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Academic Writer

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Academic Writer (formerly APA Style CENTRAL) combines learning and teaching tools, writing and content processing technology, and full integration of APA's Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Slated to transition to 7th edition updates in August 2020.

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ACC CardioSource Plus

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Free registration is required to access all content.
1. Use this link to go to USC Libraries' subscription to Cardiosource Plus for Institutions.
2. After logging in with your USC NetID and password, you will be prompted to log in to the ACC.org website.
3. Users that have an existing personal ACC.org account can login with their existing credentials and access the modules.
If you have not previously made an account, use the “Create Free Account” command under the login form to make a personal username and password.
4. After signing in with your personal ACC.org account, you will see the courses currently included in this subscription and can launch the course.

All users MUST login with their USC NetID via the Ovid interface before logging in to their personal ACC.org account, in order to access the materials licensed by the USC Libraries.

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  • Medicine
The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources, all in one easy-to-search database with a world map.Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded.

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  • Communication & Journalism

AccessAnesthesiology

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Textbooks, study tools, guidelines, cases, drug information, multimedia (videos, animations, images). Focus on anesthesiology, pain management, critical care, and perioperative medicine. Some features require a free MyAccess profile.

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  • Health Sciences ,
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AccessEngineering

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Access Engineering is an engineering reference tool that provides access to authoritative and regularly updated engineering reference information.AccessEngineering provides integrated access to thousands of pages of trusted content from such renowned resources as Perry's Handbook for Chemical Engineers and Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers across desktop and mobile platforms. Users can access more than 530 books, 760 instructional videos, 3800 interactive graphs, and an Excel calculator tool to streamline calculations.

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Accessible Archives

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This database provides full text access to a diverse range of primary source materials from 18th & 19th century America.
The collection includes:letters, advertisements, editorials, sketches, county records, complete runs of important periodicals and much more. Titles of interest include: The Pennsylvania Gazette, the Virginia Gazette, The South Carolina Gazette,Godey's Lady Book, and The North Star.

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  • Communication & Journalism ,
  • Cultural & Ethnic Studies

AccessMedicine

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Provides access to a wide range of medical textbooks, board review books and clinical support books. In addition, there are self-assessment modules with case studies and multiple choice questions. Good for study and review of basic medical topics.

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  • Health Sciences ,
  • Medicine ,
  • Nursing ,
  • Physician Assistants

AccessPediatrics

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Textbooks, handbooks, cases, drug information, study tools, board review, multimedia (videos, animations, images). Focus on pediatrics and neonatology. Some features require a free MyAccess profile.

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AccessPharmacy

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Textbooks, drug monographs, quizzes, flashcards, videos, cases, and calculators, selected for relevance to Pharmacy education.

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  • Pharmacy ,
  • Physician Assistants

AccessPhysiotherapy

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Comprehensive physical therapy resource that contains a collection of 30+ ebooks, images, videos, and study tools.

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  • Physical Therapy

AccessScience

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AccessScience contains various resources in science and technology: the unabridged McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and much more.AccessScience has over 7,100 articles; 115,000 dictionary terms; hundreds of research updates in all areas of sci/tech, including medicine; over 2000 biographies of leading scientists; weekly updates on breakthroughs and discoveries; and links to Web sites for further research.

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  • Biological & Life Sciences

AccessSurgery

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Textbooks, handbooks, cases, drug information, study tools, board review, multimedia (videos and images). Focus on surgery, orthopedics, critical care, and trauma. Some features require a free MyAccess profile.

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  • Medicine ,
  • Physician Assistants
This database brings together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources for locating quick and precise results covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day.

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  • Business, Accounting, & Economics

ACLS Humanities E-Book

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Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 5,000 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan'€™s Scholarly Publishing Office.The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

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The records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination, immigration, labor, radicalism, and related topics support the study of American legal history and complement the modules in the Making of Modern Law series. Documents include newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memorandums, telegrams, minutes, and legal case records.

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ACM Digital Library

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A half century of pioneering concepts and fundamental research have been digitized and indexed in a variety of ways in this special collection of works published by ACM since its inception.The ACM Digital Library includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full texts.

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With more than one million human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations. You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.

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A database of acronyms collected from the Internet. An acronym is a kind of abbreviation. Acronyms are usually made from the capitalized initials of the words it represents, for example FBI is an acronym for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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ACS Publications provides access to ACS journals, eBooks, and series.
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication: ACS Legacy Archives - Extensive collection of American Chemical Society journal backfiles.
ACS Symposium Series - contains high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia. Advances in Chemistry Series - Founded by the American Chemical Society in 1949, the Advances in Chemistry series was the predecessor to the ACS Symposium Series.

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  • Chemistry