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Alamance County Public Libraries
Information Sources
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NC LIVE and more!
NC LIVE provides North Carolina residents and students with
access to high quality information - searchable collections of magazine,
newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials,
maps, and much more - covering a wide range of topics.
Resources from
NC LIVE
(partial listing -- for complete list go to
www.nclive.org)
Alphabetical Listing Subject
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- Academic
Search Elite via EBSCOhost
Provides
abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering a wide variety of
subject areas from 1984 to present.
Includes
many complete articles from over 1,000 journals, including 380 journals dating back to
1990.
African-American
Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Nearly
3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Indexed from 1750 to 1900.
American Poetry
via Chadwyck-Healey
Over
40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early
twentieth century.
Indexed from 1600 to 1900.
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- Business
Source Elite via EBSCOhost
- Provides
abstracts and indexing for over 1500 business magazines and periodicals from 1984 to
present, including The Wall Street Journal.
- Includes
many complete articles from more than 750 business periodicals.
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- CINAHL
(Nursing) via EBSCOhost
- Indexes articles
appearing in 900 journals in 13 allied health disciplines, including nursing. Covers 1982
to present.
- Consumer
Health Resources
Recommended Health Websites for NC
LIVE
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Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia
of Animals via EBSCOhost
- 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.
- Includes many
complete articles from 1990 to present
- English
Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
- Essentially the
complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250
poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- Indexed from 600
to 1900
- ERIC
(Education) via EBSCOhost
- Indexes over 750
journals in the field of education from 1966 to present.
- Includes full
text of ERIC Digests from 1967 to present.
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- Faber
Poetry Library via Chadwyck-Healey
- A collection of some
of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted
Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of
this major publishing house.
- Funk
and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost
- Full text of over
25,000 subject entries in the encyclopedia..
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- Health
Source Consumer
Edition via EBSCOhost
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.
Health
Source Nursing Edition via EBSCOhost
Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing
on
many medical disciplines.
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MAS
Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high
school and junior college libraries. Total coverage
includes over
1 million articles.
MasterFile
Premier via EBSCOhost
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Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and
journals from 1984 to present.
- Includes many
complete articles from more than 1500 periodicals from 1990 to present
- MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus has extensive information for health
professionals
and consumers from the National Institutes of Health and
other
trusted sources on hundreds of diseases and
conditions. There
are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical
encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in
Spanish,
extensive information on prescription and nonprescription
drugs,
health information from the media, and links to thousands of
clinical trials.
Middle
Search Plus via EBSCOhost
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. Total coverage includes
nearly
400,000 articles.
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- netLibrary
via
netLibrary
Provides easy access to the
full text of more than 10,000
reference, scholarly, and professional books.
New
York Times via ProQuest company
Index of the
newspaper from August 1986 to present.
Contains complete
articles from the most recent 90 days of the paper
News
and Observer Index [Raleigh] via ProQuest Company
Indexes articles
from December 1991 to
March 2000
News
and Record Index [Greensboro] via ProQuest Company
Indexes the
newspaper's articles from 1995 to present.
Includes a few
complete articles from 1988 to 1994 and most articles from 1995 to present.
Newspaper
Source via EBSCOhost
Provides abstracts
and indexing 1995 to present for: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Eastern and
Western editions), Christian Science Monitor and USA Today.
Selected full text
coverage for The News & Observer. Includes some
complete
articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.
North
American Women's Letters and Diaries via
Alexander Street
Press
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.
Remote access coming soon.
Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.
North
Carolina Information Resources
A
selection of external links to other information about North
Carolina's culture, history, business, education, agencies and
public programs.
NoveList
via EBSCO NoveList
A readers' advisory
service. Helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they
are interested.
Includes many
book reviews
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- Primary
Search (Children's Magazines) via EBSCOhost
- Indexing and
abstracting of 116 children's magazines from 1984 to present.
- 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
via
ProQuest Company
Includes
Wall Street Journal, New York Times.
PsycINFO
(Psychology) via SilverPlatter PsycINFO
Indexes over 1300
journals in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to present.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed
provides
access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and
additional
life science journals. PubMed includeslinks to many
sites
providing full text articles and other related resources.
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- Serials
Directory via EBSCOhost
- Provides up-to-date
information and pricing for popular magazines and other serials. Contains listings for
over 150,000 U.S. and international titles, including 8,000 newspapers. Also includes data
on over 87,000 publishers worldwide.
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- Twentieth
Century African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
- A collection of
poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the
twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by
46 poets.
- Indexed from 1901
to 1998
- Twentieth
Century American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
- A database of modern
and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.
Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
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- Wall
Street Journal via ProQuest Company
- Index of articles
from 1981 to present.
- Includes many
complete articles from 1984 to present.
- WorldCat
via OCLC FirstSearch
- Union catalog of
materials held in libraries world-wide.
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NC LIVE (North Carolina LIbraries for Virtual Education) is the state's
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newspapers, business and professional journals, reference sources, and research material
-- all electronically. This exciting online information goes far beyond anything
readily available over the Internet and represents a rich and diverse information resource
to help you in your work, school, and other aspects of your daily life. Resources
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Assembly and include an index to North Carolina newspapers, many full-text magazine and
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public libraries in Alamance County. Library users can also access
NC LIVE from computers outside the library with a valid library card and
NC LIVE password.
Obtain your personal password now to access valuable computer
reference databases on the Internet. Remote users who have a valid library card with
any of the Alamance County Public Libraries may access this website from their home or office
Internet computers by obtaining a limited-time password from the Reference Department at
May Memorial Library. Simply telephone 336-229-3588 or send
email to
reference.staff@alamancelibraries.org to obtain your password.
Passwords will be reissued every 4 to 6 months to eligible library
cardholders upon request. Area residents may obtain a library card by visiting any
branch library location in Alamance County and presenting proof of current
address. NC LIVE passwords are for individual use and should not be shared with
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