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A peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database.
Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and more.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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A peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database.
Coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.
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AP Images  
A primary source database archive which includes photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text from a historical perspective to present.
Includes the following areas:
U.S. News | International | Sports | Entertainment | Weather | National & State Curriculum Correlations for K-12.
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AccuWeather
Provides current weather headlines, permits you to check local forecast by city & state or zip code, contains satellite & radar imagery includes a storm center and historical data.
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America's News Magazines
Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines.
Includes magazines covering the following areas:
Business | Entertainment | Lifestyle | News| Science & Technology | Sports
A NewsBank Product.

America's Newspapers
Provides full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
Includes direct links to the following local papers:
The Herald, Rock Hill, SC | Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC | State Newspaper, Columbia, SC.| Greenville News, Greenville, SC | Other Local Papers | Other United States Newspapers.
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Amazing Animals of the World
Easy-to-navigate and highly visual animal resource based on the Grolier print series of the same title
Seven animal categories with 1,200 entries
Photos, locator maps, links to animal sounds
Glossary, games and prescreened Web site links

Includes Lexile reading levels for every article
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Contains information from Chilton® Information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.

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Britannica Online Provides reference information in a variety of formats including text. photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips. Also includes research tools for world statistical data, timelines, archives, quotations, and year in review.
Includes material from the following reference sources:
Encyclopedia Britannica A-Z | Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Multimedia | Selected Websites | Videos | Journals and Magazines | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus | Notable Quotations | Gateway to the Classics.
An Encyclopedia Britannica Product.

Biography Resource Center  
A biographical reference database covering noteworthy individuals, past & present in the fields of  literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
Includes material from the following sources:
Contemporary Authors®; Contemporary Black Biography; Contemporary Musicians; Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television; Dictionary of American Biography; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Notable Black American Women; Notable Scientists; Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives; and Who’s Who Among African Americans and Marquis Who’s Who.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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Book Review Index Online Plus
Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media
Contains the entire backfile of Book Review Index print content (1965-)
More than 5 million review citations
More than 634,000 full-text reviews
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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Business & Company Resource Center
Includes global business information including company profiles, products & brand information, industry rankings, company performance ratings, investment reports, industry statistics, investment ratings, financial overviews, financial rations, company histories, chronologies, and industry newsletters & analysis.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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Business Source Premier 
Contains full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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Career & Technical Education
Contains information in a wide variety of career options from magazines, journals, and trade publications. This product includes company profiles, tracks trends & current innovations.
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Charlotte Observer - Local Newspaper from Charlotte, NC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature]
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Offers access to health care books, journals, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, book chapters, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
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Clinical Pharmacology
Provides drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names.
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Computer Source 
Provides full-text and abstracts on current trends in high technology covering topics including computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
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CQ Electronic Library (Congressional Quarterly)
A source for in-depth, analytical reporting on current & controversial political issues of the day including the historical background. Use for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
A CQ Press Product.

Criminal Justice Collection (Infotrac)
Contains information useful for those studying law, law enforcement, paralegal, or Homeland Security. Provides access to 150 journals and 16 reference works.
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Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus
Full-text collection of journal articles providing an overview of national topics. Most of these eBooks are also available in the library collections.
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Custom Newspapers 
Over 100 domestic and international newspapers including The Charleston Post & Courier,  & The N.Y. Times
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EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals with full text, and image links. Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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Educator's Reference Complete
Database of education resources covering multiple levels from preschool to college
More than 1,100 full-text periodicals covering a variety of disciplines
200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education
Resources on educational specialties and issues related to administration, funding and policies

Updated daily
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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Encyclopedia Americana
In-depth information, current events and news archive for student researchers
More than 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects
More than 100,000 related full-text periodical articles
Links to more than 150,000 selected Web sites
Weekly news feature, teacher resources and links to U.S. and international news sites

Interactive atlas, dictionary; 4,500 black-and-white and color images
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ERIC  [Educational Resource Information Center]
An index for the field of educational related literature. Citations are provided from journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
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Expanded Academic ASAP  
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, science & technology, national news sources, and general interest.
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Famous First Facts
Coverage dates:  10,000 B.C. – 1997
entries on thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history
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First Research

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas
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Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Electronic book versions of reference books in a variety of subject areas  including the arts, business, the environment, history, literature and more.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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General Business File ASAP 
Information covering practical business issues in a variety business related areas including, but not limited to, industry management, economics, investment & company information.

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General TracOneFile 
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Access to newswires, newspapers, and periodicals. Coverage includes the agriculture, anthopology, arts, business & industry, communications, economics, engineering, health care, history, law, literature, political science, psychology, religion, science, technology, & and more.
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General Reference Center 
Information from general interest magazines.
Periodical titles include the following:
The Christian Science Monitor; Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles; from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post (indexing only), & Children’s magazines.
Reference books including the following titles:
American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation; Asimov’s Chronology of Science and Discovery; Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature; Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of Literature; Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia; Constitution of the United States; Democracy Reader; Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates; English Literature from 1785; English Literature to 1785; Great Thinkers of the Western World; Harper Collins Encyclopedia of Military Biography; Masterpieces of World Literature; Reader’s Companion to American History; Merriam-Webster’s® Biographical Dictionary; Merriam-Webster’s® Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; World Almanac and Book of Facts.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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Greenville News - Local Newspaper from Greenville, SC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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Grolier Online   
An online reference source containing encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and thesauri. Includes current news information and lesson plans.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center 
Health-related articles from medical & allied health journals, general interest magazines, consumer health newsletters, and, reliable health web sites.
Reference titles include the following:
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Medical and Health Information Directory, PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs, and PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs
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Health Reference Center Academic 
Health-related articles from medical & allied health journals, general interest magazines, reference books, consumer health information pamphlets & newsletters, and topical overviews.

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Health Source- Consumer Edition
Most academic users should refer to Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition, below. Health Source Consumer has almost 80 full text consumer health magazines such as American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Health Facts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.  It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals and is updated on a daily basis. 
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The Herald - Local Newspaper from Rock Hill, SC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001)
Contains full page and article images with searchable full-text coverage back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
New York Daily Times (1851-1857); New York, N.Y.
New York Times (1857-Current file); New York, N.Y.
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History Resource Center: U.S.
Includes primary source documents, reference works, full-test periodicals, scholarly analysis, and links to historical web sites. You will find timelines, annotated chronology with U.S. & world context, multimedia files of maps & images, abstracts, and overviews on countries, eras, and topics.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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History Resource Center- World
Collection of resources providing coverage of events, themes and trends in world history from antiquity to the present, with a multicultural and global view
More than 1,500 primary sources from Primary Source Microfilm
Full-text articles from more than 110 academic journals
More than 1,600 historical maps and atlases
Annotated Web links to primary source special collection sites

Chronological timelines
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Hoover's
Look up company information with access to the D&B Global Database featuring ALL businesses in the U.S. and Canada, as well as international firms. Gain valuable insight with access to comprehensive business intelligence and easily perform in-depth market research.  Choose the solution that best fits your needs and budget. Options include: Million Dollar Database, Hoover’s, Selectory®, Business Directories and more!


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Institute of Physics (Available on campus only)
Full text of the Institute of Physics journal archives from 1874 to 1998.


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Junior Edition 
magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports & more
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Kids Infobits 
magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports & more
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LearningExpress 
An interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on a large variety of academic and licensing tests. Includes immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results.
(First time users please click on the LearningExpress link to create your own account)
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LegalTrac 
articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law & bar association journals & legal newspapers
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes nearly 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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Literature Resource Center 
includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews & explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare & contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.
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LitFinder
"your full-text source for exemplary original literature and primary content vital to literature and language study; students and researchers can access poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more at any time from anywhere they have access to the Internet"
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MAS Ultra - School Edition 
provides full text for nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines & 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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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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Micromedex®  
A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine Healthcare Series and CareNotes  provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish please contact the library for login and password
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Military & Government Collection
offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites and 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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Million Dollar Database
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
Contains information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.
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MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present. It is searchable by classification headings, document authors, subject-index terms, language of the book or article, journal name, and other elements.
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Nature (Available on campus only)
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. PASCAL’s access is from 1997 to present, with special web focuses and advance online publication papers. Nature News is included in this subscription.

NewsBank Academic Collection (1986 - Current)
A multi-disciplinary full-text news database for research use. Articles cover social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health, and science issues and events. Sources for this database include U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines; science digests.
Consult the Source List for individual titles.
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NewsBank Retrospective (1970-1991)
A multi-disciplinary full text news database for background information on more recent issues and events. Articles cover social, political, economic, environmental, international, health, and science issues and events from contemporary American history, including firsthand reports and varying regional perspectives.  
Sources for this database include U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines; science digests.
Consult the Source List for individual titles.
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NetLibrary
A variety of electronic book & downloadable electronic audio-book collections with titles in wide variety of subjects. Create your individual account by following the link above and selecting "Create a Free Account."
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with Critical Thinking
access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Ovid Nursing Collection
Premier nursing content paired with search tools, linking, and searchable full text.
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Primary Search
provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
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ProQuest Curriculum Essentials
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Includes access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, and photos in business, general reference, medical, education, literature, arts, sciences, and more.
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source offers reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions as well as researchers at healthcare facilities.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles and covering  topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Readers Guide Retro
now provides indexing for the years 1890-1982. When combined with Readers' Guide Full Text, this results in more than 110 years of access.
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Regional Business News
provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Science Online (Available on campus only)
Science Online provides access to all content in print Science back to 1997, including Peer Review and Research Articles, News, Perspectives, Reviews, plus additional enhanced material only available online. Also included is access to the ScienceNOW web site, a daily news service. Science Online features access on the date of print publication, full searching capability, links to citations and related resources in PubMed, ISI, and 200 scientific journals on the HighWire platform as well.

Scribner Writers Series
this literature database has over 1,500 lengthy essays on the lives & works of important authors from the world.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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SIRS Discoverer 
access thousands of full-text articles & graphics from hundreds of publications. To locate information, choose one of three search methods: subject tree search; keyword; subject heading.
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SIRS Knowledge Source  
access full-text articles & Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SIRS NetSelect™ and SIRS Interactive Citizenship™.
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Small Business Resource Center
Covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes, etc.; of particular importance, access to real-world business plans from entrepreneurial success stories.  
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State Newspaper    - South Carolina Newspaper from Columbia, SC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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Student Edition 
access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. 
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Testing & Education Reference Center
An interactive online learning platform of practices tests and ebooks providing users with in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.
(First time users please click on the Testing & Education Reference Center link to create your own account)
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VAULT
A trusted name in career information. Gives inside information on top employers and education programs, job listings, job search advice, salary info, employee message boards, surveys and career guides to individual industries.
A VAULT product.
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Vocational Biographies Online
"with this program, you can career-shadow up to 1,001 persons from across America.  Click on one of the 7 search buttons at the top of the page to get a list of titles, click on a title and the career story will appear on the screen for you to read or print out."
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WEB FEET
Contains web sites pre-selected by experts as the best on their topic. Provides resources for a wide variety of subjects including ready reference, general education subject areas and advanced areas such as law, business, arts & culture, science & technology. Also includes a section for college selection, financial aid, career information, job search strategies, resume and interview resources.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.