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Academic One File (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers
Description: Comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly research. discus

African American Heritage
Exclusively for African-American family history research, this unique resource includes vital, slave, free(d), court, and U.S. federal census records, as well as reference books, surname registry, and tools
to connect you to research experts. (BCLS subscription) 

Ancestry® Library Edition
Discover your unique family history! This resource includes billions of records from around the world, including from U.S., U.K., and Canadian census and vital records, immigration and passport records, periodicals and books, photos, and more. (BCLS subscription)  

Biography in Context   Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For all age groups
Description: Comprehensive resource for biographical information. discus

Books & Authors (Gale)
Audience: Readers of all ages, Librarians and Teachers
Description: A Readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. Books & Authors has numerous search criteria, genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, etc. Includes Book jacket images, book reviews from more than 30 sources. Books & Authors has user-friendly tools that allow users to store reading and search lists and create reviews and ratings. Includes Visual search technology for narrowing choices and graphically viewing search term relationships. discus

Book Review Index Online Plus (Gale)
Audience: For librarians and readers of all ages
Description: Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.
Details: Contains the entire back file of Book Review Index print content     (1965-); More than 5 million review citations; More than 634,000 full-text reviews. discus

Britannica Academic Edition (Britannica)
Audience: For high-school, college-level and adult researchers
Description: A resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. 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. discus

Britannica Learning Zone (Britannica)
Audience: For Pre K - 2nd grade students
Description: Explore to see a map of continents of the world or play dozens of interactive games on subjects like counting, telling time, and learning shapes and colors! Read and learn about many words! Draw- just choose a crayon you like and draw a picture! Requires: Adobe Flash version 9 or higher Teacher Tools: Teachers and administrators can use a set of tools for customizing lessons and generating student reports. discus

Britannica Online (Britannica)
Audience: For middle-school and up
Description: A resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. 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. discus

Britannica Online for Kids (Britannica)
Audience: For elementary and middle-school and up
Description: A resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. 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. discus

Britannica Elementary Spanish language encyclopedia
Enciclopedia Juvenil  (Britannica)
Audience: For elementary and middle-school and up Ages 7-12
Description: (Spanish version) A resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. 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. discus

Britannica World Data Analyst (Britannica)
Audience: For middle-school students and up
Description: Detailed statistics with powerful tools for analysis and display, this resource features a unique collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world and allows you to create interesting and information comparative charts and tables. discus

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics. discus

Career eBook Collection (OCLC NetLibrary)
As part of the South Carolina State Library's Workforce Development Initiative, DISCUS has added a high quality customized set of career related eBooks. The set is being provided by OCLC NetLibrary and Lyrasis.
Audience: For high school students through adults
Description: Customized collection of more than 250 electronic books for vocational needs. Titles focused on career selection, résumé and cover letter writing, interviewing, changing careers, test-taking strategies and more.
Keyword and phrase searching possible in an individual title or across the entire collection. Features include embedded dictionary and thesaurus, a linked table of contents, page bookmarking and note-taking. discus

CultureGrams
Audience: For all age groups
Details: Separate editions for: World, States, Provinces and Kids
200+ United Nations-member countries included, with reports containing history, customs, family, lifestyle, recipes, economy and more.
Each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and the 13 Canadian provinces are included, with reports containing maps, flags, symbols, history, economy, geography, population and more. Video stories, slideshows, a worldwide photo gallery and create-your-own data tables. discus

Custom Newspapers (Gale)
Audience: For all age groups
Description: Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers. discus

Dun & Bradstreet: The Million Dollar Database
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and  advanced high school students.
Description: The Million Dollar Database provides comprehensive marketing information on both public and private companies and their executives. Company profiles include specialty information like executive biographies and proprietary eight-digit SIC codes. The Million Dollar Database offers you unlimited searching, viewing and printing of detailed, location-specific
company profiles with contact information. A Corporate Family Linkage option lets you leverage existing relationships with customers and suppliers by linking corporate headquarters locations
with their branches, divisions and subsidiaries. (BCLS subscription)

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale)
Audience: For professional educators, undergrads and grad students in the field of education
Description: Database of education resources covering multiple levels from preschool to college. Details: More than 1,100 full-text periodicals covering a variety of disciplines; 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education
Resources on educational specialties and issues related to administration, funding and policies; Updated daily. discus

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines. discus

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Ferguson's Career Guidance Center provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries, and much more! discus

Gale InfoTrac PowerSearch (Gale)
Audience: All age groups
Description: Link to the full menu of all Thomson Gale databases provided by DISCUS.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
Audience: For middle school students and above
Description: A selection of 24 cross-searchable reference e-books covering a variety of subject areas, including health and medicine, language and literature, history, social studies, science and more. discus

General Business File ASAP (Gale)
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Comprehensive periodical resource for business, management and investment topics. discus 

General Reference Center (Gale)
Audience: For high school through adults.
Description: Magazine, newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general interest. discus

Hands on Health (DISCUS Partner)
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: Promoting healthy lifestyles

Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: Portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users; includes “Alternative Health Module” content. discus

Health Reference Center - Academic (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers
Description: Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers. discus


HW Wilson Web

     Children’s Core Collection
A Selection Guide (Formerly Children's Catalog)*

For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, here is working data on fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books and magazines recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade. You’ll also appreciate listings from review sources, and other professional aids for children’s librarians and school media specialists. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.

Selected and recommended by specialists in library service to children, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics, including a new abundance of books on minorities, ecology, natural sciences, and natural history. Data on fairy tales and picture books has also been expanded. New to the 18th Edition are listings of recommended Web resources. (BCLS subscription)

     Fiction Core Collection
Fiction Core Collection delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or translated into English. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, a descriptive annotation, notes about related works, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. Use the information in collection development and maintenance; selection and purchasing; readers' advisory; and general reference. (BCLS subscription)

HeritageQuest Online  
You’ll find U.S. federal census records, family histories, published genealogies, historical books, Revolutionary War records, Freedman’s Bank records, and more to help you trace your American ancestors’ paths across history.(BCLS subscription) 
 
InfoTrac General OneFile (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Comprehensive periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals. Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a single database. Over 25 million full-text articles on all subjects from over 5,000 periodical titles. Articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and children's periodicals. New York Times indexing (1980-) and full-text (1995-); other major newspapers and 8,000+ periodicals discus

Junior Edition (Gale)
Audience: For middle school students, their teachers and parents.
Description: Magazine, newspaper and reference sources on all subjects. discus

Kids Info Bits (Gale)
Audience: For K-5 students, their teachers and parents
Description: Articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects. discus

Knowitall.org (DISCUS Partner)
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents.

LearningExpress Library requires free registration with LearningExpress  
Audience: For advanced elementary school students through adults
Description: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. discus 
 
LegalTrac (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Index to law and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles. discus