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General/Interdisciplinary Resources
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Books in Print:
[http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – Bibliographic
database with over 5 million in-print, out-of-print,
book, audio book, and video titles. |
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Britannica Online [http://search.eb.com] – Contains
all the articles in the print set of Encyclopedia
Britannica with illustrations, videos and multimedia
clips, and related statistics databases, as well as
Merriam Webster’s dictionaries and thesaurus, and
selected journals and magazines. |
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Career Insider [http://careerinsider.vault.com/wps/portal/careerinsider?parrefer=2404]
- Formerly known as The
Vault Online Career Library is an online career
guidance center containing career guides, company and
industry profiles, and intelligence on salaries,
interview and hiring practices and advancement
opportunities. Users create their own profiles for
personalization. In some cases it may require a browser
upgrade. |
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| Chicago Manual of Style Online
[http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html] –
Fully searchable 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of
Style. |
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Dissertations Abstracts
[http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] is a bibliographic
database that provides a guide to subject, title and
author for every dissertation granted at accredited
American Universities since 1861, as well as to selected
dissertations from other institutions worldwide. Ask for
the username/password at the reference desk. Upon
entering the FirstSearch site, select the Databases tab
and go to Dissertations. |
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eLibrary
[http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – Contains materials on a wide variety of subject areas from
newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio/video, and TV/radio transcripts. For access, please
obtain the password at the reference desk. |
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FirstSearch Databases [http://firstsearch.oclc.org]:
Through its membership in local library consortia, the
University has access to over 30 databases available on
FirstSearch on a wide variety of topics (e.g. ERIC, a
guide to published and unpublished sources on education,
MEDLINE, an index to articles on all areas of medicine,
PsycFIRST with material relating to psychology and
related fields.) Log in using the library’s FirstSearch
password which can be obtained at the Reference Desk,
and click the database tab. |
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Infotrac
[http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – A collection
of more than 30 databases with many full text articles
covering all academic disciplines. This resource
also features newspapers, legal and business
information, and information on computers. For
access, please obtain the password at the reference
desk. |
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JSTOR
[http://www.jstor.org/] – full text back issues of
over 500 important journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and sciences. |
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LexisNexis Academic:
[http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic] - Full-text documents from over
5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference
publications. |
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
[http://www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com] provides
fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries
in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and
Chinese. OLDO also features native speaker audio
pronunciation.
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Project MUSE
[http://muse.jhu.edu/] – Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. |
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ProQuest [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – A collection
of 7 databases with many full text articles across all
subject areas. One useful feature of this resource is that
it allows users to simultaneously search all 7 databases for
cross-disciplinary research. For access, please obtain the
password at the reference desk. |
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RCL Web
[http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] – RCL Web is the
online version of the new Resources for College
Libraries. It is a collection development guide that
features recommended titles in 58 curriculum-specific
subjects selected by bibliographers and subject
specialists |
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Vault Online Career Library - See new entry 'Career
Insider' |
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WorldCat:
[http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] – Union catalog of over 9,000
libraries worldwide, containing over 61 million records. |
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Art and Music |
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ARTSTOR:
[http://www.artstor.org] – Repository of hundreds of thousands
of digital images and related data covering artwork from every
period in history. |
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Classical Scores Library
[http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com] – Collection of
in-copyright and public domain scores, including works from
the Renaissance to the 21st century. Currently release
includes 800 scores (approximately 25,000 pages) by 49
composers. |
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Grove Music Online
[http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com] – is an online resource
for music research which provides 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 access to
the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the
Oxford Dictionary of Music, along with subsequent updates.
It includes more than 50,000 signed articles and 28,000
biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars. |
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Naxos
Music Library
[http://amu.NaxosMusicLibrary.com/] – Extensive collection of online classical music. |
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Schubertline [http://www.schubertline.co.uk/] – “The
online score service for singers,” is a database of
hundreds of lieder, songs and arias by great composers.
Users can print out scores – which can be transposed
into any key – at their computers. The free software
“Sibelius Scorch” must be downloaded for the scores to
be accessed. Please ask for the password at the
Reference Desk. |
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Classics and
Early Christian Literature |
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Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis [http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/]
is a free website maintained by the Sorbonne that
presents a searchable online edition of Charles Du
Cange's glossary of the texts of Medieval authors. It
is mostly Latin, but also includes words in European
vernaculars (including Old French.) It is not a
dictionary, but a guide to difficult and unfamiliar
words. |
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L'Année philologique
[http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/] - Extensive
bibliography of over 600,000 records of scholarly work in
Classical Studies, published by the Société Internationale
de Bibliographie Classique. |
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| Library of Latin Texts [http://www.brepolis.net] – Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts.
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The
Patrologia Latina Database
[http://pld.chadwyck.com/] – An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. |
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The
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
[http://www.tlg.uci.edu/] – Contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. |
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Economics |
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EconLit
[http://firstsearch.oclc.org/]– Index of Economics articles, books, and dissertations since 1969. Also contains book reviews.
It is available to Ave Maria University through our First Search subscription. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk.
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International Financial Statistics
[http://imfstatistics.org/imf/] – International Monetary
Fund database containing statistics from more than 200
countries and areas from 1948 to the present. For
access, please obtain the password at the reference
desk. |
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National Bureau
of Economics Research Working Papers
[http://www.nber.org/papers] The National Bureau of
Economic Research is the nation's leading nonprofit
economics research organization. The Working Papers
make results of NBER research available to other
economists in preliminary form before final
publication. |
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World Development Indicators
[http://www.worldbank.org/data/onlinedatabases/onlinedatabases.html]
– World Bank database of developmental data, including
social, economic, financial, natural resources, and
environmental indicators from 1960 to the present. For
access, follow the link on this page, and select the
link for "Institutional Subscribers to WDI Online. |
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History and
Political Science |
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ACLS Humanities
E-Book Project [http://www.humanitiesebook.org/] -
Ever-growing collection of over 2000 scholarly e-books in
the field of humanities. |
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Historical Statistics of the United States
[http://hsus.cambridge.org] – Electronic edition of
the 5-volume reference work of quantitative facts
from American history. For access, please obtain the
password at the reference desk. |
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Iter Bibliography
[http://www.itergateway.org/resources] – Contains
citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies,
catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and
essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(400-1700). |
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LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection
[http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp] – gives users a
comprehensive view of congressional activity involved in
creating legislation, by combining Congressional
Research Service reports (from 1916 to present),
Legislative Reference Service reports (1916-1969) and
Congressional Committee Prints (from 1830 to present)
into one product. |
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Literature |
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Literature Resource Center and MLA International
Bibliography
[http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/avemariauniv?db=LitRC]
- The Literature Resource Center provides access to
biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of
over 120,000 authors from every age and literary
discipline. The Modern Language Association (MLA)
International Bibliography provides access to more than
1.6 million bibliographic citations to journal articles,
books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in
academic disciplines such as: language, literature,
folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism,
and the dramatic arts. |
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Oxford English Dictionary: [http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl] – Extensive dictionary of the English language featuring definitions, etymologies, and quotations. |
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| Shakespeare
Survey Online [http://cco.cambridge.org/] Makes all
issues of the Survey available online for the first
time; each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or
group of plays. |
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
[http://www.worldshakesbib.org/] – Annotated
bibliography of books, articles, book reviews,
dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of
productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media,
and other scholarly and popular materials related to
Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and
the present. |
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Philosophy and
Theology |
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Acta Sanctorum Database:
[http://acta.chadwyck.com] – A collection of documents
examining the lives of saints, organised according to each
saint's feast day.
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The ATLA Religion Database: [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/]
– Index to over a million journal articles, book reviews and essays in the subject of religion and
theology. Also includes the full text of over 70 journal titles dating back to 1924. For access, please
obtain the password at the reference desk.
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Intelex Past Masters
[http://library.nlx.com/] - Contains various works of
Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English. |
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Philosophy Documentation Center Collection (Formerly
Poiesis) [http://www.pdcnet.org/collection] - The PDC
Collection is an online full-text collection of more than 40
philosophy journals, including American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly, Augustinian Studies and the Review
of Metaphysics. |
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Philosopher's Index: [http://firstsearch.oclc.org]– Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy published in books and journals since 1940. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk.
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Science and
Mathematics |
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MathSciNet
[http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/] is an electronic
publication offering access to searchable database of
reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for
much of the mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet
contains over two million items and includes data from
digitized articles dating back to the 1800s. |
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JSTOR Plant Science
[http://plants.jstor.org/] – Provides access to plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials, making them accessible to researchers in other fields and to the general public. |
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