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| Academic Search Complete EBSCO | All disciplines |
| Portal to 11,600+ journals, monographs, reports and conference proceedings, with 7,000 in full text and nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed. Easily searchable by subject, places and people |
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| American National Biography Online Oxford University Press | Biographical sketches of men and women from all eras and walks of life who were significant to U.S. History and culture |
| More than 19,000 signed biographies and biographical sketches of men and women from all eras and walks of life who were significant to U.S. History and culture |
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| ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid.org | History, archives |
| Collection description records for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories from thousands of libraries, museums and archives worldwide | |
| ArticleFirst OCLC | Articles listed in the table of contents of interdisciplinary journals |
| 12,500+ journals |
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| Books in Print with Reviews OCLC Login required. Please ask at Information Desk. | Books and other published material on all subjects |
| 4 million+ citations from 44,000 publishers |
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| Britannica Online Britannica Online | All subjects, including historical treatments and current events. |
| 65,000+ authoritative articles |
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| Britannica World Atlas Britannica Online | All countries |
| Flags, maps, statistics, and articles treating geographical, cultural, historical, and recent events of all countries | |
Chicago Manual of Style Online University of Chicago Press | N/A |
| Customizable and completely searchable online manual with tools such as sample form letters, style sheets, and publishing process diagrams. |
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| ChoiceReviews.online ACRL | All subjects |
| Searchable databases of reviews issued in the print magazine Choice. |
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| CQ Researcher Plus Archive Congressional Quarterly | Current hot social and political issues, e.g. the economy, education, environment, health, international affairs, science and technology |
| In-depth, single-topic reports that include background and chronology, assessment of current situation, tables and maps, pro/con states from representatives of opposing positions, and bibliographies of key sources |
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| CREDO Reference CREDO | All subjects |
| 414+ electronic reference books |
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| Current Biography Illustrated EBSCO | People in all disciplines |
| 25,000+ articles and obituaries and 19,000+ images of historical figures from World War II to today, with 450 new profiles added each year | |
| Digital LIS SIUe LIS | Various |
| Almost a dozen digitized collections created from special materials held by Lovejoy Library. |
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| Dissertation Abstracts Online ProQuest/OCLC Login required. Please ask at Information Desk. | All subjects |
| 1.8 million+ dissertations and theses, U.S., Canadian, and European |
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| e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection Duke University Press | Education, humanities and social sciences |
| Access to 29 scholarly journals from Duke University Press |
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| ebrary Perpetual Access Collection ebrary | All subjects |
| 179 electronic books |
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| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO | All subjects |
| 25,000 topics |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale | Business, education, literature, medicine, religion, science, social sciences, and technology |
| 30+ electronic reference books, including the International Directory of Company Histories (v.1/1988 -) and World Literature and its Times (v.1 - 8/ 1999 - 2006) |
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| GPO Access U.S. GPO | U.S. law, legislation, regulation, executive and congressional documents |
| Publications of the U.S. government |
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| Historical New York Times ProQuest | News on all subjects |
| Full images of articles in the New York Times (called the New York Daily Times prior to 1858), including illustrations and advertisements. |
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| Historical St. Louis Post-Dispatch ProQuest | News, history |
| Online access to the Historical St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with full text and imaging searching. Cross-searchable with the Historical New York Times |
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| JSTOR JSTOR | All subjects |
| Complete archive of 169 major research journals |
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| King James Bible Chadwyck-Healey | King James Bible - 'Authorized' Version |
| Biblical text, notes, and apparatus |
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| LEXIS-NEXIS Academic LEXIS-NEXIS | General, news, business, legal, and medical information |
| 100+ newspapers and wire services, 1000+ journals and newsletters, legal reports, and numerous reference sources |
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| LISTA EBSCO | Librarianship, information science and technology |
| 600+ journals, books, research reports and proceedings |
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| MasterFILE Premier EBSCO | All disciplines |
| Specifically designed for public libraries, this portal provides access to 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating back to 1975. Also includes nearly 500 general reference books, 160,000+ primary source documents, and over 450,000 images |
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| Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Britannica Online | English-language words |
| Definitions, hyphenations, inflected forms, etymology, usage dates and notes, and cross-references. |
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| Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus Britannica Online | Thesaurus |
| Synonyms and antonyms |
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| Classic novels, plays and poetry in the literary arts, humanities and education |
| More than 350 works by 100 authors, playwrights and poets read by professional actors |
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| Newspaper Source EBSCO | All subjects |
| Selected articles from 180+ U.S. and international papers |
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| Newsstand ProQuest | All subjects |
| Coverage of 450+ major U.S. and international newspapers, including more than 300 in full text. |
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| OAIster OCLC | All subjects |
| Union catalog of digital resources from open archive collections, including theses, reports, papers and image collections |
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| OCLC: Electronic Collections Online OCLC | All subjects |
| 3000+ journals, 670 in full text |
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| OED Online Oxford University Press | The ultimate authority on English language words and quotations. |
| Complete content of the 23-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition |
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| Opposing Viewpoints Gale | Social sciences |
| A virtual library of resources designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues | |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press | Men and women who shaped all aspects of British history, from the 4th century BC to the end of 2000 |
| More than 50,000 signed biographies |
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| PapersFirst OCLC | All subjects |
| 2 million+ conference papers |
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| ProceedingsFirst OCLC | All subjects addressed by conferences, symposia, and expositions worldwide |
| 12,500 sources |
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| Project Muse JHUP | All subjects |
| 170+ journals from The Johns Hopkins University Press |
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| Safari Books Online ProQuest | A broad range of technical fields, including business, computer science, information technology, and software engineering. |
| 198 electronic books |
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| SAGE Journals Online Sage | Business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine |
| Access to more than 300 SAGE online journals from volume 1, issue 1 (Backfile), as well as current access to 450+ titles (Premier). |
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| ScienceDirect Elsevier | All subjects |
| 1700+ journals with 870+ in full text |
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| Scopus Elsevier | Scientific, technical and medical information, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities |
| Portal to 18,000+ titles from 5,000+ international publishers, including 16,500+ peer-reviewed journals, 600+ trade publications, 350+ book series, 3.6 million conference papers, 435 million scientific web pages, and 23 million patents. |
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| Something About the Author Online Gale | Humanities |
| Comprehensive access to all 215 volumes of the main and autobiographical series of this respected title, including 19,000+ entries and 17,000+ images | |
| SpringerLink Springer-Kluwer | Sciences, medicine, social sciences and education |
| 380+ journals in full text |
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| Testing & Education Reference Center Gale | Education and career information |
| College and vocational test preparation materials, college information and career selection tools, and related ebooks |
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| TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBooks.com | Children’s books on many subjects in English, Spanish and Chinese |
| 90+ animated, talking children’s picture books, with related puzzles, quizzes and resources for teachers |
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| TumbleTalkingBooks TumbleBooks.com | All subjects |
| Almost 400 digital audio books |
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| Webster's Unabridged Dictionary LION | The English language |
| 450,000 vocabulary entries |
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| Wiley InterScience Wiley | Business, education, engineering, science and social science |
| 670 journals in full text |
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| Wilson Select Plus OCLC | Business, education, humanities, science |
| 2,393+ journals in full text |
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| World Almanac OCLC | All subjects |
| 5 almanacs |
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