Collegiate DISCUS is coordinated by PASCAL in cooperation with its members, the South Carolina State Library and other partners. Collegiate DISCUS is funded by the South Carolina General Assembly through an appropriation to the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database for their core resource of scholarly information. With its large coverage of peer-reviewed journals, EBSCOHost (Academic Search Elite) offers critical information from leaders in many disciplines. The diverse content available will assist students in performing a more thorough investigation of their research topics. It is a valuable resource for the library, supporting core curriculum, degree requirements and elective classes. This scholarly collection includes embedded images and provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study-including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. It features:
full text for over 1,250 journals with many dating back to 1990
abstracts and indexing for nearly 2,880 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984
coverage of 1,676 peer-reviewed journals
charts and graphs converted to keyword-searchable ASCII text
over 1.4 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet
coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor
