| Britannica On-lineSearch the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary and the Collegiate Thesaurus. Perform an integrated search that pulls results from articles within the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, as well as the Internet Guide, 150 full-text periodicals, and a daily news archive offering current events coverage. Browse alphabetically or by subject, or consult the interactive World Atlas. |
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| Census/Map Data from U.S. Gazeteer |
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| Columbia Gazeteer of the WorldProviding 50,000 entries, the Gazetteer comprises the most comprehensive textual picture of the modern world today. It shows all the physical aspects of a place, its political properties (how people organize themselves), its natural and agricultural resources, and its infrastructure. |
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| Credo Referencean online reference library that provides access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, including subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. |
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| ebraryebrary is a hosted information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. ebrary provides simultaneous, multi-user access to customizable databases of full-text books, reports, maps and other authoritative content in multiple subject areas.
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| InfotracA one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily. |
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| JSTOR (All collections except business)JSTOR is an organization which has as two of its major goals to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, and to improve dramatically access to these journals. We now have access to a collection of 117 important journal titles (complete runs) in 15 disciplines. JSTOR does not publish the current years - in most cases, the archives begins with issues published 3 or 5 years ago. |
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| Lexis-Nexis Academic Universeprovides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, and legal publications, with a variety of flexible search options. |
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| NetlibraryNetLibrary is a shared collection of over 11,000 electronic books on all topics. |
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| NewsbankProvides full-text searching of four area newspapers: the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Springfield Republican, and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED)A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, it traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
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| Oxford Reference On-line100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books into a single cross-searchable web database for the first time. Areas covered are General Reference, Language, Science and Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Professional. |
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| Project GutenbergEntirely supported by volunteers and donations, Project Gutenberg offers a collection of approximately 5,000 e-texts of older classics. |
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| Research Channel is a consortium of leading research and academic institutions whose purpose is to share the work of their researchers, while working on technology initiatives to enable new ways to share content and open new doors for conducting research. We let researchers speak to you about their work, directly and in their own words. |
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| Statistical Abstract of the United StatesProvided by the U.S. Census Bureau. |
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