James H. Thomason Library
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- THOMCAT - Thomason Library's online catalog. Use Thomcat to search the Library's collections of both print and electronic books (ebooks)
- PASCAL Delivers - request books from other SC college & university libraries Click here for more information
- WorldCat - books worldwide
- Other Library Catalogs
- EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Collection of over 80,000 electronic books covering a vast array of topics and themes. - EBSCO eBook Collection Collection of approximately 10,000 electronic books covering a vast array of topics and themes.
- ebrary eBook Collection Collection of approximately 70,000 electronic books covering a vast array of topics and themes.
- Springer eBook Collection Large collection of electronic books covering a a range of scholarly disciplines, with emphasis oin science, technology, and mathematics titles
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- EBSCOhost Databases - Academic Search Complete, ATLA, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography,, PsycARTICLES, Business Source Premier, and more
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- America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank) - Explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia, 1690-1876
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) -- Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
- LexisNexis Academic - Full-text news, legal, medical, and business information
- The New York Times Archive & The Atlanta Constitution Archive (Proquest)
- Regional Business News (EBSCO) Full text coverage for regional business publications
- ACS Legacy Archives (27 titles)
- ACS Web Editions (49 titles)
- Brill Journals (access via Ingenta Online Publications)
- Cambridge Journals Online (selected titles)
- Duke University Press Journals (35 titles)
- Highwire Press Journals (16 titles)
- Highwire Press Open Access Journals (278 titles)
- Ingenta Online Publications (138 titles)
- Mary Ann Liebert Online Journals (95 titles)
- Oxford University Press Journals (244 titles)
- PsycARTICLES [American Psychological Association journals via EBSCO] (77 titles)
- SAGE Journals Online (555 titles)
- Springer Online Journals (2032 journals)
- University of Chicago Press Journals (selected titles)
- Wiley Online Library (1510 titles)
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Find Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Online
- AccessScience - The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online
- Britannica Online - general encyclopedia
- CREDO Reference - broad range of subject encyclopedias
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - search InfoTrac/Gale Reference e-books
- Global Reference Center - foreign language encyclopedias
- Oxford Reference Online Premium - search Oxford Reference e-books
- Oxford English Dictionary - historical dictionary of word origins
- SAGE eReference Encyclopedias - social science encyclopedias
- Sharpe Online Reference - American history eReference books
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- Course & Subject Guides
- American History in Video - online collection of video available for the study of American history
- ARTstor - image database covering all disciplines
- Classical Music Library - multi-label database of Classical music recordings
- CountryWatch - information on 192 countries of the world
- IPA Source - International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts
- LibraryMusicSource.com - The largest collection of Western Classical sheet music ever assembled
- MERGENT Online - financial information, annual reports, & industry reports
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