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E-Reference Shelf

General
Associations Unlimited - Some full text
Profiles of organizations and associations world-wide, plus IRS data (501c status) for over 300,000 nonprofit organizations.

Books in Print - Some full text
Publication information on books in print and some out of print, with some reviews; also audio and video.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Full text
Online encyclopedia with related internet sites.

NetLibrary - Full text
Electronic books covering a wide range of scholarly topics.

Oxford English Dictionary - Full text
Full-text online dictionary with quotations.

WorldCat (OCLC Union Catalog) - Citations only
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Art
Grove Dictionary of Art Online - Full text
Full-text of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996), which covers the visual arts from prehistory until the 1990's, with additional new and updated material and links to images in museums and galleries.

Biography
Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Citations only
Index of reference books covering contemporary and historical figures.

Encyclopedia of World Biography - Some full text
Approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.

Biology
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia - Full text
Comprehensive coverage of animal species.

Business
Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce - Full-text
Essays covering topics and terms, profiles of the top e-commerce companies, biographies of e-commerce innovators, and coverage of events and legislation related to e-commerce.

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance - Full-text
Articles and data concerning accounting, economics, finance, information systems law, management, and marketing.

Encyclopedia of Small Business - Full-text
Detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners.

Countries
Countries and their Cultures
Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.

Education
World Education Encyclopedia - Full-text

Testing and Education Resource Center (TERC) - Some full text
Information on colleges, graduate and career programs, scholarships, online test preparation books and practice tests, as well as resume/application tools.

Environment
Weather Almanac

History
Dictionary of American History - Full text
Coverage of a wide variety of topics in American history.

American Decades - Full-Text
Decade-by decade 20th-Century historical and biographical entries in 13 categories, including the arts, government, religion and science. Photos, illustrations and text are used to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History - Full text
Brief descriptions of legal issues, profiles of U.S. laws and regulations, details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state, and comprehensive bibliographies.

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy - Full text
Essays and articles about concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control.

Law
Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law

Medicine
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Covers all aspects of public health for the lay reader. Includes infectious diseases and other topics related to public health, such as causes of injury or chronic diseases.

Music
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online - Full text
Includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

Multicultural Studies

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America - Full text
Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing their religions, holidays, customs, and languages, and their historical background and settlement patterns.

Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Full-Text
Contains more than 2,100 entries on many philosophical topics, including regional and religious philosophies, bioethics, art and aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, social/political philosophy, the Holocaust, feminism, and philosopher biographies.

Religion
Encyclopedia of Religion - Full-text
Comprehensive coverage of world religions.

New Catholic Encyclopedia - Full-text
Covers topics such as abortion, divorce, cloning, and reproductive technologies. Includes biographies of religious figures, photos, maps, illustrations and bibliographical citations.

Social Science
Encyclopedia of Aging - Full-text
Articles cover topics such as biology, medicine, economics, law, psychology, sociology, and history as they relate to aging.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America - Full text
Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing their religions, holidays, customs, and languages, and their historical background and settlement patterns.


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