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| Title |
Vendor |
Description |
Fulltext |
Type |
| Books In Print |
R. R. Bowker |
Information about 5 million books (including e-books), audio books, and videos which are currently available from publishers,
those that are soon to be available, and those that are no longer in print. Also includes book reviews, author biographies, annotations,
cover images, and tables of contents for many titles and detailed information on over 200,000 publishers. Over 400 bestseller lists and
awards are tracked and browseable. Includes information from publishers as well as book and media reviews which have been published in
magazines and newspapers. |
Yes |
Reference |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Gale |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. |
Yes |
E-books |
| Grove Music Online |
Oxford University Press |
Widely regarded as the standard on all aspects of music, this resource includes articles, biographies, bibliographies and multimedia, and can be searched in a number of different ways. |
Yes |
Reference |
| Illinois Sanborn Maps |
ProQuest |
Fire insurance maps of Illinois cities. |
No |
Reference |
| Literature Resource Center |
Gale |
Literature Resource Center is comprised of content from journal articles and traditional reference sources including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. There are over 400,000 full-text articles from 250 academic journals, as welll as thousands of critical essays, work overviews, plot summaries and explications, author biographies, and links to authoritative content-related Web sites. Other features include a student guide to conducting literary research, an interactive literary historical timeline, and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. |
Yes |
Article, reference |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford University Press |
The authoritative reference on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Includes etymologies, variant spellings, pronunciation & examples of words in context. |
No |
Reference |
| World Almanac |
OCLC/FirstSearch |
Includes the contents of The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1998), The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids. |
Yes |
Reference |
| World Cat |
OCLC/FirstSearch |
Contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Entries include books, journals, musical scores, magazines, newspapers, manuscripts, videotapes, maps, etc. |
No |
Citation, reference |
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