New Electronic Resources

The following resources from DISCUS have been added to the Electronic Resources Database List:

Britannica Online - School Edition K-12

Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition K-12 offers two ways to access this wealth of information.

1. You can search all the content at once to see results for students at every level.
2. You can choose a library appropriate for your grade level:

• High School for high school students and up, includes Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Middle School for middle school students and up, includes Compton’s by Britannica.
• Elementary School for elementary students and up, includes Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia.

You can search the chosen encyclopedia as well as magazines, Web sites, and videos. You can also explore Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features — all at the appropriate grade level.

Enciclopedia Juvenil

A Spanish-language encyclopedia for students age 6-12.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center

This complete tool for career exploration and development contains helpful articles and videos on industries, jobs, skills, and resources. Areas covered by this database include:

• Job & Industry Profiles
•  Job-Hunting & Workplace Skills
• Career & Industry Resources
• College Planning & Financial Aid

LearningExpress Library

Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.LearningExpress Library includes online practice tests, including:

• GRE
• GMAT
• LSAT
• MCAT
• Praxis
• And more.

CQ Researcher provides reporting and analysis of current issues in the news. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Click here to access CQ Researcher. 

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web, a high-speed’, searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1.4 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who’s Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.Marquis Who’s Who is only available on-campus.  Click here to access the database.

Latin American Newspapers includes more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers, featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.

Click here to access Latin American Newspapers.

America’s News enables researchers to pinpoint information on people, issues and events in the local area or around the country. Updated daily, this comprehensive resource offers tens of millions of current and archived articles and video clips from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database.  The database includes 26 South Carolina newspapers, including full-text access to The State newspaper back to December of 1987.

Click here to access America’s Newspapers.

Click here to access South Carolina Newspapers.

Click here to access The State newspaper.

A new readers’ advisory resource provided by DISCUS. Books & Authors will replace the What Do I Read Next? database with a much more visual and interactive interface.  Users can search by title, author, subject, full text, time period, geographic location, character, reading level and more to discover your next reading adventure.

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Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.

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Do you need to find the impact factor for a particular journal? The Thomas Cooper Library and the School of Medicine Library have partnered to bring you Journal Citation Reports online access! Both the Science and Social Sciences journals are included in this resource.

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You may find the database listed under both titles on the Electronic Resources page

http://www.sc.edu/library/er

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Current Research@ the University of South Carolina: A Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses has changed titles to Dissertations & Theses @ University of South Carolina. The database is now on the Proquest platform. It is currently listed under both titles on the Electronic Resources page.