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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....
Focusing on the population aged 50+, the source for the literature of social gerontology, including related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy....
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....
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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....
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
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A collection of annual reports and 10-Ks from the top 500 corporations in America....
Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
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Chicago Manual of Style Online
Online version of the 15th and 16th editions of The Chicago Manual of Style....
Reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education....
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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....
A collection of nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books provides a good starting point for research....
Datapedia of the United States
A factbook containing data on several hundred indicators of social, economic, political, and cultural developments in United States history, from 1790 to 2003....
Dissertations and Theses @ WVU
Searchable database of WVU doctoral and masters theses, from 1970 to present - for earlier dates and comprehensive indexing, use the Mountainlynx catalog....
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1630-1800
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Encyclopedia of Associations (Gale Directory Library)
Detailed information for nonprofit membership organizations such as professional societies, labor unions, cultural groups, and trade associations....
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
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One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories....
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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....
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....
Foundation Center Databases - Available in Downtown Campus Library Only
Foundation Directory Online, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, and Philanthropy In/Sight provide extensive information for grant-seekers....
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical, business and literary sources....
Perspectives on issues, including global news, primary sources and media....
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....
A guide to the 16,000 best reference sources, selected by an editorial team of subject experts....
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 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....
ICPSR -Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data which can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses - set up MyData account to begin....
Journal impact factors and citation data for 7,500 scholarly and technical journals....
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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....
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
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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....
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Masterfile Premier (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Full text for nearly 1,750 general reference periodicals with information dating as far back as 1975....
Mental Measurements Yearbook With Tests in Print
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....
Moody's Manuals From Mergent WebReports
Moody's manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, possess a richness of corporate history and business descriptions and in-depth financial statements....
WVU Libraries online catalog; use it to find books, periodicals, microforms, and media materials owned by the libraries....
National Faculty Directory (Gale Directory Library)
Find faculty by name, institution, or discipline, with contact information....
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 New Yorker, Alternative, Dissent, Moment, The Nation, New Leader, New Republic, Harper's, Commentary, National Review, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator, Orion, The Progressive, Washington Monthly, Weekly Standard, and NY Review of Books....
Oxford African American Studies Center (One User)
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 Art Online is the innovative new gateway for searching Grove Art Online and other art resources from Oxford....
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....
Political Handbook of the World
Information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system, including: heads of government, heads of state, ambassadors, historical trends, regime changes, constitutional history, and regional and global policy issues of concern....
compilation of 14,000+ public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and 80 other countries from 1986 to the present....
Abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources....
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997....
Access to statistical information produced by US Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations....
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....
A collection of authoratative encyclopedias in the social sciences, including coverage for anthropology, criminology, environment, psychology, research methods, sociology, and women's studies....
Proquest Statistical Abstract continues the series previously published by the U....
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....
Tests in Print (Now Included in Mental Measurements Yearbook)
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....
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Trial ends on May 15, 2013 – Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels....
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....
Find books located in libraries around the world and use links to WVU Library content and services for easy access....
