DISCUS Databases - Berkeley County Library System, South Carolina

Ancestry & Genealogy Databases *

Ancestry Library

African American Heritage

ProQuest Civil War Era

* Access: Inside the Library

Academic One File (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers
Description: Comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly research.
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Access Science (McGraw-Hill)
Audience: For high-school, college-level and adult researchers
Description: Gateway to authoritative information in all major areas of science and
technology, featuring the online, fully illustrated version of the 10th edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
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Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For all age groups
Description: Comprehensive resource for biographical information.
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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
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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.
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Britannica Academic Edition (Britannica)
Audience: 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Britannica Elementary Spanish language encyclopedia
Enciclopedia Juvenil (Britannica)
Audience: For elementary and middle-school and up
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Access: Inside the Library

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.
Access: Inside the Library

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

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale)
Audience: For professional educators and undergraduate and graduate 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
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Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
Audience: For college-level, adult researchers and advanced high school students.
Description: Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines.
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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!
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Gale InfoTrac PowerSearch (Gale)
Audience: All age groups
Description: Link to the full menu of all Thomson Gale databases provided by DISCUS.
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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.
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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.
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General Reference Center (Gale)
Audience: For high school through adults.
Description: Magazine, newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general
interest.
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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.
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Health Reference Center - Academic (Gale)
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers
Description: Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic
researchers.
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HeritageQuest Online
Audience: For college-level and adult researchers
Description: Search Census Data (1790-1930), Books (over 28,000 Family & Local histories), PERSI (index of 2.1 million articles), Revolutionary War, Freedman's Bank (1865-1874 for African-American's) and U. S. Serial Set (Memorials, Petitions and Private Relief articles).
Access: Outside the Library

History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale)
Audience: For high school students through adults
Description: Complete overview of the most-studied events, issues and current information
in U.S. history that have been selected as relevant in the undergraduate curriculum.
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History Resource Center: World (Gale)
Audience: For high school students through adults
Description: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text
articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps
and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the
study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the
Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27
reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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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.

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.

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InfoTrac 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.
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Junior Edition (Gale)
Audience: For middle school students, their teachers and parents.
Description: Magazine, newspaper and reference sources on all subjects.
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Kids Info Bits (Gale)
Audience: For K-5 students, their teachers and parents
Description: Articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects.
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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
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.
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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.
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Literature Criticism Online [Funded by: Berkeley County Library]
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from
broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For high school students and above
Description: Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for literature, featuring the
online versions of these Gale print series: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twayne’s Authors Series and Scribner Writers
Series.
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LitFinder (Gale)
Audience: For all age groups
Description: Collection of full-text literature, citations and excerpts, and sources that
provide context to authors and their works
Details: Full-text content includes poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches; 850,000
poem citations and excerpts, biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary; 850
Spanish-language poems with English translations; Works from writers of diverse
nationalities and ethnicities, dating from antiquity to the present.
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Nursing Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For nursing students at vocational/technical high schools, colleges and
universities
Description: Collection of core content from recognized reference, textbook and journal
publications in the nursing field
Details: More than 20 full-text reference books; More than 200 animations from Blausen
Medical’s Human Atlas, covering all major body systems;
Search results returned in tabs that correlate to the nursing process;
Disease and drug overviews, sample care plans and a Nursing Toolbox.
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Opposing ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For middle school students through adults
Description: Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote
critical-thinking skills and information literacy; Selected results display Lexile reading levels.
Details: More than 400 reference book titles; More than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint
articles; Periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts and
graphs; Content levels may be selected for retrieving appropriate results; Includes Lexile
reading levels for periodical content; Content correlated to social studies and science
curriculum standards for middle and high school
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SchoolRooms (South Carolina State Library)
Audience: For students, parents, educators, and librarians
SchoolRooms is a new K-12 online multimedia discovery place for South Carolina students, teachers, parents and librarians!
SchoolRooms provides resources, built around school curriculum, to assist students with homework and school projects. Search your the Berkeley County Library’s catalog, educational websites, and selected DISCUS databases all at once. Designed not just for students, SchoolRooms includes practical and relevant guides to assist parents, educators, and librarians. This resource is available at libraries and from home, using a simple e-registration form.
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Science Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For high school, college-level and adult researchers
Description: Comprehensive curriculum-oriented database of reference and periodical
content covering Life Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science
Details: More than 30 reference titles; More than 300 periodicals, both general and
scholarly; Multimedia content, Web site links and a selection of newspaper science sections;
Content correlated to national and state high school curriculum standards
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Scribner Writers Series (Gale)
Audience: For high school students and above
Description: Essays on the lives and works of 1,600+ important authors from around the
world.
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SIRS Discoverer (SIRS)
Audience: For students in grades 1 through 9, their teachers and parents
Description: Articles, pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects.
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SIRS Knowledge Source (SIRS)
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: Articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects.
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Small Business Resource Center (Gale)
Audience: For adult researchers
Description: Resources for prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students
Details: Full-text periodicals, news sources, reference books and Web site links; Hundreds of
sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs
Updated continuously
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South Carolina Literary Map (DISCUS Partner)
Audience: For advanced middle school students through adults
Description: A list of SC authors with connections to that county.

South Carolina: Teaching, Learning and Connecting (DISCUS Partner)
Audience: For adult researchers
Description: South Carolina: Teaching, Learning, and Connecting (SCTLC) is a South
Carolina Department of Education web resource with South Carolina’s standards as its core.
It provides a fully searchable database of South Carolina standards, lesson plans, and
professional development and assessment resources as well as a lesson plan builder, Slate.

Student Edition (Gale)
Audience: For high school students, their teachers and parents
Description: Articles and reference information on topics most often researched in high
schools.
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What Do I Read Next? (Gale)
Audience: For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Description: Readers' advisory resource for recommended fiction and nonfiction.
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WorkSC Web Site
The South Carolina State Library has launched a new Web site, WorkSC.org, to assist libraries, state government agencies and employees, and citizens locate useful resources on the many facets of workforce development. The site, initially created with libraries and first-time job seekers in mind, offers many useful links for the beginning as well as seasoned job seekers.

Organized in an easy to use format, the Web site features job news, a calendar of events and links to featured job-related resources. WorkSC.org visitors can learn how to create free e-mail accounts, how to use Microsoft Word to write a resume, access job training tutorials and links to training opportunities hosted at libraries. Libraries and other workforce development organizations will soon be able to submit events for the calendar.

Additionally, users can find links to South Carolina specific as well as national job listing sites along with helpful tips for job searching and building interview skills. There are also resources for starting a business and tips for thriving in the workplace after finding a job.

Berkeley County Library System | 2010