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Black Thought and Culture             
Full Text Available:  Essays
Online Provider: Alexander Street Press

Description: 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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Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

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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Available: Brief company information
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

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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Available: 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.

Digital Sanborn Maps
Online Provider: ProQuest


Description:  Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities.
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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Available: 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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Available: Encyclopedic Entries
Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience
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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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AvailableEncyclopedic 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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Online Provider: Gale

Description: 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.   

Organic Syntheses    full text
Full 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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Available: Encyclopedic entries
Online Provider: 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.

Oxford English Dictionary    
Full Text Available: Extended dictionary ent
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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       
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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                                                                        Search Tips
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Available: Abstracts only
Online Provider: 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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Available: Encyclopedic entries
Online Provider: 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                                                                Search Tips
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Available: 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.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, Scholar’s Edition  
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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                                                        Search Tips
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Available: 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. 

Last Updated on Dec. 5, 2008


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