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General Resources for all courses:
CIA World Factbook, listings of country facts and profiles
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
World Bank, news and information on countries around the world
http://www.worldbank.org/
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Art
- CAMIO via OCLC RLG
Provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
- Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Over 120 art-related magazines and journals, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
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Business
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Career Information
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009 (Web Site)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.
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Criminal Justice
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Culinary/Hospitality
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Education/Early Childhood
- ERIC (Education) via EBSCOhost
Access to education-related journals.
- LearningExpress Library via LearningExpress
Practice tests and tutorials for Praxis I and CBEST.
- North Carolina Curriculum (Web Site)
Standard Course of Study for specific Department of Public Instruction goals and objectives for classroom subjects and grade levels for North Carolina.
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History
- Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Magazines and journals, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
- Annals of American History via Britannica
Primary sources of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale
E-Books: Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, and Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
- Greenwood Digital Collection (e-Books) via Greenwood
Includes American Slavery, Daily Life Through History, and Historic Events of the 20th Century.
- HeritageQuest via HeritageQuest
Research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press
Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950
- PBS Video Collection via NC LIVE Collections
Videos from PBS on a variety of topics
- World Data Analyst via Britannica
A collection of current and past statistics on the countries of the world that makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy.
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Literature
- Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Magazines and journals, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
- African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
- English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- Faber Poetry Library via Chadwyck-Healey
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
- Greenwood Digital Collection (e-Books) via Greenwood
Includes Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers (analysis of best-selling fiction) and Literature in Context (historical and cultural analysis of classic titles in literature). Also includes primary documents, including American Slavery (slave narratives).
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press
Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950
- Twentieth Century African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
African-American poetry 1900-1999
- Twentieth Century American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
American poetry 1900-1999
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
English poetry 1900-1999
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Medical and Health
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News/Newspaper Articles
- America's Newspapers via NewsBank
Selected North Carolina and national newspapers
- Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost
Selected full text for national and international newspapers
- ProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest Company
Full-text articles from five leading national newspapers
- Regional Business News via EBSCOhost
Business journals and newspapers covering metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
- North Carolina Community Newspapers (Web Site)
A gateway to over 100 North Carolina community newspapers containing current or latest issue coverage, sometimes limited to stories of local interest. Archival access varies greatly and coverage may change without notice.
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North Carolina
- North Carolina Resources on NC LIVE
Includes statistics, small business resources, tax forms, and North Carolina government information.
- America's Newspapers via NewsBank
Selected North Carolina and national newspapers.
- North Carolina Community Newspapers (Web Site)
A gateway to over 100 North Carolina community newspapers containing current or latest issue coverage, sometimes limited to stories of local interest. Archival access varies greatly and coverage may change without notice.
- North Carolina Driver's Manual (Web Site)
Includes the full text of the current Department of Motor Vehicles driver's manual in English and Spanish, pictures of road signs, and the Newcomers Guide to Motoring in North Carolina.
- North Carolina Encyclopedia (Web Site)
Includes links to information that students of all ages request about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.
- North Carolina Job Openings (Web Site)
Link to NC Employment Security Commission.
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Psychology and Sociology
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Reference/Encyclopedias
- Britannica Online Academic Edition via Britannica
Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale
E-Books: Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, and Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
- Gran Enciclopedia Planeta y Enciclopedia Juvenil (Spanish Reference Center) via Britannica
A comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia featuring 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary.
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Science
- Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Magazines and journals, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale
E-Books: Animal Sciences, The Gale Encyclopedia of Science , and Genetics.
- GreenFILE via EBSCO host
Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
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For further information about Global Education programming, please contact
Heather Murphy, Director, Global Education and Outreach
(919) 209-2239
hemurphy@johnstoncc.edu
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