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AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition which provides authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Its continuously updated content also includes definitions of scientific and technical terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies, biographies, news, and videos. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)
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This resource contains biographical entries on more than 380,000 individuals. Much of the information is from Gale resources such as Contemporary Authors and Encyclopedia of World Biography. Entries in Biographical Resource center are updated often so it is not only authoritative, but current.
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Provides coverage and integrated searching of the following encyclopedias and multiple reference tools: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Britannica Student Encyclopedia; Britannica Internet Guide; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus; and World Atlas.
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Credo Reference is an online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books covering a range of subject matters, such as art, business, literature, and science. By searching over three million entries at once, Credo Reference provides accurate information quickly and across disciplines. Credo also includes maps, images, and sound files.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library provides a platform for searching Gale reference titles simultaneously. Individual reference titles included are: College blue book (32nd ed.); Encyclopedia of aging; Encyclopedia of bioethics; Gale encyclopedia of science (3rd ed.); Scholarships, fellowships, and loans (21st ed.); World Press encyclopedia; Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America); Biology (1st edition); Encyclopedia of popular …
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An encyclopedia of art based on The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text. Includes over 45,000 articles, cross references within the text, and over 40,000 links to art images in galleries and museums around the world. Articles are written and signed by scholars and include bibliographic references. Users looking for information on archaeology, architecture, art, design, costume, …
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Grove Music Online offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations. It includes 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies. It is the most comprehensive source of information on all aspects of music in English.
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Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription. Users in libraries subscribing to Guide to Reference can set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work. This subscription database, …
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CHANT is an on-going project of collections of all Chinese ancient texts, containing 6 databases: 1. Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones (Jiaguwen); 2. Excavated Wood/Bamboo and Silk Scripts (Zhu jian bo shu); 3. Database of Bronze Inscriptions (Jin wen); 4. Database of Traditional Chinese Texts: Xian Qin Liang Han (pre-220AD); 5. Database of Traditional Chinese Texts of Weijin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-589AD); and …
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ジャパンナレッジプラス consists of fully searchable and browsable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, Encyclopedia Nipponica and Encyclopedia of Japan, articles published in a weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, collection of Tōyō bunko series and other visual and sound databases. (Restricted to 8 simultaneous users.)
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Allows simultaneous searching of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Content includes biographies, subject entries, images and learning resources.
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Oxford Music Online allows the simultaneous searching of The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition; The Oxford Dictionary of Music; and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works in the Premium Collection. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP) Online contains the full content of the classic print encyclopedia 10-volume set, and is also a living, growing resource designed to grow along with the discipline itself. As well as regular additions of new articles, REP Online also provides editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web, revisions and updates of key entries, and periodic upgrades of the user environment. In …
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Includes all articles from the print encyclopedia, a searchable dictionary and atlas. The online edition also features maps, pictures, sounds, and videos.



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