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 Offers broad coverage
of academic concentrations (DISCUS). |
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 A huge file accessing
periodical and news articles on many topics with both
academic and general interest (DISCUS). |
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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. |
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The Limestone College collection
of full text electronic journals. |
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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. |
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Limestone College Video Collection
arranged by broad subject headings. |
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 A collection of reference books
covering an eclectic array of topics. |
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Indexing to journal articles,
books, government reports, etc., related to education
topics. |
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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. |
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The University of Wisconsin's
Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources. |
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From Dr. Karen W. Gainey, Dean
and Montague MacMillan Professor of English at Limestone
College. |
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Citation references from the
University of South Florida following three major
guidelines (APA, MLA, Turabian) |
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NoodleBib is an instrument
that will help generate accurate MLA or APA style
bibliographies for research papers. |
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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. |
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 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. |
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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. |
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A database devoted to the historical
coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory
to the present, and a collection of historical abstracts. |
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 A comprehensive online
biographical reference database also containing the
complete Marquis Who's Who. |
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The complete Encyclopedia
Britannica with links to over 130,000 selected
web sites. |
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 Provides full text for
over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management,
economics, finance, accounting, international business
and much more. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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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. |
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 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. |
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 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). |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 Access to periodical
and news content, and indexing . |
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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. |
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The host to a variety of indexes
(Books in Print, Eric, PsycFirst,...)
that may include some abstracts and/or full text. |
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 This database provides
over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety
of subject areas. |
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 Integrates information
from Business Index ASAP and the
full text of PR Newswire releases. |
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 Abstracts and full-text
articles from an integrated set of general interest
sources: magazines, newspaper articles, almanacs,
encyclopedias, reference books and more. |
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 The gateway to the Encyclopedia
Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia,
and New Book of Knowledge. |
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 Answers the need for
a fully integrated, ever-growing electronic resource
center for all levels of health research. |
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 An academic database
with full text of nursing and allied health journals
plus a wide variety of personal health information
sources. |
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 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. |
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 A huge file accessing
periodical and news articles on many topics with both
academic and general interest. |
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 Indexing for approximately
875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers,
bar association journals and international legal journals. |
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 LexisNexis delivers essential,
authoritative global news, business intelligence and
legal information. |
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Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions,
Contemporary Criticism as well as other respected
Gale reference. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 The Modern Language Association's
comprehensive index of scholarly journals and series
in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1963
to the present. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 A general reference source
for young (grades 1-9) readers. |
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 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. |
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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. |
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 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 |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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.
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 This annual selection
guide helps readers to independently choose titles
of interest published in the last year. |
has provided statewide support
for academic access to the databases with the DISCUS
symbol shown.
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