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Book Review Digest
1983+
Reviews of fiction and nonfiction books.
Books in Print
"Coverage Varies"
R.R. Bowker's Books in Print.
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Please note: Another link for book availability is bibliographic_information
Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to more than 100,000 twentieth century authors.
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CQ Researcher
1991+
Service contains in depth weekly reports on timely issues.
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DISS (Dissertation Abstracts) 1861+ indexing
1980+ abstracting dissertations
1988+ abstracting theses
Abstracts of international dissertations.
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Encyclopedia Britannica A general encyclopedia.
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Facts on File Reference Suite A reference suite of Facts-on-File news services. Details world news from 1950 in addition to providing six other factual databases.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
(HLAS Online)
Claims to be the "oldest and most prestigious annotated area studies bibliography in the world." Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Entries include links to full-text scholarly databases, i.e. Project Muse, etc. Also available in the PC Reference Department. Ref F1401 .H235
International Medieval Bibliography
c. 400-1500
A leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
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JSTOR Access to complete backfiles for 300 journal titles in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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Library Literature & Information Science, 1980+ The database indexes English and non-English language 
articles and book reviews from library and information 
science periodicals, books, chapters in collected works 
such as conference proceedings, library school theses and 
pamphlets
LISTA  (library science) Library, Information, Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) provides indexing for over 600 periodicals, as well as books, research reports, and proceedings. Subjects covered include librarianship, classification, online information retrieval, and information management. Database coverage begins from the mid-1960s.

Merck Index

The 13th edition of a work referenced by chemists, biochemists, pharmacists and those in related professions.    Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers are embedded within the over 10,000 monographs in this edition.
Oxford English Dictionary Online Contains definitions, etymology and quotations. Library also owns the print edition, shelved at Ref PE 1625 M7 in the Reference Department.
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PapersFirst
1993+
An index of papers presented.
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Proceedings. 1993+ An index of conference publications of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
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Project Muse Online journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Reference Universe  [new: Fall 2005] Acts as a bridge between the Phillips Memorial Library’s print reference collection and our online reference databases by searching authoritative reference works in the library, such as subject-specific encyclopedias. You can use Reference Universe to identify authoritative articles to begin research, whether they are on the library shelves or in online resources.
Serials Directory
(Ebsco)
The directory contains over 182,500 U.S. and international periodical and newspaper titles.
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WorldCat
before 1000 BC+
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
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Xreferplus An online reference library that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and more
Internet Resources
JAKE JAKE (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians.
URL: http://jake-db.org/

Last revision to this page (mp+ cbc+ eo): 19 December 2005
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