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d'Alembert's and Diderot - Enclopédie
2,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences. Full title: Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societ 1751 to 1772.
Also Known As
- Diderot and d'Alembert's Enclopédie
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The Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societé de Gens de Lettres was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas. The impact of the Enclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Enclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.
The Enclopédie contains 18,000 pages of text, 17 volumes of articles, and 11 volumes of plate legends.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
D&B Key Business Ratios
Financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships. 14 ratios include solvency, efficiency, and profitability. Calculate key business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data.
Also Known As
- Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
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Can export data to a .csv file for easy manipulation in Microsoft Excel.
Business ratios are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles.
Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -- a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
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Database of International Rehabilitation Research (CIRRIE)
Citations (with links to abstracts) to disability and rehabilitation journals, only for research conducted outside the United States. 1990 - present.
Also Known As
- CIRRIE: Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange
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Defining Gender

Fully digitized rare primary source literature. Material has been selected from a European perspective with an emphasis on British and European sources. 1450-1910.
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Contains complete scanned books, pamphlets, periodicals, collections of letters, biographies, short stories, novels, and poetry, as well as recent thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Gender Studies which place the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context.
Currently containing sections on Conduct and Politeness and Domesticity and the Family, Defining Gender includes some of the seminal texts used in Gender studies from authors such as Christine De Pisan, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Margery Kempe, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Some key areas of behavior of men and women addressed include cookery, health, courtship, marriage and role of husband and wife, sexuality, courtly behavior, children, education, class, and religion and morality.
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Deutschsprachige erzaehlende Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
German language narrative literature from the Middle ages to the present day.
Also Known As
- Reclams elektronisches Romanlexikon
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Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola

Spanish language dictionary on CD-Rom. Current.
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Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000. 4th century BC-2000.
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- Oxford DNB
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- DNB
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Dictionary of Old English A-F

Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries of the English language. 600-1150 A.D..
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus

Complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. Comprises over 3,000 different texts. 428-1100 (approx.).
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The Corpus comprises over 3000 different texts, each of which has: a unique text number, allocated by the DOE project; a Cameron number (assigned in Cameron "Plan for the Dictionary of Old English"); a 'short title', used in the published microfiche concordance; and a 'short short title' used to ideed microfiche concordance; and a 'short short title' used to identify the text in the "Dictionary of Old English".
Diderot and d'Alembert's Enclopédie
2,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences. Full title: Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societ 1751 to 1772.
Also Known As
- d'Alembert's and Diderot - Enclopédie
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The Enclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Societé de Gens de Lettres was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Enclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas. The impact of the Enclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Enclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.
The Enclopédie contains 18,000 pages of text, 17 volumes of articles, and 11 volumes of plate legends.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
Dietary Supplements: General Resources for Consumers

List of information resources for dietary supplements. current.
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DigitalCommons@UConn

Full-text of theses, dissertations, technical reports, books, conference papers, and oral histories from the UConn community.
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DigitalCommons@UConn is a project coordinated by the Institutional Repository Team within the UConn Libraries. It is an electronic repository of the intellectual output of the University of Connecticut community, and represents a way for UConn to organize, store and preserve its research in digital form in a single unified location. For more information, contact digitalcommons@uconn.edu.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Full-text scientific, scholarly journals and popular magazines, intended to cover all subjects and languages. varies.
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Dissertation Abstracts
Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.
Also Known As
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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DNB
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000. 4th century BC-2000.
Also Known As
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford DNB
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Dow Jones Factiva
Global news and business information articles. Includes Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Current.
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- Factiva
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Full-text global news and business information service, combining the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
Several journal titles are not included in UConn's subscription.
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Dreamworlds3

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Drugs & Pharmacology: EMBASE

EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology. 1990-current; updated quarterly.

Cancelled Aug 2009
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EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology is now part of SCOPUS. Search SCOPUS to find all content previously included in EMBASE: Drugs & Pharmacology.
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Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
Financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships. 14 ratios include solvency, efficiency, and profitability. Calculate key business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data.
Also Known As
- D&B Key Business Ratios
Details - Terms of Use - Guide
Can export data to a .csv file for easy manipulation in Microsoft Excel.
Business ratios are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles.
Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -- a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.

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