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American Slave Narratives
Read the complete interviews of thousands of former slaves, collected here; they are browsable and searchable by topic, names, place, or year of birth.
Also at this site is more information about the WPA Federal Writers Project, responsible for the conducting the interviews in the 1930s.
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ARTFL Project
This is a searchable collection of mainly French-language texts that range from classic works of French literature to non-fiction writing,
from the 18th to 20th centuries (and a selection of 17th-century and medieval and Renaissance texts.)
Some of the subjects included are literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. You'll also find here The French Women Writers Project, a
searchable database containing works by 40 authors from the 16th to the 19th century. The database includes French and English dictionaries
as well as a searchable version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. English full-text access includes The First Folio of Shakespeare
and in Italian, Renaissance Dante in Print (1472–1629).
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ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images. Just some of the collections included are the Art History Survey Collection, Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, and The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection.
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BibleWorks IN LIBRARY ONLY
BibleWorks is an electronic Bible concordance that provides tools for exegesis and morphological research. It includes texts of the Hebrew Old Testament, Greek Old and New Testaments, and a wide range of English and modern foreign language translations. It also contains Bible dictionaries and other research aids. This database is located on Library PC67; please ask the Reference Desk for assistance.
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Choice Reviews Online
CHOICE reviews current books and electronic media of interest to those in higher education. They publish nearly 7,000 reviews each year,
covering all academic disciplines, and are often the first critical appraisal of scholarly works. (1988–present) User Guide
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CQ Researcher
Weekly reports offer "in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health,
international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy." The reports include background information
and chronology, tables or maps, pro/con statements from opposing groups, and a list of key sources. (1991–present) User Guide
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Curriculum Resource Center
This database offers thousands of printable handouts oriented toward middle school and high school classes. Organized by subject, the handout materials cover all areas of a secondary school curriculum, including history, science, math, geography, and religion.
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Educator's Reference Desk
This site has over 3,000 links to education information, with topics including: counseling, educational levels,
management and technology, learning theory, motivation, employment, and much more. The site also offers more than
2,000 lesson plans. You may also search the ERIC database from this site.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Find overviews on a wide variety of topics by searching this online encyclopedia. Besides the search feature,
there is also a helpful subject browse, timeline browse, and online atlas. Try the Workspace feature to create
a customized page for a research project.
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics
This five-volume edition is available online, covering topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control, and the environment.
Use the Quick Search or browse the table of contents to view articles that consider the impact of science on present and future generations.
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Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
This interdisciplinary online encylopedia provides psychological, sociological, and historical perspectives on crime and law enforcement. It includes over 250 topical entries on issues such as capital punishment, community policing, and wiretapping. The encyclopedia was completely revised in 2002 to address contemporary issues in criminal justice.
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
This encyclopedia covers important concepts, philosophical movements, and historical figures from the era of the Enlightenment, which spanned from 1670 to 1815. Although the focus is on the Enlightenment period in western Europe, the encyclopedia also gives attention to Enlightenment-related developments in other cultures.
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
This important reference work on the medieval world explores all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century, including art, language, law, science, philosophy and theology. It primarily concentrates on cultural, social, political, and religious developments in Europe and the Christian world.
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Encyclopedia of Religion
This online version of a seminal 15-volume reference work includes over 3,000 lengthy articles about religious and theological topics. The encyclopedia encompasses theoretical, practical, and sociological perspectives on religion, including cross-cultural looks at different religious traditions. This second edition includes 600 new articles plus updates to many of the original entries.
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FedStats
Get official statistics from more than 100 Federal agencies on topics such as economic and population trends, education,
health care costs, foreign trade, energy use, and more. You may browse by an A-to-Z topic list, by state,
or search across agency Web sites.
Fingertip Facts
This Web page was compiled by the staff at the Geisel Library. It contains links to free Internet sites offering quick factual information such as addresses, currency converters, quick quotes, etc. Emphasis is on U.S. information.
FirstGov
On this official gateway to United States government information, you can search millions of web pages from federal and state governments,
local and tribal governments, and U.S. territories. The Reference Center has links to federal press releases, historical documents,
government publications, maps, free images, and much more.
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Grove Art Online – See Oxford Art Online
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Historical Statistics of the United States
This comprehensive compendium of statistics provides a quantitative history of the United States, with over 37,000 data series on topics such as health, crime, migration, and the economy. The searchable online version allows you to create customized tables and download data series for processing in a spreadsheet.
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International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family
The four volumes of this online resource cover a wide range of topics—such as adolescent parenthood, family planning, cohabitation,
widowhood, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, codependency, and commuter marriages—all from a cross-cultural perspective.
It also examines the history of family life within various cultural and religious traditions and discusses how families have been affected by political and social change.
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International Financial Statistics
The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 tables covering more than 200 countries and areas. The country, world, and commodity prices tables are available as selection options.
The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of IFS concepts. (1996–present)
IFS Online Help Guide to IFS Codes (PDF/703KB)
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Literature Resource Center
Find biographical information on authors, as well as bibliographies, plot summaries, and literary criticism of their works.
Also get full-text articles from more than 100 literary journals. More than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists,
and other writers are covered here. This site also provides links to the Encyclopedia of Literature and a Literary-Historical Timeline. User Guide
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New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd Edition
"A standard in public, academic, and high school libraries worldwide, and prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities, this book is the first place to turn for answers for questions on topics such as abortion, divorce, cloning, and reproductive technologies. In addition to the hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations. The 15th volume is a cumulative index to the entire encyclopedia."
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
This is a unique resource that offers cross-cultural and interdisciplinary insight into the ideas that have shaped humanity and history. In over 750 articles, distinguished scholars from numerous fields discuss the evolution of our thinking about important concepts such as capitalism, justice, and mysticism. The articles also address how these ideas have shaped our social and cultural institutions over time.
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Nursing Resource Center
This database is designed to support both the clinical and research needs of nursing students. Search results are organized by practical categories such as Diseases, Assessments, Interventions, and Care Plans, and consist of in-depth essays derived from major nursing reference texts. The database also includes full-text articles from numerous scholarly journals, as well as animated multimedia illustrations of human anatomy and medical conditions.
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Oxford Art Online
This database provides access to the full contents of The Grove Dictionary of Art, perhaps the most authoritative reference resource in the fine arts. It also enables you to browse and search three other reference works: The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Search and view over 5,000 thumbnail art images, conduct basic keyword searches, or use the Advanced Search to narrow your search of the Grove Art database to specific geographic areas, time periods, or art forms.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
This encyclopedia provides indepth essays on American literature from the 1600s through the present. Author entries provide both biographical information and commentary on works, while other entries revolve around particular literary movements, periods, and themes. The essays address not only literary works but also the historical and social contexts in which they were written.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Search this online dictionary of English to find the current meanings of words and to trace their development through time. User Guide (PDF)
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Oxford Reference Online
This collection comprises over one million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, sayings, and dates from 150+ of Oxford's central English and bilingual dictionaries, usage, quotations, and subject reference books. User Guide (PDF/36KB)
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Past Masters: Humanities Database IN LIBRARY ONLY
This CD-ROM of the complete works of Saint Anselm (in Latin) and Saint Augustine (in Latin and English) can be searched using keywords; user guides are available at the Reference Desk.
This database is located on Library PC 22 and on the Anselm Room PC.
Praeger Security International Online
This database provides in-depth analysis of terrorism and security issues, including weekly commentaries along with the full text of over 600 books and encyclopedias. PSI also includes an archive of over 1,000 security-related primary source documents (mostly from the US government) and a searchable chronology of terrorist incidents. The keyword search box enables you to quickly locate relevant titles, reference book entries, and documents.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
More than 2,000 articles from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy are now available online, making this an excellent source of background
information for research in philosophy and related fields. The editors periodically add new entries written by leading scholars
and also provide links to other sites and resources on the web, as well as updates of key entries.
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Rule of St. Benedict Library IN LIBRARY ONLY
Presents the Rule in Latin and English, together with the full text of many of its key sources, and commentaries by Terrence Kardong and Esther de Waal.
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SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar provides access to Chemical Abstracts from 1907 to the present. Visit the library's SciFinder Scholar page for more information on this database.
STAT-USA IN LIBRARY ONLY
A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. Password required - please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The online edition of the annual Census publication that contains statistics on nearly every topic imaginable, as produced by various government agencies. Includes the Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 and the 1878-1900 collection.
TLG: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae IN LIBRARY ONLY
This CD ROM contains all the surviving ancient Greek texts from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large
number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and the fall of the Byzantium in 1453. It benefits researchers in classics,
archaeology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and theology/religious studies.
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WorldCat
This database is a close as you can get to a simultaneous search of thousands of libraries' catalogs from around the world. You can see at a
glance whether Geisel Library owns the material, and by clicking on the Libraries Worldwide link, you can find out if any
nearby libraries own it. If we don't have it, there is also a link to submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request.
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World Development Indicators Online
This database contains country-by-country time series data on over 600 development indicators, including variables related to health, education, trade, the economy, and the environment in each country. The step-by-step data selection procedure enables easy creation and download of data tables for analysis.
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