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Academic Search Premier

• Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering a wide variety of subject areas from 1984 to present.

• Coverage includes many complete articles from over 1,000 journals, including 380 journals dating back to 1990.

• Provides many links addressing Africana and African American studies.

• Provides an extensive list of African American organizations and contact information.

• Provides many complete articles from over 1,000 journals, including 380 journals dating back to 1990.

• Coverage includes information indexed from 1750 to 1900.

• Provides "a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19^th-century black women writers." 

• Provides part of the Library Congress' American Memory Collection. 
• Covers African American History exclusively.

American Poetry

• Provides over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets.

• Coverage is from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. 

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

• Provides a collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States.

• Coverage includes nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

• U.S. history source documents
• Coverage includes 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present.

• The Guide to Quality Internet Resources in the Arts.

• Links for dance, theater, visual arts, music, and arts administration

Bills from the NC General Assembly

• Provides links for Bill Look-Up and Full Text Search of bills. Session Law/Chaptered Bill Search, tips for finding bills, simple bill inquiry, and much more legislation information can be found.

• Coverage is from 1997 to present.

Britannica Online Academic Edition

• Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more.

Business ServiCenter

• Support and guidance for North Carolina businesses in their efforts to succeed and grow.

Business Source Premier

• Full text coverage in all disciplines of business. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

• Coverage includes full text for more than 8,800 serials back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998.

• Collection of art images

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• The CDC, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is dedicated to promoting "health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." Of special interest to the consumer are the resources about diseases, conditions and other special topics arranged under "Health Topics A-Z" and "Travelers' Health," with health immunizations and recommendations for travelers worldwide.

CINAHL

• Provides information about nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines.

• Coverage includes indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982, abstracts for over 250 journals, indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material.

Clinical Pharmacology

• Provides access to up-to-date drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs. Patient Education records are available in English or Spanish, and there is the ability to limit a search to records in Spanish.

• Comprehensive, non-biased reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.

• Coverage of the U.S. Congress: bills, votes, amendments, committees, etc.

Crime in North Carolina (Uniform Crime Report)

• Provides law enforcement agencies report the number of offenses and associated crime data for the following Part 1 crimes: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson. Part 1 offenses, excluding negligent manslaughter and arson, are used to calculate the Crime Index and Crime Rate. All other offenses are classified as Part 2 offenses; however, only arrest data are reported for Part 2 offenses. The UCR Program collects data on the age, race and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations. Statistics are broken down by county, and the report is accessible in several sections using Adobe Acrobat.

Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers

• Provides an in-depth analysis of current, best-selling fiction providing details about the complexities of selected titles.

Daily Life Through History

• Provides a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.

• Has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways.

Economic Development Information System

• Provides profiles of counties and industries in North Carolina. Also provides a searchable database of available industrial properties, and comparisons between states for multiple indicators such as population, taxes, infrastructure, and labor force.

Encyclopedia of Animals

• Provides 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.

• Contains peer-reviewed articles

English Poetry

• Provides the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. 

• Coverage is essentially 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

• Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base is categorized by history, subject and author. Integrating text resources with the best online resources, this study guide attempts to aid both academic and general interest in all philosophical genres and their related fields

ERIC (Education)

• Provides indexes of over 750 journals in the field of education. 

• Coverage is from 1966 to present.

Faber Poetry Library

• Provides the Faber list which includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.

• Coverage includes a collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. 

Federal Register

• Provides the publication of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register, which is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

• Provides a database which includes over 25,000 full text records, covering an array of subject areas.

• Coverage is updated annually.

• Provides a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Government Employee Telephone Directory

• Provides the NC State Capital Area Telephone Directory online. A searchable alphabetical listing, plus the departmental directory are included.

GPO Catalog

• Fnding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

• Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Includes results from Clinical Pharmacology, which replaces information previously obtained from USP DI: Volume II, Advice for the Patient.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

• Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. Also includes integrated results from Clinical Pharmacology (which replaces USP DI: Volume II, Advice for the Patient) and access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

Healthfinder

• Provides a gateway consumer health information web site whose goal is "to improve consumer access to selected health information from government agencies, their many partner organizations, and other reliable sources that serve the public interest." A variety of menu lists on its home page link to online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health, as well as prevention and self-care. 

HealthLink Plus

• Provides access to selected consumer health information in an effort to develop and enhance public knowledge. 

• Coverage includes topics such as health insurance and Medicare, as well as Complementary & Alternative Medicine.

HealthWeb

• A site established by librarians and information professionals from major academic medical institutions in the Midwest. Consumers can search the site either by entering search terms or by selecting one of the many alphabetically listed medical subjects. The "Consumer Health" section leads to many useful resources.

• Research materials for tracing family history and American culture

Historic Events of the 20th Century

• Provides a one-stop resource that invites the reader to discover how events of the last century have shaped and continue to influence today's events. Teacher lesson plans are included.

HIV InSite

• Provides a project of the University of California and the San Francisco AIDS Research Institute. Designed as a gateway to in-depth information about particular aspects of HIV/AIDS, it provides numerous links to many authoritative sites.

J-STOR

• Provides the complete back runs of 117 journal titles in 15 arts and sciences disciplines.

• Provides many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Job Openings

• Provides links to the NC Job Bank, a list of job openings in the state registered with the North Carolina ESC; NC state government jobs; America's Job Bank, a national version of the NC Job Bank; federal government jobs; employer information; and additional job search resources.

• Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled for support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library

• Provides a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards, bringing together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques.

• Coverage includes all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

• Practice tests and tutorials

Legislative Directory

• Provides links for finding representatives and senators for both the NCGA and the US Congress by county, district, and Zip code. Also includes maps of voter precincts and a history of the current congressional districts.

Literature in Context

• Provides a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.

MAS Ultra - School Edition

• Provides a comprehensive general reference database designed for high school and junior college libraries. Includes reports and special issues from over 460 of the most wanted K-12 magazines, Essential Documents in American History (a database of over 1,000 original historical documents including The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), over 3,000 charts, tables and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, Magill's Book Reviews, and searchable full text for 145 Macmillan Books.

• Coverage includes over 1 million articles.

MasterFile Premier

• Provides information on a wide variety of topics. 

• Coverage includes 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present.

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis

• Provides an excellent consumer source of information. Editors of the site include over 1,200 physicians, scientists, writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research and education. 

Medem

• Provides a project of the leading medical societies in the United States. The site was developed to provide "a trusted online source for credible, comprehensive, and clinical healthcare information, and secure, confidential communications." The "Medical Library" is divided into four major categories: Life Stages, Diseases and Conditions, Therapies and Health Strategies, and Health and Society.

MEDLINEplus

• The National Library of Medicine's consumer-oriented site, contains full text quality resources on common diseases and conditions arranged under "Health Topics" as well as drug information, directories of health care providers, medical dictionaries and more. 

• Spanish version available at MEDLINEplus en español.

Middle Search Plus

• Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, and Essential Documents in American History.

• Coverage includes the CIA World Factbook and nearly 400,00 articles.

Military & Government Collection

• Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies. 

• Coverage includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.

National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)

• Provides a population specialty site for women. It is a relatively new gateway site of health information for consumers, health care professionals, researchers, and educators and is sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health. It provides access to a variety of women's federal resources in addition to those in the private sector. The stated goal of the site is "to help ensure a healthier future for all American women."

• Provides the homepage of the National Women's Studies Association. The site includes information about publications, employment, and conferences.

NC Department of Agriculture Kid's Page

• Provides links to educational activities, such as printable coloring book pages, with an agriculture theme for younger children.

NC Health Info

• Provides access to web sites of local health services, providers and programs serving residents of North Carolina. Through its connection with MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, users of the site can get information about conditions, diseases and wellness, and find web sites of local health services, programs and providers throughout North Carolina. 

• Coverage includes an initial collection of 1435 web sites serving North Carolina citizens in all 100 counties.

NC Public Schools Statistical Profile

• Provides selected statistical data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction on students, personnel and finances. Also provides breakdowns by school system and in some appropriate cases by age (grade), race, and gender.

netLibrary

• Provides easy access to the full text of more than 22,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.

Newspaper Source

• Provides abstracts and indexing 1995 to present for:

  • The New York Times
    Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions)
    Christian Science Monitor (some full text).

• Provides selected full text coverage for:

  • The Raleigh News & Observer

• Provides some complete articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.

Newsbank

• Provides links and information about national and regional newspapers.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

• Provides a unique collection of state, local and federal resources selected by editors with consumers in mind. Searchers may select from a list of "Health Topics" which are then narrowed to include definitions, care and treatment, and lists of information resources. Provides information on all topics in both English and Spanish.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

• Provides over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women.

North Carolina Agricultural Statistics Service

• Provides statistical information in table, map, and graph format on farm animals, crops, cash receipts, and weather. Comparisons between North Carolina counties and with agricultural products in other states are available.

North Carolina Community Newspapers

• Provides links to North Carolina newspapers available on-line in full text. Some may provide only recent issues or selected stories.

North Carolina Curriculum

• Provides specific Department of Public Instruction goals and objectives for classroom subjects and grade levels for North Carolina. The look-up service provides a convenient way for teachers, administrators, and parents to verify the instructional objectives of the Standard Course of Study at a given grade by subject area.

North Carolina Driver's Manual

• Provides the full text of the current Department of Motor Vehicles driver's manual in English and Spanish, pictures of road signs, and the Newcomers Guide to Motoring in North Carolina.

• Exploring North Carolina's Cultural Heritage
• Online access to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions

North Carolina Education Directory

• Provides addresses and phone numbers of every North Carolina public, federal or charter school and public school system, all employees of the Department of Public Instruction, contact information for education organizations, associations, North Carolina commissions, and educational material suppliers.

North Carolina Encyclopedia

• Provides links to information that students of all ages request about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

North Carolina Homepage

• Provides comprehensive and online services for citizens, businesses, and state employees of North Carolina.

North Carolina Tax Forms

• Provides downloadable versions of current North Carolina individual and corporate income, franchise, sales, and withholding tax forms. Includes current cost and depreciation schedules. 

North Carolina Teacher Academy

• Provides links to Internet based resources for K-12 classroom teachers and educational sites recommended for students and parents.

NoveList

• Provides a readers' advisory service that is searchable by author, title, series name, and plot (including character, topic, time period, and setting) to retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles related to books of interest. Readers may select from information provided to find similar books that appeal to them. 

• Coverage is updated and expanded monthly.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition

• Provides descriptions of what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Oncolink : A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource

• Provides information solely on the various forms of cancer. The site may be searched a number of ways and includes disease oriented menus, medical specialty oriented menus, cancer causes, screening and prevention, clinical trials, and global resources for cancer information.

PLANTS National Database

• Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.

Primary Search (Children's Magazines)

• Provides indexing and abstracting of 116 children's magazines from 1984 to present.

• Coverage includes many complete articles from 35 children's magazines from 1990 to present. Also includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.

ProQuest Newspapers

• Provides all of North Carolina Newsstand (above)
  and many full text articles from:

  • Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present)

  • Los Angeles Times (1988 to present)

  • New York Times (1999 to present)

  • Wall Street Journal (1984 to present)

  • The Washington Post (1996 to present)

PsycINFO (Psychology)

• Provides indexes of over 1300 journals in psychology and related disciplines.

• Coverage includes material from 1887 to the present.

PubMed

• Provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Regional Accounts Data - Local Area Personal Income

• Provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Personal income and population summary estimates; detailed county annual tables of income and employment; and wage and salary summary estimates. For North Carolina-specific information, select "North Carolina" from the list of states. County-level information will be displayed once you select the state.

• Extensive collection of information and links for the study and interpretation of religions.

Regional Business News

• Provides abstracts for 67 regional business publications. 

• Coverage includes some full text for 52 of those titles.

• A guide sponsored by the American Economic Association.
• It lists more than 1,600 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.

• Provides links to resources addressing the "African Diaspora." These include media outlets, academic institutions, and published research. 

Sanborn Maps North Carolina

• Provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.

Serials Directory

• Provides a colorful and fun graphical search interface intended for elementary and middle school students. 

• Coverage includes the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collections, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search.

• A search engine and web directory for social workers.

Start Squad

• Provides an excellent resource for anyone seeking quality web sites for kids. Sites were selected and organized by professionally trained librarians. Start Squad is made possible by a partnership of the State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA).

State Center for Health Statistics

• SCHS is responsible for data collection and research, production of reports, and maintenance of a comprehensive collection of health statistics. They have published a wide variety of reports in the past and are in the process of adding them to their Web site. Currently included are several compilations of mortality statistics (including one devoted to cancer), the "North Carolina Pocket Guide" of health statistics, "Vital Facts about Life in North Carolina", and a start toward providing pregnancy and birth statistics.

State Data Center

• Provides information about population, economic, and income data as well as county profiles and rankings. Recently a public health section was added which includes a link to the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics. There is also a link to the North Carolina Statistical Register.

State Demographics

• Provides state, county, and municipal population estimates and projections by year, age, race, and sex. The annual estimates of the population of North Carolina counties and municipalities are used in the distribution of state shared revenues to local governments. County and state population projections, available by age, race (white/other) and sex, are used for long range planning.

State of North Carolina Kid's Page

• Provides links designed for kids to learn more about North Carolina.

Teaching Positions in North Carolina

• Provides links to all the information needed to apply for a job in North Carolina's improving public schools, including information about licensure, national board certification, application forms, and local job fairs.

The Division of Public Health of the NC Dept. of Health and Human Services

• Provides a site covering a wide range of programs and services, all aimed toward protecting and improving the health of the people who live and work in North Carolina. Includes information such as fish consumption advisories, ozone levels, pfisteria health precautions, links to local health departments, how to get birth certificates, etc.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry

• Provides a collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. 

• Coverage includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets.

Twentieth Century American Poetry

• Provides a database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. 

• Coverage includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry

• Provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.

• Coverage includes tens of thousands of works by 288 poets

US Census Bureau

• Provides United States statistical information (i.e. income, health, demographics, etc.)

• Provides links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources
• VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources

• Provides women's studies bibliographies, calls for papers, reviews, reference support, web links and more. Maintained by the University of Maryland's Women's Studies department. 

• Provides a broad array of information about women's studies, including links to nearly 700 women's studies programs and research centers worldwide.

• Statistical portraits and tools for making comparative charts and tables of countries.

WorldCat

• Provides the Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide.