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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)
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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
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Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.

Education Full Text (Wilson Web)
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This database has comprehensive coverage of an international range of English language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Educational topics covered include adult education, comparative education, continuing & distance education, educational technology, elementary & secondary education, higher education, instructional media, literacy standards, multicultural education, pre-school and special education, teacher education & evaluation, and teaching methods. Includes full text of more than 300 publications as well as indexing/abstracting of over 700 journals as far back as 1983.

Educator's Reference Desk (Syracuse University)
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The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to the following resources:
Resource Collection - Links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.
Lesson Plans - The Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States.
Question Archive - A collection of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. These responses may include citations from the ERIC database, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
ERIC Database - The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

Encyclopedia Britannica
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An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.The encyclopedia includes maps, tables, and graphs.

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
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The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Ebrary
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Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.

FirstSearch Databases (FirstSearch)
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A list of subject-specific databases ranging from medicine, tobusiness, and including others in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Dissertations (FirstSearch)
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This covers all academic subjects. It provides an index to dissertations from most U.S. and selected foreign academic institutions. More than 1,500,000 dissertations and theses are included from 1861 to the present.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.

GEOBASE (FirstSearch)
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Worldwide literature on geography and geology.

GPO Access (FirstSearch)
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GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of importantinformation products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." --GPO Access

Handbook of Research on ePortfolios (Idea Group Inc)
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The single source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios, addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation. It investigates commercial and academic ePortfolio systemshome-grown, off the shelf, and open source. Contains a compendium of over 370 terms with detailed definitions. Over 800 comprehensive references to existing literature and research on ePortfolios.

Historical New York Times Access (ProQuest)
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Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.

Idea Group Reference E-Access (Idea Group Inc)
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Reference E-Access is an aggregated online database comprised of a comprehensive and authoritative collection of reference titles from Idea Group, Inc. This database contains full-text articles and chapters regarding research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology and management. This online database consists of thousands of reference articles and chapters that can be easily searched using basic or advanced searches. In addition, this extensive collection will continue to expand as more IGR titles are published. Our titles are highlighted.

Intelecom Online Resources Network
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The INTELECOM Online Resources Network is a database of academic video clips - streamed on demand - for use in support of classroom instruction. The Sociology Collection consists of over 260 video clips ranging in length from 2 to 10 minutes. The Psychology Collection consists of an additional 68 clips. Sociology topics include issues such as crime, gender stratification, education, aging, work and the economy, groups and organizations, deviance, social movements, and more. The Psychology Collection includes interviews, computer graphics and animation, and real-life case studies that introduce key concepts and principles and provide an up-to-date look at the evolving science of psychology.

Films On Demand Master Academic Collection (Films Media Group)
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Films On Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform that provides the ability to view digital video in real time. You can use Films On Demand to search for specific video segments, organize videos into folders, and create personal playlists for others to view. The collection includes over 5,600 full length programs including 4,000 titles in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 1,600 in Science & Mathematics, 1,100 in Health & Medicine, and 700 in Business & Economics.

Book Review Digest Retrospective (Wilson Web)
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Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Access World News (Newsbank)
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Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Coverage: Varies by news source and newspaper.

ACE - Bibliography of Resources Pertaining to the Social History of Aquidneck Island
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This database is intended as a guide to the resources available pertaining to the social history of Aquidneck Island for teachers from Kindergarten to 12th grade, and other interested parties. All materials have been located in repositories on Aquidneck Island. There are additional resources on the subject that are available off-island, but they were not accessed for use in this bibliography. This biography was created by ACE,

Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.

Alternative Press Index Archives (FirstSearch)
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Archive for Alternative Press Index. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers years 1969-1990.

AnthroSource (American Anthropological Association (AAA))
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The premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. Anthrosource contains content from over 32 AAA publications and is a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.

ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
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Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals in all disciplines.

EBSCOhost (EBSCOhost)
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A collection of full-text and abstract databases in the humanities, nursing, business, and life sciences.

Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson Web)
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Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.

JSTOR (JSTOR)
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JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.

Campus Research: Law (Thomson West)
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Campus Research is a research service for news, business and law related information. It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials. Campus Research includes thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, with hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications. It is especially useful for law-related resources, including both primary law and secondary legal analysis.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections (Columbia University)
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A continually updated multidisciplinary database related to child care and early education consisting of over 10,000 resources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, grey literature, government publications, and more. Resources are selected from over 500 journals and 300 publishers. Research Connections is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

ChoiceReviews.online
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CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue.They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.

Chronicle of Higher Education
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Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators." --The Chroncicle

Contemporary Women's Issues (FirstSearch)
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Contemporary Women's Issues with citations.

Credo Reference
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Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

Criminology (Sage Publications)
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Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 21 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

ARTstor (ARTstor)
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ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.

Thomas: legislative information on the Internet (Government)
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"Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to theInternet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at theinception of the 104th Congress...Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities,have been continuously added." --Thomas

Proquest Newspapers (Proquest)
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Proquest Newspapers provides: Providence Journal-Bulletin from 1988-current; Wall Street Journal from 1982-current; and NewYork Times from 1851-2001 (historical).

Providence Journal (ProQuest)
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Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island. Coverage: 1988-current

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
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PsycARTICLES contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
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PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Full-text for articles linked to EBSCO fulltext databases.

Social Science Full Text (Wilson Web)
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This database covers both the applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Subject areas covered include anthropology, criminal justice, economics, ethics, family & gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology and urban studies. Includes full text from over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of over 600 publications as far back as 1983.

Social Works Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
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Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, economics and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource. Links provided to full-texr owned by Salve.

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
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Offers information on all aspects of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Combines background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, as well as timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
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Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators and education students. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.

Polling the Nations
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Polling the Nations is a comprehensive collection of public opinion, with information from not only the United States but also more than 100 countries around the world. Polling the Nations has collected more than 500,000 questions, from 14,000 surveys on 5,600+ topics. Subjects such as gun control, abortion, government, women, race relations, the economy, and children are covered. All told, more than 700 organizations are represented by the polls at this site. Among the polling sources are: Gallup, Harris, Roper, the Detroit Free Press and NYT/CBS News.

Campus Research: Law (Westlaw) (Thomson West)
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Campus Research is a research service for news, business and law related information. It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials. Campus Research includes thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, with hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications. It is especially useful for law-related resources, including both primary law and secondary legal analysis.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
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Eastern edition ( 1984 - current )

Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega (Wilson Web)
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OmniFile provides access to 6 core Wilson databases including full-text from over 2,000 publications and abstracting/and indexing of another 3,800 periodicals. Covers almost all areas of academic interest including art, biology,business, education, general sciences, humanities, law, library and information science and social sciences. Provides subsets of the following Wilson databases:
    Applied Science & Technology Full Text
    Art Full Text
    Biological & Agricultural Index
    Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
    Library Literature & Information Science Full Text

Wilson Web (Wilson Web)
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Wilson Web - A collection of databases including the following:Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Wilson Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective,Biographies Plus Illustrated, and Readers Guide Retrospective.

World Almanac (FirstSearch)
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Offers a fundamental reference source that includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics.

World Factbook (Government)
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The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of USGovernment officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meettheir specific requirements. Information was provided by the American GeophysicalUnion, Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign Broadcast Information Service,Maritime Administration, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National MaritimeIntelligence Center, National Science Foundation (Antarctic Sciences Section), Office ofInsular Affairs, US Board on Geographic Names, US Coast Guard, and other public and private sources. --The World Factbook

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
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Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. (Government)
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"As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included...The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations." --Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.

Newport Daily News (Newsbank)
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The Newport Daily News, established in 1846, covers the people and events of Newport, RI.
Coverage: May 14, 2001 - present.

America's Historical Newspapers contains: Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury, 1758-1866.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Publishing)
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SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 Present for most journals.

K-12 Resources (EBSCOhost)
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This is a collection of databases containing information suitable for students in K-12. This is a good resource for lesson planning for education majors.

Learning Express Library (Learning Express)
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Learning Express offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and other job and career information. Includes GMAT and GRE Preparation as well as LSAT and MCAT Practice Exams. Also cover PRAXIS I and II preparation.

Legal Systems of the World (ABC-CLIO)
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Legal Systems of the World is a comprehensive reference work that covers the legal systems of every nation on earth, every state in the Union, and every province of Canada. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with nearly 400 entries, explores the structure, operation, and history of legal and judicial systems. It also analyzes transnational judicial bodies such as the World Court and the European Court of Human Rights, examines alternative legal systems from Roman to Islamic law, and explains universal legal institutions and concepts, from law schools to constitutional review.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
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Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a news, law, and business information service. Includes up to date news; company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.

LibrarySpot
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LibrarySpot is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. LibrarySpot was designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot." --LibrarySpot

Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost)
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Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents such as Essential Documents in American History, and reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition.

Project MUSE Basic College Collection (John Hopkins University)
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The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.

netLibrary
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Over 8,000 full-text electronic books available online.

ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch)
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An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Newspaper Abstracts (FirstSearch)
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Newspaper abstracts from over 25 newspapers.

Newspapers - Selected Direct Links
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Links to the homepages of selected e-Newspapers including local papers.

Newspapers of the World
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Gives access to hundreds of newspapers and news magazines from all continents. Newspapers may be selected by country or by title.

Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary
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This dictionary includes more than 25,000 notable men and women whohave shaped our world from ancienttimes to the present day. The dictionary can be searched bynames, birth years, death years,positions held, professions, literary andartistic works, miscellaneousachievements, and other keywords." --Biographical Dictionary

Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
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This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.

PapersFirst (FirstSearch)
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An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.

Data for Research (JSTOR)
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A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Administration of Justice
Cultural & Historical Preservation
Education
International Relations
Politics
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology & Anthropology

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