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- Contains hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.Coverage: 1987-.
- Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.Coverage: 1987-.
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- Provides access to journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Good general-purpose database for researching most topics.Coverage: 1985-.
- Features national, regional and local news from across the United States from the 1980s to the present. Includes the Winston-Salem Journal. A great resource for getting news from regional and local news sources.Coverage: 1980s-.
- Provides abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines (sociology, linguistics, anthropology, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacology). Links to full text in PsycARTICLES and to other resources in ZSR.Coverage: 1806-.
- Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.Coverage: 1987-.
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- Contains full-text biographies of historical and contemporary figures from around the world. Sources include Biography Today, Britannica, US presidential and congressional sources, Cambridge, and more.Coverage: varies.
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- A source for NGO, IGO, ThinkTank, research institute, and grey literature on politics, international affairs, security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies. Contains working papers, research reports, proceedings, and more.Coverage: 1991-.
- Contains scholarly literature on all aspects of communication studies, including discourse, linguistics, media studies, and rhetoric.Coverage: 1915-.
- provides access to current full text and backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.Coverage: 1992-.
- Search across CQ Press content including: Congress Collection, CQ Almanac, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America, Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Voting and Elections Collection, Political Handbook of the World, and Supreme Court Compendium.Coverage: 1983-.
- Contains reports and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends and issues, criminal justice, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Great resource for background information on current news, hot topics, and social issues. Coverage back to 1923.Coverage: 1991-.
- Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other referece works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes subject trees, pro/con resources, links to scholarly articles and more.
- Contains supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, and litigation and crime trends. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs, and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.Coverage: 1995-.
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- Online edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders. WFU access includes DSM-5, the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-5 Clinical Cases.
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- Cross searches current national and international news sources, wire services, and regional news sources.
- Contains citations to, and selected abstracts of, the field of economics from international journal articles, dissertations, and books, books chapters and articles and conference proceedings.Coverage: 1969-.
- Contains information on present and past aspects of cultural and social life for a worldwide sample of societies. Provides descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups. Includes citations, abstracts, and full text of ethnographic and other materials, indexed by culture and subject. Ideal for both exploratory, in-depth cultural research, and cross-cultural comparisons.Coverage: 1991-.
- Includes articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage. Includes Britannica’s Book of the Year and Nations of the World.Coverage: 1994-.
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- 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.Coverage: Details not available.
- Contains videos in business, economics, health, medicine, humanities, social sciences, science and mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
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- Provides detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports, as well as thousands of company histories, case studies, scholarly journals, and company news.
- Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other reference works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes a topic finder for help with narrowing or broadening your research topic.Coverage: varies.
- Contains more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Also links to news, multimedia and scholarly content about the figures.
- Combines overviews, viewpoints, reference, news, and scholarly material into one search platform for researching a wide variety of global issues.
- This comprehensive multidisciplinary database delivers credible facts and current insight into today’s most debated political and social issues. Contains periodical content that covers current events, news and commentary, pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.
- Includes millions of book reviews in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
- Brings journal, reference, book, news, and web content about military and security issues from Gale together in one search interface.
- Brings journal, reference, book, news, and web content about popular culture from Gale together in one search interface.
- Includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German.
- Information about countries geared towards those traveling (personally or professionally) or researching current issues. Contains informaiton on travel, cuisine, government, society, and more.Coverage: Details not available.
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- Contains historical data from American History. Demographics, social characteristics, crime, education, health and more are all cross-searchable.Coverage: Colonial period-present.
- Formerly RBdigital. Download ebooks and audio books provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Users will need to register for an account before accessing NC LIVE content on hoopla. Enter an email address, select library as “NC LIVE”, enter any number you like in the library card space. Browse and borrow from hoopla’s Flex collection!
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- 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-.
- 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.
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- Streaming video platform for libraries that offers films, TV shows, and documentaries across mutliple subject areas.
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- An insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer.Coverage: 1935-1965.
- Provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. The series contains information for evaluating test products in psychology, education, business and leadership.Coverage: 9th edition through present.
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- Full text for many major U.S. and international newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, the London Times, and others. Also includes some television and radio news transcripts.Coverage: 1985-.
- Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
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- Index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD define open access broadly to cover ETDs that are free to access and read online.Coverage: 1964-.
- Open Education North Carolina Collection is a collection of free textbooks that are part of NC LIVE's Open Education North Carolina (OENC) initiative.
- Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually.Coverage: varies.
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- More than 1,200 streaming videos providing a range of content including video documentaries and series from PBS. Covers subjects from science, history, art, Shakespeare, diversity, business & economics, and more.
- Contains archives and backfiles of leading international journals covering the humanities and social sciences and spanning more than two centuries of content.
- A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others.
- Provides access to the full text of scholarly journals and books in the arts and humanities and social sciences.Coverage: Varies.
- Indexes and provides full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports across all major subject areas.
- Current US and international news. This simultaneously searches ProQuest databases US Newsstream, International Newsstream, Global Breaking Newswires, Canadian Newsstream, Ethnic Newswatch, and Recent Newspapers.
- Full-text and abstracts of dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present from the US, UK, and Ireland. Full-text coverage is mainly 1997-present but many older ones are also full-text.Coverage: 1861-.
- Provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format.
- Contains hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, full-text doctoral dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. This link cross searches ProQuest Political Science Database, PAIS Index, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.Coverage: 1985-.
- Provides abstracts and indexing for scholarly journals on psychology and associated research areas including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.Coverage: 1990-.
- Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron’s, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more.
- Contains articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals. Areas included: business, health, education, psychology, science, sports, and literature.Coverage: 1986-.
- Contains hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.Coverage: 1987-.
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- Indexes general interest magazines published between 1890 and 1982.Coverage: 1890-1982.
- 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.
- Overviews of research and trends and background information in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.
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- Provides access to social science ebooks published by Sage, including scholarly books, textbooks, and professional development titles.
- Provides access to self-paced courses cthat over critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study and disciplines. Click Register to create your account through WFU.
- With SAGE Data (formerly called Data Planet), you can scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources.Coverage: Details not available.
- Provides access to ebook versions of encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences.
- Provides access to book, reference, and journal content, as well as multimedia resources, to support researchers at all stages of a research project. Includes information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences.
- Provides access to videos on social science topics. Browse by discipline or by video type, including case study, definition, interview, demonstration, and more.
- A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences: agriculture, neuroscience, astronomy, oncology, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences, computer science, psychiatry, materials science, surgery, mathematics, veterinary science, medicine, and zoology.Coverage: 1945-.
- Coverage includes Biochemistry and Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Medicine & Pharmacology, Neurosciences, Physics, Social Sciences.Coverage: varies.
- Simmons Insights includes advanced reporting analytics, data visualizations, and business intelligence applications with comprehensive profiling that enable clients to build proprietary data dashboards and custom analyses. Five concurrent users may access Simmons Insights.
- Map thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Coverage limited to the United States.Coverage: Details not available.
- Social Explorer allows users to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data. The site includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, and other data sets.
- Indexes journals in the social sciences. Provides links to full-text when available. Useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.Coverage: 1956-.
- Provides access to scholarly journal coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.Coverage: 1979-.
- Provides citations and abstracts to articles published in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations. Includes Social Services Abstracts.Coverage: 1952-.
- Citations and some abstracts from periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. covering the areas of sports, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Access is limited to four simultaneous users.Coverage: 1830-.
- Provides data, statistics, and reports on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Add-ons include: Consumer Insights, providing increased data and analytics on consumer attitudes and behavior worldwide and eCommerce Insights, providing increased data and analytics on the eCommerce landscape including customer behavior and digital market insights.
- Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.Coverage: 1878-.
- This database aggregates the statistical abstracts of over 40 countries (and growing) and makes the content available through a single-search interface. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations and research firms are also included.Coverage: 2013-.
- Academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more. ZSR subscribes to the 1000 most popular titles and has licensed a few others for campus.
- New Symptom MediaSymptom Media is a robust online resource for mental health education and training. WFU provides access to over 1,000 unique, concise training tools including Symptom Media’s Assessment Tools, DSM-5-TR, ICD 10 & Teletherapy video case studies, and simulation activities.
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- Current U.S. news content and archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes full text from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
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- Provides access to books, periodicals, and other materials in the areas of war and terrorism intended to be of use for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social scienceCoverage: 1980-.
- Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), plus Biological Abstracts, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE (PubMed), and the SciELO Citation Index. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references.Coverage: 1945-.
- Includes holdings information from the world’s libraries. Use to find out what resources are available in libraries other than ZSR, and use the ‘request from ILL’ button in any record to connect to our ILL system.Coverage: 1200-.