Reference Book and Encyclopedia Databases
(see also Business Research Services & Reference Books and
Health Sciences Reference Books)
For additional listings of the over 300 individual reference books in the
Gale Virtual Reference Library,
see the various database subject pages.
- 2-1-1 Long Island
(Community Resource Database) (Middle Country Public Library)
 
- Previously called the Community Resource Database of Long Island and created
in partnership between the Middle Country Public Library and the United Way of Long Island,
this provides detailed information on nearly 10,000 community health, human service, and
education agencies and programs for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in Nassau
and Suffolk counties. Areas covered include: health services - support groups - food assistance -
disability services - employment support - child and elderly care - volunteer opportunities -
family violence services - camps and youth services - financial and legal counseling -
education and training programs - heating and other emergency services -
mortgage, rent, and housing assistance - counseling and substance abuse services -
and much more. (No password needed. Telephone assistance is also available.)
- ACRL Metrics (ACRL)
- Provides access to academic library statistics gathered by ACRL
(Association of College & Research Libraries) and NCES
(National Center for Education Statistics)
for the years 2000 to the present to help support advocacy efforts, strategic planning, grant applications,
peer benchmarking, budget presentations, and multi-year trend analysis. Includes data
on hours, serials, trends, faculty, holdings, reference, personnel, circulation, enrollment,
instruction, expenditures, service points, selected ratios, interlibrary loan, digital
collections, electronic resources, and more.
(Absorbed ACRL's Academic Library Trends and Statistics).
- Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Indexes biographical dictionaries, who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and
other readily available reference
sources that cover individuals, both living and
deceased, from every field of activity
and from all areas of the world.
Enables you to quickly determine which
publication to consult for biographical information.
- Books in Print
Professional (Bowker)
- Bibliographic database with more
than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming,
audio book, and video titles. Includes full-text reviews from 15 respected,
professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers
Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice, as well as the first chapter of more than
30,000 entries.
- Britannica
Online Academic Edition (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Includes all of the articles from the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica
plus thousands more, as well as the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and
Thesaurus, maps, photos, illustrations, videos, multimedia clips, and the
Britannica Yearbooks dating back to 1993. World Data Analyst Online is a
comprehensive database of comparative statistics on every nation of the world, and
Gateway to the Classics provides the text of 225 significant works of history,
literature, philosophy, and science. Also includes headlines from the New York Times,
the BBC, and the SBS Australian News Service as well as full-text articles from hundreds
of periodicals.
- Cabell's
Directory of Publishing Opportunities (Cabell)
- Helps professors, graduate
students, and researchers publish their manuscripts by providing the following
information for a large number of journals: editor, address, phone, email, website,
acceptance rate, and percentage of invited articles - topic areas the journal
emphasizes and type of readership - manuscript guidelines, style, format,
and number of copies required - type of review process, number of reviewers,
time required for review, and availability of reviewers' comments - and fees
charged to review or publish the manuscript. Covers journals published in the
fields of Business (accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing),
Education (curriculum, methods, psychology, administration, technology, library science),
Health (administration, nursing), and Psychology (psychology, psychiatry).
- Cataloger's Desktop
(Library of Congress)
- Incorporates of all of the indispensable cataloging publications that catalogers use daily, but
were previously available only in a large number of individual print editions. Includes the full text of
the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd edition) -
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations - Subject Cataloging Manual: Classification, Shelflisting,
Subject Headings - MARC 21 Formats for Bibliographic Data, Authority Data, Holdings Data, Classification
Data, Community Information - latest editions of all MARC Code Lists - assorted specialized cataloging
manuals - and much more. The first time you login, you will need to get a password from the
Reference Desk (516-299-2305). You will then be asked to create your own account
with your own password. 30 users may access this at a time. Please logout when you are finished.
- Children's
Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Children's Catalog, this selective listing of fiction and nonfiction works,
story collections, picture books, magazines, and web resources recommended for readers from
preschool through sixth grade. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings,
a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to
additional reviews.
- Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
- Provides an extensive array of information about more
than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings,
film strips, and other children-focused media.
Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject
terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more
than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books,
ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and
nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500
new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes
award information and placement on Best Books lists.
- ChoiceReviews.online
(ACRL)
- Produced by the Association of College and Research
Libraries, this provides access to the entire database of Choice reviews published since September
1988, covering significant current books and electronic resources of interest to
those in higher education. Updated monthly, Choice publishes more than 6,500 reviews by
subject experts each year. The newest reviews are arranged by academic discipline and broad
cross-disciplinary topic. All reviews can be searched by combining various criteria.
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- Comprehensive source for theory and
research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that
includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs,
foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy
briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written
by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political
science classes, and special features.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and moremore
(more information).
- Encyclopedia
of Associations (Gale Directory Library) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- National Organizations of the U.S.
provides detailed information about 23,000 nonprofit American organizations in
categories such as: cultural - fan clubs - educational - athletic and sports -
trade, business, and commercial - veterans, hereditary, and patriotic -
legal, governmental, public administration, and military - and many more.
International Organizations
provides contact information and descriptions for multinational and national groups
based throughout the world, as well as multinational associations headquartered in the U.S.
- Encyclopedia
of Information Science and
Technology (Idea Group Inc)
- Online version of the five-volume, comprehensive, research-based
encyclopedia that covers concepts, issues, and trends related to the utilization
and management of information science and technologies.
Includes more than 550 articles written by over 900 noted researchers,
as well as a compendium of over 5,000 terms, definitions,
and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms.
Covers such topics as business applications, databases, data mining,
decision support systems, enterprise resource planning, geographic information systems,
information modeling, information systems, education applications,
evaluation, library applications, knowledge management, multimedia,
security, software engineering, telecommunications, networking,
web applications, and more.
- Encyclopedia
of Library and Information Science (Informaworld)
- Covers the collection, organization, storage, preservation, retrieval, transfer, and
display of the entire body of materials representing what cultures know and value, whether
they are produced as a result of business, government, education, creative endeavors, or daily
life. Includes: archival science - bibliography - document and genre theory - informatics -
information systems - knowledge management - library and information science - museum studies -
records management - social studies of information.
- Encyclopedia
of Power (Sage)
- Covers most aspects of the personal, institutional, agency-based, and structural
uses of power in society as a whole with interdisciplinary views from political science,
international relations, public administration, public policy, urban studies, sociology,
social psychology, cultural studies, economics, and animal behavior. Includes biographies,
key debates, and the role of power in grand social scientific theories along with topics such
as conflict, freedom, consensus, game theory, decision theory, ability & capability,
interpersonal relationships, and more.
- EndNote
Web (Thomson Scientific)
- Works with ISI Web of Knowledge and other databases to
enable users to save, organize, format, and share their lists of citations.
- Click on the "Sign Up" link to create your
individual account and to choose a password.
- Fiction
Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Designed for collection development, selection, readers' advisory, and general reference,
this selective listing delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or
translated into English. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, a descriptive annotation, notes
about related works, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to
additional reviews.
- FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security
Trends (SIPRI)
- Provides statistics and reports, organized by country, that
cover: armed forces, conventional weapon holdings, and military
activities - arms production, trade, embargoes and export
controls - conflicts and peace keeping activities, landmines, and failed state
indicators - general country indicators, population and economic
statistics, global peace index, and political terror scale - form of
government, elections, membership in international organizations,
treaties and agreements - military expenditure and research -
nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles - security news, links to
related websites, chronology of security related events, and
disease outbreaks - energy security and coal - human rights and
freedom - and more. Produced by the International Relations
& Security Network and the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute with information from thirty international
partner organizations.
- Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Ebsco)
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering an array of
topics. The database contains various
images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
- Gale
Directory Library (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides access to: Business Rankings Annual,
Encyclopedia of Associations (National Organizations of the U.S.), and
Encyclopedia of Associations (International Organizations).
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- List of titles.
Full text of over 300 encyclopedias and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the
library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
- Graphic
Novels Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- For collection development, readers' advisory, curriculum support, and selection and
purchasing, this database highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and
evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art.
Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable
by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.
- Guide
to Reference (American Library Association)
- Formerly known as Robert Balay's Guide to Reference Books, this is a selective,
annotated list of "core collection" reference sources judged to be useful based
on their content, organization, and popularity. It includes sources produced by governments, professional
societies, commercial publishers, and other organizations, with a preference for the online
versions of sources available in multiple formats, as well as free websites, metasites,
directory sites, and portals that have gained a reputation for quality. To access the full
range of functions, such as notes, users need to create a free individual profile.
- IMSLP /
Petrucci Music Library (Project Petrucci)
- The International Music Score Library Project, formed by a merger of the Petrucci
Music Library and the International Music Database Project, provides access to over 17,000
music scores from both the public domain classical repertoire and
from contemporary composers who wish to release their music to the public free of charge. It
also encourages the exchange of musical ideas through online forums and discussion
pages for each piece.
- Journal
Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters)
- Covering the previous
few years, this enables you to see how often a particular journal
is cited by other publications to evaluate its impact on the scholarly world.
- Legal
Reference (LexisNexis)
- Provides the full text of American Jurisprudence 2d (an encyclopedic text that
collects, examines, and summarizes the broad principles of American state, federal, criminal,
civil, and procedural law and provides direct leads to supporting cases, related annotations,
forms, proofs, and trial techniques), as well as Ballentine's Law Dictionary,
Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage,
Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession, Martindale-Hubbell Legal Professionals Listings,
and Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory.
- LexisNexis
Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
- Reference books, directories, polls, World Almanac,
and business reference library. Country profiles, statistics,
and business analysis. General news. Company news, directory,
and financial information. Industry and market news. Government
and political news (national and regional). Biographical information.
General medical and health topics; full-text of medical journals and
newsletters; abstracts. Accounting, auditing, and tax information sources.
Legal newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters from across the
country; federal case law; U.S. Code, Constitution, and Court Rules;
state case law, constitutions, statutes, and other legal materials.
- Literature
Resource Center (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides access to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical
analyses of authors from every age and literary
discipline. Combining Gale Group's core
literary databases in a single online service,
the Literature Resource Center covers more
than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists,
journalists, and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- Magill
on Literature Plus (Ebsco)
- Combining MagillOnLiterature and
MagillOnAuthors, this database contains
editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and
extended character profiles, covering works by more than 8,500 long and
short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers.
Also contains over 6,500 biographical
essays on more than 3,500 different authors, more than 1,000 images,
a glossary of 1,310 literary terms, and 376 genre-driven
overview essays providing details about important literary genres,
time periods, and national literatures.
- Martindale-Hubbell
Law Directory (LexisNexis)
- Search for lawyers and firms by
name, agency, company, firm, city, county, state, country,
area of practice, or language.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (Ebsco)
- Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides users
with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse
areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Covers from Volume 1 to the present.
Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests
that are currently in print in the English language. It includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status,
price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
- Middle
and Junior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective listing of
thousands of fiction and nonfiction works (including CD-ROMs) for children and
adolescents in grades five through nine to help with collection development, curriculum support,
selection, readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data,
price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available),
and citations to other reviews.
- MLA
Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)
- Offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the
MLA International Bibliography. Entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency,
circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
- Monthly
Bulletin of Statistics Online (MBS) (United Nations Statistics Division)
- Presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and
territories of the world. It contains 53 tables (comprising over 100 indicators) of monthly,
quarterly, and annual data on a variety of subjects that illustrate important economic trends
and developments. Includes: energy - finance - transport - population - construction - price indices -
manufacturing - national accounts - employment and earnings - industrial production indices -
international merchandise trade.
- Naxos
Music Library (Naxos)
- Provides access to over 90,000 music files from more than 6,200
CDs with almost 7,000 composers represented. Includes practically all standard
repertoire, a wide range of rare repertoire, jazz, world music, and more from the complete
Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, with titles from the leading independent
labels being continually added. Most recordings come with scholarly
notes that have been written by respected musicologists. Additional text content
includes the lives and works of the greatest composers; history and explanations
of classical music and instruments; history, explanations, synopses,
and libretti of operas; glossaries, and pronunciation guide. Music can be searched by
genre, composer, country, title, period, year of composition, instrument, music category,
name of artist/performing group, or a combination of these criteria. Faculty can create
and edit playlists that can be made available to students.
- Nonbook
Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Selective listing of electronic resources, audiobooks, video recordings, sound recordings,
games, simulations, and much more for collection development, readers' advisory, and curriculum
support, highlighting resources for schools and public libraries. Searches are possible by document
type, author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Annotations include review excerpts and awards.
Cataloging information is provided for all items.
- Opposing
Viewpoints In Context (Gale/Cengage)
- Provides full-text viewpoint articles and topic overviews published by Greenhaven
Press on today's hottest social and controversial issues to help students research,
analyze, and organize a broad variety of information. It includes statistics, primary
sources, biographies, court cases, images, videos, audio, and selected weblinks. It
also provides articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines, and reference
books. Content can be searched by reading level.
- Oxford
Art Online (Oxford)
- Formerly Grove Art Online, this provides access to the full text of the
34 volume Grove Dictionary of Art, as well
as the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
It contains over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting,
sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and
photography from prehistory to the present day including over 1,500 thumbnail
art images and line drawings. Compiled over a
period of 15 years, with ongoing additions of
new and updated articles, it represents the work of more than 6,800
scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own
specialist field of study. (User Guide)
- Oxford
Islamic Studies Online (OISO) (Oxford)
- A unique, authoritative reference center with over 5,000 articles that provide learning tools for
students, scholars, librarians, community groups, and government officials to foster a more
informed understanding of the Islamic world. Includes: a new and growing section on the Arab Spring -
a timeline of major events since the founding of Islam - learning resources with thematic guides and
lesson plans - interviews with major scholars, activists, and religious leaders - two English translations of
the Qur'an along with a concordance - hundreds of images and maps with a section devoted to the
geography of the Islamic world - and the full text of the reference books: Oxford Dictionary of Islam,
Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics,
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, and
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Made available through the Muslim Journeys
project, a joint initiative of the American Library Association and the National Endowment of the Humanities.
- Oxford
Music Online (Oxford)
- Formerly Grove Music Online, this
contains the full text of the New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (29 volumes), the New Grove Dictionary of
Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the
Oxford Companion to Music. Over 29,000 articles cover
all aspects of music including new schools of
thought within musicology, such as
feminism, nazism, and gay and lesbian music, as well as
increased coverage of world, jazz, popular, and
20th-century music. Also has over 3000 links to related websites,
including sound archives and illustrations.
- PEP
Archive (Ebsco)
- Produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, this database offers
the full text of 20 peer-reviewed psychoanalytic journals and more than 40 classic
psychoanalytic books dating as far back as 1920, including the full text of Freud's
correspondence with his chief collaborators and all major works by Bion, Klein, and
Winnicot, as well as contributions by other important figures, for a total of over 50,000
articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters, and commentaries, as well as 4,000
figures and illustrations.
- Points
of View Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Provides essays on controversial issues, presenting multiple sides, along with questions for
further thought. Essays are accompanied by relevant periodical and newspaper articles, radio and
television news transcripts, primary source documents, biographies, and images.
- Public
Library Core Collection - Nonfiction: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Public Library Catalog, this lists the most highly recommended
reference and non-fiction books for adults to aid in collection development, selection, weeding,
readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price,
subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available),
and citations to other reviews as well as information on electronic editions of works where available.
- RCLweb:
Resources for College Libraries (Bowker)
- Formerly Books for College Libraries, this core list of hand-selected print
and electronic titles for academic libraries features 65,000 titles arranged into 58
curriculum-specific subjects. Can be searched by a variety of criteria including: RCL subject,
LC classification range, Dewey number range, audience, format, awards, and date added to
the database. Includes the full text of reviews from Choice. Updated quarterly.
- RDA
Toolkit (ALA, CLA, CILIP)
- RDA (Resource Description and Access) is the new cataloging standard designed for
the digital world that will replace AACR2 and will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and
instructions - covering all types of content and media - with a stronger emphasis on helping users
find, identify, select, and obtain information. RDA Toolkit aids in evaluation, implementation, and
decision making to increase efficiency and facilitate collaboration in making bibliographic data
accessible on the Web. RDA instructions may be searched by AACR2 rule number.
(New users will be asked to create a User Profile. Allows up to 37 simultaneous users.)
- RefWorks (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
- RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager
that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text
files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and
automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
- Select "Sign up for an Individual Account" and then choose your
own login name and password.
- SafeAssign (Blackboard)
- A component of LIU's Blackboard
course management system, this
compares submitted student papers against a database of websites,
journal articles, and other student papers to determine which passages, if any,
have been plagiarized and from which sources.
LIU Post faculty may contact the
Information Technology Resource Center
at the LIU Post Campus for more information on this plagiarism module.
- Salem
History (Salem Press)
- Provides the full text of the reference sets, The Fifties in America, The Sixties
in America, The Seventies in America, and The Eighties in America that
cover the events, movements, people, and trends in popular culture, literature, art, business,
sports, science, technology, economics, politics, and more of each decade in both the United States and
Canada. Includes the impact and subsequent events of each topic discussed as well as
photographs, maps, graphs, charts, and sidebars.
- Senior
High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Senior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective list of more than ten
thousand fiction and nonfiction books, CD-ROMs, and curriculum-related material
recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 to aid in collection development, readers'
advisory, and curriculum support. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings,
a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to other reviews.
- SPIN: Sponsored Program Information Network (InfoEd)
- Consolidates information about funding opportunities
for research, scholarship, programs, residencies, conferences, creative
projects and more in order to help users make comparisons between a
multitude of programs and their sponsors and therefore pick the best
prospects for their funding applications. Made available by the
LIU Office of Sponsored Research.
For more information or to obtain a password to access
this database from off-campus, contact Christopher P. Egan at (516) 299-2712.
- SRDS:
Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS)
- SRDS provides valuable market information and advertising rates for more than
100,000 U.S. and international print, broadcast, and leading-edge digital and tablet media
properties to enable media planners, buyers, and brand marketers to identify where they
want to advertise and to find outlets that will reach their target audiences. Each entry contains:
editorial profile, publisher's positioning statement, representatives, commission, cash discount,
advertising rates, general requirements, closing dates, circulation, featured marketing opportunities,
and more. Subscription includes: Business Media Advertising Source -
Consumer Media Advertising Source - Direct Marketing List Source - Newspaper Advertising Source -
TV and Cable Source - Local Market Audience Analyst - Radio Advertising Source -
Out-of-Home Advertising Source - Interactive Advertising Source - Print Media Production Source -
International Media Guide: Business: The Americas -
International Media Guide: Business: Asia-Pacific/Middle East/Africa - International Media Guide: Business: Europe -
International Media Guide: Consumer Worldwide - International Media Guide: Newspapers Worldwide -
and SRDS Tablet Media Library.
- Twayne's
Authors Online (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Includes full-text biographies and literary criticism from the over 600 books in Twayne's
Classic series, Masterwork series, Short Fiction series, and Updated series that cover
American, British, and World authors.
- U.S.
History in Context (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (Formerly History Resource Center: US) Provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical
(primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference
articles, and over 65 full-text journals
covering themes, events, individuals and periods
in U.S. history from pre-colonial times to
the present. The material also includes access
to the citations for over 180 additional
history journals from the Institute for
Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation
Index.
- Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on
serials, consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series,
newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other periodicals
around the world. It covers all subjects of regular and irregular publications that are circulated free
of charge or by paid subscription. Includes
publication information, whether the periodical is referreed, where it is indexed,
online availability or website, and more
(more information).
- Westlaw
Campus (Thomson Reuters)
- Cases from the courts of all 50
states and the federal courts;
statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes
published in the United States Code Annotated;
federal regulations published in the Federal Register
and the Code of Federal Regulations;
annotations from American Law Reports, a publication containing
attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze
case law on a particular legal issue;
articles from American Jurisprudence 2d, a comprehensive
encyclopedia of state and federal law
articles from law reviews and journals.
- World
History in Context (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (Formerly History Resource Center: World)
Contains the full text of 110 journals, 27 reference books, and
1800 primary sources, as well as images, maps, and charts, to provide expansive
geographic and chronologic coverage of world history, including ancient Europe,
Latin America, the Far East, the Renaissance, and more.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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