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Last updated August 10, 2011
Most users should access PASCAL Electronic Resources through their home institution’s library web site. However, the links below should work if you use them from on-campus, or if your institution uses a proxy server.
Academic Search Premier -
Full text journal articles covering most academic disciplines: biology,
chemistry, engineering, physics, religion, politics, international
affairs, the arts, literature, and behavioral and social sciences.
Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than
8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
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Business Source Premier -
More than 2,300 full text journals, Business Source Premier is the
industry's most used business research database. Full text coverage in
all disciplines of business: marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal
content includes market research reports, industry reports, country
reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Includes Regional Business
News database.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
A comprehensive nursing &
allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620
journals and more than 200 books. Material covered includes complete
texts of selected state nursing journals, newsletters, monographs,
standards of practice, government publications, practice acts, research
instruments, patient education material, and evidence-based care
sheets.
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Computer Source -
Almost 300 full text journals and
magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming,
artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics,
and software. Computer Source™ provides a balance of full text
technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
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ERIC -
ERIC, the Educational Resource
Information Center, provides access to education literature and
resources. The database provides access to information from journals
included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in
Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and
links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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GALE Literature Resource Center -
This electronic full text
collection includes many of the core literary reference works:
Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series,
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Twaynes' Author Series, and Scribners Writers.
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GreenFILE -
GreenFILE offers well-researched information 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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition -
Most academic users should refer to Health Source: Nursing / Academic
Edition, below. Health Source Consumer has almost 80 full text consumer
health magazines such as American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit
Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle
& Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition -
Indexes and abstracts for more than 800 journals with over 500
scholarly full text journals. Focus is on medical disciplines as well
as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, including 1,300 generic drug patient
education sheets and more than 4,700 brand names.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) -
LISTA indexes nearly 690
periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and
more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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MAS Ultra -- High School Edition -
Not for college or university-level research. For high school
libraries, MAS Ultra has 500 popular, high school magazines including
America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology,
Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times,
Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation,
National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science
News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full
text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia
Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of
Facts), and an image collection of almost 300,000 photos, maps &
flags, color PDFs. Key magazines have full text backfiles dating back
to 1975.
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MEDLINE -
MEDLINE provides authoritative
medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical
Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and
explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current
biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus,
International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE,
SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals -
MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
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MLA International Bibliography -
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of
journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern
Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography
dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from
more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore,
literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the
historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and
composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language
and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the
database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's
proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the
bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors'
names, with links to brief descriptive notes.
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Military & Government Collection -
Designed to offer current news
pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a
thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content
pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military &
Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300
journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and
abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Some publications covered in this
database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense
Studies, and JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat
Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and
many more.
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Primary Search -
Not for college or
university-level research. Designed specifically for Elementary school
use, Primary Search contains full text for nearly 70 popular,
elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a
reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search
includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, which provides students with
easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This
database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd
Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an image collection of almost
300,000 photos, maps and flags.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection -
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional
and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. Links to articles from more than 500 full text journals contained within Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
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Regional Business News -
A supplement to Business Source Premier, offering daily updates to full
text regional business publications from more than 50 sources.
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PASCAL eSearch will give users scholarly, Google-like experience where they can search several different licensed library databases in one search. This greatly expands the use and efficiency of PASCAL resources. Through FY 2008-9, we offered the Research Pro engine from Innovative interfaces. We are currently re-evaluating products and hope to restore this capability in the near future.
In FY 2008-9, the legislature reduced funding for PASCAL's programs by 90% (more than $1.8 million). Universal access to many high value information resources that we provided to all of South Carolina's students and faculty was lost. However, through collaborative action, PASCAL libraries, their parent institutions, and partners have maintained important core levels of service. This page provides status information on these materials.
Licenses renewed thru June 30, 2012
Last updated August 10, 2011
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