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Password is Required for Database Access Off-campus
Login to Campus Cruiser, email a Librarian or call (336) 633-0204 to obtain password.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Enter off-campus password in BOTH user ID and password fields)
Comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals and full text for 218 books/monographs; includes searchable Cited References, Research Instruments, and Evidence-Based Care Sheets. CLICK HERE to view tutorial (runtime 6 mins; Click Here to download the free Flash Player)

College Source Online (Available Only On Campus)
An online source for finding college catalogs for 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. Coverage is for more than 42,446 college catalogs and 35,600,000 course descriptions. Catalogs are cover-to-cover in original format.

Credo Reference (Enter off-campus password in Library Card Number field)
Online reference collection featuring full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. It’s a search engine like Google, but instead of searching the entire Internet, your results come from a comprehensive library of trusted reference sources without advertisements, clutter, or irrelevant hits. CLICK Here for Search Tips.

Criminal Justice Periodicals
Comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 240 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text. CLICK HERE to view tutorial.

GreenFile (no password required)
Scholarly, government, and general-interest information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to "biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline; covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.” Click Here to view tutorial.

NC LIVE
Searchable, electronic collections of popular magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles, electronic books, historical materials, maps, and much more - covering a wide range of topics. Click Here to view the Searching NC LIVE Tutorial or HERE for tutorials on how to use specific databases.

North Carolina Periodicals Index (no password required)
Provides selective bibliographic access to a broad range of periodicals published in North Carolina, most of which are not available electronically or indexed through commercial databases. A free service provided by the "Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection" at East Carolina University.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
An electronic database that provides a complete, one-stop source of information on social issues; includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Click Here to view tutorial.

Print Journals & Magazines available in the Library

Salem Health: Magill's Medical Guide 4th Revised edition, 2008 (Select Remote Access Login and enter off-campus password)
Searchable, up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research. Articles include key terms and definitions in sidebars, links to related subjects, complete bibliographies, illustrations and graphs, and more.

Salem History (Select Remote Access Login and enter off-campus password)
Full content from the print versions of the critically acclaimed The Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America and Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives.

What is the difference between scholarly journals and popular magazines?

• A scholarly periodical (sometimes referred to as peer-reviewed journal or a refereed journal) publishes the results of original and significant research in a particular discipline. For most academic papers, scholarly articles are excellent and preferred sources for supporting your arguments. Examples of scholarly journals:
  • Dermatology Nursing
  • Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
  • The Southern Literary Journal
  • The Western Journal of Medicine
• A popular periodical (a magazine, newsmagazine, or newspaper) publishes shorter pieces, news items, descriptions or summaries of research findings (but not the original research papers themselves), and/or information of interest to non-specialists or the general public. Examples of popular periodicals:
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Glamour
  • Newsweek
  • U.S. News & World Report
    

How do I cite journal articles?
Use these Citation Style Samples approved by the RCC English Department:

Samples of APA Style
Samples of MLA Style