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Black Thought and Culture
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Alexander Street PressDescription: Approximately
100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African-American
leaders. Primary source materials including letters, speeches,
prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews,
periodicals and trial transcripts covering 250 years. Teachers,
artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans,
entertainers, and others are represented. |
Books In Print

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Description: Contains citations to in print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books,
audios, and videos from North American publishers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews
from Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School
Library Journal. |
Business
Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory

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company information
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Description: A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources. |
Credo Reference
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Encyclopedic and Dictionary Entries
Online Provider: Credo
Credo
Reference is an online collection of many reference books
covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such
subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more, all
aggregated and integrated in a robust search engine. Searching
by keyword will yield results from a number of different
reference sources, and entries include cross references to
related topics. Credo Reference is your alternative to Wikipedia.
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Digital Sanborn Maps
Online Provider: ProQuest Description:
Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities.
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Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
Online Provider: Dun & Bradstreet
Description:
Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios,
one of the standard sources for finding financial ratios is now
available online! D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
analyzes US companies, both public and private, using 14 ratios for
about 800 SIC codes. This resource will allow users to export data
and create comparative reports. |
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Encyclopedic
Entries
Online Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica
Description: In addition to the complete
online encyclopedia, features online versions of Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student
Encyclopedia, Britannica World Atlas, and Britannica
Year in Review. Includes the Britannica Internet
Guide with more than 300,000 links to Web
sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. |
Encyclopedia of Associations
(National & Regional,
State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the
Gale Directory Library)
Online Provider: Gale
Description:
Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of
Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies,
trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious
organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas.
Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and
local organizations. |
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online
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Entries
Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience |
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concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a
later time.
Description: McGraw-Hill's
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online provides fully
searchable content to over 8,500 online articles in the 10th Edition
of the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It covers
all major areas of science and technology. |
Facts On File - World Almanac Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic
entries
Online Provider: Facts On File Description:
Complete full text of the more than 26,000 articles in Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia with additional reports and
content. |
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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Encyclopedic
entries
Online Provider: GaleDescription:
The Gale Virtual Reference Library is
an online full-text collection of valuable reference books in
multiple subject areas. This collection includes many multidisciplinary reference e-books, including some with primary
source documents. The collection can be browsed by subject or
searched by keyword. Individual titles can also be accessed from
the RU Library Catalog.
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Organic Syntheses
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Text Available: Articles, procedures...
Online Provider: CambridgeSoft
Description: Organic Syntheses has provided the chemistry
community with annual collections of detailed and reliable
procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds since 1921.
Organic Syntheses procedures may be accessed either via the
tables of contents of individual volumes or by
conducting structure and keyword searches. |
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
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entries
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Oxford University Press
Oxford Encyclopedia of
American Literature -- This
Encyclopedia includes 350 essays on poets, playwrights,
essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on
literary movements, periods, and themes from leading scholars,
encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from
the 1600s to the present day.
Oxford
Encyclopedia of British Literature -- This Encyclopedia
provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre
to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the
United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary
languages. It also includes substantial accounts of individual
authors and detailed histories of particular themes, movements,
genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the
reading of literature was significant.
Oxford
Encyclopedia of Women in World History -- With over 650
biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles
covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society,
organizations, movements, and gender studies, this Encyclopedia captures the experiences of women
throughout history. It has comprehensive coverage on the role
women have played throughout world history.
Oxford
Companion to World Exploration -- From Antarctica to the North
Pole, it offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide,
including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World,
polar expeditions, and the space age. In addition to examining the
lives and expeditions of heroic and influential explorers, the book
covers navigational and marine sciences and ranges from ancient
cultures through modern space exploration.
Oxford
Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance -- This Encyclopedia
provides information about theatre and performance from
ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris,
New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in
playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and
popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public
executions.
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Oxford English Dictionary
Full Text Available: Extended dictionary entries
Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description:
Access to updated version of OED's 2nd ed., 20-vol. dictionary of words,
phrases, etymologies, variant
spellings, and pronunciations from the English-speaking world. Provides
quotations from earliest-known sources using a given word for the
first time in various senses. |
Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics 
Full Text Available: Extended dictionary entries
Online Provider:
Palgrave Macmillan
Description:
Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics allows full text searching of the over 1,850
articles contained in the 8 volume print edition of The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. It covers major topics in
Economics as well as a range of interdisciplinary subjects,
including: Health, Education and Welfare; Business Administration
and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; and Law and
Economics. Features include hyperlinked cross-references within
articles, links to related sites, sources of further information and
bibliographical citations, and incorporation of quarterly additions
and updates. |
Play Index
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Abstracts only
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WilsonWeb
Description: Play index containing abstracts for 31,000+ plays
and one-act plays, monologues, classic dramas, etc. Includes a
"Find this play in a book" feature, subject and keyword access, and
ability to limit by Genre. Plays are updated on a weekly
basis. |
Sage eReference Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedic
entries
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Sage
Description: Provides access to many encyclopedias in a variety of academic
disciplines, including: Communication & Media Studies,
Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice,
Economics, Education, Family Studies, Geography, History,
Psychology, Social Issues, and Sociology. |
Statesman's Yearbook online
Online Provider:
Palgrave Macmillan
Description:
A manual of descriptive and statistical information about the
governments of the world, with coverage of history, politics,
economics, trade and infrastructure for each country, as well as
extensive reading lists and web links for further research. |
Tests in Print

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Citations only
Online Provider: EBSCO Description:
A comprehensive bibliography that includes all known commercially
available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
Citations include what the test scores, time it takes to take the
test, pricing information, and MMY references. Produced by the
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement at the University of Nebraska. |
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Women and
Social Movements in the United States, Scholar’s Edition
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Text Available: Essays Online Provider:
Alexander Street Press
Description: Provides
in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s
reform organizations at both national and state levels in the United
States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes variety of primary
source documents, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, website
reviews and teaching tools. |
World Almanacs

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Encyclopedic
and brief
entries
Online Provider: FirstSearch Description:
Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 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 US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia.
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