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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. The Library accesses
this resource through our subscription to LIRN. For
access, please obtain the password at the reference
desk. |
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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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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.
The Library accesses this resource through our
subscription to LIRN. 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 15 bibliographical
databases available on FirstSearch on a 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topics (e.g. ERIC, a guide to published and unpublished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). 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. The
Library accesses this resource through our
subscription to LIRN. 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 English Dictionary:
[www.oed.com] – Extensive dictionary of the English language featuring definitions, etymologies, and quotations. |
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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. The Library accesses this
resource through our subscription to LIRN. 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://www.worldcat.org] – Union catalog of over 9,000
libraries worldwide, containing over 61 million records. For
access, please obtain the password at the Reference Desk. |
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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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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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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
Bank Databases [http://data.worldbank.org] – The
World Bank is providing open source access to many of
its major previously subscription-based databases such
as World Development Indicators and Global Development
Finance. A list of available databases, with
descriptions, can be found at the Data Catalog (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog). |
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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
Resources from Gale, including MLA International
Bibliography [http://www.lirn.net/services.shtml] -
Literature Resources from Gale are listed among the
Infotrac databases the Library receives from LIRN. They
include the Gale Literature Resource Center with
full-text scholarly articles from more than 360 academic
journals and literary magazines, the Modern Language
Association (MLA) International Bibliography, which
provides access to more than two million bibliographic
citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations,
and LitFinder which contains primary literature content,
including more than 140,000 full-text poems, and
thousands of full-text short stories, novels, essays,
speeches, and plays. |
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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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ATLA Religion Database: [http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=reh]
– Produced by the American Theological association, is an index to over 1.7 million bibliographical records in the fields of religion and theology, including citations of journal articles, book reviews and essays.
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: [http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rfh]
– Combines the ATLA Religion Database with ATLA’s online collection of religion and theology journals. Full text is provided for more than 290,000 electronic articles and book reviews.
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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://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=phl]– Is a bibliographical database produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center. Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy, published in books and journals since 1940.
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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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