“Articles, Books, and More”
Use the library’s Discovery Service to retrieve BILLIONS of journal articles, books, book chapters, entries in reference resources (etc.) from thousands of individual databases. Type in your search terms and then select “Articles, Books, and More” from the drop-down menu.
Reference Resources
Credo Reference – brief entries from over 1k reference works, such as subject-specific encyclopedias and language dictionaries, covering all subject areas
Oxford Reference – brief entries from 400+ reference works in all subject areas.
Britannica Academic – a general encyclopedia intended for college students.
Gale in Context: Biography – information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
Books
Converse – to find books, both print and electronic, in Converse’s Mickel Library, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “Converse Catalog.”
PASCAL Delivers – to find books, both print and electronic, in South Carolina’s college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “PASCAL Delivers.” You can borrow these books by signing in and following the instructions to “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”
WorldCat – records for millions of books in thousands of libraries; most of these are “borrow-able” through our Interlibrary Loan Service.
Periodical Articles
Applied Science & Technology Full Text – indexes and provides abstracts for over 800 journals in a wide range of applied science specialties, including computer science, information science, and engineering; provides the complete text of over 200 of these journals.
Computer Source – indexes 450 periodicals and includes complete articles from over 300 of these periodicals.
Business Source Premier – one of the largest and best-known databases for research in all aspects of business; includes full-text articles from several thousand academic journals and magazines in this field.
Business Abstracts with Full Text – full-text articles from over 500 business-related magazines and academic journals.
Regional Business News – made up mostly of full-text articles from 80-ish regional business publications.
Small Business Source – many types of resources, including trade publications, of interest to the small business community.
General Science Full Text – indexes almost 300 popular science magazines and scholarly scientific journals and provides full-text articles from around 100 of these titles.
Science Reference Center – science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
Science.gov – scientific information generated by federal government agencies such as the EPA, the National Library of Medicine, and NASA.
Academic Search Complete – one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects; indexes over 12k periodicals and provides complete articles from over 8k of these titles.
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega – complete articles and citations to articles from several hundred popular magazines.
Periodicals Available at Converse
Periodicals by Title – Key in some or all of a periodical’s title (NOT the title of the article itself) to retrieve a listing of periodicals the library owns in either electronic or print/physical format.
Interlibrary Loan/PASCAL Delivers
To request books held by South Carolina college/university libraries, please go to our Discovery Service, key in your terms and select PASCAL Delivers, click on the book you’d like to borrow, sign in, and then click on “Request via PASCAL Delivers.
To request articles and other non-book materials, as well as books NOT held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to Interlibrary Loan and select the correct form.