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[edit] General
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Full
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Public online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica.
- 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.
[edit] Biography
- Encyclopedia of World Biography - Some full text
Approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.
[edit] Biology
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia - Full text
Comprehensive coverage of animal species.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Chemistry
[edit] Countries
- Countries and their Cultures
Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.
[edit] Education
- Digest of Education Statistics Contains statistical information on education from the U.S. Department of Education.
- World Education Encyclopedia Essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.
- Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education Full Text Online - information on bilingual education and related topics. Discusses how this topic affects schools, research centers, legislative bodies, advocacy organizations, and families
- Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods Covers survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses.
[edit] Environment
- Weather Almanac in-depth weather records for 108 major U.S. cities and a climatic overview of the country, including 33 U.S. weather atlas maps.
[edit] Health Sciences
- Encyclopedia of Gerontology Covers research on the study of aging. Explores influences that bring change to individuals over the life span. Influences range from genetics to physiology, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.
- Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health Overview of the aging process and elder health. Includes a historical and demographic overview of aging in America, a guide to biological changes accompanying aging, an analysis of the diversity of the U.S. elder population, legal issues commonly affecting older adults, and the ethics of using cognitively impaired elders in research.
- Encyclopedia of Obesity Summarizes topics in obesity and related health conditions. Features topics that capture the current climate of obesity research while still addressing and defining the core concepts related to this condition.
- 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.
- Encyclopedia of Toxicology Provides a survey of toxicology. Presents entries devoted to key concepts and specific chemicals. Also includes articles that focus on the societal implications of toxicological knowledge
[edit] History
- Dictionary of American History Coverage of a wide variety of topics in American history.
- American Decades 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 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 Essays and articles about concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control.
[edit] Law
[edit] Multicultural Studies
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing their religions, holidays, customs, and languages, and their historical background and settlement patterns.
[edit] Philosophy
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy 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.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy General encyclopedia of Philosophy from Stanford University
[edit] Psychology/Pastoral Counseling
- Encyclopedia of Counseling - Provides an overview of theories, models, techniques, and challenges involved in professional counseling. Entries cover the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in counseling.
- Encyclopedia of Gerontology Covers research on the study of aging. Explores influences that bring change to individuals over the life span. Influences range from genetics to physiology, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.
[edit] Religion
- Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d edition, 2005 Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
- Encyclopedia of American Religions General essays that historically trace major religious traditions, as well as directory listings that include contact and descriptive information on individual churches and other religious entities. Comprehensive coverage of more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists.
- New Catholic Encyclopedia Covers topics such as abortion, divorce, cloning, and reproductive technologies. Includes biographies of religious figures, photos, maps, llustrations and bibliographical citations.
[edit] Social Science
- Encyclopedia of Aging Articles cover topics such as biology, medicine, economics, law, psychology, sociology, and history as they relate to aging.
- Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods Covers survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing their religions, holidays, customs, and languages, and their historical background and settlement patterns.
- Rich and Poor in America: a Reference Handbook Includes "Background and History," "Problems, Controversies and Solutions," "Worldwide Perspectives," "Biographical Sketches," and primary sources.
