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|  Academic Search Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. | | | Credo Reference | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library. | | | ebrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary.
See also the system requirements for ebrary. | | Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. | | | LexisNexis Academic | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. | | | OmniFile Full Text Mega | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. | | | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
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Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. | | | WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. |
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Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).
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