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Biographies of African Americans, both famous and everyday persons, from all time periods.
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Look up words in the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.
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Includes ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland
• ArchivesUSA is a current directory of more than 5,500 repositories and more than 161,000 collections of primary source material across the United States.
• NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums, and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland.
Read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to your work as well as find the information needed to contact the repository directly.
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Information on international, U.S., regional, state, and local associations, and I.R.S. data on nonprofit organizations. Includes name, brief description, address and phone, and web address if available.
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AtoZ Maps Online provides a diverse range of maps, including modern outline, political, thematic, topographic (including USGS), scientific, and animated maps, as well as tens of thousands of antique maps of the world, individual countries, U.S. states, and U.S. towns and cities.
A key benefit is that users can download, modify, and use any of the maps however they wish, including use in print and electronic reports, with no copyright restrictions.
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Biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history and around the world. Also includes nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who.
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Book review information including brief excerpts of reviews, citations for finding reviews, and some complete book reviews. Includes reviews from 1983 - present.
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Listings of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos, published in English, from many countries. Brief book reviews are included for some titles.
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Searchable and browsable encylopedias including:
• Brockelmann Online (Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur)
• Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
• Encyclopedia of China
• Encyclopedia of Islam
• Encyclopedia of Judaism
• Encyclopedia of the Qur’an
• Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
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ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls, and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.
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Information about more than 165,000 geographical places and features of all kinds. Lists names, descriptions, and characteristics including information about population, agriculture, industry, services, climate, and relief.
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Summarizes the events in Congress each year. Identifies and compares text changes between the House and Senate, and gives behind-the-scenes information.
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Historical analysis, timely updates, and expert commentary about Supreme Court decisions. Also includes biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.
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Contains frequently used data in science, including the periodical table of the elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data.
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EIU provides updated information about the business, economic, and political conditions in countries and regions of the world. Available publications include Business Newsletters, Country Commerce, Country Finance, Country Monitor, Country Reports, and European Policy Analyst.
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Contains the complete Encyclopædia Britannica, as well as Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Britannica Book of the Year. Includes articles, illustrations, and relevant web sites.
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Search for information about U.S. based foundations and grants.
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Coverage of advertising rates, circulation statistics, local programming, personnel, and other key information about newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations, and cable TV companies.
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Search for full-text reference articles about a wide range of topics. Sources include Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary; Countries and Their Cultures; Encyclopedia of Community; Environmental Encyclopedia; Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia; Historical Atlas of the Islamic World; and many others.
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Describes the physical geography of every nation and dependency on Earth. Also includes maps and world rankings.
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A comprehensive cultural, business, and travel database with in-depth coverage of 175 countries.
Major categories include:
• Society and Culture (What are taboo gifts in Saudi Arabia?)
• Food and Recipes (What are classic dishes in Iceland and how do I make them?)
• Communications (Will my cell phone work in Zimbabwe?)
• Travel (What are notable places to visit in Japan?)
• Business Culture (What should I expect at a business meeting in India?)
• Money and Banking (What do banknotes and coins look like in Indonesia?)
• Country Maps (9 downloadable maps per country)
• and more than 20 other topics with integrated photographs.
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A Google search of scholarly sources, including articles, books, and papers. Also includes links to who cited articles. Use this link and you'll see UM-Dearborn availability for items and full text when available.
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HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790-1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI); Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; the Freedman’s Bank Records; and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions.
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Quantitative facts of American history, collected from over 1,000 sources. Topics include population, work and welfare, economics, government, international relations, and more. Provides advanced features such as the ability to create custom tables and to download tables in Excel or CSV.
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This collection of reference titles from IGI Global's Information Science Reference contains full-text articles and chapters regarding research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology, and management. Reference articles and chapters can be easily searched using basic or advanced searches.
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Reports are organized by world regions. Industries covered include automotive, biotech, IT, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and more.
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The International Encyclopedia of Communication covers the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. It also covers such interdisciplinary areas as communication theory and philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, intercultural and intergroup communication, media effects, strategic communication/PR, communication and media law and policy, media systems in the world, and communication and technology.
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A scholarly encyclopedia that covers a wide range of topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Comprehensive articles put current knowledge in historical perspective, and show the relevance of the social and behavioral sciences for social policy.
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Scientific and technical reference books. Data can be searched, copied, and sorted into interactive tables, or exported to create graphs and charts.
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Legal treatises 1800-1926. Full-text of works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about British Commonwealth and American law.
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A comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. Search for words, phrases, quotations, and more. Includes all entries from the 15,000 page printed Middle English Dictionary.
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Oxford Art includes Grove Art Online with articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides a 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.
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Complete access to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. This standard music reference is now updated regularly online.
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Compiled from white- and yellow-pages telephone directories, ReferenceUSA provides a comprehensive directory of all households and businesses in the United States.
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Information for taxation research as well as financial reporting and management research. Includes editorial materials, news, primary documents, and legislation.
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Find synonyms and related words in this standard thesaurus.
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More than 80 authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias in many subject areas.
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Searchable database of the Sigma-Aldrich family of companies' product catalogs: Aldrich Handbook of Fine Chemicals and Laboratory Equipment (Aldrich), Biochemicals and Reagents for Life Science Research (Sigma), Laboratory Chemicals and Analytical Reagents (Fluka), and Chromatography Products (Supelco). Search by chemical name, number, substructure, and more.
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Social Explorer includes tools that allow you to explore U.S. Census data through the use of interactive data maps and also allows you to browse and download Census data in convenient formats for offline processing. Includes current and historical Census data from 1790 to 2000.
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Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.
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Information on current periodicals including publisher, cost, indexing, subjects, and selected reviews.
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The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information - whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
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Access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
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The World Almanac contains basic biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics.
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General encyclopedia with 26,000+ articles (8,000 more articles than print edition) as well as 12,000+ pictures and maps, 100+ videos and animations, 10,000 sounds (including pronunciations), and 7,000 links to editor-approved Web sites. Also includes the World Book Dictionary with 248,000 definitions, the World Book Atlas with 750 maps, and the full text of primary source documents, major literary works, and selected recent articles from magazines. Continuously updated.
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Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Many options for viewing and exporting the data.
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