DATABASES
The Orangeburg Library and RCLS offers a wide variety of reference materials spanning general knowledge databases, literary and journalism sources, language learning tools, and health journals. Here is just a selection of options to look at. For more opportunities, follow the links below to see all databases in the RCLS system.
America’s News: This comprehensive resource offers millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database.
EBSCO Masterfile Premiere: Searchable full text for nearly 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week.
Encyclopaedia Brittanica: Access Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica's Internet Guide, and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
Gale Business Insights: Information on 448,000 US and international companies: histories; chronologies; rankings; statistics; and more.
Gannet Newstand Complete: Gannett Newsstand offers exclusive access to over 85 local and regional U.S. newspapers from Gannett including the Journal News, Poughkeepsie Journal, Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin.
Grolier Online: Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus & the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition.
Learning Express Library: Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
Oxford Islamic Studies: This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.
Muzzy Online: An award-winning, multimedia language course teaches Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil) and English-as-a-Second-Language.
BBC Languages: Beginning and advanced courses in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Greek.
Mango: Helps you learn a new language even faster with interactive tutorials and building-block concepts.
Health Reference Center Academic: Millions of articles from full-text nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters; and select consumer health information sources, full-text reference works and more.
Medline Plus: Information on medical diseases and conditions,lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
PubMed Central: National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences literature (for medical and health services professionals).
CollegeSource: Over 24,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): Provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.
Books in Print: Libraries worldwide consult Books In Print to find titles, create lists and decide from Books In Print's vast inventory files which vendor, eBook platform or online retailer to source the title.
Gale Literature Resource Center: Critical essays on contemporary authors; lives and careers of authors of all eras and genres; biographies and bibliographies on more than 90,000 contemporary authors.
