LibGuides: Databases: All Databases A-Z

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ABC-CLIO eBooks This link opens in a new window Includes 187 eBook titles as well as collections of slave narratives
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Offers nearly 3,900 full-text business titles like The Economist as well as country-and industry-focused reports and the Wall Street Journal
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
Accounting, Tax, & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window Contains sources from current news to professional and academic journal articles that cover the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database This link opens in a new window The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database covers topics including aeronautics, astronautics, communications, computer and information technology, electronics, lasers, solid-state materials and devices, space sciences, and telecommunications.
African American Poetry This link opens in a new window Covers 1750-1900
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics.
American Poetry This link opens in a new window Covers the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century
Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window Provides online access to 400 contemporary specialist arts titles combined with journals from related fields including art, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies, and others.
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window Covers information on companies, economies, and markets as well as international trade and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
Australia & New Zealand Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand.
Biological Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes research on animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, biochemistry, ecology, plant science as well as access to MEDLINE.
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window Contains more than 200 major journals in the field of biological sciences, most of which are in full text.
Books in Print This link opens in a new window
Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window Contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, and Snapshots.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database This link opens in a new window Articles spanning Canadian agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and more, including scholarly content.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window Over 300 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features.
Career & Technical Education Database This link opens in a new window The definitive source for vocational information. The database includes over 790 titles, with more than 700 available in full text.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Database of nursing and allied health journals with additional materials that include nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheets, audiovisuals, and continuing education modules.
Computer Science Database This link opens in a new window Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, gaming, networking, security, systems administration, and hardware.
Consumer Health Database This link opens in a new window Includes over 350 full-text magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and trade publications and over 300 health video clips from INTELECOM.
Consumer Reports This link opens in a new window Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.
Continental Europe Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries.
Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window Full-text content covering all facets of COVID-19 and related infectious diseases
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Comprehensive, non-biased reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.
CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window Online reference library with 750+ reference eBooks
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
Cypress Resume This link opens in a new window Cypress Resume is the simplest, most effective tool for resume creation on the market today. Specifically designed for job seekers skittish about writing, Cypress Resume allows anyone to create a professional resume in a matter of minutes.
Data-Axle Reference Solutions (Formerly ReferenceUSA) This link opens in a new window Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone numbers, on more than 20 million businesses, 222 million consumers, U.S. new businesses, U.S. new homeowners and movers.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 This link opens in a new window Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in 158 North Carolina towns and cities across a century of change.
Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Science Database This link opens in a new window ProQuest’s atmospheric science coverage extends Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) by providing a sizable element of full-text access along with comprehensive discovery through the extensive abstracts and indexes structured using controlled vocabulary managed by expert editorial teams. For coverage of aquatic science, the collection features the entire range of bibliographic records from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA).
East & South Asia Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries.
East Europe, Central Europe Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries.
eBook Central This link opens in a new window Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
eBooks on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window This collection has more than 60,000 eBook titles in various subject areas.
Education Database This link opens in a new window Includes over 1,000 full-text journals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education.
eLibrary This link opens in a new window This easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for schools and libraries of all kinds, as well as additional subject-based material.
Engineering Database This link opens in a new window This database provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.
English Poetry This link opens in a new window Complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900
Entrepreneurship Database This link opens in a new window Provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business
ERIC This link opens in a new window Educational Resources Information Center produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Most of the content is available in full text for free.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window Collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century
FASB Accounting Academic Access This link opens in a new window
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.
Films On Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new window Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Also includes content formerly in the NC LIVE Video Collection.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Searchable collection of online reference titles.
Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window Gale In Context: Biography offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, and multimedia on the world's most influential people.
Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Health & Medical Collection This link opens in a new window Includes biomedical content from MEDLINE as well as a core of premier scholarly journals in full text such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The BMJ.
Healthcare Administration Database This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of the healthcare industry including management, administration, regulations, policies, and planning.
HeinOnline Academic & Fastcase This link opens in a new window This collection includes law reviews, academic journals, the Congressional Record, U.S. Reports back to 1754, books from the 18th-19th centuries, all U.S. Treaties, the Federal Register and CFR, and constitutions for every country in the world. Also includes Fastcase, a leading next-generation legal research service that features powerful “best-case-first” tools that make research faster than ever.
HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.
Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window Includes 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC newspapers.
History Study Center This link opens in a new window A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.
Home Grown eBooks Collection This link opens in a new window An eBook collection of more than 1,200 fiction and nonfiction titles from eight North Carolina publishers.
India Database This link opens in a new window ProQuest Indian Journals is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India.
International Newsstream This link opens in a new window Provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), Financial Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Includes access to the Arts & Sciences I, Life Sciences, and Religion & Theology collections.
Latin America & Iberia Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
LearningExpress Library & PrepSTEP Academic This link opens in a new window Whether they are looking to improve core academic skills, score higher on college placement tests, explore careers, prepare for occupational exams or build workplace skills, students can achieve their goals using PrepSTEP Academic.
Library Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles.
Linguistics Database This link opens in a new window This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.
Materials Science Database This link opens in a new window The collection contains materials science related full-text articles and the entire range of bibliographic records from the Materials Research Database.
Middle East & Africa Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries.
Military Database This link opens in a new window Includes over 700 publications, with more than 500 available in full-text and covers topics including international relations, political science, criminology, and communications.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database contains millions of abstracts from journals and linked full-text when available.
Morningstar Investment Research Center This link opens in a new window Source for information on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange–traded funds, and college savings plans
NCJRS Abstracts Database This link opens in a new window The National Criminal Justice Research Service contains summaries of the more than 210,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
NC LIVE This link opens in a new window NC Libraries in Virtual Education is a searchable collection of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials and maps covering a wide range of topics.
New York Times This link opens in a new window Full articles from the New York Times (1980-current)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950. Includes writings by Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Dorothea L. Dix, Julia Ward Howe, and more.
NoveList Plus This link opens in a new window A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.
Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window This free database searches more than 670,000 electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from more than 25 universities worldwide.
Political Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes political science and international relations journals, dissertations and working papers
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Combines 39 single databases into a large academic research resource with access to millions of full-text articles from thousands of scholarly journals
ProQuest Learning: Literature This link opens in a new window Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window Access to nearly 100 full text psychology publications covering from 1894 to the present
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window Combines high impact full text from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, with diverse sources of content including dissertations and training videos
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Indexes abstracts from more than 2,500 academic psychology journals and also offers linked full-text to other psychology databases
Public Health Database This link opens in a new window Delivers core public health literature from thousands of publications, much of it in full text.
PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 34 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Religion Database This link opens in a new window Has over 200 full-text journals, over 150 with ongoing full text. Covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of specific religions
Research Companion (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window A cloud-based information literacy solution that enables educators and librarians to guide students through research projects efficiently.
Science This link opens in a new window Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
Science Database This link opens in a new window Features over 1,145 titles, with more than 965 available in full text; Covers hundreds of topics including physics, astronomy, biology, earth science, and chemistry.
SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window Research the pros and cons of current issues and enduring social issues through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference materials.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window Provides extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology
Sociology Database This link opens in a new window Full-text of more than 300 journals in sociology and social work; Covers topics including the history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more
Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window The online edition of the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
Telecommunications Database This link opens in a new window Covers topics including computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio and television.
Transparent Language This link opens in a new window
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Turkey Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window Features close to 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century
Twentieth Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets
Twentieth Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window Collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day
U. K. & Ireland Database This link opens in a new window This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window Provides access to US newspapers including The New York Times (from 1980), the Wall Street Journal (from 1984) as well as local NC newspapers from Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, and Charlotte.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Full articles from the Wall Street Journal (1981-current)
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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WorldCat This link opens in a new window WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog. You can find books and other materials from libraries all over the world.

Journal Finder

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