A-Z Resource List: S

Search journals in the health and life sciences, social sciences, engineering, and humanities titles. Only those journals to which USC Columbia subscribes are available full text.

Scholar Commons is an institutional repository to preserve, collect and disseminate the research and scholarship of the University of South Carolina. Contributions from authors include articles and books, documents, technical reports, presentations, conference proceedings, creative activities, master's theses, open-access dissertations and more.

Science published some of the best research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world. 

Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience

Reference works and other sources geared towards K-12 students. 

Provides access to the full text of journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries and other publishers whose online journals are hosted by ScienceDirect

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Provides integrated access to the Chemical Abstracts suite of databases with millions of bibliographic records covering the worldwide chemical literature, including patents; as well as over 100 million substance records, with chemical structures, names, synonyms, and associated property data; plus millions of searchable organic reactions. Search by topic, author, chemical identification terms (names, formulas, Registry Numbers), and chemical structures.

Scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.

Offers full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books.

Comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages — plan, fund, start, and manage — to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Indexes and abstracts current research in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Directory of reports and statistics on South Carolina 

Search journals, books, reference works, and other documents provided by Springer. Only the titles to which USC Aiken subscribes are available full text.

A collection of searchable e-books and journals that cover a wide variety of topics including dentistry, pharmacology, evidence-based medicine, pediatrics, nursing and more. 

Keyword-searchable, online access to the entire historical archive of Columbia's newspaper from 1891 up to today's issue.

BEA's economists produce some of the world's most closely watched statistics, including U.S. gross domestic product, better known as GDP. State and local numbers, plus foreign trade and investment stats and industry data are also available.