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Bibliography

  • American Foreign Relations since 1600--SHAFR Guide - ( Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations)--This database offers the definitive bibliography for diplomatic historians, researchers and students of U.S. foreign relations. Bi-annual updates assure access to the latest research.

Dictionary

  • Oxford Art Online - The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. There are in addition some 124,000 images. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing in his or her own specialized field of study. Full Text.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--The new and updated database includes 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2005.
  • Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - For more than a century, the undisputed authority on the English language. Includes 300,000 entries and 59 million words. Full Text.
  • Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - Initially offering millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian, the site will expand to include many other languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Polish. Included are usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and punctuation. Also included are hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, CVs and resumes to provide practical help with writing in each language. Contextualized language reference help includes notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and Words of the Day.
  • Oxford Music Online - Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
  • Oxford Reference Online - Database comprises a wide array of reference materials including dictionaries, thesauri, and encyclopedia.
  • Studies in Irish Literature - This database includes the Dictionary of Irish Literature, a bio-critical sourcebook of modern Irish writers, and a research and production sourcebook of Irish playwrights, covering 1880-1995. It concentrates on Irish literature written in English and includes 470 authors with full coverage and about 200 shorter entries on modern writers. Full Text. One-third to one-half of the databases consists of bibliographies.

Encyclopedia

  • American National Biography Online - ANB is a biographical resource on American history and culture. It includes 17,453 original biographies from the print editions in addition to new biographies by leading historians added every three months and quarterly updates incorporating new scholarship and factual information. There are some 80,000 hypertext links. Full Text.
  • Encyclopedia of American Immigration - The database aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the role of immigration in American history and up-to-date perspectives on contemporary immigration.
  • Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History - Explores the events, policies, people, ideas, institutions, groups, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States. With contributions from scholars in the fields of history and political science, this encyclopedia provides students, researchers, and scholars the opportunity to examine the political evolution of the United States from the colonial period to the present day. It identifies and illuminates patterns and interrelations in American political institutions, culture, and behavior.
  • Sage eReference - This database represents a collection of more than sixty recent reference works published by Sage. The volumes can be searched either individually or collectively. As a group the titles cover a wide swath of social science and allied health fields.
  • Women's Studies Encyclopedia - Edited by Helen Tierney, the encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study. The entries are intended to convey information to an educated audience without expertise in the subject under discussion. The focus is on the American experience. Full Text.
  • World Almanac - World Almanac offers a fundamental reference source including biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. There are over 6,000 records and the database covers 1998 to the present. Full Text.

Handbook

  • Handbook of Latin American Studies - An annotated bibliography published annually since 1935 covering over 5,000 multi-disciplinary works per year on Latin American, alternating between the humanities and the social sciences, and produced by the Library of Congress. Search options include full-text, author, title, and subject. A selection in "Electronic Resources for Latin American Studies" was initiated with volume 54 in 1989. The databases covers volumes 1-59 (1935-1994). Full Text.
  • Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables - This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.
  • Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition - This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work (last release was 1975), available both in print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
  • Oxford Handbooks Online - Oxford recently digitized a series of its well-received Handbooks. There are currently four subject modules: Business & Management, Philosophy. Political Science, and Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve. Introductory and yet sophisticated, the handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.
  • Oxford Islamic Studies Online - An authoritative, dynamic online resource for students and faculty, the database brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in the field and covers areas such as global Islamic history, the faith and concepts of Islam, the people, tenets and practices, politics, culture, and more. The site is regularly updated and will incorporate many newly commissioned essays.

Science Tables

  • International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (1st Electronic Edition) - This classic and well-known reference was originally published for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compunds, and pure substances. The original 1000-page index is hyperlinked to each entry's appropriate page.
  • Knovel Critical Tables - This important, interactive knovel reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 13,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have 385 solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have 500 compounds.
  • Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition) - Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press, this classic reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
  • Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances - Originally published by Reinhold, this reference contains a table of values with a list of substances accompanied by thermochemical data. The data collected includes 5840 values of heats of formation; and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion vaporization, and reaction. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Surveys & Statistics Data Sets

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook - The electronic edition of a basic reference work on testing. Database offers access by test name, test author(s), data of publication, reviewers, scores, publisher and acronyms. Contents of the Ninth through Fifteenth editions (1985-2003) are covered. Full Text.
  • Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - Data held by the Roper Center furnishes a valuable resource across the entire spectrum of the social sciences. The database comprehends more than 400,000 survey questions and 10,000 data sets. The data has been culled from many leading survey research organizations such as the Gallup Organization, and the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to national polls there is also a significant international representation.

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