles in the online journal collection.

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Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature.
Category: Education
Material Type: Journals
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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Index to essays published in books focusing primarily on the humanities and social sciences.  
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1900 - 1984
Notes: H.W. Wilson index

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Index of collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences.
Category: General Purpose Databases, Social Sciences
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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Essential Evidence Plus is a collection of searchable evidence-based medical information for clinicians. It is available for the web, Pocket PC, and Palm OS devices. It includes Daily POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters), EBM Guidelines, and e-Essential Evidence.
Category: Consumer Health, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health
Material Type: Industry Information
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Date Varies
Notes: Daily POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters), is a daily Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) content alerting service. The primary care and family practice journal literature is continuously surveyed to identify valid and clinically applicable new evidence that is summarized in brief synopses.

EBM Guidelines is produced by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim and includes a concise, easy-to-use collection of more than 950 Practice Guidelines, more than 3,000 Evidence Summaries, and more than 1,000 images.

e-Essential Evidence is a general medical reference providing relevant medical content in a structured, evidence-based format for general practitioners, nurses and physician assistants providing first contact care.

Access to this is resource is graciously provided by the USC School of Medicine Library.

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The online version of Annual Statement Studies is useful for comparing company performance within an industry, as well as for business valuations and benchmarking for business plans. The newly expanded content contains data to assess probability of default and critical analysis of cash flow. Data is derived directly from the financial statements of RMA member companies and is updated annually in November. Contains two publications:
 
Financial Ratio Benchmarks
•         Nineteen classic financial statement ratios for over 800 industries
•         Common-size balance sheet and income statement
•         Trend data available on the history tabs
 
Industry Default Probabilities & Cash Flow Measures
•         Data arrayed by asset and sales size for over 700 industries
•         Probability of default estimates on a percentage scale, mapped to a .EDF bond rating scale
•         Cash flow measures on a common-size percentage scale
 
The online version allows for data aggregation on both the national and regional levels, and searching for industries may be by name or by NAICS code. Data may be downloaded into Excel, and the Client Comparison Worksheet is an available Excel tool that helps compare your financial data with the benchmarking data from eSS.
Category: Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing
Material Type: Industry Information
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Geography, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Audio and Visual
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Notes: No additional information provided.

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Provides access to treaties,legislation,legislation in preparation, case law,and parliamentary questions.Also provides access to the full text of the Official Journal of the European Communities, published daily in 20 languages, consisting of the L series (legislation) and the C series (information, preparatory acts and notices).
Category: Law
Material Type: Government Information
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Coverage: 1998 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Passport provides business intelligence on industries, market data & forecasts, and consumer lifestyles, as well as analysis of the economy, infrastructure, and business environment in over 200 countries. It also contains B2B (business-to-business) market data on the world’s 18 largest economies, splitting each into 177 industries.

 Use Passport to obtain historic and forecasted market sizes, distribution channel analysis, company and brand share data, company profiles, and country analysis.

You will need to first accept the terms and conditions of use.

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A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It is based on the bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” It will not link to fulltext, but we may have it online through Early English Books Online [References indicating Wing, Pollard, or Redgrave. Short-title catalogue of books] or Early American Imprints [References indicating Evans, Charles.  American bibliography].  It might also have been digitized by a holding institution.   
Category: History
Material Type: Books, Newspapers, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: pre 1750
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States (or British American colonies prior to Independence) from 1639 through 1800. Or search the combined Early American Imprint Series I and Series II (Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819).
Category: African-American Studies, English Literature, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, South Carolina Research, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Books, Government Information, Maps, Newspapers, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1639 - 1800
Notes: No additional information provided.

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