Online Databases (By Subject)
These resources are available on the web from any computer on the Cleveland Community College. Most are also available to faculty and students from off-campus. If you want to take advantage of this capability, you must first obtain the passwords. If you need help, online tutorials are available.
Business and Investing
- Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles in all disciplines of business.
- Countrywatch provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
- CQ Researcher covers topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- CQ Weekly covers the activities of the U.S. Congress.
- Columbia International Affairs Online, or CIAO, contains scholarship in its field from 1991 to the present.
- The Economic Development Information System database includes profiles of counties and industries in North Carolina. It provides information on available industrial properties, and comparisons between states in various statistical categories.
- Morningstar Library Edition covers mutual funds and stocks.
- ReferenceUSA provides detailed listings, including addresses and phone numbers, for companies and residences.
- Westlaw Campus Pro is an extensive database of legal information. Available only on campus.
Education and Psychology
- CQ Researcher covers topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals in many subjects.
- ERIC provides digests and references from over 750 education-related journals.
- LearningExpress Library is an online learning platform providing practice tests and tutorials designed to help students succeed on academic and licensing tests.
- The North Carolina Curriculum from the Department of Public Instruction includes the goals and objectives for subjects and grade levels in North Carolina.
- PsycINFO is provided by the American Psychological Association and focuses on psychology and related disciplines.
- Westlaw Campus Pro is an extensive database of legal information. Available only on campus.
General Reference and Research
- Academic Search Premier is multi-disciplinary, containing full-text in most areas of academic study.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals in many subjects.
- Encyclopedia Americana Online is a useful general interest encyclopedia and a great place for users to begin researching a topic.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Academic Edition. También disponible en español.
- CQ Researcher covers topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a searchable collection of online reference books.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.
- MasterFile Premier is a database that provides general-interest periodicals and journals from 1984 through the present.
- ReferenceUSA provides detailed listings, including addresses and phone numbers, for companies and residences.
- World Book Encyclopedia Online includes World Book Discover with practical applications of life skills and many videos (World Book Explains) and translations of content into 14 languages. This database resource includes an Online Research Guide, a Spanish Language Encyclopedia, and World Book Kids. World Book Advanced allows the researcher to search for Primary source documents, eBooks, Encyclopedia articles, Images, and much more in a single, integrated interface. Users can also setup their own personal "My Research" account to save their searches and information found with the ability to access it 24/7 from campus or anywhere they have Internet access.
History and Social Sciences
- The African American Experience, from Greenwood's American Mosaic initiative, is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture.
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography is a collection of the life histories of former slaves, compiled from nearly four thousand interviews.
- Annals of American History
- Columbia International Affairs Online, or CIAO, contains scholarship in its field from 1991 to the present.
- Countrywatch provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
- CQ Researcher covers topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- Daily Life Through History portrays the daily lives of ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.
- Heritagequest provides materials for tracing family history and American culture.
- Historic Events of the 20th Century
- History Reference Center offers full-text from books, encyclopedias, history-related periodicals, historical documents, and biographies. Multimedia—including photos, maps, and video—is also featured.
- Issues and Controversies in American History is an online source of current information on controversial and historical issues in American history. Included with the narratives are chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, and bibliographies.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Beginnings–1950)
- The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center covers current events and social issues from various angles.
- Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities.
- World Data Analyst provides statistics and tools for making comparative charts and tables of various countries.
Law
- Bills from the North Carolina General Assembly
- Columbia International Affairs Online, or CIAO, contains scholarship in its field from 1991 to the present.
- CQ Researcher covers topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- The Legislative Directory includes links for finding representatives and senators for both the North Carolina General Assembly and the U.S. Congress by county, district, and ZIP code. It also includes maps and historical information for the current congressional districts.
- Westlaw is an extensive database of legal information. Available only on campus.
North Carolina
- America's Newspapers: North Carolina
- Bills from the North Carolina General Assembly
- Business ServiCenter is a service of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. It offers advice about existing programs and resources designed to improve the profitability of businesses.
- The Economic Development Information System database includes profiles of counties and industries in North Carolina. It provides information on available industrial properties, and comparisons between states in various statistical categories.
- The North Carolina Employment Security Commission includes resources to help you find employment, as well as information on employers within the state (and nation).
- The Legislative Directory allows you to find your representatives and senators for the General Assembly and the U.S. Congress.
- North Carolina Community Newspapers
- The North Carolina Driver's Manual, in English and Spanish.
- North Carolina ECHO provides online access to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions.
- North Carolina Encyclopedia
- NC.GOV is the official web site of the state of North Carolina. It features information and services for citizens, businesses, state employees, and tourists.
- North Carolina Tax Forms includes downloadable versions of current North Carolina individual and corporate income, franchise, sales, and withholding tax forms.
- The North Carolina Uniform Crime Report reports information connected to all crimes except traffic violations.
- The State Center for Health Statistics
- The State Data Center is a consortium of state and local agencies that provides information about the state and its component areas. There is a link to the North Carolina Statistical Register, as well as public health section which includes a link to the State Center for Health Statistics.
- State Demographics provides population estimates and projections for counties and municipalities.
- The State of North Carolina Kid's Page provides links designed to help kids learn more about North Carolina.
- Teaching Positions in North Carolina contains links to all the information needed to apply for a job in North Carolina's public schools.
Literature and Art
- African-American Poetry (1750–1900)
- American Poetry (1600–1900)
- CAMIO provides rights-cleared art images for projects, presentations, research, and web sites.
- The Chadwyck-Healey Individual Literature Collections contain archives of full-text poetry, including African American Poetry (1750–1998), American Poetry (1600–2000), English Poetry (600–1900), and the Faber Poetry Library (20th Century).
- Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers provides in-depth analysis of current, best-selling fiction.
- Literary Reference Center
- English Poetry (600–1900)
- The Faber Poetry Library is a collection of poets of the 20th Century. It covers the seventy year history of the Faber publishing house.
- Literature in Context is a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.
- NetLibrary delivers online access to print and audio versions of books.
- North Carolina ECHO provides online access to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions.
- NoveList is a database of fiction books, providing leisure reading recommendations and a readers' advisory service containing descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles.
- The Oxford Premium Reference Collection is an index to dictionaries, language references, and subject references from Oxford University Press. Available only on campus.
Medical and Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CINAHL covers many health-related disciplines. It offers access to health care books, periodicals, dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, and audiovisual materials.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition provides consumer-oriented health information.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition provides abstracts and full-text articles for scholarly journals in many medical disciplines.
- Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health information web site whose goal is "to improve consumer access to selected health information from government agencies, their many partner organizations, and other reliable sources that serve the public interest."
- HealthLink Plus facilitates access to consumer health information in an effort to develop and enhance public knowledge.
- HIV InSite is a project of the University of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute. It is designed as a gateway to in-depth information about HIV/AIDS, and provides numerous links to many authoritative sites.
- Mayo Clinic Health Oasis is a consumer source of health information. The editors are physicians, scientists, writers and educators at Mayo Clinic—a non-profit institution with more than a century of history in patient care, medical research and education.
- Medem is a project of the leading medical societies in the United States, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The "medical library" is divided into four major categories: Life Stages, Diseases and Conditions, Therapies and Health Strategies, and Health and Society.
- MEDLINEplus is one of the most comprehensive web resources for quality consumer health information. It was developed by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. A Spanish version is also available.
- National Women's Health Information Center
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
- North Carolina Health Information
- Oncolink, a University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center resource.
- Oxford Premium Reference Collection, provides nine links to medical e-reference titles in the Medicine section link of the collection
- PsycINFO
- PubMed
- The State Center for Health Statistics
- The Division of Public Health of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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