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Online
Databases
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The Library offers
self-service access to a number of databases free of
charge. The list of databases available at the moment is
nominal with the aim of upgrading and extending this
service:
To connect on campus, click on the
database name
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We often have
databases on trial
- please try
them out and give us your feedback.
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Combined Database Searching: One link to all several
electronic resources. Search by title, author, keyword
or/and subject.
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Fulltext & Index
Databases |
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A-Z EBSCO Journals:
Provides links to all the
EBSCO e-journal
titles with full-text availability. |
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ABI/INFORM Global
(PROQUEST): Premier
worldwide business periodicals. |
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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
(PROQUEST):
Publications to help study and compare specific
trades and industries. |
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Academic Search Complete
(EBSCO):
Multi-disciplinary
full-text database, with more than 6,100
full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100
peer-reviewed journals
and a total of more than 10,600 publications
including monographs, reports, conference
proceedings, etc. The database features PDF
content going back as far as 1887. |
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AccessEngineering
(McGraw-Hill):
Provides
electronic access to over 280 books in the major
areas of engineering such as:
biomedical,
chemical, civil, communications, construction,
electrical, energy, environmental,
green/sustainable, industrial, material science,
mechanical, nanotechnology, and optical
engineering. |
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AccessMedicine
(McGraw-Hill):
Full text, graphics, images and illustrations of
the most recent editions of medical reference
books from McGraw-Hill,
including
access to USMLEasy, an online testing service to
help prepare students for Step 1 and Step 2
USMLE exams. |
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AccessScience
(McGraw-Hill):
Science reference
materials with access to all the articles, fully
illustrated, from the latest edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology,
Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill
Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and
the latest Science News headlines,
biographies, and more. Containing full text for
nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including
more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. |
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AccessSurgery
(McGraw-Hill):
Is an integrated
online resource that provides medical students,
surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with
quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted
sources. Organized around the ACGME's
(Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum,
AccessSurgery delivers content in context. |
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An-Nahar Archives Online:
Provides access to the bibliographic citations
database of An-Nahar Newspaper (1985 - Present)
to be able to order articles on Arab and Middle
Eastern Affairs: political, economic, military,
sports, social, educational, medical, … |
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1.
Choose 1st box to the left of PAID service.
2. Open an individual account by subscribing
(for free). Click on “new subscriber” and fill
in the required information.
3.
Username and password sent to UOB Webmail.
4.
Carry out your search and locate the required
article.
5.
Order the article through the
Document Delivery Services (ILL-DDS)
in the Atef Danial Library.
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Annual Reviews:
Analytic reviews in 32 disciplines within the
biomedical, physical, and social sciences. |
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Art Full-Text
(H.W.Wilson) or
Art Full-Text (EBSCO):
Is a
bibliographic database providing full text for
an
international array of peer-selected
publications (since 1997), covering the visual
arts and related subjects. 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, Art Full Text indexes
reproductions of works of art that appear in
indexed periodicals. |
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ATLA (The American Theological Library
Association) Religion Database
(EBSCO):
Provides
information on topics such as biblical studies,
world religions, church history, and religion in
social issues. Coverage areas include: Bible,
archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and
society; church history, missions, and
ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions
and religious studies; and theology, philosophy,
and ethics. Languages covered: English, German,
French, Spanish, Italian, and other. The records
include: journal article records, essay records
from multi-author works, and book reviews. |
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BMJ Learning:
An
interactive website designed for general
practitioners, hospital doctors, nurses and
healthcare professionals to support their
personal development, learning and CME
(Continuing Medical Education) needs.
You
must
register on the site individually to access the
modules so that you can save your work and track
your progress with learning modules online. |
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BMJ Publishing Group Journals:
A
broad range of medical specialties and more than
20 titles |
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Business Source Complete
(EBSCO):
Provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly
business journals, including full text for more
than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications.
Coverage includes virtually all subject areas
related to business. This database provides full
text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top
scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. |
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Business Search Interface - Business Source
Complete
(EBSCO):
Provides direct links to company/industry
profiles, market research reports, country
reports, SWOT analyses, business videos, and
more through the Browse links on the right side
of the page, plus links to the information found
in Business Source Complete. |
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Choice Reviews Online
(the internet version of the monthly print
magazine, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries). Directed toward academic librarians
and faculty as a resource for collection
development and scholarly research. It covers
more than 50 sub-disciplines spanning the
humanities, science and technology, and the
social and behavioral sciences from 1988 to
present. |
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
(Columbia University):
A
comprehensive source for theory and research in
international affairs. |
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CINAHL
with Full-Text:
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health
Literature
(EBSCO): A
comprehensive source of full text for nursing &
allied health journals, providing full text for
more than 580 journals indexed in CINAHL with
full-text coverage dating back to 1981. |
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Dissertation Abstracts Database
(PROQUEST):
Bibliographic
information for doctoral dissertations and
master's theses of authors from over 1,000 U.S.
graduate schools and universities since 1861.
You can order dissertations directly online with
your credit card. |
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dgMarket:
Is
an electronic marketplace for government
procurement information such as tender notices,
contract awards, and bidding documents.
Username and password required, contact
E-Resources Librarian (ext. 4077).
NOTE: This
account allows single use access, meaning one
user at a time. So if you are unable to log on
at one point, try again later. |
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Dynamed
(EBSCO):
Point-of-care reference designed to provide the
best available evidence to support clinical
decision-making.
HELP:
Dynamed - Presentation
On Mobile
devices:
On iPhone or iPod touch
/
On BlackBerry device |
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ebrary
(ebrary):
A growing collection of more that 60,000
full-text digital books and authoritative
content (multidisciplinary) from over 200
leading academic publishers. Full text content
can be viewed, searched and printed
(5 pages at each command).
If facing problems, please contact
HELP
DESK or call ext. 4357) |
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Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE GROUP):
Multi-disciplinary database. |
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ERIC (EBSCO)
Provides
a database of journal and non-journal education
literature for K-12 teachers, school
administrators, education faculty, school
psychologists and education students. This
database contains more than 1.3 million
citations and more than 323,000 full-text
documents going back to 1966. More than 110,000
full-text non-journal documents (from years
1993-present) are included in the database. |
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GreenFILE
(EBSCO) A
research database
of scholarly general interest titles, as well as
government document reports, focusing on the
relationship between human beings and the
environment, with well-researched but accessible
information on topics ranging from global
warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources
and beyond; offering a perspective on the
positive and negative ways humans affect the
ecology. |
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Global Issues in Context
(GALE GROUP) A
resource
that offers international viewpoints on a broad
spectrum of global issues, topics, and current
events. Each of these gateway pages includes an
overview, unique "perspectives" articles written
by local experts, reference, periodical, primary
source, statistical information and multimedia
material, including podcasts, video, and
interactive graphs. |
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Health and Wellness Resource Center
(GALE GROUP): An
integrated
electronic database with instant access to
authoritative health information, including
full-text medical encyclopedias, health and
medical journals, thousands of pamphlets,
streaming videos, and health articles from more
than 3,000 general interest publications
covering health care, diet, and fitness topics. |
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IEL: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
(Available on Main
Campus only): Archives
of publications (journals, conference
proceedings, and IEEE/IEE Standards) from 1988 |
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Infotrac Custom Newspapers
(GALE GROUP): More
than 100 major newspapers of U.S. and European
coverage. Four different titles will be made
available on a bi-weekly basis. |
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IngentaConnect:
Bibliographic
records to online journals from leading
scholarly, academic and business publishers and
full-text access to journals subscribed to by
the UOB Libraries. |
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International Financial Statistics (IFS)
(IMF):
Serves as a standard source of international
statistics on all aspects of international and
domestic finance: current information for the
analysis of international financial data,
including inflation, exchange rates,
international liquidity, international banking,
money and banking, interest rates, prices,
production, international transactions,
government accounts, and more. Approximately
32,000 time series covering more than 200
countries starting in 1948. |
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications:
IMF publications:
financial, economic and country reports,
surveys, even new publications, such as the
World Economic Outlook . |
Journal Citation Reports:
Allows the evaluation and comparison of journals
in the areas of science, technology, and social
sciences, showing the most frequently cited
journals and the highest impact journals in a
field. Available in Science Edition 2008 & 2009
and Social Sciences Edition 2008 & 2009.
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JSTOR:
(short for
Journal Storage) is a journal archive which
holds the complete digitized back runs of core
scholarly journals, starting with the very first
issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
New titles and disciplines are being added
regularly. Because of JSTOR's archival mission,
there is a gap, the so-called "moving wall"
between the most recently published journal
issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
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Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts (LISTA)
(EBSCO):
Bibliographic database on subjects such as
librarianship and information management and
more. |
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)
(GALE GROUP): Biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline, also
available the Scribner Writer's Series, Twayne
World, US, and English. |
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MDConsult
(ELSEVIER):
Medical information on medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care
system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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Medline: 1948 till present
(OVID): Bibliographic
citations and author abstracts from more than
4,600 medical and biomedical journals published
in the United States and 70 other countries. |
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Modern Language Association (MLA) International
Bibliography
(GALE GROUP):
Bibliographic
records pertaining to literature, language,
linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage
from 1926 to the present; it also covers
relevant monographs, working papers,
proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. |
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MultiData Online
(MSI):
Three databases: General News / Book Reviews /
Table of Contents of specialized
Arabic periodicals. |
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Nature Magazine
(NPG): A
weekly international journal publishing
peer-reviewed research in all fields of science
and technology. Articles are available from
1997-2007. |
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New
England Journal of Medicine:
A
weekly general medical journal that publishes
new medical research findings, review articles
and editorial opinion on a wide variety of
topics of importance to biomedical science and
clinical practice. |
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OVID Journals
(OVID):
Search and/or
Browse all
2793
journals
available through OVID. |
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PsycARTICLES
(APA):
A full-text database of journals published by APA and
other publishers in subject areas such as applied
psychology, health, theory, research,
social/personality, and more. |
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Sage Premier
(SAGE):
Provides access
to more than 500 high-quality scholarly full
text journals from the first issue of 1999
onward. Coverage is strong in the fields of
communication studies, criminology, education,
health sciences, management & organization
studies, materials science, political science,
psychology, sociology, and urban studies. |
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SciVerse: ScienceDirect
(ELSEVIER):
Provides full text access to
Elsevier ScienceDirect "Freedom Collection,"
approximately 2240 Elsevier titles from
2008-present. Does not include some health
sciences, society presses, or Cell Press titles. |
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Science Magazine Online:
Access to an archive (1997 to present) of recent
articles from one of the best known a
peer-reviewed journals for scientific news,
commentary and cutting-edge research of
scientific research. |
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Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase:
Is a comprehensive collection (20,000+) of
downloadable medical illustrations and
animations. Contains medical illustrations,
animations, and interactive multimedia for 24
body systems/regions and 20 medical specialties.
Contains also non-English content with
illustrations translated into additional
languages (in total, 13 non-English languages). |
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Shamaa:
Is a bibliographic
citations database covering publications dealing
with the subject of education in the Arab
States. It contains records of books, articles,
theses and dissertations in Arabic, French and
English starting from 2007; some records have
abstracts as well. |
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SpringerLink
(SPRINGER):
More than 1200 peer-reviewed full text
STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) journals
from Springer-Verlag publishers. Subjects
covered include Architecture and Design,
Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life
Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and
Materials Science, Engineering, Humanities,
Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics,
Medicine, Physics and Astronomy...
The green boxes
indicates
that the full text of the article can be viewed
online. |
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Teacher Reference Center
TRC:
Journal Information for K-12 Teachers &
Librarians (EBSCO):
Coverage on key
education topics: trade journals, periodicals,
and books. |
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United Nations Official Document System (ODS):
Official
United Nations documentation. |
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UOB Medical journals:
351 full-text
journals of the
Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins collection. |
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Wall Street Journal
(PROQUEST) |
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Reference
Sources |
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title: A-Z:
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M . N . O . P . Q . R . S .
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Columbia Gazetteer of the World - Online
(Columbia University):
Geographical places and features. |
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Credo Reference:
an online
collection of over 500 high-quality reference
books: encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri,
and books of quotations, as well as
subject-specific titles covering a range of
subject matters, such as art, business,
literature, and science. It includes
Almanacs, Biography and Genealogy, Dictionaries
and Thesauri, Encyclopedias, Maps, Atlases, and
Gazetteers, Multi-Subject material, Quotations,
Speeches and Transcripts and Statistics and
Datasets. |
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
(GALE GROUP): Ethics
of health professions, animal research,
population control and the environment. |
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Encyclopedia
Britannica Online |
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Encyclopedia of Communication and Information 3v, 2002
(GALE GROUP): Spectrum
of communication, from careers to information
technologies. |
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Encyclopedia of Food and Culture 3v, 2003
(GALE GROUP):
Food preparation,
distribution and storage to holidays and
festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures
and cuisines |
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Encyclopedia of Islam (BRILL):
“…[it is] an essential key to understanding the
world of Islam, and the authoritative source not
only for the religion, but also for the
believers and the countries in which they live.
It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of
every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on
the crafts and sciences, on political and
religious institutions, on the geography,
ethnography, flora and fauna of the various
countries and on the history, topography and
monuments of the major towns and cities.”
[Publisher’s site] |
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Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
2nd ed.
(ELSEVIER): Fields
of food science, food technology, and nutrition. |
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Encyclopedia of Population 2v, 2003
(GALE GROUP):
Demographic topics both in the core field and in
neighboring disciplines, includes: rapid
demographic expansion in poor countries; low
fertility rates and problems of old-age support. |
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Encyclopedia of Science and Religion 2v, 2003
(GALE GROUP): Interactions,
contradictions, and tensions between science and
religion: historically and in contemporary life. |
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Encyclopédie Universalis:
French online
encyclopedia. Access to 33000 encyclopedia
articles, 2400 illustrations, 6700 authors, 520
videos and 800 minutes of sound and music. |
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Environmental Encyclopedia 3rd ed., 2v, 2003 (GALE GROUP):
In-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental
issues. |
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Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce 2v, 2002 (GALE GROUP):
World of Internet commerce and the concerns of
those who want to join the ranks of the Internet
business community. |
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
5v, 2002 (GALE GROUP):
Topics
in body systems and functions, conditions and
common diseases ..., as
well as the roles of all major health
professionals. |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
2nd ed.,
2001 (GALE GROUP):
Spectrum of
psychology, including notable people, theories
and terms, landmark case studies and
experiments. |
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Gale Virtual
Reference Library
(GALE GROUP):
Access to a variety of Thomson Gale reference
material. |
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International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers 4th ed., 4v, 2000 (GALE GROUP):
Legendary films,
actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other
production
artists: detailed essays and commentary by
experts. |
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International Encyclopedia of the Social &
Behavioral Sciences,
2001
(ELSEVIER): Historic,
ethical, biographical, conceptual,
institutional, and theoretical elements of
social science disciplines and intersecting
fields. |
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International Who's Who
(Taylor &
Francis):
Outlines
the lives and achievements of some 18,500
distinguished people from around the world.
“Entries are taken from across the world and
from a broad sweep of professions, to include
the leading figures from the worlds of science,
medicine, business, finance, politics,
international affairs, diplomacy, law, art,
music, entertainment and fashion, to name but a
few. There is also a separate section that
details reigning royal families.” [Publisher’s
site] |
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Kompass:
Information
about companies and their services.
Password
required, contact
E-Resources Librarian (ext. 4077) |
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Oxford
English Dictionary (Oxford
University Press) |
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Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Oxford
University Press):
Brings together the
best current scholarship in the field and
promotes accurate and informed understanding of
the Islamic world. |
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Oxford
Reference Online (Oxford
University Press):
More than 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and
reference books. |
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Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students 4v, 2004
(GALE GROUP):
Renaissance-era topics: world history, art,
literature, economics, and science. |
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Testing
& Education Reference Center (GALE
GROUP): Information on colleges and
universities, as well as on-line practice tests and
test prep eBooks. |
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World of Learning (Taylor
& Francis):
Provides contact details for over 30 000
universities, colleges, schools of art and
music, libraries, learned societies, research
institutes, museums and art galleries worldwide:
names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers,
email and internet addresses, as well as contact
information for over 200,000 faculty, staff and
officials. Updated yearly. |
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