Credo Reference - Credo Reference.com        Current Editions        Updated Monthly
Credo Reference is a digital reference library that provides information from more than 600 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, credoreference contains all the types of reference books that you'd want to see in any quality library: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, plus numerous subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.. A complete description of titles available is available at http://www.credoreference.com/allbooks.jsp.

Gale Virtual Reference Library   - Gale                  Current File
Provides searchable full text of 178 Reference works in 11 subject areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Science, and Social Science. .

Encyclopedia Britannica Online -   Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.  Current File
Features articles from both the Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Student Encyclopedia, as well as relevant links from their directory of reviewed Web sites and a selection of video clips. Includes Britannica's Heritage - a new section that explores past editions of the encyclopaedia. It features articles by notable contributors, overviews of the changing nature of human knowledge, and galleries of maps and other images from past editions.

Encyclopedia Britannica Resources

Social Explorer - Oxford Univertsity Press         Current            Updated Continuously
Provides quick and easy access to modern and historical census data and demographic information. This resource brings together a vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface and report-generation tools that make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive. Getting Started

World Factbook - U.S. Central Intelligence Agency        Current            Updated Annually
Information on countries from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

OneLook Dictionaries
Searchable database of 800+ dictionaries of all types covering numerous disciplines. Contains 2.6 million words. Searches can be of all dictionaries, a specific type, or a specific subject. An alphabetical list with links to the dictionaries in the database is at http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml    WWW

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Nature Publishing Group    Current File     Updated Monthly
Provides more than 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles that integrate current theory, practice, and understanding of all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences. Includes Introductory Level articles, Secondary Level articles, and Special Essays.

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Funk & Wagnalls        Current File              Updated Annually
Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia meeting the research needs of elementary, middle and high school students. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Information Please Almanacs - Information Please.  Current    Updated Annually
This is a free site providing access to the following resources: Information Please Almanac; Information Please Sports Almanac; Information Please Entertainment Almanac; Random House Webster's College Dictionary; and Columbia Encyclopedia (5th edition) The resources can be searched individually or simultaneously. They should provide quick facts and some good statistical information for users who do not require in-depth information. WWW

World Almanac - Primedia Reference, Inc.   Current.    Updated Annually.
Includes all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States current and historical; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; and The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers.Search Guide

General Reference Center Gold  - IAC              1980-                  Updated Daily
A database of 4,415 general interest magazines, with over 3,458 in full-text as well as Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles. In addition, ready-reference sources, such as The Information Please Almanac, The Information Please Sports Almanac, Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, and The Columbia Encyclopedia are included, and fully keyword-searchable. WWW.  Search Guide

LexisNexis Academic                                                       Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 7,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. Introduction to LexisNexis Academic (video)  ------Using Power Search (video) ----- Legal Search: Get a Case

Literary Reference Center - Ebsco   Current File                Updated Monthly
A comprehensive literary reference database providinga broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

Contemporary Authors - This database is no longer available as a standalone system. Contemporary Authors is included in Biography Resource Center. You can limit your search to Contemporary Authors by doing an Advanced Search in Biography Resource Center; Enter the author's name on the first line; Type Contemporary Authors on the second line and select "source" from the drop-down menu. Click Search at the bottom of the screen. Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 112,000 U.S. and International authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Gale Research, Inc.   May 1999    Updated Monthly
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select (CLC--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.    WWW  Search Guide

Gale Literary Index - Gale Reference, Inc.      Current          Updated Monthly
A master index  to the printed editions of Gale's 43 literary series. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source. The Gale series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. WWW.

In the First Person - Alexander Street Press             Current File        Updated Quarterly
An index to  letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narrative, this database covers more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. With upcoming releases, the index will broaden to cover other formats and the proprietary content in the Alexander Street collections. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections?more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.  Links to full text in other Alexander Street databases.

U.S. Government Statistics on the Web -  Various U.S. Gov.'t Agencies   Current      Updated as Needed
Statistics on  numerous cataegories: Agriculture, Business and Industry, Comprehensive Subjects, Consumers, Cost-of-Living, Demographics, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Foreign Government Data Sources, Foreign &  International Economics, Foreign Trade, Government Finances, Health, Housing, Labor,  Military,  Politics,  Science, Sociology, Tourism, Transportation, and Weather. WWW

LexisNexis Academic   - LexisNexis                                                     Updated Daily
Provides the full text for selected biographical reference materials.  WWW.   Search Guide

Serials Directory - Ebsco        Current File        Updated Quarterly
The Serials Directory, 14th Edition provides up-to-date, accurate bibliographic information for more than 178,500 U.S. and international serials from over 85,000 publishers. Includes historical data for over 20,000 titles.  Search Guide | Video Tutorial

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