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Royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps, including political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps....
Offers a good starting point for research on nearly any topic, covering most areas of academic study and containing full text for 5,500 periodicals, including 4,600 peer-reviewed publications....
AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
A science and technology encyclopedia containing more than 8,000 articles written by the leading figures in their fields, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, and edited and illustrated with the non-specialist in mind....
AgeLine is an online bibliographic database produced by AARP that focuses on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults....
Alt HealthWatch (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Alt HealthWatch focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness....
A source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U....
American Men and Women of Science - 24th Edition
Profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists....
American National Biography Online
Biographies of more than 17,400 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation....
A wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, including United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more....
APS Online - American Periodical Series Online
APS Online contains full digital images of over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II....
Selection tool for reference materials, with reviews and analysis of books and electronic resources....
A current directory of 5,400 archives and 124,400 collections of primary source material across the US, UK and Ireland, enabling researchers to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work and find contact information for the repositories....
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to printed reference sources that contain biographical information....
Information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images....
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
Provides access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field of sociology....
Book Review Digest Plus, 1983-
Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews....
Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982
Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction....
Book, audio book, and video titles currently in print, including book reviews for many titles, a directory of publishers, author biographies, and lists of prize-winning books....
A collection of annual reports and 10-Ks from the top 500 corporations in America....
Reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education....
A library of 27,344 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools....
Consumer Health Complete (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Consumer Health Complete is a portal for consumer health care information....
In-depth reports on public policy issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas....
In-depth reports and analysis on political and social issues, each covering a single theme and providing solid background information, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U....
Historical analysis, updates and expert commentary on Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U....
Legislative news and analysis from CQ Press, includes current information plus the full text of all articles published since 1983....
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Online version of the standard reference book for chemistry and physics....
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe, including abstracts for those written from 1980 to the present and covering all subject areas for which thesis research is conducted....
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1630-1800
37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides provide primary source documents on nearly every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft....
All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines....
Complete subscription version includes atlas, dictionary, audio & video clips, images, and links to reviewed web sites....
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
A comprehensive and up-to-date reference of the main areas of specialist and expert knowledge and skills used by those involved in all aspects of the forensic process....
Provides access to articles covering all areas of life science, written by scientists and researchers- plus extensive tables and figures....
EndNote Web - First-Time Users Must Create Account From a WVU Campus Computer.
Use EndNote Web to create a personal database of references to articles, books and other research sources - create an account to begin....
One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories....
Film & Television Literature Index With Full Text
Indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals....
Footnote - Available on-Campus Only at This Time.
Historical documents collections, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U S Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents....
A collection of books in the fields of forensics and law enforcement....
Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research, with full text accessible via WVU Library subscriptions....
A record of US government documents published since 1976, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc....
Grove Art Online provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols....
An English-language encyclopedia of music and musicians, covering most aspects of art music, folk music, world music and jazz....
Handbook of Child Psychology 6th Edition
The handbook spans the entire field of child psychology including topics such as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication....
HeritageQuest Online - ACCESSIBLE at WEST VIRGINIA COLLECTION
HeritageQuest Online can be accessed at the West Virginia Collection in the Downtown Campus Library; it combines digital, searchable images of U S federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History collection....
Hoover's Pro Access for Academic Libraries
Proprietary business information for 30 million corporations, through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services....
Journal impact factors and citation data for 7,500 scholarly and technical journals....
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 newspapers (including the New York Times), magazines, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including US federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news....
Trial ends on Nov 30, 2009 – Access to 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface....
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists....
Full-text literary criticism and reviews and author biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world....
Plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews and critical analyses of frequently studied works of literature....
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc....
Masterfile Premier (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Full text for nearly 1,750 general reference periodicals with information dating as far back as 1975....
A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska....
Extensive company information, including profiles of 10,500 companies traded on US stock exchanges, 17,000 non-US companies, fifteen years of financial statements, corporate annual reports and comprehensive market reports on over 100 countries....
Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications 1895-1976
Comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government, describing over one million items published between January 1895 and June 1976, the Monthly Catalog helps you identify important and useful information on all subjects....
WVU Libraries online catalog; use it to find books, periodicals, microforms, and media materials owned by the libraries....
A collection of e-books covering a wide variety of subjects-- arts, humanities, business, education, computers, science, social science, and technology....
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Standard work in economics, containing essays by eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools....
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
Full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to the beginning of the paper in the 19th century....
Scholarly opinion journals in politics, arts, and culture, including the full text of The Nation, New Republic, Harper's, Commentary, National Review, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator, NY Review of Books and Scientific American....
Oxford African American Studies Center
A collection of scholarship, including 8,000 articles and primary source documents, focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture....
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
Provides 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000....
OED -a comprehensive, unabridged dictionary that records the history and development of the English Language....
References to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements from documents related to public policy, 1915-1976....
References to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more....
Conference papers, including all published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting papers received by The British Library Document Supply Centre....
Points of View Reference Center (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Term paper resources and topics - Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services....
compilation of 14,000+ public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and 80 other countries from 1986 to the present....
Web portal that includes the DSM-IV-TR and a selection of journals, practice guidelines and textbooks....
RCLweb (recommended books for research and teaching) is the online edition of Resources for College Libraries, listing recommended titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas....
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the standard index to articles in magazines, covering from 1890 to 1982....
Find detailed information on 14 milllion US businesses, 100 million households, and nearly 1 million physicians and dentists....
Format bibliographies and notes as you write papers; RefWorks allows you to create a personal database of sources that you can access from anywhere....
Regional Business News (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States....
Research Starters - Education provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies....
Current IT, business and desk reference eBooks, including guides to application software, and programming....
Includes current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data, current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), produced by the US Department of Commerce ....
Testing & Education Reference Center
Test preparation, practice tests, graduate school search, career resources, resume writing, and more - this resource will help you prepare for the next step in your education or career....
A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language....
Provides detailed information on periodicals published throughout the world, covering all subjects and including publications that are published regularly or irregularly....
A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy....
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
View online news video - or borrow custom clips for a fee which you pay with a personal credit card - Provides index for regularly scheduled newscasts from 1968 to the present from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News....
West Virginia State Data Center/Business and Industry Data Center
Thirty-one public agencies work together through a cooperative agreement with the U....
Search 20,000+ library catalogs for books and other materials in libraries worldwide....
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