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| Books 24x7 | Includes the Office Essentials e-book collection from Books24x7® which provides valuable instruction and quick answers to questions on a wide range of office applications and graphic programs as well as the Well-Being Collection which includes titles related to personal health, nutrition, and well-being. |
| Books in Print (Global) | Provides complete bibliographic and ordering information on books, audiobooks, and videos. Includes various search capabilities, and many other features. |
| CIA World Factbook | Contains profiles of every nation in the world. Each profile includes demographic, political, and economic data. |
| Contemporary Authors (for barcode access click here) | Contains biographical information on approximately 112,000 authors (including novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction and fiction writers, etc) who have published English language works from the twentieth century to present. |
| CQ Researcher/Global Researcher (for barcode access click here) | Each weekly report explores a single "hot" issue in the news. Reports cover all sides of an issue and include charts, graphs and bibliographies. Global Researcher includes monthly single-topic reports on vital world issues. |
| Encyclopaedia Judaica | Provides an overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State Of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Available in both print and electronic formats. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Ref. Encyclopedia Shelves |
| Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics | Comprehensive coverage of different topics in Linguistics including Applied Linguistics, Languages of the World, Phonetics, Speech Technology, etc. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Collection | Reference titles (published by Gale) representing a variety of subject areas including anthropology, business, history, law, literature, medicine, and science. |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism | Provides an introduction to literary critiques of authors and movements, as well as literary movements from the Classics to the present day. |
| Literary Index | Index to Gale literary criticism and biography reference sources. The Library owns many of the Gale publications and they can be found in Sprague Library catalog. |
| Literary Reference Center | A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. |
| Magill's Medical Guide | Provides information on major diseases and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common surgical and nonsurgical procedures. |
| MasterFile Premier | This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFile Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | Reviews of standardized educational, psychological and vocational tests from the 9th edition of the MMY, 1985 to date. The test, itself, is not included. |
| META (Montclair Electronic Text Archive) | Archive includes the full-text of many classic works in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Online version of the Second Edition OED (1989) containing the fulltext of all 20 volumes. |
| Oxford Language Dictionaries Online | Offers millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Included are usage examples and illustrative 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. |
| Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection | Offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series. |
| Points of View Reference Center | A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). |
| Science Reference Center | A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. |
| Tests in Print | A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. |
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