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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (16)

• Academic Search Complete

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• ArticleFirst

  An index of articles from the table of contents pages of journals. Coverage: 1990-.

• ASSIA - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

  Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Coverage: 1987-.

• Contemporary Women's Issues

  Covers women s issues from 190 countries, with information available in full-text. Disciplines include sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science. Coverage: 1992-.

• Ethnic NewsWatch

  Contains the complete text of more than 250,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 150 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the U.S. Coverage: 1995-.

• JSTOR

  A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund. Coverage: Varies.

• MasterFILE Complete

  "Contains abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 magazines, newspapers and journals. Full text is available for over 1500 periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, literature, current events, and more. It includes Magill Books Reviews in fulltext." Coverage: indexing 1984- ; full-text 1990-.

• Project MUSE

  Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities and social sciences. Coverage: Varies.

• ProQuest

  Contains articles covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Databases include Research Library, Ethnic NewsWatch, and ProQuest Religion. Coverage: 1970-.

• Readers' Guide Retrospective

  Indexes general interest magazines covering most of the 20th century. Coverage: 1890-1982.

• Research Library

  Contains articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals. Areas included: business, health, education, psychology, science, sports, and literature. Coverage: 1986-.

• SAGE Journals

  Online access to over 600 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE, including journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. Covers a variety of topics, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Coverage: varies.

• Social Sciences Citation Index

  "Social Sciences Citation Index indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic." Coverage: 1974-.

• SPORTDiscus

  Citations and some abstracts from periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. SPORTDiscus covers the areas of: sports, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Coverage: 1830-.

• TOPICsearch

  A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms, including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Includes periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

• Web of Science

  Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), which together index over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Useful for searching databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic. Coverage: 1974-.

Books, E-books (7)

• Directory of Open Access Books

  A searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository. Coverage: 1985-.

• EBL (Ebook Library)

  ZSR Library's main source of academic e-books, covering a broad range of subjects. Books may be read online in any web browser. WFU user login required. Coverage: varies.

• eBooks on EBSCOhost

  Over 14,000 electronic books. (Previously called NetLibrary.) Coverage: varies.

• EHRAF World Cultures

  Includes citations, abstracts, and full text of ethnographic and other materials that are indexed by culture and subject. Information is drawn from books, dissertations, conference papers, and journal articles. Coverage: 1991-.

• OneClick Digital Audiobooks

  Downloadable audio books, provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Requires installation of the OneClickDigital Media Manager software (free download). This software is a Beta version and does not currently work on Mac computers; the publisher is still developing the Mac version. Coverage: varies.

• WorldCat

  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries. Coverage: 1200-.

• ZSR Library Catalog

  Data about the books, journals, films, manuscripts, and other materials owned by the ZSR Library. Coverage: 14th century-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (3)

• CQ Electronic Library

  Contains CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly. CQ Researcher contains comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news in the United States, while Global Researcher covers world news. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress: bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. WFU access also includes Political Handbook of the World and the Supreme Court Compendium. Supported in part by the Paschal Library Endowment. Coverage: 1923-.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

  Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually. Coverage: varies.

• Journal Citation Reports

  Contains citation information for science and social science journals. Users can determine which journals are the highest impact and which are most frequently used. Coverage: 2002-.

Multimedia (2)

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS

Primary Sources--Documents & Manuscripts (1)

• Social Issues Primary Sources Collection

  Covers crime & punishment, environment, family, gender issues & sexuality, government, politics & protest, human & civil rights, immigration & multiculturalism, medicine, health, bioethics, social policy, and terrorism. A subset of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Statistics & Data (2)

• Roper Center Public Opinion Archives

  One of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Covers opinions on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. Coverage: 1935-present.

• New! Statistical Abstract of the United States

  Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Access provided by NC LIVE.