Databases: Databases A-Z

ABI/INFORM includes company and industry reports and profiles, as well as articles about marketing, accounting, finance, economics, and more.

The ProQuest Accounting & Tax Database includes journal articles, reference reports, proceedings, and dissertations covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues.

The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

ProQuest Environmental Science Collection contains environmental science-related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and more.

American History Online provides over 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, including subject entries, biographies, primary sources, images and videos, maps and charts, and timelines.

Covering prehistory through the 1500s, Ancient and Medieval History Online features a user-friendly interface and provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and medieval Asia, and the Islamic Empire.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries on more than 528,000 individuals, spanning a wide scope of history and geography.

ProQuest Biology Journals include research on animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, health and safety science, entomology, and more.

BoardVitals helps practitioners prepare for licensing and initial certification exams, maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements, and continuing professional education, covering more than 50 specialty areas and exams.

Business Insights: Global uses case studies, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals and topical reference materials organized by country, company and industry to quickly engage users in the global business environment.

ProQuest Career & Technical Education includes vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

Premier 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.

Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware.

ProQuest Family Health includes journals and magazines covering a breadth of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, food and nutrition to midwifery, eye care to dentistry.

Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.

CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

Credo Reference is a great place to start your research on any subject. All the information comes from a collection of nearly 800 reference books, spanning a wide breadth of subject areas.

ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.

This collection of eBooks provides excellent cultural information from festivals and holidays to religions and family structure. Not all cultures are covered, but the collection is easy to browse or search for a particular country or culture. You will need to use a login and password to access this content; the password is available in Moodle or can be provided by the library staff.

Easy-to-use résumé building tool with a built-in writing process and automatic formatting.

The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.

This eBooks collection includes 26,000 books, including fictional, reference, scholarly, and professional works.

This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

Designed for use in clinical settings, biomedical libraries, and academic medical institutions, this subscription collection features nearly 2,000 quality titles that focus on medical specialties, nursing, allied health, and general practice areas.

ProQuest Education Journals span the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education as well as special education, homeschooling, and adult education.

This database provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

ProQuest Entrepreneurship delivers a unique and powerful database collection, designed to arm entrepreneurs with vital resources for developing and researching their ideas while providing valuable insight to help progress and grow their product or service.

Environmental Studies provides a multi-faceted understanding of sustainability and supports research around social, environmental, and economic perspectives, enabling critical thinking around the evolving issues affecting sustainability and the hard science behind the solutions.

A collection of works by some of the most influential poets of the Twentieth century.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning that allows users to quickly find the valuable career information they need, whether it’s industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice.

Films on Demand offers full-length videos covering any subject you may be researching. Clips from these videos could be incorporated into class presentations, and links to videos can be posted on online discussion boards or course pages.

Science in Context covers a breadth of scientific fields, including earth science, the life sciences, microbiology, astronomy, technology, mathematics, and science history.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of reference books covering a wide range of subject areas: arts, religion, history, science, and more.

In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.

GreenFILE covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources.

ProQuest Health & Medical Complete covers biomedical topics such as biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, immunology, parasitology, pathology, and communicable diseases.

ProQuest Health Management is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics such as business and personnel management, ethics, and public health administration.

HeritageQuest is a treasury of American genealogical sources including unique primary sources, local and family histories, finding aids, historical census data, PERSI (Periodical Source Index), Revolutionary War records, and more.

This collection includes 3.5 million pages of digitized North Carolina newspapers published 1922 and earlier. They can be browsed by searching for a particular geographical area or publication, and are searchable with keywords.

A collection of more than 3,700 ebooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry. eBook apps are available for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.

Hoopla is a platform for audio, eBooks and movies.
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Infobase includes many eBook titles on religions of the world as well as blood-borne and other biological diseases.

Journal covering new research developments in the field of Vascular Ultrasound

The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the rapid, accurate publication of original articles dealing with all aspects of diagnostic ultrasound, particularly its direct application to patient care, but also relevant basic science, advances in instrumentation, and biologic effects.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, including literary criticism on popular and obscure titles.

General literature information as well as scholarly literary criticism.

This database provides interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards and articles for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, career development and more.

This database will enable searching of federal and state legal cases. Note: Must be taking a course that requires Westlaw to obtain access to this resource.

Literature Resource Center provides full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are as well as critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.

MedlinePlus is an NIH website that provides access to high-quality information on common diseases and conditions, a comprehensive guide to prescription and non-prescription drugs and a library of full length surgical videos.

ProQuest Military covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.

Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.

NC LIVE is a cooperative library service for the students, faculty, business people, and residents of North Carolina, providing access to databases, electronic journals and magazines, newspapers, eBooks, audio books, and videos.

Readers’ advisory resource covering fiction, nonfiction, and audiobook recommendations.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source covers nursing, nursing education, and the allied health fields; content includes care plans, case studies, legal cases, research studies, and more.

Opposing Viewpoints is an excellent resource for perspectives on hot-button social issues such as immigration, offshore drilling, gun control, and more. This is an excellent source of information to support a persuasive speech or paper.

ProQuest Political Science covers topics including international relations, comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, human rights, and migration.

General reference collection of periodical and digital media content designed for school curriculum and research support.

ProQuest Central is a good starting point for researching a wide range of subject areas; it is a general reference database covering over 175 subjects with content from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

ProQuest Research Companion is ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.

ProQuest Psychology Journals covers topics including behavioral psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, neurology, personality, psychobiology, psychometrics, and social psychology.

PubMed is a database provided by the National Institutes of Health that includes 26 million citations for biomedical and health literature; there is broad subject coverage, including biology, microbiology, nursing, sonography, radiation therapy, healthcare administration and policy, nutrition, public health, and much more.

The R2 Digital Library contains a collection of health science textbooks, including resources on EKG interpretation, medical terminology, pharmacology, complementary and alternative medicine, and nursing subspecialties.

ProQuest Religion provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought.

Safari provides access to over 4,600 eBooks and over 1,700 videos on technology-related subjects. Some of the technology subtopics are web development, game programming, Microsoft Office help guides, guidebooks for popular digital camera brands like Nikon and Canon, guidebooks for popular computer brands like Mac and HP, and more.
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ProQuest Science Journals include applied and general science articles covering topics such as global warming, alternative energy sources, robotic engineering, genetically modified food, and more.

ProQuest Social Science Journals offer indexing and full-text articles from 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.

ProQuest Sociology covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.

STAT!Ref is a collection of reference books focused on the medical and health fields, including many basic reference sources for nursing, surgical technology, medical assisting, and more.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States provides an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

ProQuest Telecommunications covers topics such as computer applications, data communication, data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science, information theory, radio, television, and wireless communications.

This is for learners of all levels looking to build their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a foreign language. This database has over 110 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 30 languages.

U.S. History in Context provides a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues, and current information.

This database indexes news content from many national and international newspapers, newswires, and selected news magazines.

The Wall Street Journal is a good source for reporting and research on current events at the national and international level.

World and Its Peoples is a collection of e-books that provides basic information and overviews of cultures and regions throughout the world, including climate, geography, government, religions, festivals, and more.

Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, World History In Context provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people, spanning 5000 years with global scope.