Get to Know NC LIVE - Our Resources

Business Development

  • Business Market Research Collection

    This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analytica, and Snapshots.

  • ABI/INFORM Collection

    Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.

  • Data-Axle Reference Solutions

    Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Data-Axle makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more. Formerly known as ReferenceUSA.

  • Entrepreneurship Database

    Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journals, business cases, and more.

  • Morningstar Investment Research Center

    Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.

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College and Career Readiness

  • Career & Technical Education Database

    Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

    Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

  • LearningExpress Library Complete and PrepSTEP Academic

    Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

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Nursing Program Support

  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text

    Database of nursing and allied health journals with additional materials that include nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheets, audiovisuals, and continuing education modules.

  • Health & Medical Collection

    Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.

  • Healthcare Administration Database

    Research supporting professional healthcare management and healthcare administration.

  • LearningExpress Library Complete and PrepSTEP Academic

    Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

  • Public Health Database

    This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.

  • Nursing & Allied Health Database

    Journals and dissertations covering nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine.

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K-12 Teacher Education

  • Credo Reference

    A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.

  • Education Database

    Research on primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

  • eLibrary

    This easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for schools and libraries of all kinds, as well as additional subject-based material.

  • Films on Demand Video Collection

    Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Also includes content formerly in the NC LIVE Video Collection.

  • History Study Center

    A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

  • Just for Kids Streaming Collection

    The Just for Kids Streaming Collection gives children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy.

  • LearningExpress Library Complete and PrepSTEP Academic

    Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

  • SIRS Discoverer

    Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offers articles, nonfiction books, images, activities, and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

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STEM

  • Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database

    Full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

  • Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection

    Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics.

  • Biological Science Database

    Research on animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, health and safety science, entomology, and more.

  • Career & Technical Education Database

    Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

  • Computer Science Database

    Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware.

  • Earth, Atmospheric Aquatic Science Database

    The Earth, Atmospheric Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

  • Engineering Database

    This database provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

  • Materials Science Database

    The collection contains materials science related full-text articles and the entire range of bibliographic records from the Materials Research Database.

  • Science Database

    Applied and general science articles covering topics such as global warming, alternative energy sources, robotic engineering, genetically modified food, and more.

  • Telecommunications Database

    Covers topics including computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio and television.

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