North Carolina

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: America history and life is an index to journal articles, books, book chapters, media reviews, and dissertations covering the the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. For articles on the history of the rest of the world see Historical Abstracts.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.

Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Over 100 North Carolina community newspapers containing current or latest issue coverage. Archived article coverage varies. List compiled by Duke University Libraries.

Description: These materials include papers dating from 1751-1890's from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. There are also three lesson plans derived from these newspapers: For What A Mother Is Responsible? Idealized Motherhood vs. The Realities of Motherhood in Antebellum North Carolina; Teaching About Slavery Through Newspaper Advertisements; and "A Female Raid" in 1863: Using Newspaper Coverage to Learn More About North Carolina's Civil War home front.

Creator: N.C. State Archives

Description: An index to articles in the arts, social sciences, and sciences appearing in North Carolina periodicals, most of which are not indexed in standard reference sources.

Date Coverage: 1922 - date
Vendor: East Carolina University

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.

Creator: The State Library of North Carolina

Description: Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provide digital access to 11,173 large scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities from 1867 - 1970. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections.

Date Coverage: 1867 - 1970
Vendor: ProQuest

Description: The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed at UNCCH. Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

Description: Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes thirteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Website: UNC University Library

Description:North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Date Coverage: Colonial - 1950
Vendor: Alexander Street Press

Description: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects data on the age, race, and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations.

Description: Statistical, analytical and maping tool designed to aid economic and community development decision making.

Website: N.C. Department of Commerce

Description: A portal to information on everything North Carolina that provides users with a list of trusted websites selected by NC LIVE.