Search for information
Search Belk Library's online system to find both library materials and articles in our databases. Use the search box below to do a basic search on library materials and databases.
General Research Databases
These databases have lots of articles about a wide variety of topics. Great for all kinds of research!
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly full-text journals and peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of subjects. 1975 to present.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowFull-text database of academic journals, newspapers, and dissertations covering a wide range of subjects.
Statistics
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatistics, studies and reports from over 18,000 sources. Includes data from businesses, government departments, market research concerns or associations and more.
- Pew Research CenterPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowPublic opinion polls containing 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys in the U.S. and 80 other countries, 1986-present.
Subject Specific Databases
These databases will help if you are looking for an article on a particular topic - literature, history, sociology, etc.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts covers modern world history (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life) from 1450 to the present.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex and abstracts of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. 1963-
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowIndex to journals in psychology and related disciplines, 1887-present.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and index of international political science journals.
- Belk Library Databases by SubjectFor every other topic!