Reference Information

Biography Resource Center | Usage Help
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who® | Usage Help - NEW
Integrates Thomson Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. The optional Marquis Who's Who® module provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present

CollegeSource | Usage Help
The worldwide leader in college information resources. 20,706 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format on CollegeSource Online!

Country Watch | Usage Help
CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. Select a country from the drop-down menu at their site or from the regional menu to view the information available.

CQ Researcher | Usage Help
Used by students and other researchers who need to complete an assignment, prepare for a debate, or become a quick expert on a topic, each 13,000-word CQ Researcher Report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Most reports contain some statistical data.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online | Usage Help
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

GPO Monthly Catalog | Usage Help
(1976-present; updated monthly) Contains citations for U.S. government publications.

Literature Criticism Online | Usage Help - NEW
Thomson Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online | Usage Help - NEW
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world

McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience | Usage Help - NEW
McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience 2.0 is a complete redesign of the premiere online science resource, featuring the full, searchable content of the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and related works. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners. Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations. The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.

Oxford English Dictionary | Usage Help - NEW
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Oxford Reference Collection | Usage Help
Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics.

Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog | Usage Help
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. There are 20,000 free books in this collection.

Reference Library | Usage Help
Made available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, 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. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

SCOPUS | Usage Help
SCOPUS is an abstract and indexing database which includes 27 million records and 230 million references from over 14,000 journals. Perform literatures searches and keep current with what is going on within your area of interest. This database includes the ability to search for authors and citations as well as patents and web resources.

Statistical Universe | Usage Help
CIS' Statistical Universe is the world's most comprehensive access to statistical information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on Statistical Universe and government Web sites.

World Almanacs | Usage Help
(1998; updated annually) Contains the full-text 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.