AccessScience
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Over 8,500 online articles the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition
Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers
Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®
The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos
Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos
added illustrations, animations, and image galleries
questions answered in our weekly Q&A
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| Baker & Taylor: The Title Source III |
"The world's most comprehensive title-information database on the Web... Uncover the most recognized comprehensive and accurate title information on over 3 million book, audio and video titles quickly and easily."
*A User ID and password
(obtainable at the library's reference or circulation desk: 786-3703 or 786-3877) are required for remote
access.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
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This database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
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Biography
Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®
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For all age groups
* Comprehensive
source for biographical information
* Over 350,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout
history
* Quick reference information on nearly one million people from
Who’s Who sources
* Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected
biography Web sites
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Book Review Index Online Plus
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Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
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Books & Authors
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For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction.
Numerous search criteria, genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, etc.
Book jacket images, book reviews from more than 30 sources
User-friendly tools that allow users to store reading and search lists and create reviews and ratings
Visual search technology for narrowing choices and graphically viewing search term relationships
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Britannica Online
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The online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica includes not only the full text of the encyclopedia itself but multimedia content and definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition) as well.
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Contemporary Authors
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Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
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CQ Researcher Online
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(Congressional Quarterly) CQ Researcher Online offers:
* Access to
CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available
for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports
published after January 2001
* Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news
* In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy
* Reader-friendly organization that provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources
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CQ Weekly
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(Congressional Quarterly) CQ Weekly offers coverage of virtually every act of Congress, including:
* In-depth reports on congressional issues
* Nonpartisan news and analysis
* An archive dating back to 1983
* Ability to search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter
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Current Biography Illustrated
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Coverage dates: 1940+
Current Biography Illustrated (TM) contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than
9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from all of the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook, from
1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin,
gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of
images.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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"This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas."
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Gale's Literary Index
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A master index for Gale Group's major literature series
containing authors' biographies and critical
essays on their writings. Included in the index are cross-references to more than
130,000 author names and more
than 140,000 titles.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.
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Grolier Encyclopedia
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For
grades 2 and up
Encyclopedia articles, news feature stories, media, Web sites and magazines
Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
Dictionary with audible pronunciations
Searchable atlas with photos of points of interest and distance calculators
Educator resources
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Health
and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC)
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For advanced middle school students through adults
(1980 - present)
* Portal to
health information from a variety of sources for general users;
includes "Alternative Health Module" content
* Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and
medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
* Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
* Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and
hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles
and herbal medicine information
* Access to health news and key health Web sites
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History Resource Center: U.S.
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History Resource Center: U.S.
provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current
information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate
curriculum, the content combines:
* Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc
* Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Thomson Gale original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews
* Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
* A historical bibliography
* Links to digitized special collections
* Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events
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History Resource Center: World
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History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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Hoover's
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"Hoover's, Inc. delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth.
Through this Web site, Hoover's Online, Hoover’s nearly 90-member editorial staff delivers continuously updated intelligence on public and private companies worldwide."
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LexisNexis Academic
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Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and
radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information;
foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and
European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country
profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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Nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles
41 complete titles from the Information Plus reference program
More than 275 primary documents
300 biographies of social activists and reformers
Nearly 5,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
Nearly 4,600 topic overviews that provide context for the issues
More than 775 court-case overviews
334 profiles of federal agencies and special interest groups
2,000 links to reviewed and subject-indexed Web sites
More than 135 full-text periodicals and newspapers
Podcasts from the Weekly Presidential Radio Address
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Oxford African American Studies Center
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"The Oxford African American
Studies Center (AASC) provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest
reference resources in African American studies. AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of
African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, and the highly acclaimed
Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The
Center also includes content from the African American National Biography project and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture.
In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference
program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature."
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
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The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is
an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the
usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature
and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New
Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation
using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Play Index
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Coverage dates: Plays written from Antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present
Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the
present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer. An invaluable aid to finding the
perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written
in or translated into English. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more.
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Science Resource Center
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Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
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Scribners Writers
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Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series, including African American Writers,
African Writers,
American Nature Writers,
American Writers,
Ancient Writers,
The Books of the Bible,
British Writers,
European Writers,
Latin American Writers,
Modern American Women Writers,
Science Fiction Writers,
Supernatural Writers, and
Writers for Children.
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Shakespeare Survey Online
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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.
The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. Volume 60, due in October 2007, will be added to Shakespeare Survey Online on publication.
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SIRS Discoverer
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For
students in grades 1-9, their teachers and parents
* Articles,
pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
* Age appropriate, full-text articles and images selected from 1,600+
U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications
and reference sources
* Reading levels assigned to all articles Maps, pictures, photo
essays, activities, biographies, country facts, current events
* Links to age appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators
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SIRS Knowledge Source
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For
advanced middle school students through adults
* Articles,
images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
* Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines,
newspapers, government publications and reference sources
* News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
* Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other
topics
* Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
* Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court
decisions
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Testing & Education Reference Center Basic
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Search for schools, career info and academic/career practice tests.
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Twayne's Authors Series
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The
acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth
introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence
of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This
online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise
three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World
Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from
librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in
high schools and colleges.
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