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TILT - The Information Literacy Tutorial at Limestone College
E-Journals
Electronic Books
Expanded Academic ASAP
Gale PowerSearch
Gale Virtual Reference Library
InfoTrac OneFile
Video Collection
Educator's Reference Desk
Evaluating Internet Information Research Strategies
Footnotes & Bibliographies (APA/MLA/Turabian)
Plagiarism, Quoting & Paraphrasing
NoodleBib
Oxford Reference Online
Virtual Reference Source
Academic Search Premier
Access Science
America: History and Life
Biography Resource Center
Britannica Online
Business Source Premier
CINAHL
Clinical Pharmacology
CQ Researcher
Computer Source
Custom Newspapers
Encyclopedia of Animals
ERIC (EBSCO Version)
Expanded Academic ASAP
Facts.com
First Search (see librarian)
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
General Business File ASAP
General Reference Center
Grolier Encyclopedias
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health Reference Center-Academic
InfoTrac OneFile
LegalTrac
LexisNexis
Literature Resource Center
MAS Ultra -- School Edition
Medline (EBSCO)
Military & Government Collection
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Pre-CINAHL
Primary Search
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Regional Business News
Scribner Writer's Series
SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Knowledge Source
SocINDEX
South Carolina Newspapers
Kid's InfoBits
Junior Edition
Student Edition
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Frequently Used
Offers broad coverage of academic concentrations (DISCUS).
A huge file accessing periodical and news articles on many topics with both academic and general interest (DISCUS).
The library's link to ebooks, published monographs and books converted into digital format. There are over 45,000 e-books in our collection. You may either visit the link at left and search the ebook collection directly, or you can find ebooks in the College electronic catalog (K.A.T.E.) and follow them to the ebook site. To fully utilize ebooks, you will have to create an account for your ebook access. This account will also be necessary for access from computers not on the Limestone College main Gaffney campus.
The Limestone College collection of full text electronic journals.
A search engine that allows single searching of multiple Gale (InfoTrac) databases including, but not limited to, General Business File, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center, InfoTrac OneFile, Health Reference Center, and the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Limestone College Video Collection arranged by broad subject headings.
A collection of reference books covering an eclectic array of topics.
 
Indexing to journal articles, books, government reports, etc., related to education topics.
Offered by Purdue University, this host links to resources including the Virtual Reference Desk, a compilation of online ready reference sources such as Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, Information Please, and the AT&T Telephone Number Directory.
The University of Wisconsin's Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources.
From Dr. Karen W. Gainey, Dean and Montague MacMillan Professor of English at Limestone College.
Citation references from the University of South Florida following three major guidelines (APA, MLA, Turabian)
NoodleBib is an instrument that will help generate accurate MLA or APA style bibliographies for research papers.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online Premium brings together language and subject reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
 
Research Databases
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
Online version of McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology that also includes the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and links to other sites.
A database devoted to the historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, and a collection of historical abstracts.
A comprehensive online biographical reference database also containing the complete Marquis Who's Who.
The complete Encyclopedia Britannica with links to over 130,000 selected web sites.
Provides full text for over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, this database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1,000,000 records. See also related database Pre-Cinahl.
Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, and topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
A collection of newspaper content of South Carolina interest. This database includes full text articles from 1000+ newspapers including the New York Times (Jan 2000-present).
Encyclopedia of Animals (EBSCO Animals) offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
The Education Resources Information Center provides index and full text to journal articles, government studies, books, dissertations, and other material on education and related fields. Combines citations of sponsored reports, from Resources in Education, and over 750 journals, from the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers 1966 to the present.
Access to periodical and news content, and indexing .
Updated weekly, the electronic resource combines current event content from Facts on File, World News Digest, Issues and Controversies, Science on File, Editorials on File and the World Almanacs.
The host to a variety of indexes (Books in Print, Eric, PsycFirst,...) that may include some abstracts and/or full text.
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Integrates information from Business Index ASAP and the full text of PR Newswire releases.
Abstracts and full-text articles from an integrated set of general interest sources: magazines, newspaper articles, almanacs, encyclopedias, reference books and more.
The gateway to the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.
Answers the need for a fully integrated, ever-growing electronic resource center for all levels of health research.
An academic database with full text of nursing and allied health journals plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
Includes more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on the nursing and allied health fields but also covers many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.
A huge file accessing periodical and news articles on many topics with both academic and general interest.
Indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
LexisNexis delivers essential, authoritative global news, business intelligence and legal information.
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Contemporary Criticism as well as other respected Gale reference.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. It also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
A collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent offering current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
The Modern Language Association's comprehensive index of scholarly journals and series in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1963 to the present.
A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, Pre-Cinahl provides current awareness of new journal articles and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
Focusing on elementary school research Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text back files go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract back files go as far back as 1984.
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.
The 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.
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
A general reference source for young (grades 1-9) readers.
The gateway to SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance. The full-text articles are selected from magazines, journals, newspapers, government documents and internet resources.
SocINDEX is a comprehensive sociology research database that features citations with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus. SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including criminal justice, social psychology, social work, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
Searchable database of both The State (Columbia, SC) and Greenville News newspapers, with coverage from 1987 to the present for The State, and 1999 to the present for the Greenville News.
K-12 Education Related Databases
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
This annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.
DISCUS, South Carolina's Virtual Library
has provided statewide support for academic access to the databases with the DISCUS symbol shown.

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