Databases
A collection of online reference resources and services for library card holders to access from the convenience of their home or office.
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Academic Search Premier
Full text for nearly 1,850 publications, including over 1,250 peer-reviewed journals. Indexing and abstracts are provided for the 3,250 journals in the collection. Information is offered in the following areas: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.1984 - present
African American History and Culture
Include biographies, timelines, events and topics, image gallery, maps and charts. Learning Centers help students and researchers find new ways to explore the vast amount of content in this database.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
Antiques Database Lists prices received for items at regional auction houses. Use this database to determine the value of your possessions, including books, bottles and other types of glass, crafts and folkart, dolls, furniture, paintings, and more.
Auto Repair Reference Center
Repair information for most major manufacturers and makes starting back to 1945.
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Business Decision
Find new customers, identify new store locations, analyze your market, evaluate your competitors, target media and direct mail campaigns. You may opt to use the library's account user ID: gsolibrary and password: greensboro. You will not be able to email with this option but printing or downloading reports is available for all searches. (Subject: Business)
Business Source Premier
Contains full text from nearly 970 journals with indexing and abstracts for over 1,650 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. Also includes the Wall Street Journal.1984 - present (Subject: Business) C
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CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
CAMIO™ -- RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online -- offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
Career Library
Comprehensive information resource for career and college research.
Chadwick-Healey's Poetry Collection
A collection of poetry databases providing full text access to American, African-American and English poetry. Also contains the Faber Poetry Library collection, which includes some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century and spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house.
CINAHL with Full Text
Provides full text for 320 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. 1982 - present.
CQ Researcher
Original research reports covering political, social, environment, education, technology, and health issues.
CQ Weekly Online
Complete and accurate reporting on the United States Congress. The CQ news team covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else.
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Encyclopedia of Animals
Contains in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals with articles describing their nature and habitat. Also includes some pictures.1990 - present
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides full text educational information from more than 2,200 digests as well as citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.1967 - present
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Facts on File - Issues and Controversies
Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Facts on FIle - World News Digest
Covers events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60 years. Updated every week. Headline news stories from Reuters are updated every hour.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Detailed profiles of more than 2,900 jobs, articles on resume-building and job-seeking skills, plus information about colleges and scholarships.
Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database, in e-book format, of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research topics on the arts, biographies, education, the environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, the nation and the world, religion, science, and social science.
Geographic Research Simply Maps
A web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
Greensboro News and Record - indexed by Newsbank
Access the past 20 years of Greensboro News and Record.
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Health Source Consumer Edition
Contains 300 full text consumer health periodicals covering a wide spectrum of issues with indexing and abstracts for 300 more. Database also includes pamphlets, reference books, and Clinical Pharmacology, which provides drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, plus new and investigational drugs.1984 - present
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 600 full text journals (including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals) and abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals that focus on many medical disciplines with strong coverage in nursing and allied health. Also includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, plus new and investigational drugs.1975 - present
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online is a library resource for census data, family records, and local histories. This collection assembles most extant U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical and local history serials, and more.
Homework Help via Tutor.com
Tutors are just a mouse click away! They help with research, work through math problems, proofread papers and more! Actual teachers are available to assist you every day, from 2-10 pm. All subjects, all grade levels. Try the unique chat and chalkboard interface.
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Issues and Controversies
Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
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Learning Express Library
An interactive database with over 25 practice tests ranging from the GED & ASVAB to standardized exams for students and professionals.
Literary Reference Center
Scholarly articles and criticisms, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, & poems.
Literary Reference Online
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. M
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Magill's Medical Guide
The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
Mango Languages
Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you're learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL Polish, ESL Spanish, and ESL Brazilian Portuguese.
MasterFile Premiere
Provides full text for nearly 2,000 periodicals that include general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and more. Indexing and abstracts are available for all of the 2,650 publications in the collection. Features full-text book reviews, reference and travel books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection.1984 - present (
Military & Government Collection
Offers current news related to the military. Provides periodicals, academic journals, and other content including full text for nearly 300 journals/periodicals and 245 pamphlets. Indexing and abstracts are available for nearly 400 titles.
Morningstar Library Edition
Offers real-time investment research. Patrons have access to many popular Premium features of Morningstar.com, including research and independent opinions on thousands of stocks and mutual funds; designed to fit the needs of library patrons and reference librarians.
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NetLibrary
Comprehensive collection of electronic books (eBooks) with access to a wide range of research, reference, and reading materials. Books can be previewed for 15 minutes; checked out for up to two hours; or downloaded onto your home PC for offline viewing. Titles include Cliffs Notes, the Idiot’s Guide series, the Chicken Soup series, and books on a variety of topics such as computers, self-help, gardening and much more.
News and Record (Greensboro) - indexed by Newsbank
Access the past 20 years of Greensboro News and Record.
Newspaper Source Plus
Selected full text for national and international newspapers. Includes some Greensboro News and Record coverage.
North Carolina Digital Library - Audiobooks, music and video.
NoveList
Provides thousands of reading recommendations to, adult fiction, young adult fiction, and children's literature. Also includes Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks. Well known as the best reader's advisory tool on the Internet.1996 - present
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Poetry - Chadwick-Healey Collection
A collection of poetry databases providing full text access to American, African-American and English poetry. Also contains the Faber Poetry Library collection, which includes some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century and spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house.
ProQuest Newspapers
Provides Wall Street Journal (1984 to present).
PsychInfo
Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.1987 - present
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Reference USA
One of the world's largest databases of industry and company information, with contact information, sales and employee figures. Searchable by yellow page heading, SIC code, geography, and more.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News pulls together 67 regional business publications, 52 of which are full text, covering all metropolitan and rural areas with the United States, including Business North Carolina. Search by key word, publication or images.
ResumeMaker
This tool makes writing a better resume quick and easy. Simply fill in the blanks at each step with thousands of pre-written phrases and keywords recommended by experts for most careers. It is not necessary to use a valid email address to sign in.
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Sanborn Maps: North Carolina
Historical pas of North Carolina: provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
Science Online
Includes thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Simply Maps - Geographic Research Simply Maps
A web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
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Valueline
An investment tool for researching stock information on a company or looking for the overall climate within a given industry.
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WorldCat
Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide.
World Data Analyst
A collection of current and past statistics on the countries of the world that makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy.
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