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Subjects

Almanacs	Images
Art & Architecture	Law
Bilingual Dictionaries	Literature
Biography	Maps & Flags
Biological Sciences	Medicine
Books, Periodicals & Electronic Databases	Music
Business & Economics	Mythology & Folklore
Census Data, Demographics & Statistics	Names & Places
Classics	News & Current Events
Communication & Mass Media	Performing Arts
Computing & the Internet	Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Conversions & Computations	Polls & Surveys
Earth & Environmental Sciences	Psychology & Psychiatry
Education & Reading	Quotations
Encyclopedias	Religion & Philosophy
English Dictionaries & Thesauruses	Science
English Language Reference & Writing Guides	Social Sciences
Food & Drink	Technology & Applied Sciences
Geography & Travel
Government	Other Online Reference Sites
Health, Physical Education & Wellness
History	Ask a Reference Librarian at BCC Library

Almanacs

• Information Please Almanac (The creators of the Information, Please! radio show saw a need for a reference book with answers to the type of questions they received on the show, and they began publishing the Information Please Almanac in 1947. The almanac has been published annually from 1947 to the present with a variety of publishers. Claims "it is all the knowledge you need")
• Lexis-Nexis World Almanac (Quick facts on any subject)
• World Almanac Encyclopedia - Facts.com (Is the world's best-known, most respected, biggest-selling almanac. An American institution for more than 130 years, it is the source millions of people turn to for authoritative, complete, up-to-date information on thousands of topics)
• The World Almanac Reference Database - Facts.com (Claims that it "is the world's most trusted reference resource")

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Art & Architecture

• Art Index - WilsonWeb (Is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda (The coverage of the book is global, with many Asian and African artists included. Each artist's entry includes dates, training, career, influences on his or her work, and, for approximately one-third of the artists, a bibliography of further reading)
• The Bloomsbury Guide to Art (Is one of the most up-to-date and comprehensive surveys of the history of art and architecture available today. It provides insight into the origins and significance of the work of Western artists and architects)
• The Bridgeman Art Library Archive (Founded in 1972, the Bridgeman Art Library works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for reproduction. The result is an outstanding archive of images drawn from collections throughout the world. The Archive represents a large part of the complete collection, chosen for its suitability for web use. Over 17,000 individual works of art are featured here, cross-referenced and linked using Bridgeman's own categories)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (Provides succinct and accessible explanations of over 1,800 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world)
• A Dictionary of Architecture (Containing thousands of entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, this dictionary covers all periods of Western architectural history)
• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art (It gives broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, encompasses all the major movements and styles of the twentieth-century, and includes entries on art schools, galleries, exhibitions, prizes, terms, techniques, collectors, critics, dealers and patrons)
• Grove Art Online (Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art (Provides in-depth coverage of Westrern Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques. Critical appreciation and factual information on over 1700 artists from classical times to the 20th century are included with 49 feature articles covering a broad spectrum of topics from art history and its methods to wall painting)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art (A one-volume guide to the art of the Western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture (Provides coverage of the whole spectrum of architecture and urban planning in the 20th century, and of leading architects and engineers the world over. It is fully cross-referenced and indexed, with key biographical references for further reading)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Design and Designers (This comprehensive guide embraces all modern design's numerous manifestations: graphics, products, interiors, furniture, industrial and architectural design. The text incorporates extensive cross referencing, and full bibliographical notes, along with a chronological chart of design highlights since 1900)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms (Covers the vast vocabulary of art in all its forms. Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day. There is even a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists (Provides information on over 2,500 artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements, including essential information on contemporary art and artists, not available elsewhere, and on techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art (Is the only book on British Art to cover every period from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day, and every significant medium, from painting, sculpture and printmaking to medieval goldsmiths' work and stained glass)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers (Provides in more than 1,200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 up to the present day. Includes not only couturiers (eg Chanel) but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers (eg Alexandre). It also cover the fashion media, photographers and illustrators, influential art movements (eg Japanese), fashion terms, garment and accessory styles, technical processes and every kind of fabric (eg silk), as well as personalities who have influenced fashion or promoted a style)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers (A guide to the international developments in graphic design. The personalities, motivations and achievements of all the most important contributors to the field (eg Alphonse Mucha) are fully outlined, including the leading exponents of contemporary graphic design. Extensive cross-references, a full bibliography and a chronological chart outline the relationship between movements, technology and designers)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance ( Over 750 entries covering music, architecture, war, diplomacy, religion, literature and social history, as well as the visual arts)
• The Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism (Some 300 entries cover not only the lives and careers of the main participants - painters (eg Monet), critics (eg Zola), patrons, dealers and collectors, as well as writers and musicians - but also techniques, prices and localities, while a wealth of information on the cultural, social and political background helps to set Impressionism in context)

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Bilingual Dictionaries

• Business French Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of business: insurance, stock exchange, accounting, finance, and computing)
• Business German Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing (Gives the essential business vocabulary of German and English, with translations into the other language. The entries cover the main areas of day-to-day business usage, including office practice, sales and purchases, shops, banking, invoices, credit control, international trade and communications and business travel)
• Business Spanish Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students and includes over 50,000 entries providing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of general business, such as invoicing, insurance, and computing)
• Collins French Dictionary (The most up-to-date and easy-to-use French dictionary and grammar available, it takes advantage of the Banque de français and the Bank of English, electronic databases containing over 400 million words of current French and English. Special entries on French life and culture)
• Collins German Dictionary (Emphasis is placed on current German and English, both written and spoken, and
  there is an exhaustive treatment of the basic vocabulary of each language, with numerous examples illustrating contemporary usage, including idioms and set phrases)
• Collins Italian Dictionary (Emphasis is placed on current Italian and English, both written and spoken, with over 160,000 references and 230,000 translations)
• Collins Latin Dictionary (Containing translations of over 60,000 words and phrases, the dictionary is an ideal companion for anyone studying Classical or Mediaeval Latin)
• Collins Portuguese Dictionary (With over 80,000 references and 110,000 translations, including business and computing terms, the dictionary provides practical coverage of Portuguese and English. The emphasis of this dictionary is contemporary usage of Portuguese and the book includes thousands of constructions and idioms and vocabulary to help the reader understand newspapers, magazines and literature in Brazilian and Peninsular Portuguese)
• Collins Spanish Dictionary (Emphasis is placed on current Spanish and English, both written and spoken.
  In-depth treatment of complex function words such as do, get, llegar, poner. Linguistic notes give detailed help with the complexities of Spanish)
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German) (150,000 words and phrases; 250,000 translations. Brand-new features include in-text notes on life and culture in the German-speaking world)
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English) (150,000 words and phrases; 250,000 translations. Brand-new features include in-text notes on life and culture in the German-speaking world)
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French) (175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations. Brand-new features include cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world)
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English) (175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations)(175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations. Brand-new features include cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world)
• The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish) (170,000 words and phrases; 240,000 translations. Brand-new features include in-text notes on life and culture in the Spanish-speaking world)
• The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) (170,000 words and phrases; 240,000 translations. Brand-new features include in-text notes on life and culture in the Spanish-speaking world)
• Dictionary of Spanish Law, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of British, American and Spanish law. Coverage includes criminal, civil, commercial and international law. Comments are also included in both languages to clarify entries that relate to specific legal terms, institutions and organizations of a country where either English or Spanish is spoken and which have no equivalent in the other language)
• The Oxford Business French Dictionary (English-French) (Offers comprehensive coverage of core business vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including accountancy, banking, economics, human resource management, law, sales and marketing, the stock market, management, taxation, insurance, and information technology)
• The Oxford Business French Dictionary (French-English) (Offers comprehensive coverage of core business vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including accountancy, banking, economics, human resource management, law, sales and marketing, the stock market, management, taxation, insurance, and information technology)
• The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish) (Offers comprehensive coverage of core business vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including accountancy, banking, economics, human resource management, law, sales and marketing, the stock market, management, taxation, insurance, and information technology)
• The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) (Offers comprehensive coverage of core business vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including accountancy, banking, economics, human resource management, law, sales and marketing, the stock market, management, taxation, insurance, and information technology)
• The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian) (Offering wide-ranging coverage, this outstanding dictionary offers guidance on key constructions, complementation, and difficult points of grammar. Including complete coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and English, both written and spoken)
• The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English) (Offering wide-ranging coverage, this outstanding dictionary offers guidance on key constructions, complementation, and difficult points of grammar. Including complete coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and English, both written and spoken)
• The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin) (This practical dictionary is designed specifically to meet the needs of students in their first years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world)
• The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English) (This practical dictionary is designed specifically to meet the needs of students in their first years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world)

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Biography

• American National Biography (Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped America. The format of the articles is based on chronology. A given article traces a person's life through the sequence of significant events as they occurred from birth to death. Appended to each article is a descriptive bibliography)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda (The coverage of the book is global, with many Asian and African artists included. Each artist's entry includes dates, training, career, influences on his or her work, and, for approximately one-third of the artists, a bibliography of further reading)
• Biography Index - WilsonWeb (A biographical database of information on current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (Contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (It gives accounts of the lives of many classical authors and character entries and plot summaries for their works. General entries trace the development of literary forms such as comedy and tragedy)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (It includes character entries and plot summaries, literary movements, critics, and critical theories, literary societies, periodicals, libraries, copyright, censorship, coffee houses, actors and actresses, printers, publishers, booksellers, and private presses. Author biographies are provided covering novelists, dramatists, poets, historians, philosophers, scholars, critics, editors and journalists)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (This comprehensive guide spans sixteen centuries of the literature and literary culture of Ireland. From the ogam alphabet in the 4th century, to contemporary writers such as Roddy Doyle and Seamus Heaney, there is a wealth of information on writers and their works, movements, genres, topics, folklore, and historical, religious, and cultural events)
• Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (Debrett is the oldest existing peerage reference book -- over 230 years)
• Debrett's People of Today (Is a comprehensive study of contemporary Britain's most notable and successful people. It contains biographical details of approximately 28,000 people from the entire spectrum of British society)
• A Dictionary of Political Biography (This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world)
• A Dictionary of Scientists ( From Archimedes and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date biographical dictionary of scientists currently available. Spanning over 2,500 years, it covers all areas of science, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology)
• A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (This guide to authors and their works focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth-century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. There are 3,000 entries for writers with their nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication; 26,000 title entries with date of publication and author's name; and 2,000 characters entries from authors' major works)
• Encyclopedia of World Biography (Mother Theresa. Princess Diana. Tom Clancy. Johnnie Cochran. Betty Shabazz. These are just a few of the people you'll find biographical information on in the Encyclopedia. The print version is 17 volumes and includes almost 7,000 entries)
• Grove Art Online (Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource)
• Grove Music Online (Is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online is updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet)
• The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (A guide to the thousands of characters, from humble artisan to lofty genius, who people the unfolding history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today. This biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives ample attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages - with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century)
• The Kings and Queens of Britain (This dictionary presents English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, from mythical and Romano-British rulers to the House of Windsor, in all their glory - and sometimes their disgrace)
• Lexis-Nexis Biographical Information (Biographical profiles of politicians, business executives, etc.)
• Literature Resource Center (Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline)
• The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography (It profiles the lives and achievements of outstanding women who have played important roles in history and society. International in scope and stretching from ancient times to the present day, the subjects chosen are from all fields - they include writers, politicians, scientists, dancers, judges, film stars, engineers, doctors and missionaries)
• Marquis Who's Who (Access to over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to John Paul II)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (This work provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints, including entries on the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padro Pio, and Josémaria Escriva)
• The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women (Biographies on major figures, from politicians, saints and scientists, to poets, film stars and writers, among many others)
• Who's Who 2003, A&C Black (Contains more than 35,000 biographies. They are all kinds of people from all parts of the world and from all walks of life: the arts, business and finance, the church, the civil service, education to name a few)
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge (Not only are there nearly a thousand biographies, there's also a chapter on "Encountering the Ancient Egyptians", sections on kingship and on religion, a chronology, and explanation of key terms such as calendars or pyramid texts)
• Who's Who in Christianity, Routledge (Is a reference guide to the leading men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history, including the founding fathers, saints, popes, monarchs, philanthropists, theologians, missionaries, and heretics)
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge (A reference work on the key men and women in the history of homosexuality from antiquity to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes biographies, with references, on figures - famous, notorious or unknown - in politics, social activism, culture and the arts, medicine, religion and other fields throughout Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Australasia)
• Who's Who in Opera (Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers)
• Who's Who in the Classical World (Focusing exclusively on real people, this is a dictionary of ancient biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art)
• Who's Who in the New Testament, Routledge (Is comprehensive and includes all the people mentioned by name in the New Testament as well as some who remain unnamed like the centurions at Capernaum and Calvary, together with certain political and religious groups, such as the Sadducees and the Essenes)
• Who's Who in the Old Testament, Routledge (Is the definitive biographical guide to the Old Testament. It contains nearly 2,000 entries, with the complete historical, geographical and archaeological context of each entry)
• Who's Who in The Roman World, Routledge (Covering a period from the 5th century  BC to  AD 364, it is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. The figures represented here come from all walks of Roman life and include some of the most famous - not to mention infamous - figures as well as little-known, but no less fascinating, characters)
• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (From Albert Einstein to the Marx Brothers, this reference book provides biographies of men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century)

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Biological Sciences

• Collins Dictionary of Biology (It includes over 6,500 entries, with many helpful illustrations, covering all of the major fields within biology - including anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, evolutionary theory, genetics, molecular biology, physiology and taxonomy. The dictionary also includes descriptions of techniques and tests commonly used in biology, as well as statistical terms)
• A Dictionary of Biology (Including biographies of key scientists, it provides comprehensive coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, as well as key terms from medicine and palaeontology)
• Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, Wiley (Developmental biology is the study of the mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, and genetic levels. This authoritative A-to-Z resource covers classical morphological and cytological terms along with those from modern genetics and molecular biology. Extensively cross-referenced, the dictionary includes definitions of terms, explanations of concepts, and biographies of historical figures. Comparative aspects are described in order to provide a sense of the evolution of structures. All features of embryology and developmental biology are covered)
• A Dictionary of Ecology (Provides entries on all aspects of ecology and the environmental sciences. It covers a vast range of subjects, from plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, evolution, environmental pollution, and conservation to climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, and oceanography)
• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (Provides coverage on topics including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, bio-geography, earth history, and the earth sciences. There is worldwide coverage of taxonomic groups)
• A Dictionary of Scientists (Spanning over 2,500 years, it covers all areas of science, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology. Offering clear explanations of the science itself as well as its historical significance, the dictionary includes coverage of all Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine)
• A Dictionary of Zoology (Covers all aspects of the study of animals for students and amateur naturalists. There is wide coverage of all relevant topics including animal behaviour, genetics, evolutionary studies, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, Earth history, and zoo geography)
• General Science Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Disciplines covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology)
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda (Is a dictionary of science covering all the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, medicine and physiology, and the Earth sciences. Its entries also explain terms belonging to the history of science and include brief biographies of important scientists. Diagrams and artworks illustrate key concepts of science)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science (Chemistry, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, astronomy, computing: all these topics are covered in this superbly comprehensive and accessible dictionary. With clear and up-to-date definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms)
• The Oxford Companion to the Body (It provides accounts of the structure and function of all the major systems of the body and the causes of disorders that affect them. Interwoven with this coverage of the science of the body, are entertaining and informative articles on social and religious attitudes to the body, and its significance for artists, philosophers and writers)
• PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science Biology) (PLoS Biology features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics)

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Books, Periodicals & Electronic Databases

• Academic Search Premier - EBSCOhost (The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975)
• American Humanities Index (A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present)
• Book Review Digest - WilsonWeb (Bibliographic excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books)
• Books-In-Print - Bowker (Access to more than 3.5 million title records of books, audios, and videos plus 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents, information on award winners and bestsellers, and over 500,000 full-text reviews)
• Business Source Premier - EBSCOhost (Over 2,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 900 peer-reviewed business publications)
• Business Wire News - EBSCOhost (Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States)
• CINAHL - EBSCOhost (CINAHL, is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 961,000 records)
• Clinical Pharmacology - EBSCOhost (Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs)
• Clinical Reference Systems - EBSCOhost (Offers thousands of essays covering adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, eye drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Provides records in both English and Spanish)
• Communication & Mass Media Complete - EBSCOhost (Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media)
• CQ Public Affairs Collection ( Features in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas)
• CQ Researcher (Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology)
• Dictionary of Library and Information Management, Peter Collin Publishing (This dictionary provides the information worker with the vocabulary of information management as it is used in the field. It covers the basic words, with grammatical definitions, used in library organization and management (e.g. microfiche), and the language of classification and cataloguing (e.g. Dewey decimal classification system), as well as the electronic world of information management and communication (e.g. mainframe). Words that are used in special ways are illustrated by examples of use)
• Dictionary of Printing and Publishing, Peter Collin Publishing (Includes clear definitions of over 9,000 words and expressions covering a wide range of topics relating to the printing and publishing industries: papermaking, ink, printing and binding machines, typesetting, desktop publishing, editing, commissioning, contracts and rights. The dictionary also covers electronic publishing, multimedia publishing and publishing on the internet)
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) (Full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, searchable on article level)
• Education Full-Text - Wilson-Web (Provides full-text articles in education and other fields.  Covers 1994 to the present)
• ERIC Database (The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature)
• Health Source:  Nursing/Academic Edition (Database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals)
• HighWire (World's largest and fastest-growing archive of free full-text life science & medicine research)
• Informe (Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias) (A collection of Spanish magazines with complete text.  Include business, health, technology, culture, up-to-date news, and other subjects)
• Journals A to Z (Title and subject access to the over 16,000 full-text journals available through the BCC Library)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• Library Literature & Information Science - WilsonWeb (Bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States)
• MasterFILE Premier - EBSCOhost (This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost)
• MEDLINE - EBSCOhost (MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals)
• Military & Government Collection - EBSCOhost ( Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles)
• NetLibrary (Provides access to the BCC Library's collection of eContent. eContent can be digital versions of printed material such as books or journals, databases or any digital content. The Library has 838 e-Books and 3,407 publicly accessible e-Books like Shakespeare's Hamlet)
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - INFOtrac  (Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles)
• PsycARTICLES - EBSCOhost (Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1985 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 39,000 full-text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO)
• PsycINFO - EBSCOhost (PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year)
• Readers Guide Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada:  Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, and Television)
• Readers Guide Retrospective - WilsonWeb (A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.  The complete database covers the years1890 through 1982)
• Regional Business News - EBSCOhost (This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis)
• WorldCat - OCLC

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Business & Economics

• Business and Company Resource Center - INFOTrac (Detailed company and industry news on company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals)
• Business Source Premier - EBSCOhost (Over 2,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 900 peer-reviewed business publications)
• Business Wire News - EBSCOhost (Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States)
• Collins Dictionary of Business (Is a guide to the essential terms of modern business for students, professionals and managers in business and industry. Its guiding principle has been contemporary relevance in the business world. Covers all the main areas of business theory and practice: marketing, production, finance, personnel, business policy and international business)
• Collins Dictionary of Economics (Summarizes the theoretical principles behind the science of economics and their application in such areas as competition policy, agricultural policy, fiscal policy and monetary policy)
• A Dictionary of Accounting (There are straightforward definitions of the latest financial jargon and the dictionary includes comprehensive coverage of financial accounting, financial reporting, management accounting, direct and indirect taxation, corporate finance, and auditing)
• A Dictionary of Business ( There is broad coverage of marketing, taxation and accounting, investments, banking, and international finance. It includes up-to-date coverage on all aspects of management, including business strategy, organizational behaviour, human resources management, and operations management)
• Dictionary of Business, Peter Collin Publishing (Defines over 12,500 words and expressions used in all aspects of business)
• Dictionary of Economics, Wiley (All important new terms and slang as well as traditional economics terminology)
• A Dictionary of Economics (The dictionary covers all aspects of economic theory, from microeconomics to public finance and international trade with definitions of mathematical and statistical terms widely used in economics, as well as words from related areas such as business and finance)
• A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (It contains entries on every aspect of the financial world: insurance, stocks and shares, commodities, takeovers and mergers, international trade, and government finance. It provides international coverage of the world's most important financial centres, including New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Hong Kong)
• Dictionary of Hotels, Tourism and Catering Management, Peter Collin Publishing (This dictionary contains over 5,000 headwords with over 20,000 entries covering all aspects of the hotel, tourism and catering management trade. A wide range of topics is covered, including travel, tourism, ticketing, hotels and their staff, kitchens, table settings, cooking, together with general business, accounting and personnel terms)
• Dictionary of Human Resources & Personnel Management, Peter Collin Publishing (It covers all aspects, including recruitment and selection, assessments, payment systems, dismissals and other items of industrial relations)
• Dictionary of Library and Information Management, Peter Collin Publishing (This dictionary provides the information worker with the vocabulary of information management as it is used in the field. It covers the basic words, with grammatical definitions, used in library organization and management (e.g. microfiche), and the language of classification and cataloguing (e.g. Dewey decimal classification system), as well as the electronic world of information management and communication (e.g. mainframe). Words that are used in special ways are illustrated by examples of use (e.g. generic))
• Dictionary of Printing and Publishing, Peter Collin Publishing (Includes clear definitions of over 9,000 words and expressions covering a wide range of topics relating to the printing and publishing industries: papermaking, ink, printing and binding machines, typesetting, desktop publishing, editing, commissioning, contracts and rights. The dictionary also covers electronic publishing, multimedia publishing and publishing on the internet)
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences (Collecting anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism in one volume, the Dictionary presents concise, clearly written definitions of more than 1,500 important terms. Entries are true definitions, not extended essays or summaries)
• Econlit - EBSCOhost (The American Economic Association’s electronic database is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 630,000 records covering 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics)
• Encyclopedia of Small Business (Is designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. The Encyclopedia contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing; financial planning; business plan creation; market analysis; sales strategy; tax planning, human resource issues and more. Also covered are narrower topics such as "Keough Plan," "working capital," "Self-Employment Contributions Act" and "equity." Arranged in an A-Z format)
• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (The Encyclopedia presents 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries that range from one paragraph to several pages in length. Includes a vast array of overview and issue essays; biographies; industry and geographic profiles; and definitions covering key events, movements, businesses and topics concerning this area)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Lexis-Nexis Accounting (Accounting journals & literature)
• Lexis-Nexis Business Directories (Contact and resource information for companies and industries)
• Lexis-Nexis Business News (Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts)
• Lexis-Nexis Company Financial Reports (Detailed financial data about companies)
• Lexis-Nexis Company Profiles (Company information including executives, revenue and competitors)
• Lexis-Nexis Compare Companies (Find companies based on a variety of criteria)
• Lexis-Nexis Industry & Market News (News from over 25 industries)
• Lexis-Nexis SEC Filings & Reports (EDGAR filings, annual & quarterly reports & proxy statements)
• The Penguin Business Dictionary (This dictionary's aim is twofold: to provide a key to the rules and regulations adopted in the market place, be it in the City of London, the local shopping precinct or country auction room; and to give clear, accurate definitions of the often complex language and jargon used in business and financial practice)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Economics (General economic terms, economic theory, applied economics and institutions illustrated with facts and statistics, history of economics, and entries on individual economists who have made a definable contribution to contemporary economic thought)
• The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance (Up-to-date explanations of the five main areas of the subject: banking, commodity markets, insurance, money markets, security; Key entries used in: accounting, business finance, investment appraisal, public finance, savings and investments, taxation and international financial institutions)
• The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley (Is a one-stop guide to the world's leading business thinkers. It is a unique summary of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking, drawing out the lessons any business can learn)
• Wall Street Words (Is an essential guide to the words spoken on "the Street." This edition has 4,500 entries - more than 700 of them newly added to reflect key developments in national and world markets)

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Census Data, Demographics & Statistics

• CIA World Factbook (The CIA World Factbook is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency to provide comprehensive basic intelligence for the US Government. It was first published in August 1962 and in 1975 the information was made available to the public. It contains extensive information on all the countries of the world, including hundreds of maps and flags. The CIA World Factbook also contains dynamic tables and six detailed Appendices)
• A Dictionary of Statistics (Covers a broad range of statistical vocabulary in jargon-free language. It provides concise definitions of terms likely to be encountered by students, of both Statistics and of disciplines featuring statistical material such as politics, medicine, and mathematics. Features biographical information on key figures, entries covering statistical journals, terms used in computing, operational research, probability and mathematical and statistical notation)
• InfoShare (Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more. With Infoshare Online's powerful interface and vast collection of data files, you can profile an area of your choosing, compare area across a region, or produce your own tabulations)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• U.S. Census 2000 State & County Statistical QuickFacts (The U.S. Census 2000 contains a multitude of facts about people, business and geography. Gathered over a period of ten years and compiled by experts, the census is presented here as dynamic tables)

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Classics

• Collins Latin Dictionary (Containing translations of over 60,000 words and phrases, the Dictionary is an ideal companion for anyone studying Classical or Mediaeval Latin)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (It gives accounts of the lives of many classical authors and character entries and plot summaries for their works. General entries trace the development of literary forms such as comedy and tragedy)
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Provides an authoritative survey of the Greek and Roman worlds in all their aspects)
• The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin) (Meets the needs of students in their first years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world)
• The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English) (Meets the needs of students in their first years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world)
• Who's Who in the Classical World (Focusing exclusively on real people, this is a dictionary of ancient biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art)

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Communication & Mass Media

• Communication and Mass Media Complete (All aspects of communication and mass media)
• Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations, Wiley (Wider ranging than a conventional dictionary, it enables you to check exact specifications, definitions, characteristics, options, relay diagrams, paths, alignments, sources, codes, events, tables, sequences, tradenames, methods, and numerous other vital facts that can spell disaster if misinterpreted or incorrectly specified)
• Essay and General Literature - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.  Provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film)
• Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications, Focal Press (Contains essential data for on-the-job use and includes over 6,000 terms, definitions and acronyms and over 350 line drawings)
• Hargrave's Communications Dictionary, Wiley (This volume includes over ten thousand definitions of key phrases that readers in industry, government, and academia need to understand. Many definitions incorporate basic tools for problem solving - such as drawings, graphs and charts. Real-world examples associated with voice and data communications are also included, as well as terminology from peripheral disciplines, including optics, computer science, data networks, and the Internet)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)

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Computing and the Internet

• Collins Dictionary of Computing (A popular guide to the language and jargon of computing, from screen messages and hardware components and the terminology used in computer magazines and software manuals)
• Compact American Dictionary of Computer Words (This book is excellent for precise, thorough definitions for the core vocabulary of today's technology. Whether you use a PC or a Mac, you will find everything you need here in order to understand hardware, software, and netiquette)
• Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations, Wiley (Wider ranging than a conventional dictionary, it enables you to check exact specifications, definitions, characteristics, options, relay diagrams, paths, alignments, sources, codes, events, tables, sequences, tradenames, methods, and numerous other vital facts that can spell disaster if misinterpreted or incorrectly specified)
• A Dictionary of Computing (The wide range of topics covered includes computer applications in industry, the office, science, education, and the home, the hardware, software, and telecommunications behind these applications. The dictionary also addresses the concepts and theories of computing and associated fields)
• A Dictionary of the Internet (This dictionary provides thousands of terms related to the Web, software technology, jargon, e-commerce, security, and the technical and organizational infrastructure of the Internet)
• Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications: A Guide for Developers and Users (The one-stop reference for developers and users, including over 2,500 references and 35 illustrations, explanations of new and emerging technologies, definitions and explanations, tradename information, and in-depth entries illuminating specific topics)
• Dictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet, Peter Collin Publishing (This comprehensive dictionary covers all aspects of personal computing and the Internet. It includes the jargon and features you will find in Microsoft Windows, PC hardware and software, and on the Internet)
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use)
• Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications, Focal Press (Contains essential data for on-the-job use and includes over 6,000 terms, definitions and acronyms and over 350 line drawings)
• Hargrave's Communications Dictionary, Wiley (This volume includes over ten thousand definitions of key phrases that readers in industry, government, and academia need to understand. Many definitions incorporate basic tools for problem solving - such as drawings, graphs and charts. Real-world examples associated with voice and data communications are also included, as well as terminology from peripheral disciplines, including optics, computer science, data networks, and the Internet)
• Webster's New World™ Computer Dictionary (It gives you clear and concise definitions for more than 4,750 up-to-date computer terms. You'll find current coverage of the latest standards and protocols in storage, memory, peripherals, and more-plus updated and expanded information on computer security, legislation, and computer and Internet technology)

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Conversions & Computations

• Area Conversions
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use)
• Distance Conversions
• Energy Conversions
• Fuel Consumption Conversions
• Power Conversions
• Speed Conversions
• Temperature Conversions
• Volume Conversions
• Weight Conversions

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Earth & Environmental Sciences

• A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (Coverage of topics includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology. There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales)
• A Dictionary of Ecology (Provides entries on all aspects of ecology and the environmental sciences. It covers a vast range of subjects, from plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, evolution, environmental pollution, and conservation to climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, and oceanography)
• A Dictionary of Geography (This dictionary provides coverage of the terms used in both human and physical geography. There are over 6,300 definitions across the following fields: cartography, surveying, remote sensing, statistics, meteorology, climatology, biogeography, ecology, simple geology, soils, geomorphology, population, migration, settlement, agriculture, industry, transport, development, and diffusion)
• A Dictionary of Weather (Information about weather, forecasting, and climate terms, along with detailed illustrative examples of specific events and weather extremes)
• The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, Blackwell Science (Provides a complete one-volume guide to the core definitions and issues associated with pure and applied ecology)
• General Science Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Disciplines covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology)
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda (Is a dictionary of science covering all the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, medicine and physiology, and the Earth sciences. Its entries also explain terms belonging to the history of science and include brief biographies of important scientists. Diagrams and artworks illustrate key concepts of science)
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science (Chemistry, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, astronomy, computing: all these topics are covered in this superbly comprehensive and accessible dictionary. With clear and up-to-date definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms)
• The Oxford Companion to the Earth (Offers coverage of the Earth Sciences, from volcanoes to flood plains, diamonds to meteors, deserts to deep seas. All aspects of geology, including climatology, mineralogy, and oceanography, are covered)

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Education

• Education Full-Text - Wilson-Web (Provides full-text articles in education and other fields.  Covers 1994 to the present)
• ERIC (ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals)
• ERIC Database (The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature)
• LearningExpress (A completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass)
• World Education Encyclopedia (This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries)

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Encyclopedias

• Britannica Online (Encyclopedia Britannica Online)
• The Columbia Encyclopedia ( The Columbia Encyclopedia provides authoritative factual information about our world in its many guises - physical, historical, geographical, political, scientific, religious, and cultural. The digital edition of the Encyclopedia has more than 50,000 articles, 80,000 cross-references, and 40,000 bibliographical citations)
• Crystal Reference Encyclopedia ( The Encyclopedia contains many thousands of entries, ranging from absolute zero to zorilla, and over 83,000 cross-references)
• Encyclopedia Americana (Includes 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,000 specialists, more than 100,000 full-text periodical articles, 9,000 bibliographies, and 155,000 continually updated links to Web sites)
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Search by word or browse by subject—search results include multimedia. Includes 40,000 quick-reference articles, over 7,500 photographs and illustrations,190 flags, videos, animations, dynamic maps and sound)
• The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Helicon (Over 50,000 entries, explanatory figures and diagrams, and many beautiful colour images)
• The Macmillan Encyclopedia (Over 26,000 entries cover the world spectrum of human knowledge, including science and technology, countries of the world, space, natural history, medicine, politics, sport, people, literature, art and history)
• La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre (Grolier Online's Spanish-language encyclopedia. features--in addition to more than 18,000 articles, 7,500 images, and hundreds of fact boxes and tables--timelines covering world history, Spanish-language news stories, a dynamic Spanish atlas, category browse, teacher resources, and the "Aula de español" module, developed for Spanish-language learners)
• Philip's Encyclopedia (13,000 fully cross-referenced entries cover science and technology, the arts, history, geography, current affairs, religion, sports, and popular culture, with 1500 colour illustrations; Pictorial guide to the stars and planets, the human body , mammals , birds and trees , with 1000 colour illustrations; and tables, charts and lists give thousands of up-to-date facts and figures in essential, easy-to-access form)
• World Encyclopedia (This encyclopedia features concise entries providing essential information on a range of subjects, including world affairs, science and technology, the arts, modern and ancient history, religion, sports, and popular culture)

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English Dictionaries & Thesauruses

• The American Heritage® Concise Dictionary (Has all of the features of a larger-format reference book: full definitions for all words, word origins, usage notes, synonym lists, idioms, and example phrases and sentences)
• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (Offers clear and comprehensive usage guidance)
• Bloomsbury Thesaurus (Provides a complete guide to the English language. It is full of synonyms, alternatives, and a network of cross-references)
• Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (Focuses on the English people speak and use today, provides clear definitions in straightforward English, and gives hundreds of usage notes, word histories, and idioms)
• Collins English Dictionary (Provides coverage of today's English, including thousands of essential encyclopedic facts. It shows language in a way that makes it clear and relevant to today's users)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary (240,000 words, phrases, and meanings)
• Grolier Online Dictionaries
• Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary
• Merriam Webster Collegiate Thesaurus
• The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English (Offers superb coverage of American English. Its features include thousands of concise definitions and entries, plus grammar, style, and usage notes that give guidance on correct English. Hundreds of word histories provide fascinating background to American English, and there are 3,000 biographical and geographical entries)
• The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English (It has more than 15,000 main entries keyed to over 350,000 synonyms, with accompanying example sentences and phrases. Key entries are also supplemented by antonym lists)
• The Oxford Dictionary of English (This is a major new edition of the New Oxford Dictionary of English)
• Oxford English Dictionary ( The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3))
• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus (This thesaurus covers nearly one-third of a million alternative and opposite words. The most useful alternative word is given first, with words closest in meaning to the entry word given in capitals. Opposites and related terms are clearly marked, and thousands of example sentences help users select the right word. There is clear labelling of informal, dialect, literary, and technical words)
• The Penguin English Dictionary (Clear, detailed definitions, with particular emphasis on difficult concepts and meanings, and includes not only standard English, but also scientific and technical vocabulary, specialist terms, slang, and the English of earlier periods)
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (Source for the right word every time. Every synonym is defined so that you can find the precise meaning you want)
• Roget's Thesaurus , 1911 Edition.
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition.

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English Language Reference

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms (Its main fare is idioms - groups of two or more words that taken together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry is defined and has an example sentence showing the idiom used in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the idiom's literal meaning or origin and include information about its first appearance in English)
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (Describes racy and unorthodox words and phrases in use from the 1950s to the new millennium)
• The Bloomsbury Good Word Guide (Details the countless changes happening in the English language, and special attention is given to particular problems - spelling)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (Is a phrase and fable dictionary for the 21st century. It has a unique blend of word and phrase etymology, cultural allusion and general knowledge)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Millennium Edition
• The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (This handy, practical and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. There are a wide variety of subject areas and loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world are included)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Contains a wealth of information about the English language and its history. Find out where the words 'bungalow' and 'assassin' came from, what 'nice' meant in the Middle Ages and much more)
• Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language (The English language is viewed from an international perspective, covering Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to South Asian English. The historical range of the work is large - Beowulf rubs shoulders with Ebonics, Chaucer sits alongside Chomsky, Latin, and the World Wide Web. Substantial entries are given on key subjects such as American and British differences, computing, etymology, pidgin, poetry, sexism, Shakespeare's language, and slang. Features include pieces on place-names, borrowings from other languages, the evolution of the alphabet, and the story of the expression 'OK')
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (Is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. It provides concise, informative entries across the whole field of linguistics. With entries ranging from epiglottal and morpheme to Austronesian and Navajo, the dictionary is an ideal reference work for students and anyone with an interest in language and its study)
• The Devil's Dictionary (This is the original text of the Devil's Dictionary, published in 1911. The book was written over twenty-five years by Ambrose Bierce, an American journalist who fought in the American Civil War. Friend and rival of Mark Twain, Bierce peppers his definitions with liberal amounts of sarcasm and irony)
• Dictionary of Eponyms, Manser (Eponyms are words derived from the names of real, fictional, mythical or spurious characters. There are hundreds of eponyms in everyday use in English today and study of them yields a fascinating insight into the rich heritage of the world's most popular language and its development)
• A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (Is the standard single-volume reference for its field)
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - CSA (Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics)
• A New Dictionary of Eponyms (Features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations (It covers the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use. In addition to abbreviations used in English-speaking countries, the dictionary includes some non-English terms)
• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style (What is the singular of 'paparazzi'? Is 'graffiti' singular or plural? Should I say 'empathic' or 'empathetic'? What is the correct pronunciation of 'concierge'? This book answers these and hundreds of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language)
• The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (Provides access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (Covers metaphorical phrases, familiar sayings and proverbs, and similes, providing illustrative quotations from sources as varied as the Bible, the Spectator, and Agatha Christie. Explore the meanings and origins of such well-known idioms as 'set the world alight', 'cost an arm and a leg', 'once in a blue moon', and 'the tip of the iceberg')
• The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world and provides the fascinating history behind the proverbs)
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English (Includes detailed information on the spelling, history, and usage of thousands of foreign words and phrases used by English speakers. There are words from more than forty languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish. Terms from cooking, fashion, and music jostle with others from fine arts, history, law, politics, business, and travel in this great reference to words from around the globe)
• The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary ( Anyone who writes verse, whether lyric poet, songwriter or composer of limericks or jingles, will find The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary an indispensable reference companion. Clearly arranged and easy to use, it offers an astonishingly wide range of suggestions for rhyming words, from the common and everyday to the more difficult and obscure)
• Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (Clear guidance on grammar, usage, syntax, and style for English is provided)
• Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk (Explains, in clear language, what it means when we talk of an unusual occurrence, a crew transfer container, or Montezuma's revenge. If you have ever been baffled by the expression culturally deprived, or want to know where the phrase deep-six comes from, then this book will certainly be of service)
• Rawson's Wicked Words (Covers everything from fart to flibbertigibbit, while always keeping careful watch for flimflam)
• Tutorials for Writing & Citing Sources (Bronx Community College)

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Food & Drink

• An A-Z of Food and Drink (From absinthe to zabaglione, this dictionary reveals the origin, meaning, and development of a host of gastronomic terms)
• Benders' Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology (Provides succinct, authoritative definitions of over 5,000 terms in nutrition and food technology)
• Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (This dictionary enables users to evaluate the claims made about different diets and types of exercise. It covers all matters relating to diet and exercise including diet methods, food supplements, sex and exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility, stamina, weight control, training methods and principles, calorie requirements of different activities, and much more)
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (This dictionary is intended for anyone who enjoys food and would like a handy, non-technical guide to the terms they encounter on food labels, in advertising, or in the media)
• International Dictionary of Food and Cooking, Peter Collin Publishing (A comprehensive dictionary of over 24,000 entries covering all aspects of food and cooking and useful for any practising chef, amateur enthusiast, gastronome or student. The dictionary includes dishes and ingredients from over 35 different countries, including European, American, South American, Australasian, Middle Eastern, African and Asian regions)

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Geography & Travel

• CIA World Factbook (The CIA World Factbook is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency to provide comprehensive basic intelligence for the US Government. It was first published in August 1962 and in 1975 the information was made available to the public. It contains extensive information on all the countries of the world, including hundreds of maps and flags. The CIA World Factbook also contains dynamic tables and six detailed Appendices)
• The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer (The Gazetteer features 90,000 locations. The maps are presented in a highly accessible style, displaying the qualities of authority, accuracy, style and comprehensive coverage of the world)
• Countrywatch (Database providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world)
• A Dictionary of British Place-Names (From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day)
• A Dictionary of Geography (There are over 6,300 definitions across the following fields: cartography, surveying, remote sensing, statistics, meteorology, climatology, biogeography, ecology, simple geology, soils, geomorphology, population, migration, settlement, agriculture, industry, transport, development, and diffusion)
• The Dictionary of Human Geography (The Dictionary includes short definitional entries and longer, interpretative essays on human geography and its major sub-fields. By directing readers to major sources for further information, the Dictionary also serves as a companion to geographical literature)
• The Dictionary of Physical Geography (The dictionary includes coverage of geomorphology, climatlogy, biogeography, hydrology, the Quaternary and the human impact. It contains over 2,000 entries ranging in length from succinct definitions of technical terms to extended discussions of concepts and essays on themes of particular interest or importance. The entries are self-contained or cross-referenced with additional reading and references for those who wish to develop themes further)
• Grolier World Atlas (Click on Atlas and then navigate the world map)
• The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography ( The geographic entries provide detailed capsule histories for nations, regions, empires and major cities from early historical times to the present. Concise descriptions are given for thousands of smaller cities and communities. Also covers physical geography, with entries for mountain ranges and peaks, deserts, major bodies of water, and other physical features around the globe)
• Lexis-Nexis Country Profiles (Concise facts & statistics about countries)
• Lexis-Nexis State Profiles (Concise facts & statistics about states)
• Penguin Encyclopedia of Places (A comprehensive guide to the geography and history of over 12,000 places scattered throughout the world. Articles range from detailed accounts of individual countries, to snapshot views of small communities, to descriptions of rivers and mountains, and they contain a wealth of background information - political facts, economic analysis, social and cultural framework)
• Philip's World Geo-Factbook (An A-Z reference guide to every country in the world. Brightly colored maps showing major towns, roads and rivers, information on each nation's geography, climate, economy, history and politics, national flags, climate graphs and over 100 stamps, and ready reference tables with up-to-date statistics)

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Government

• The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science (An introduction to the terminology of political science. The book comprises definitions and explanations of around 1000 key terms. It includes short biographies of the most eminent writers in the discipline - both classical and modern)
• CIA World Factbook (The CIA World Factbook is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency to provide comprehensive basic intelligence for the US Government. It was first published in August 1962 and in 1975 the information was made available to the public. It contains extensive information on all the countries of the world, including hundreds of maps and flags. The CIA World Factbook also contains dynamic tables and six detailed Appendices)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (Covers political institutions, concepts, leaders, and thinkers with an international and wide-ranging scope, including issues such as voting theory and feminism, to Chinese and Muslim political thought)
• CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government (Definitive source for information on U.S. government, politics, and elections:  presidency, congress, supreme court and elections)
• CQ Public Affairs Collection ( Features in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas)
• Dictionary of Government and Politics, Peter Collin Publishing (This dictionary provides the user with the basic vocabulary used in the fields of government and politics, both in Britain and the United States)
• A Dictionary of Political Biography (This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world)
• Dynasties of the World (From Horus Aha, first king of Egypt, to Abd Allah II, present king of Jordan, this title charts five millenia of kings, queens, emperors, empresses, regencies, joint reigns, abdications, depositions, interregna, foreign rule, mandates, protectorates, and dynastic unions)
• Encyclopedia of the European Union (Provides in-depth, authoritative discussions of the key concepts, developments, institutions, policies, negotitations, treaties, national interests, personalities, etc., related to European integration)
• Eurojargon (Is a comprehensive, easy-to-use dictionary of 'Eurospeak', containing more than 5,000 acronyms, abbreviations and other EU-related terms)
• Military & Government Collection - EBSCOhost (Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles)
• The Oxford Companion to American Military History (Wide ranging account compiled in one volume of war, peace, and the U.S. military)
• The Oxford Companion to Military History (A complete overview of military history from classical times to the present)
• The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (Includes biographies of Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Gerhard Schroder; articles on events such as the Rwandan Genocide and the war in Kosovo; and coverage of international trade developments such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization)
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (Reference to U.S. military terms, people, and battles covers military history from the earliest colonial conflicts to the present)
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (400 entries on major Supreme Court cases through history and gives entries on the U.S. Constitution, and the nominations and successions of justices)
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court)
• U.S. Census 2000 State & County Statistical QuickFacts (The U.S. Census 2000 contains a multitude of facts about people, business and geography. Gathered over a period of ten years and compiled by experts, the census is for the first time presented here as dynamic tables. The statistics may also be viewed in chart format)

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Health, Physical Education & Wellness

• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs (Covers over-the-counter, pharmacy, and prescription medicines)
• Clinical Reference Systems (EBSCOhost) (Offers thousands of essays covering adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, eye drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Clinical Reference Systems provides records in both English and Spanish)
• Concise Medical Dictionary (A home medical guide and as an aid for all those working in the medical and allied professions)
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (From absinthe to zabaglione, this dictionary reveals the origin, meaning, and development of a host of gastronomic terms)
• Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (This dictionary enables users to evaluate the claims made about different diets and types of exercise. It covers all matters relating to diet and exercise including diet methods, food supplements, sex and exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility, stamina, weight control, training methods and principles, calorie requirements of different activities, and much more)
• Health Source:  Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCOhost (Database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals)
• Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements (Offers up-to-date information on the most widely used herbal products and natural supplements in a handy clinical format)
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (Provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased)
• The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia (Provides comprehensive information on all aspects of health and disease ranging from how the body functions to when to consult your GP to what type of drug you have been prescribed. Includes up-to-date information on prescription and over-the-counter drugsand advice on healthy living)

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History

• American Civil War Reference Library (The Library offers comprehensive and wide ranging research options on this compelling era of American history)
• Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (Viewed as "barbarian" through the lens of ancient Greece and Rome, these civilizations were responsible for such accomplishments as the rise of farming in the Neolithic era and the building of Stonehenge. Coverage extends from prehistoric origins through the early Middle Ages (8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000) when tribal movements helped define the end of ancient culture and the rise of the modern European world. Arranged topically and chronologically)
• Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History (Thousands of facts about historical events, periods, and personalities available under more than 3,500 alphabetically arranged headword entries. Coverage extends across every continent and every century of history)
• The Companion to British History, Routledge (Comprehensive A-Z guide to the history of Britain and its peoples)
• Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda (Each map is accompanied by an informative essay on the region and period. In addition, each regional map includes keys to geographical, political, and social details (cities, battle sites, borders, and migrations of population etc.), as well as numbered pointers that further elucidate major historical events and themes embodied in the map)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (From amphora to ziggurat, and Beaker Culture to molluscan analysis, this dictionary, covers the essential vocabulary for archaeological work, including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (Covers political institutions, concepts, leaders, and thinkers with an international and wide-ranging scope, including issues such as voting theory and feminism, to Chinese and Muslim political thought)
• A Dictionary of British History (All aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day)
• Dictionary of British History (Covers the history of Britain from Roman times to the present day, and also its overseas territories during British Rule. Attention is paid not only to English history but also to that of Scotland, Wales and Ireland)
• A Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the present (A concise guide to the ideas, events, people and movements that have shaped the world from the end of the Second World War to the present)
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (Provides in-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events from 1900 to the present day. Extensive surveys of every country are included with detailed analytical entries covering political and military leaders, political parties, international organizations, and acts of war)
• A Dictionary of Political Biography (This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world)
• A Dictionary of World History (It includes biographical entries on hundreds of key figures, from Alexander the Great to Bill Clinton, Elizabeth I to Nelson Mandela, Moses to Tony Blair. There are subject entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places)
• Dynasties of the World (From Horus Aha, first king of Egypt, to Abd Allah II, present king of Jordan, this title charts five millenia of kings, queens, emperors, empresses, regencies, joint reigns, abdications, depositions, interregna, foreign rule, mandates, protectorates, and dynastic unions)
• The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance (The Renaissance was a much heralded but rather indistinct period of transition from medieval to modern times. Spanning the period from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, it changed forever the course of Western history, and formed the foundation for today's art, science, commerce, politics and religion. This work details in some 2,500 entries the broad range of events, people, ideas and movements that together have come to represent this era)
• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (The Encyclopedia presents 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries that range from one paragraph to several pages in length. Includes a vast array of overview and issue essays; biographies; industry and geographic profiles; and definitions covering key events, movements, businesses and topics concerning this area)
• The Great American History Fact-Finder (More than two thousand brief, fact-laden entries on people, places, issues and events - arranged in a convenient A-to-Z sequence - cover the spectrum of American society, culture and history. Topics include politics, the military, business, entertainment, the arts, sports and the media)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• The Kings and Queens of Britain (This dictionary presents English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, from mythical and Romano-British rulers to the House of Windsor, in all their glory - and sometimes their disgrace)
• MasterFILE Premier Historical Photos (Click on Images and then select Historical Photos)
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin (With more than six thousand entries, it sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans - the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural conversation)
• The Oxford Companion to American Military History (Wide ranging account compiled in one volume of war, peace, and the U.S. military)
• The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (Entries on a range of subjects, including engaging biographies of the great figures in the field, extensive coverage of the methods used in archaeological research, together with essays that examine human evolution and the many general facets of culture)
• The Oxford Companion to Australian History (Covers people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics and culture)
• The Oxford Companion to British History (Covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day)
• The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, places, and people that have shaped Canada from earliest times to the present)
• The Oxford Companion to Military History (A complete overview of military history from classical times to the present)
• The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Presents a history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries)
• The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (Iincludes biographies of Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Gerhard Schroder; articles on events such as the Rwandan Genocide and the war in Kosovo; and coverage of international trade developments such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization)
• The Oxford Companion to United States History (It illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion)
• The Oxford Companion to World War II (Every aspect of the war is covered including, detailed surveys of major countries; politics and grand strategy; domestic and economic issues; resistance and intelligence services; campaigns, battles, and military operations; warfare and weapons; wartime leaders and influential people; and slogans and phrases)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History (It contains entries on legal and other specialist terms; types of documentation; sources of information; social and religious groups; institutions and organizations; historical and political events; official functions and occupations; and authors and scholars)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to John Paul II)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (This book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints, including entries on the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padro Pio, and Josémaria Escriva)
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (Reference to U.S. military terms, people, and battles covers military history from the earliest colonial conflicts to the present)
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance (Over 750 entries covering music, architecture, war, diplomacy, religion, literature and social history, as well as the visual arts)
• Vietnam War Reference Library (Traces the progression of this controversial war from its beginnings in 1941 with the creation of the Vietminh guerrilla force under Ho Chi Minh, through its last days in 1975 with the fall of Saigon. Includes biographical information on people involved in the war. A variety of perspectives are provided on the country's involvement in the war with excerpts from screenplays, literature, speeches and hearing testimonies)
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge (Not only are there nearly a thousand biographies, there's also a chapter on "Encountering the Ancient Egyptians", sections on kingship and on religion, a chronology, and explanation of key terms such as calendars or pyramid texts)
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge (A reference work on the key men and women in the history of homosexuality from antiquity to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes biographies, with references, on figures - famous, notorious or unknown - in politics, social activism, culture and the arts, medicine, religion and other fields throughout Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Australasia)
• Who's Who in The Roman World, Routledge (Covering a period from the 5th century  BC to  AD 364, it is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. The figures represented here come from all walks of Roman life and include some of the most famous - not to mention infamous - figures as well as little-known, but no less fascinating, characters)
• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (From Albert Einstein to the Marx Brothers, this reference book provides biographies of men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century)

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Images

• AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive (Is an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s. Today, the Multimedia Archive contains over 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995, and grows daily as hundreds of new photos enter the Multimedia Archive from AP's worldwide picture report. The Archive features two photo databases: an International photo archive and a Euro/Asian photo archive)
• Alta Vista (Searches for photos and media)
• American Memory (Search Library of Congress images)
• America Political History (Over 500 public domain images)
• Artist Indexes (Search by artist's name nationality or time frame)
• CalPhotos: Plants (Access more than 20,000 plant images)
• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs, 1870-1982 (400 digitized photographic images of professional Shakespeare productions across more than a century)
• Detroit Institute of Arts (Search by keyword or browse by category)
• Ditto.com (Indexes millions of online pictures)
• Famous People of the U.S. (Presidents, activists, suffragists, etc.)
• FindLaw Medical Images (Professional images for professionals)
• FreeFoto.com (A collection of 16,000+ photographs)
• Gallery of the Open Frontier (Traverse the history of the American frontier)
• George Eastman House (Many searchable collections)
• Getty Arts EdNet (Image galleries and exhibitions)
• Google Image Search (More than 250 million images)
• Gray's Anatomy (Over 1200 engravings from 1918 publication)
• Great Images in NASA (Over 1,000 images detailing NASA's history)
• History of the American West (Over 30,000 photographs from Denver Public Library)
• Ixquick Metasearch (Searches multiple indexes)
• Lycos Image Gallery (Search for online image)
• MuseumSpot.com (Directory to best art museums on the Web)
• National Gallery of Art (Search the collection by up to six criteria)
• National Library of Medicine (Images from the history of medicine)
• Nanoworld Image Gallery (Images from the microscopic world)
• picsearch (Use "advanced search" to search all images)
• Presidential Portraits (Portraits of each U.S. President)
• Selected Civil War Photographs (Over 1,000 photographs from Civil War)
• TimePix ( Images from Time Inc. publications)
• UN Photobank (10,000+ United Nations photos)
• Yahoo! Picture Gallery (Search by category or keyword)

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Law

• Collins Dictionary of Law (Is designed to be a constant companion for all law students, and is the essential reference guide for the layman, particularly business professionals who need access to the special terminology of the law, including that of the European Union. Covers Scots and Irish law as well as the law of England and Wales, includes wide coverage of business law and defines legal terms of the European Union and Commonwealth countries)
• Dictionary of Conflict Resolution, Wiley (The first and only dictionary for the field of conflict resolution. Defining 1,400 terms, this comprehensive resource standardizes the language of conflict resolution - improving dialogue and understanding among professionals and theorists and promoting uniformity and consistency in the language)
• A Dictionary of Law (Entries define and explain the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization of the law. Coverage includes European law, the Internet, world trade, divorce law, local government, property law, consumer and data protection, and criminal law)
• Dictionary of Law, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides the user with basic vocabulary used in British and American law. The subject matter covers criminal, civil, commercial and international law, dealing with situations as different as the solicitor's office and the courtroom)
• Dictionary of Spanish Law, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of British, American and Spanish law. Covers subjects including criminal, civil, commercial and international law. Comments are also included in both languages to clarify entries that relate to specific legal terms, institutions and organizations of a country where either English or Spanish is spoken and which have no equivalent in the other language)
• Encyclopedia of the European Union (Provides in-depth, authoritative discussions of the key concepts, developments, institutions, policies, negotitations, treaties, national interests, personalities, etc., related to European integration)
• Eurojargon (Is a comprehensive, easy-to-use dictionary of 'Eurospeak', containing more than 5,000 acronyms, abbreviations and other EU-related terms)
• Index Master : The Legal Research Tool (Is the best way to find secondary legal titles. It is a compilation of thousands of titles from large and small legal publishers that are put into one convenient, searchable location and it provides the actual index and tables of content to assist researchers in locating on-point titles)
• Law Library Microfilm Collection Digital (Comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform)
• Lexis-Nexis Area of Law by Topic (Cases on a variety of topics)
• Lexis-Nexis Canadian Legislative Materials (Canada Federal Legislation (including Consolidated Statutes & Consolidated Regulations))
• Lexis-Nexis Canadian Statutes & Regulations (Statutes and Regulations of Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario)
• Lexis-Nexis Choosing a Law School (NALP's Degrees of Difference)
• Lexis-Nexis Class (Patent Numbers By Classification)
• Lexis-Nexis Commonwealth & Foreign Nations ( Commonwealth and Foreign Nations Case Law, digests, report, treaties and international agreements including Canada, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, GATT, Hong Kong, UK, South Africa)
• Lexis-Nexis Get A Case (Retrieve a case by cite or party name)
• Lexis-Nexis European Union Law (CELEX database of European Union law)
• Lexis-Nexis Federal Case Law (Decisions from all federal court levels)
• Lexis-Nexis Federal Code (Federal code, U.S. Constitution & court rules)
• Lexis-Nexis Federal Regulations (Federal regulations, agency opinions & US Attorney General Opinions)
• Lexis-Nexis Law Reviews (Full text of law review articles)
• Lexis-Nexis Law School Directories (Details on over 250 U.S. schools)
• Lexis-Nexis Legal News (Articles from news sources covering law)
• Lexis-Nexis Manual of Classification (Manual of Patent Classification)
• Lexis-Nexis Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (Details on more than 900,000 lawyers & law firms around the world)
• Lexis-Nexis Patents (All U.S. patents from 1971 to present)
• Lexis-Nexis Shepard's for Supreme Court Cases (Use this form to check citations of U.S. Supreme Court cases)
• Lexis-Nexis State Case Law (State high court & appellate decisions)
• Lexis-Nexis State Codes (Statutory laws, court rules from all states & Attorneys General opinions from all states)
• Lexis-Nexis Tax Information (The IRS Bulletin, tax regulations & more)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Vitual Library (The Virtual Library provides access to over 7,000 full-text publications in the NCJRS collection)
• The Oxford Companion to American Law (Has as its starting point the insight that law is embedded in society, and that to understand American law one must necessarily ask questions about the relationship between it and the social order, now and in the past)
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (400 entries on major Supreme Court cases through history and gives entries on the U.S. Constitution, and the nominations and successions of justices)

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Literature

• The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature (Presents a multiplicity of authors, texts and themes gathered together into one authoritative source. The key attractions of this invaluable reference source are: over 800 entries on writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Martin Amis and Caryl Churchill; over 1000 entries on individual works; over 300 Biblical and mythological characters and events; over 600 literary and critical terms and movements; and, over 1000 entries describing historical, cultural and social events)
• The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Its coverage of novelists, poets, playwrights, and their works embraces both the established classics of English literature and a wealth of contemporary figures from all over the English-speaking world. Provides detailed biographical and critical articles, not only about writers and works of literature, but also about the critics, philosophers, historians, and biographers who have influenced or reacted to literature. Substantial coverage is given to popular genres such as science fiction, detective novels and children's literature)
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (With more than 125 essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary scholars in the United States, The Companion offers readers a wealth of information and insight into the work of many of the finest short story writers in literary history)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (Contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature ( It gives accounts of the lives of many classical authors and character entries and plot summaries for their works. General entries trace the development of literary forms such as comedy and tragedy. There is also wide coverage of the historical, political, social, and artistic background)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (It includes character entries and plot summaries, literary movements, critics, and critical theories, literary societies, periodicals, libraries, copyright, censorship, coffee houses, actors and actresses, printers, publishers, booksellers, and private presses. Author biographies are provided covering novelists, dramatists, poets, historians, philosophers, scholars, critics, editors and journalists)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (This comprehensive guide spans sixteen centuries of the literature and literary culture of Ireland. From the ogam alphabet in the 4th century, to contemporary writers such as Roddy Doyle and Seamus Heaney, there is a wealth of information on writers and their works, movements, genres, topics, folklore, and historical, religious, and cultural events)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism)
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare (This dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages)
• Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing (A comprehensive dictionary that covers the plays, poems, characters and background to Shakespeare's works. The dictionary also includes terms used in the theatre and stagecraft, as well as historical references and details on the Elizabethan historical and social period)
• A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (Focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth-century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers)
• Essay and General Literature - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.  Provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Literature Resource Center - INFOtrac (Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline)
• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography - InfoTrac (The MLA International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. MLA Bibliography on InfoTrac incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals)
• NetLibrary (Provides access to the BCC Library's collection of eContent. eContent can be digital versions of printed material such as books or journals, databases or any digital content. The Library has 838 e-Books and 3,407 publicly accessible e-Books like Shakespeare's Hamlet)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature (There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their style, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (It includes character entries and plot summaries, literary movements, critics, and critical theories, literary societies, periodicals, libraries, copyright, censorship, coffee houses, actors and actresses, printers, publishers, booksellers, and private presses. Author biographies are provided covering novelists, dramatists, poets, historians, philosophers, scholars, critics, editors and journalists)
• The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included)
• The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (Comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English. 1,500 poets are covered from W.H. Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is worldwide coverage, including America, Britain and Ireland, New Zealand, Trinidad and Zimbabwe)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance (Over 750 entries covering music, architecture, war, diplomacy, religion, literature and social history, as well as the visual arts)
• The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors - INFOtrac (Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles)

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Maps & Flags

• CIA World Factbook (The CIA World Factbook is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency to provide comprehensive basic intelligence for the US Government. It was first published in August 1962 and in 1975 the information was made available to the public. It contains extensive information on all the countries of the world, including hundreds of maps and flags. The CIA World Factbook also contains dynamic tables and six detailed Appendices)
• The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer (The Gazetteer features 90,000 locations. The maps are presented in a highly accessible style, displaying the qualities of authority, accuracy, style and comprehensive coverage of the world)
• Countrywatch Map Gallery (The ‘themes’ of the maps include demographic concepts like population density, economic concepts like GDP/capita and health-related concepts like HIV infection rates)
• Facts.com Maps (Maps of Canadian Provinces and Territories, Countries of the World, U.S. States and Territories, and World Regions)
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Search by word or browse by subject—search results include multimedia. Includes 40,000 quick-reference articles, over 7,500 photographs and illustrations,190 flags, videos, animations, dynamic maps and sound)
• Grolier World Atlas (Click on Atlas and then navigate the world map)
• Information Please Atlas (Click on detailed map or use map index)
• MasterFILE Premier Flags (Click on Images and search on Flags)
• MasterFILE Premier Maps (Click on Images and search on Maps)
• Philip's World Geo-Factbook (An A-Z reference guide to every country in the world. Brightly colored maps showing major towns, roads and rivers, information on each nation's geography, climate, economy, history and politics, national flags, climate graphs and over 100 stamps, and ready reference tables with up-to-date statistics)
• Visual English Dictionary (Enables users to learn through pictures and images and find the names, terms, and concepts of the modern world)
• World Flags (A quick reference guide to national flags)
• World Maps ( Locator, physical and political maps for each country - 475 maps)

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Medicine

• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs (Covers over-the-counter, pharmacy, and prescription medicines)
• The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary (Is a new dictionary of the vocabulary of medicine and medical sciences. It contains current, accurate information about medical terms you need to know-alpha cell to zetacrit)
• Baillière's Midwives' Dictionary (An invaluable educational and professional resource for generations of midwives and students. In addition to the illustrated definitions section, there are appendices, with new and updated information on:  immunization and vaccination schedule for children, abbreviations, P.V. examination of fetal position, Social Security benefits, and useful addresses and resources)
• Black's Medical Dictionary (Gives over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts accompanied by appendices on important subjects such as the National Health Service (including selected statistics), Health Economics and Common Medical Tests)
• Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing (In-depth coverage of the terminology and concepts needed for effective, holistic practice in today's multidisciplinary healthcare environment, including: adult nursing, cancer nursing and oncology, child health, complementary therapies, information technology, learning disabilities, management and policy issues, medico-legal issues and ethics, mental health, nutrition, pharmacology, public health, research, social and behavioural sciences, and terminology from physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and radiology)
• CINAHL - EBSCOhost (Is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 961,000 records)
• Clinical Pharmacology - EBSCOhost (Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs)
• Collins Dictionary of Medicine (Includes over 12,000 entries, around 3,000 are new, on the theory and practice of contemporary health care, covers all the basic medical sciences with special emphasis on recent advances in genetics, molecular biology, immunology and psychiatry, and illustrations of all the major body systems)
• Concise Medical Dictionary (A home medical guide and as an aid for all those working in the medical and allied professions)
• A Dictionary of Biology (Includes biographies of key scientists and provides comprehensive coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, as well as key terms from medicine and palaeontology)
• Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations (Features over 7,000 new entries to reflect new material related to burgeoning fields such as medical informatics, computers in biomedicine, molecular biology and medicine, cardiology, outcomes research, and evidence-based medicine, to name just a few)
• Dictionary of Medicine, Peter Collin Publishing (Provides the user with the basic vocabulary used in British and American medical practice. The subject matter covers terms used in surgery, general practice, hospitals, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and other specializations)
• A Dictionary of Nursing (Accident and emergency, trauma, public health medicine, and theory and practice of nursing are all covered)
• A Dictionary of Psychology (There is comprehensive coverage of phobias and phobic stimuli and mental disorders)
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (First published in 1900, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary is universally acknowledged as the world's finest medical dictionary. Included are: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) added throughout, more than 1000 color illustrations, and over 24,000 pronunciations)
• Encyclopedia of Aging (It encompasses all aspects of aging. Covering a variety of disciplines --biology, medicine, economics, law psychology, sociology and history -- the Encyclopedia also explores related issues such as religion, spirituality, and ethics. Also includes a topical outline, primary source documents, addresses, Web sites and an index)
• General Science Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Disciplines covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology)
• Health Source:  Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCOhost (Database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals)
• HighWire (World's largest and fastest-growing archive of free full-text life science & medicine research)
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda (Is a dictionary of science covering all the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, medicine and physiology, and the Earth sciences. Its entries also explain terms belonging to the history of science and include brief biographies of important scientists. Diagrams and artworks illustrate key concepts of science)
• International Dictionary of Homeopathy (Provides clear and up-to-date definitions and interpretations of concepts related to the principles and practice of homeopathy)
• Lexis-Nexis Abstracts (The National Library of Medicine's Medline)
• Lexis-Nexis Medical & Health Journals (Articles from medical & health journals covering a wide range of medical topics)
• Lexis-Nexis Medical News (Articles from medical & health news sources covering healthcare)
• Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology (Comprises over 4000 concise, informative entries on all the most important terms in toxicology. Coverage includes biochemical and environmental toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis, risk assessment and risk management as well as those aspects of analytical chemistry and molecular biology that are of importance in toxicology. The most important toxic chemicals are covered, in most cases with structures and CAS numbers)
• MEDLINE - EBSCOhost (Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals)
• Mosby's Dental Dictionary (This contemporary, comprehensive glossary includes more than 8,500 terms related to all areas of dentistry; basic, clinical, and behavioral sciences; office management, and commonly used medical terms)
• Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements (Offers up-to-date information on the most widely used herbal products and natural supplements in a handy clinical format)
• Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary (Everything you would expect in a medical, nursing, and allied health dictionary: definitions, tables, and illustrations)
• Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients (Covering more than 70 conditions, the sheets give: full descriptions of each condition, its signs and symptoms, likely causes, and risk factors, preventative measures, expected outcomes, and treatment options including: diet, nutritional supplements, botanical medicines - plus cautions on drug-herb interactions - and physical therapies)
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (Provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased)
• The Oxford Companion to the Body (It provides accounts of the structure and function of all the major systems of the body and the causes of disorders that affect them. Interwoven with this coverage of the science of the body, are entertaining and informative articles on social and religious attitudes to the body, and its significance for artists, philosophers and writers)
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science (Chemistry, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, astronomy, computing: all these topics are covered in this superbly comprehensive and accessible dictionary. With clear and up-to-date definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms)
• Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary (This dictionary is aimed at all those that work within the pharmaceutical industry (or aspire to do so) and contains information that covers the gamut of pharmaceutical medicine from drug discovery, development, trials, regulatory approval and marketing)
• Pre-CINAHL - EBSCOhost ( A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing)
• PubMed - National Library of Medicine (Access to over 11 million citations in Medline, PreMedline, and other related databases)
• The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia (Provides comprehensive information on all aspects of health and disease ranging from how the body functions to when to consult your GP to what type of drug you have been prescribed. Includes up-to-date information on prescription and over-the-counter drugsand advice on healthy living)
• The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines (Medicines is a vital companion for all users of medicine, whether parents buying for babies and children, anyone wanting more information on a doctor's prescription, or those who need to find a remedy for occasional ailments. Containing over 5,000 up-to-date descriptions of drugs, this is the most authoritative, comprehensive guide available. Includes 700 new drug entries, over-the-counter and prescription drugs, and extensive information on side-effects)
• Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary (Written by veterinarians for veterinarians, key features include: over 65,000 main and sub-entries compiled from over 50 major veterinary texts and journals, comprehensive coverage of all large and small animals, including exotics, extensive appendices on clinical and laboratory data, and over 90 pages of anatomical information, thorough coverage of drugs, including pharmacology and therapeutics, and details on all major poisonous substances)
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (You will find definitions for black cohosh, copayment, DNA vaccine, ghost surgeon, grab sample, jazz ballet bottom, jet injection, kava, magic syndrome, paleolithic diet, qi gong, ultrafast computerized tomography, transmyocardial revascularization, viator, and many other remarkable new concepts and terms in this edition of the dictionary)
• Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary (Is an invaluable resource that will help you make sense of confusing medical jargon, prepare for a doctor visit, or research treatment options. It is packed with information about diseases, treatments, and medicines, includes appendices on vitamins and frequently used anatomical terms, and draws information from dozens of medical specialists ranging from pediatrics to pathology)

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Music

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Providing thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, the dictionary's coverage gives comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (Plot synopses and first performance details, bibliographies of works about opera, entries on singers (including their debuts and career highlights, with notes on voice type, style, and reputation), definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles, and surveys of the history of opera worldwide are all included in a reference work that provides an enormous amount of information)
• The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (This book covers the major players in the vast history of popular music in the twentieth century)
• Grove Music Online (Is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online is updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet)
• The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (An guide to the thousands of characters, from humble artisan to lofty genius, who people the unfolding history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today. This biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives ample attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages - with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century)
• The Harvard Dictionary of Music (The best one-volume music dictionary available. Includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today's beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• The Oxford Companion to Music (Concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, with specialist coverage of virtually every musical subject. It places music in its social and cultural context, with a range of new entries on topics such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Music (Entries include: orchestral, solo, choral, and chamber music, opera and ballet as well as classical musicals and their composers, noted performers past and present, composers and their works, orchestras and conductors, even authors whose work has inspired musical compositions, musical instruments of every kind, musical terms and genres)
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance ( Over 750 entries covering music, architecture, war, diplomacy, religion, literature and social history, as well as the visual arts)
• Who's Who in Opera (Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers)

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Mythology & Folklore

• A Dictionary of African Mythology (The stories touch on virtually every aspect of belief: gods and goddesses, epic heroes and divine tricksters, along with epics of the world's origins, the struggle between the human and the divine, and much more. Entries cover the entire continent, from the mouth of the Nile to the Cape of Good Hope)
• A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (This dictionary features stories of revered deities, sacred places, key events and epics, with many recurring themes and traditions. Entries address the key mythologies of the regions we now call India, China, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Japan, and broad overviews of specific cultures and their mythic traditions round out the coverage)
• A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (A comprehensive and accessible survey of the whole of Celtic mythology, legend, saga, and folklore. It covers the people, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, from both ancient and modern traditions, in 4,000 entries ranging from brief definitions to short essays)
• A Dictionary of English Folklore (The dictionary gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore and includes articles on oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing, superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones, beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers, and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St. Valentine's Day)
• A Dictionary of Superstitions (Covers the wide range of folk beliefs that have survived into our own age. Each superstition is illustrated by quotations tracing its development through the centuries. Entries tell of the traditional significance of animals, colours, days, and the elements; rituals to be observed at certain seasons or when faced with natural and unnatural occurrences; cures, taboos, and the uses to which people have put everyday objects in pursuit of good fortune or knowledge of the future)
• A Dictionary of World Mythology (Presents the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents. Drawing upon hundreds of myths from around the globe, it not only reveals the vast differences in these civilizations, but also demonstrates the unity of mankind in its fundamental need for explanations of the unknown)

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Names & Places

• A Dictionary of British Place-Names (From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day)
• A Dictionary of First Names (We all have a first name, but how many of us really know its origin and history? This comprehensive dictionary provides a fascinating collection of linguistic, historical, and associated information about some 7,000 names, making it ideal reference for linguists and family historians)

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News & Current Events

• Business Wire News - EBSCOhost (Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.)
• CQ Public Affairs Collection ( Features in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas)
• CQ Researcher (Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology)
• Custom Newspapers (Collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international)
• Ethnic NewsWatch  (News, culture and history from 2000+ publications of the Ethnic, Minority and Native press - provides both English and Spanish language search interfaces)
• FACTS.COM (Facts On File World News Digest includes core reference databases of events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years)
• Historical New York Times (Sept. 18, 1851 - December 31, 2001)
• Informe (Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias) (A collection of Spanish magazines with complete text.  Include business, health, technology, culture, up-to-date news, and other subjects)
• Issue and Controversies - Facts.com ( In-depth investigation of today's top issues)
• Lexis-Nexis Legal News (Articles from news sources covering law)
• Lexis-Nexis Medical News (Articles from medical & health news sources covering healthcare)
• Lexis-Nexis News (Numerous newspapers and other news sources)
• National Newspaper Index - INFOtrac ( National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post)
• New York State Newspapers (Ten state of New York newspapers)
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - INFOtrac  (Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles)
• Today's Science - Facts.com (Science news written especially for students)

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Performing Arts

• Art Index - WilsonWeb (Is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (Guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Providing thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, the dictionary's coverage gives comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (Plot synopses and first performance details, bibliographies of works about opera, entries on singers (including their debuts and career highlights, with notes on voice type, style, and reputation), definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles, and surveys of the history of opera worldwide are all included in a reference work that provides an enormous amount of information)
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare (This dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages)
• Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing (A comprehensive dictionary that covers the plays, poems, characters and background to Shakespeare's works. The dictionary also includes terms used in the theatre and stagecraft, as well as historical references and details on the Elizabethan historical and social period)
• Grove Art Online (Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource)
• Grove Music Online (Is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online is updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present)
• The Oxford Companion to Music (Concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, with specialist coverage of virtually every musical subject. It places music in its social and cultural context, with a range of new entries on topics such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers)
• The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Wide coverage of dancers, choreographers, teachers, composers, technical terms, major works, important films, and organizations involved in the dance world)
• Who's Who in Opera (Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers)

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Physical Sciences & Mathematics

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (Covers the often bewildering maze of equations and theorems encountered within the mathematical universe. Covering everything in the field, from pure and applied mathematics to statistics, it also covers areas of more general interest, such as fractals, game theory, and chaos. Brief biographical sketches are provided of the great mathematicians)
• A Dictionary of Astronomy (Major entries in this revised edition include Big Bang theory, galaxy, meteorite, quasar, stellar evolution, and variable stars. With a wide-ranging scope, the dictionary encompasses up-to-date entries on space missions and recently named Solar System onjects, international coverage of telescopes and observatories and biographical entries on eminent astronomers from Copernicus to Edwin Hubble)
• Dictionary of Astronomy, Peter Collin Publishing (A comprehensive dictionary, covering all aspects of astronomy, from telescopes to planets, stars to comets. The dictionary contains over 1,700 terms, clearly explains complex terms, and has been fully revised and updated to include the latest missions, discoveries and equipment)
• A Dictionary of Chemistry (Covers all the commonly encountered terms in chemistry, including physical chemistry and biochemistry. Clear and concise coverage of laboratory techniques, chemical engineering, and environmental matters, plus entries on such topics as buckminsterfullerene, fullerite, quasicrystal, oscillating reaction, and one-pot synthesis)
• A Dictionary of Physics (Containing thousands of entries, including biographies of key scientists, it covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts and includes feature articles on important topics, and chronologies that chart discoveries in main fields of the subject)
• A Dictionary of Scientists (From Archimedes and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date biographical dictionary of scientists currently available. Spanning over 2,500 years, it covers all areas of science, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology)
• A Dictionary of Statistics (Covers a broad range of statistical vocabulary in jargon-free language. It provides concise definitions of terms likely to be encountered by students, of both Statistics and of disciplines featuring statistical material such as politics, medicine, and mathematics. Features biographical information on key figures, entries covering statistical journals, terms used in computing, operational research, probability and mathematical and statistical notation)
• A Dictionary of Weather (Provides a comprehensive body of information about weather, forecasting, and climate terms, along with detailed illustrative examples of specific events and weather extremes)
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (Provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use)
• General Science Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Disciplines covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology)
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda (Is a dictionary of science covering all the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, medicine and physiology, and the Earth sciences. Its entries also explain terms belonging to the history of science and include brief biographies of important scientists. Diagrams and artworks illustrate key concepts of science)
• InfoShare (Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more. With Infoshare Online's powerful interface and vast collection of data files, you can profile an area of your choosing, compare area across a region, or produce your own tabulations)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews Database, Mathematical Reviews, and Current Mathematical Publications are all produced by the American Mathematical Society.  Bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society.  Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered)
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science (Chemistry, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, astronomy, computing: all these topics are covered in this superbly comprehensive and accessible dictionary. With clear and up-to-date definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (From algebra to number theory and from statistics to mechanics, this versatile dictionary takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics. Invaluable for students at school and university level, it is also a useful source book for economists, business people, engineers, technicians and scientists of all kinds who need a knowledge of mathematics in the course of their work)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Physics (Provides clear and concise definitions of some 4,500 terms and concepts, drawn from every area of physics. Ranging from optics and acoustics to mechanics and electronics, including quantum theory and relativity)

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Polls & Surveys

• A Dictionary of Statistics (Covers a broad range of statistical vocabulary in jargon-free language. It provides concise definitions of terms likely to be encountered by students, of both Statistics and of disciplines featuring statistical material such as politics, medicine, and mathematics. Features biographical information on key figures, entries covering statistical journals, terms used in computing, operational research, probability and mathematical and statistical notation)
• Lexis-Nexis Polls & Surveys (From the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)

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Psychology & Psychiatry

• The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science (It provides comprehensive coverage from Acquired Drives to Z-score, from conduct disorders to shamanism)
• A Dictionary of Psychology (A dictionary for professional psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, and students of psychology and related disciplines such as nursing, sociology, social work, and education. There is comprehensive coverage of phobias and phobic stimuli and mental disorders)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology (As well as focusing on what a given technical description means, the author shows how the term is actually employed, its connotations and how it has been used - and abused - in the past)
• PsycARTICLES - EBSCOhost (Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1985 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 39,000 full-text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO)
• PsycINFO - EBSCOhost (PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year)

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Quotations

• Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations (It includes both familiar quotations and perceptive or witty sayings that are less well known. It includes, especially, sought quotations that reflect contemporary issues as well as those from literature and the Bible)
• Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (The work is ideal for seeking an apt quotation on a particular theme. For example, under the entry politicians a wide variety of quotations appear, from Shakespeare, through Curzon and Churchill, to references to John Major and Paddy Ashdown)
• Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations (A reference source for speech, essay and letter writers, and for trivia and crossword buffs)
• Lexis-Nexis Quotations (Over 10,000 quotes from the famous & not-so-famous)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Over 9,000 entries from nearly 2,000 authors. Has extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations and new material on slogans, catchphrases, film lines, and popular misquotations)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Is a collection of over 5,000 quotations, representing key voices and events of the last 100 years and the beginnings of the new century. Coverage ranges from the worlds of art, literature, science, and politics to popular culture, and material is drawn from the electronic media as well as print)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Provides coverage of traditional areas such as classical literature and Shakespeare, and now has new feature entries on Advertising Slogans, Film Lines, Epitaphs and Misquotations among others)
• Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations (Covers the whole gamut of American life, culture and politics)
• Respectfully Quoted (Quotations come from a very wide range of writers and speakers, such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herodotus and Maria Montessori; it covers subjects as diverse as Santa Claus and Truth, Obscenity and Morality)
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (About 10,000 outstanding quotable comments uttered since 1950, with special emphasis on the last two dozen years. Provides the date and whenever possible the circumstances surrounding each utterance)

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Religion & Philosophy

• Atlas of the Bible, Andromeda (The first atlas of the Bible to treat its subject geographically rather than historically, this unique work features the main biblical sites)
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth (This work retells the world's major myths and legends, and gives a clear reference guide to who was who, where was where and what was what. In addition to over 2500 A-Z entries of myths, motifs, locations and characters, there are generic essays and entries about the various traditions, organized by location)
• Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (This is a human-scale distillation of the 2500 ideas which have had the greatest impact on our development through the ages. It includes a huge variety of terms including the intimidating, such as post-modernism, structuralism and chaos theory, the unusual, including alchemy, polyphony and parapsychology, while familiar terms such as civilization and beauty are explained anew)
• The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (The most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English)
• Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend, Thames & Hudson (Provides over 1000 accessible, informative and authoritative entries to answer any major question about Hinduism, its mythology, practices, customs and laws)
• A Dictionary of the Bible (Provides helpful information about the books of the Bible, customs, religions and worship, history, and theology, important places, and personalities)
• A Dictionary of Buddhism (Broad-ranging entries on the history and doctrines of the major Buddhist schools, information on the spread of Buddhism in Asia and the West, and coverage of issues of contemporary concern such as human rights, abortion, euthanasia, ‘engaged Buddhism’, and the role of women in Buddhist teachings)
• Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend, Thames & Hudson (Provides a clear and systematic guide to a rich heritage of legend, folklore and tradition that is crucial to understanding Judaism. It describes the main characters and the tales that have grown up around them; Jewish methods of Biblical interpretation; the framework of Jewish law, literature and poetry; the festivals of the Jewish Year; the different languages and sub-groups within the Jewish community; and the many countries in which Jews have lived, as well as the importance of the Holy Land)
• A Dictionary of Philosophy, Macmillan (From the classic thinkers, through Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant and hundreds more who lead up to the modern age, this comprehensive dictionary spans the personalities, terminology and vocabulary of thousands of years of philosophical thought in addition to the more recent encroachment of social and psychological sciences)
• A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Contains a wealth of information on every aspect of Jewish belief and practice, both ancient and modern. Entries range from personalities in the Bible to present-day Jewish thinkers and writers, and other coverage includes customs, traditions, and Jewish ideas on subjects as diverse as dance, vegetarianism, and eternity)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Guide to every aspect of the Christian religion and life, including theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations, the church calendar and organization, and the Bible)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (It contains entries on all the major and many minor religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Taoism. Over 500 entries cover movements, sects, and cults, from Cargo Cults and the New Age movement to Rastafarians and Soka Gakkai. Over 1,000 entries explore the sacred writings of religions worldwide, and short biographies of founders, leaders, gurus, philosophers, mystics, and heretics are given. There are details of sacred sites, customs, religious practices, dogmas, beliefs, traditions, festivals and fasts, and artefacts such as altars, rosaries, icons, and torah ornaments. There are also entries on worldwide religious teachings on abortion, animals, birth control, war, homosexuality, and suicide)
• Encyclopedia of American Religions (With coverage on more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists. Information on these groups is presented in two distinct sections. These sections contain essays and directory listings that describe the historical development of religious families and give factual information about each group within those families, including, when available, rubrics for membership figures, educational facilities and periodicals)
• The Holy Bible, King James Version, Cambridge University Press (The King James or 'Authorized' Version was commissioned in 1603 when James became King of England. It was first published in 1611 and attained a unique authority, gradually superseding all previous versions. The first Cambridge printing was in 1629. The "KJV" is a classic of the English language and is still a very widely accepted translation. This edition of the KJV includes the full text of the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Apocrypha, with the words of Christ displayed in red)
• Humanities Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that cites articles from best-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines from English-language periodicals. Topics included: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology)
• Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible (For anyone who wants a quick-reference guide to the Bible. Entries consist of the main people, places, customs, religious and cultural aspects, events, and institutions of the Bible)
• The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (It gives clear and reliable guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-language philosophy)
• The Oxford Companion to the Bible (One-volume reference to the people, places, events, books, institutions, religious belief, and secular influence of the Bible)
• Oxford Dictionary of Islam (Focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, providing a highly informative look at the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world. There are entries on topics of current interest such as terrorism and the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, the PLO and HAMAS, but the coverage also includes biographical profiles, and entries covering major political movements, militant groups, religious sects terms from Islamic law, culture and religion, key historical events, and important landmarks)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Ranging from Aristotle to Zen, the entries cover the entire span of philosophy, from the Vedas to the most recent technical terminology, with ample coverage of important themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to John Paul II)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (From the famous to the obscure, this book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints, including entries on the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padro Pio, and Josémaria Escriva)
• The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (Offers 325 articles that describe the people and places that appear in the New Testament and Old Testament of the Bible. From prophets, apostles, and groups (such as Hebrews and Angels) to kingdoms and countries, cities and mountains where Biblical events took place)
• The Qur'an (The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632. Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of the Qur'an was first published in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan. Since 1934 his translation has gone into numerous reprints)
• Who's Who in Christianity, Routledge (Is a reference guide to the leading men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history, including the founding fathers, saints, popes, monarchs, philanthropists, theologians, missionaries, and heretics)
• Who's Who in Classical Mythology, Routledge (Includes: over 1,200 extensive entries, detailed entries on all the major gods and heroes, and biographical listing of all the key authors)
• Who's Who in the New Testament, Routledge (Is comprehensive and includes all the people mentioned by name in the New Testament as well as some who remain unnamed like the centurions at Capernaum and Calvary, together with certain political and religious groups, such as the Sadducees and the Essenes)
• Who's Who in the Old Testament, Routledge (Is the definitive biographical guide to the Old Testament. It contains nearly 2,000 entries, with the complete historical, geographical and archaeological context of each entry)

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Science

• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs (Covers over-the-counter, pharmacy, and prescription medicines)
• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology (It contains complete, up-to-date definitions for all areas of science and technology)
• Applied Science & Technology Index - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length. English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere are covered; non-English language articles are included if English abstracts are provided. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings)
• Collins Dictionary of Astronomy (For all those interested in astronomy. It includes over 3,500 entries and 100 line drawings, describes all major telescopes, including ground-based and space observatories, together with their instrumentation and observational techniques, and full explanations of the latest theories on the origin and evolution of the universe, the formation and distribution of the galaxies, and the birth and death of stars)
• Collins Dictionary of Biology (It includes over 6,500 entries, with many helpful illustrations, covering all of the major fields within biology - including anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, evolutionary theory, genetics, molecular biology, physiology and taxonomy. The dictionary also includes descriptions of techniques and tests commonly used in biology, as well as statistical terms)
• Concise Medical Dictionary (A home medical guide and as an aid for all those working in the medical and allied professions)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (Covers the often bewildering maze of equations and theorems encountered within the mathematical universe. Covering everything in the field, from pure and applied mathematics to statistics, it also covers areas of more general interest, such as fractals, game theory, and chaos. Brief biographical sketches are provided of the great mathematicians)
• A Dictionary of Astronomy (Major entries in this revised edition include Big Bang theory, galaxy, meteorite, quasar, stellar evolution, and variable stars. With a wide-ranging scope, the dictionary encompasses up-to-date entries on space missions and recently named Solar System onjects, international coverage of telescopes and observatories and biographical entries on eminent astronomers from Copernicus to Edwin Hubble)
• Dictionary of Astronomy, Peter Collin Publishing (A comprehensive dictionary, covering all aspects of astronomy, from telescopes to planets, stars to comets. The dictionary contains over 1,700 terms, clearly explains complex terms, and has been fully revised and updated to include the latest missions, discoveries and equipment)
• A Dictionary of Biology (Includes biographies of key scientists and provides comprehensive coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, as well as key terms from medicine and palaeontology)
• A Dictionary of Chemistry (Covers all the commonly encountered terms in chemistry, including physical chemistry and biochemistry)
• Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, Wiley (Developmental biology is the study of the mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, and genetic levels. This authoritative A-to-Z resource covers classical morphological and cytological terms along with those from modern genetics and molecular biology. Extensively cross-referenced, the Dictionary includes definitions of terms, explanations of concepts, and biographies of historical figures. Comparative aspects are described in order to provide a sense of the evolution of structures. All features of embryology and developmental biology are covered)
• A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (Coverage includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology. There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales)
• A Dictionary of Ecology (Provides entries on all aspects of ecology and the environmental sciences. It covers a vast range of subjects, from plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, evolution, environmental pollution, and conservation to climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, and oceanography)
• A Dictionary of Nursing (Accident and emergency, trauma, public health medicine, and theory and practice of nursing are all covered)
• A Dictionary of Physics (Containing thousands of entries, including biographies of key scientists, it covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts and includes feature articles on important topics, and chronologies that chart discoveries in main fields of the subject)
• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (Provides coverage on topics including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, bio-geography, earth history, and the earth sciences. There is worldwide coverage of taxonomic groups)
• A Dictionary of Psychology (A dictionary for professional psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, and students of psychology and related disciplines such as nursing, sociology, social work, and education. There is comprehensive coverage of phobias and phobic stimuli and mental disorders)
• A Dictionary of Scientists ( From Archimedes and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date biographical dictionary of scientists currently available. Spanning over 2,500 years, it covers all areas of science, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology)
• A Dictionary of Statistics (Covers a broad range of statistical vocabulary in jargon-free language. It provides concise definitions of terms likely to be encountered by students, of both Statistics and of disciplines featuring statistical material such as politics, medicine, and mathematics. Features biographical information on key figures, entries covering statistical journals, terms used in computing, operational research, probability and mathematical and statistical notation)
• A Dictionary of Weather (Provides a comprehensive body of information about weather, forecasting, and climate terms, along with detailed illustrative examples of specific events and weather extremes)
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (Provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use)
• A Dictionary of Zoology (Covers all aspects of the study of animals for students and amateur naturalists. There is wide coverage of all relevant topics including animal behaviour, genetics, evolutionary studies, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, Earth history, and zoogeography)
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) (Full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, searchable on article level)
• General Science Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Abstracts also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Disciplines covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology)
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda (Is a dictionary of science covering all the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, medicine and physiology, and the Earth sciences. Its entries also explain terms belonging to the history of science and include brief biographies of important scientists. Diagrams and artworks illustrate key concepts of science)
• JSTOR (Retrospective files of key journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, language & literature, mathematics and statistics, and music)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science (Chemistry, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, astronomy, computing: all these topics are covered in this superbly comprehensive and accessible dictionary. With clear and up-to-date definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms)
• The Oxford Companion to the Earth (Offers coverage of the Earth Sciences, from volcanoes to flood plains, diamonds to meteors, deserts to deep seas. All aspects of geology, including climatology, mineralogy, and oceanography, are covered)
• The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Presents a history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (From algebra to number theory and from statistics to mechanics, this versatile dictionary takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics. Invaluable for students at school and university level, it is also a useful source book for economists, business people, engineers, technicians and scientists of all kinds who need a knowledge of mathematics in the course of their work)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Physics (Provides clear and concise definitions of some 4,500 terms and concepts, drawn from every area of physics. Ranging from optics and acoustics to mechanics and electronics, including quantum theory and relativity)
• Today's Science - Facts.com (Science news written especially for students)

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Social Sciences

• The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science (Is an introduction to the terminology of political science for students and general readers. The book comprises rigorous definitions and explanations of around 1000 key terms presented in an engaging style, cross-referenced, and easily accessible to readers new to the subject. It includes short biographies of the most eminent writers in the discipline - both classical and modern )
• The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology (The Dictionary featuress: over 1200 entries on diverse topics, from idealism to materialism, c overage of all aspects of sociology, from theory to statistics, in-depth biographical sketches on major figures within sociology, and detailed bibliographies and comprehensive cross-references)
• Collins Dictionary of Sociology (Guide to the terms and concepts used in every area of sociology and to related terms in anthropology, psychology, economics and political science)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (Covers political institutions, concepts, leaders, and thinkers with an international and wide-ranging scope, including issues such as voting theory and feminism, to Chinese and Muslim political thought)
• CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government (Definitive source for information on U.S. government, politics, and elections:  presidency, congress, supreme court and elections)
• CQ Public Affairs Collection (Features in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas)
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (Provides in-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events from 1900 to the present day. Extensive surveys of every country are included with detailed analytical entries covering political and military leaders, political parties, international organizations, and acts of war)
• A Dictionary of Geography (There are over 6,300 definitions across the following fields: cartography, surveying, remote sensing, statistics, meteorology, climatology, biogeography, ecology, simple geology, soils, geomorphology, population, migration, settlement, agriculture, industry, transport, development, and diffusion)
• Dictionary of Government and Politics, Peter Collin Publishing (This dictionary provides the user with the basic vocabulary used in the fields of government and politics, both in Britain and the United States)
• The Dictionary of Human Geography (The Dictionary includes short definitional entries and longer, interpretative essays on human geography and its major sub-fields. By directing readers to major sources for further information, the Dictionary also serves as a companion to geographical literature)
• A Dictionary of Political Biography (This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world)
• A Dictionary of Psychology (A dictionary for professional psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, and students of psychology and related disciplines such as nursing, sociology, social work, and education. There is comprehensive coverage of phobias and phobic stimuli and mental disorders)
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences (Collecting anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism in one volume, the Dictionary presents concise, clearly written definitions of more than 1,500 important terms. Entries are true definitions, not extended essays or summaries)
• A Dictionary of Sociology (This dictionary has international coverage of terms, methods, and concepts; related terms from psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science; and material on topics such as cultural studies and identity, mass media, and the Internet, nationalism and McDonaldization)
• A Dictionary of Statistics (Covers a broad range of statistical vocabulary in jargon-free language. It provides concise definitions of terms likely to be encountered by students, of both Statistics and of disciplines featuring statistical material such as politics, medicine, and mathematics. Features biographical information on key figures, entries covering statistical journals, terms used in computing, operational research, probability and mathematical and statistical notation)
• Encyclopedia of Aging (It encompasses all aspects of aging. Covering a variety of disciplines --biology, medicine, economics, law psychology, sociology and history -- the Encyclopedia also explores related issues such as religion, spirituality, and ethics. Also includes a topical outline, primary source documents, addresses, Web sites and an index)
• The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, Blackwell Science (Provides a complete one-volume guide to the core definitions and issues associated with pure and applied ecology)
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Contains 152 original essays (about 8,000-12,000 words each) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The Encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish)
• InfoShare ( Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more. With Infoshare Online's powerful interface and vast collection of data files, you can profile an area of your choosing, compare area across a region, or produce your own tabulations)
• Issue and Controversies - Facts.com ( In-depth investigation of today's top issues)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - INFOtrac  (Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles)
• The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World Iincludes biographies of Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Gerhard Schroder; articles on events such as the Rwandan Genocide and the war in Kosovo; and coverage of international trade developments such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization)
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court)
• Penguin Dictionary of Sociology (This book provides not only simple, one-line definitions but also entries that discuss the issues involved in, and alternative approaches to, the central concepts, theories and writings of sociology)
• Social Sciences Abstracts - WilsonWeb (A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles which include a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.  Subject matter covered: Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies )
• Social Services InfoNet - CSA (Access to the cutting edge in social work and social services-related databases and information resources available on the Internet)
• Sociological Abstracts - CSA (Primary resource for accessing research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences)
• U.S. Census 2000 State & County Statistical QuickFacts (The U.S. Census 2000 contains a multitude of facts about people, business and geography. Gathered over a period of ten years and compiled by experts, the census is presented here as dynamic tables)
• World of Sociology, Gale (Is a comprehensive, subject-specific guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, developments and pioneers related to the field of sociology. Coverage includes approximately 1,250 alphabetically arranged topical essays, definitions and biographies)

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Technology & Applied Sciences

• Collins Dictionary of Computing (A popular guide to the language and jargon of computing, from screen messages and hardware components and the terminology used in computer magazines and software manuals)
• Compact American Dictionary of Computer Words (This book is excellent for precise, thorough definitions for the core vocabulary of today's technology. Whether you use a PC or a Mac, you will find everything you need here in order to understand hardware, software, and netiquette)
• Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations, Wiley (Wider ranging than a conventional dictionary, it enables you to check exact specifications, definitions, characteristics, options, relay diagrams, paths, alignments, sources, codes, events, tables, sequences, tradenames, methods, and numerous other vital facts that can spell disaster if misinterpreted or incorrectly specified)
• A Dictionary of Computing (The wide range of topics covered includes computer applications in industry, the office, science, education, and the home, the hardware, software, and telecommunications behind these applications. The dictionary also addresses the concepts and theories of computing and associated fields)
• Dictionary of Engineering Terms, Butterworth-Heinemann (A comprehensive dictionary of terms for engineering students containing over 1200 entries, it covers the areas of engineering science, electrical and electronic engineering, workshop practices and mechanical engineering)
• A Dictionary of the Internet (This dictionary provides thousands of terms related to the Web, software technology, jargon, e-commerce, security, and the technical and organizational infrastructure of the Internet)
• Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications: A Guide for Developers and Users (The one-stop reference for developers and users, including over 2,500 references and 35 illustrations, explanations of new and emerging technologies, definitions and explanations, tradename information, and in-depth entries illuminating specific topics)
• Dictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet, Peter Collin Publishing (This comprehensive dictionary covers all aspects of personal computing and the Internet. It includes the jargon and features you will find in Microsoft Windows, PC hardware and software, and on the Internet)
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use)
• Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications, Focal Press (Contains essential data for on-the-job use and includes over 6,000 terms, definitions and acronyms and over 350 line drawings)
• Hargrave's Communications Dictionary, Wiley (This volume includes over ten thousand definitions of key phrases that readers in industry, government, and academia need to understand. Many definitions incorporate basic tools for problem solving - such as drawings, graphs and charts. Real-world examples associated with voice and data communications are also included, as well as terminology from peripheral disciplines, including optics, computer science, data networks, and the Internet)
• Kluwer (Journals in the humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and biosciences)
• Newnes Dictionary of Electronics, Newnes (The definitions are clear and concise, supported by numerous illustrations and circuit diagrams)
• Webster's New World™ Computer Dictionary (It gives you clear and concise definitions for more than 4,750 up-to-date computer terms. You'll find current coverage of the latest standards and protocols in storage, memory, peripherals, and more-plus updated and expanded information on computer security, legislation, and computer and Internet technology)

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Other Online Reference Sites

• Archives Library Information Center (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Ask a Librarian (Library of Congress)
• ibiblio: the public's library and digital archive (Duke University)
• The Internet Public Library (University of Michigan - School of Information)
• Online Reference (University of Arizona Library)
• Online Reference Collection (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
• Online Reference Resources (Penn State Libraries)
• Online Reference Resources (Yale University Library)
• Quick Reference (Purdue University Libraries)
• Useful Reference Sites (University of Texas Libraries)
• Virtual Reference Library (MIT Libraries)
• Virtual Reference Shelf (New York University Libraries)

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