Online Reference

The AccuNet/AP Photo Archive is a database of approximately 500,000 current and archived photos from the library of the Associated Press. The Archive is updated daily, with an average 800 contemporary photos added each day. The best 200 or so from each day’s additions are retained permanently in the database, while the rest are removed after 12 months. In addition, the Photo Archive’s historical collection features notable historical figures as well as images from significant events of the 20th century and, occasionally, the 19th (there’s an 1844 photograph of Abraham Lincoln here).

CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

CQ Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

DialogWeb provides easy access to the full content (over 600 databases), power, and precision of classic Dialog through a Web browser. Special features include: A flexible and easy to use Guided Search mode that does not require knowledge of the Dialog command language A robust Command Search mode that uses the powerful Dialog command language experienced searchers can easily use Database selection tools to help pinpoint the right database for your search Integrated database descriptions, pricing information, and other search assistance Easy to use forms to create and modify Alerts (current awareness updates) Search results available in HTML or text formats A choice of displaying records or sending search results via email, fax, or postal delivery

EBSCO Host offers a range of advanced searching features. Results can be limited or refined by various criteria including subject, author, journal, date, peer-reviewed status and full text availability. Many products on EBSCOhost support an enhanced subject search allowing in-depth searching of people, companies, reviews or specific subject headings. Navigate subdivisions or related terms, explore subjects that contain periodicals, reviews, newspapers, pamphlets or reference books.

Facts on File: Curriculum Resource Center Online is suited for middle school, high school, and junior college teachers and students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas—including U.S. and world history, science, and geography. This electronic library of curriculum-related handouts provides access to a broad selection of visual content, including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and other handouts, all of which can be saved in a password-protected folder, emailed, or printed and used for worksheets, overheads, and testing. Web links direct users to some of the web’s best educational sites.

Infotrac - Junior Edition, formerly SuperTOM Junior, is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Users of the J STOR library will have access to the J STOR collection of journals. The J STOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of these core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Over 4 million pages are now available. New titles and fields are being added constantly. Issues of journals are never "out"; they are always accessible.

Lexis-Nexis lets you search 4 areas: NEWS - More than 65 major newspapers, 40+ magazines and hard-to-find broadcast transcripts. LEGAL RESEARCH - U.S. Supreme Court and State cases, law review articles and all federal laws from 1988 to present Legislation and Statistics. LEGISLATION - Track bills under consideration, members of congress, history of voting reports, U.S. & state bill text, and much more. STATISTICS - Search Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and American Statistics Index.

MAPS 101 has access to more than 4,000 easy-to-print maps, over 200 K-12 lesson plans, daily and weekly current events articles, up-to-date World & U.S. Reference Atlases, educational quizzes, games, and so much more!

OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Many of the entries in the Additions volumes consist of sections which are additions to an entry previously published in the Second Edition; such sections are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries, along with entries from the Second Edition. The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online, representing the latest progress towards the new edition. More revised and new entries will be added to the online Dictionary every quarter.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means an additional 70,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies. The new Premium Collection includes: Over 100 authoritative quick-reference titles covering the full subject spectrum – everything from the humanities and social sciences to science and medicine, and from business and finance to law and computing, English and bilingual dictionaries. PLUS: Over 50,000 in-depth scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series and all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Project Musecontains at least 190 full-text, full-image scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many other fields are represented.

Polling the Nations is the most comprehensive collection of public opinion. It covers 5000 topics, with information from not only in the United States but also more than 100 countries around the world. The database includes the full text of the questions and responses covering a broad range of issues.
Subjects cover issues such as gun control, abortion, government, women, race relations, the economy, and children. In addition to these recurring themes, episodic events such as reactions to September 11--trust in government, Americans' willingness to take military action against countries assisting terrorists, whether the rights of average Americans are being protected--are added in a timely fashion.

ProQuest Direct now offers ProQuest Historical Newspapers which includes the entire backfile (1851-1999) of the New York Times in full-page digital images -- from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements. ProQuest Direct gives you access to abstracts and full-text of over 2000 periodicals and journals (abstracts begin 1986 / full-text begins 1992).
To view the list of periodicals available through ProQuest click here.

The Student Resource Center features Full-text articles from more than 350 magazines, updated daily - More than 1.7 million full-text magazines and newspaper articles - 41,000 original biographies, essays and overviews - 15,000 photos, maps and graphics - 16,000 timeline references - Hundreds of audio and video clips - Results returned by source type - Intuitive and easy-to-use interface - And so much more

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World Book Online provides access to all articles from the 22-volume print set plus over 1,800 more. You also get 7,500 pictures, over 100 virtual reality bubble views, 600 streaming sound clips, 60,000 cross-reference links, links to 30,000+ periodical articles, links to thousands of editor-approved Web sites, Researcher Helper and more!

EB Online provides access to Britannica's collection of authoritative references, including their latest article database, articles not found in the hard copy, Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, as well as thousands of links to other WWW sites selected by Britannica editors.

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia which was the first encyclopedia to make its text available online. It contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is updated monthly. Also included are the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Popular Science and the New Book of Knowledge.

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The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank. It is a rich digital resource of art images, right-cleared for educational use. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The database includes numerous multimedia files.

The AStor collection includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's tools allow you to view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline;

The library is pleased to announce that it is currently subscribing to CAMIO—RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. This resource contains about 90,000 works of fine and decorative art that you can present in the classroom, download for research and study, and use to illustrate papers and other assignments. It includes works ranging from 3000 BCE to the present day, including difficult-to-find contemporary art.

The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. The 45,000 articles in the Dictionary cover every sphere and period of art history, making it the ideal place from which to begin your research. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study.

Comprising the full text of the printed edition, grovemusic.com also includes advanced search capabilities, which enable you to make concept, pattern and "boolean" searches to pinpoint precise queries, a ‘browse’ option inviting you to browse entries at will and over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations. A programme of quarterly and annual updates from the Grove Editorial Team will keep the site fresh and up to date, and grovemusic.com now includes the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera as an extra value-added feature.

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The Biography Resource Centercombines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Wilson Biographies Plus offers full-text comprehensive coverage of over 38,000 figures from antiquity to the present. It includes the Current Biography: 1940-Present database. Wilson Biographies includes profiles from World Authors 800 B.C.- Present, Junior Book of Authors, World Artists 1950-1990, Composers, Musicians and Nobel Prize Winners. Service Note: Access to Wilson Biographies Plus is limited to 8 concurrent users. If you have trouble logging on please wait a few minutes and try again.

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Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

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Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy. The ON-LINE full text search capability and digital imaging allows you to search and manipulate information in ways never before possible.

Facts on File: American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in United States history. Spanning more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, this invaluable reference source is organized by content type, topic, era, and activity as well as by the National Standards for U.S. History. Thousands of fully hyperlinked entries allow you to follow a topic to related biographies, primary source documents, and images. Web links direct users to some of the web’s best educational sites.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.

HARPWEEK has created a special Genre index to Literature in Harper's Weekly. The Literature and Publishing index includes works of prose and verse published in Harper's Weekly, as well as reviews, discussions, and advertisements for works of literature. To browse the Literature and Publishing index by genre, select "Browse the Literature in Harper's Weekly by Genre" by placing your cursor over the hyperlinked line and clicking. To browse the Occupation/Role categories, select "Find people by their Occupation or Role in Society" by placing your cursor over the hyperlinked line and clicking.

The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. The Journal's geographical and temporal scope—the history of Europe since the Renaissance—makes it unique: the JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.

SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources, is an electronic subscription resource containing Primary Source and reference content from the 20th century. Content is organized into curricular topics pertaining to American History, culture, and daily life of the time. Primary source types include: Advertisements, Editorial Cartoons, Letters, Memos, Messages, Maps and Charts, Original Documents, Original Works of Art, Photographs, Poems and Literary Works, Posters, Published Articles, Speeches and Addresses.

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The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations, numbers that will continually expand with each update. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. Scholars in each of these languages have reviewed and guided the selection of poems, so that the poetry on Granger’s is also the poetry encountered in the classroom. The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets.

Over 85,000 full-text poems and accompanying explanatory materials are carefully selected to meet curriculum needs by Roth's Editorial Board in consultation with Roth's Advisory Board composed of English teachers, librarians and poets. The LitFINDER has now added full-text short stories and essays and will grow on a daily basis with more new features!

Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

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AccessScience@McGraw-Hill - the online version of the #1 bestselling McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology lets you browse through 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 key scientists. And AccessScience is updated with 3 or 4 breakthrough science and technology stories every week.

Health & Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, HWRC delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and Wellness Resource Center has partnered with Healthology, an industry leader in providing health and medical video content and physician-authored articles. Users of HWRC can search the extensive online library provided by Healthology directly from the HWRC home page. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in HWRC.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES (ELS) features more than 4,000 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles, making it an essential read for life scientists and a valuable resource for teaching. Aimed at researchers, students and teachers, articles provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage, written by leaders in the field. Colour illustrations and tables accompany articles, with appendix and glossary material providing essential information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data. Importantly, all articles have been peer-reviewed to ensure a balanced representation of the literature.

Facts on File: Science Online conveys the visual nature of science in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner. All content in this comprehensive database is divided into sections based on the science curriculum established by the National Science Education Standards, allowing you to access printable diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays in a specific subject area or discipline with a single click. Thousands of hyperlinks allow users to follow a diagram to a definition and on to a related essay or biography.

Science Reference Center (Ebsco)Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Scientific American Archive currently contains the entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 through to the present. The issues are presented in PDF format, which maintains the integrity of the printed page with all the graphics.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

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