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• AccessScience
  Contains over 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 scientists. Online version of print McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. current.

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  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

  

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  See also: MHEST.com, a free online companion to the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. The site has been completely redesigned and now features an index search tool, more supplemental articles, 9 Spotlights including audio interviews and other rich media from AccessScience, related McGraw-Hill titles, and additional multimedia offerings.

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• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
  Comprehensive index to more than 11 million biographical sketches in over 3000 current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures. Current.
  

  

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• History Reference Center
  A collection of reference works in history. Includes historical documents; biographies of historical figures; historical photos and maps; and historical video. Summarizes scholarly journal articles, books, encylopedias.
  

  

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• KLG - Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
  Biographical & critical information about 650 post-1945 German authors. current.
  

  

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• LexisNexis News
  National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:

  • Today's news
  • U.S. and International news
  • News transcripts from television and radio
  • Arts & sports information
  • Campus newspapers
  • Business news
  • Company financial information
  • SEC filings
  • Industry & market news and reports
  • Patents
  • Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
  • Country profiles
  • Polls & surveys
  • Quotations
  • World Almanac

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• Literature Resource Center
  Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors and criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry and short stories.

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  • Gale Literature Resource Center

  

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  The Resource Center includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, plus selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students Series, which are comprised of Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

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• Marquis Who's Who in American Art
  Over 14,000 biographies of the most noteworthy men and women in today's art world - including notable artists from the past.
  

  

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• Marquis Who's Who on the Web
  Over 1.3 million biographies taken from several Marquis Who's Who print titles. 1607-current.

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  • Who's Who
  • Whos Who

  

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  Print titles include:

  • Who's Who in America
  • Who's Who in American Education
  • Who's Who in American Law
  • Who's Who in American Nursing
  • Who's Who of American Women
  • Who's Who in Asia
  • Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America
  • Who's Who in Entertainment
  • Who's Who in Finance and Business
  • Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals
  • Who's Who in Media and Communications
  • Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare
  • Who's Who in Religion
  • Who's Who in Science and Engineering
  • Who's Who in the East
  • Who's Who in the Midwest
  • Who's Who in the South and Southwest
  • Who's Who in the West
  • Who's Who in the World

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• MasterPlots
  Contains author biographies and mini-critiques that sketch the theme, style, plot, and characters in over 1000 works of literature.
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• New York Times Historical
  Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper. 1851 to 2 years ago.
  

  

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  Includes articles, editorials and commentary, display and classified ads, obituaries, birth & death annoucements, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc. Also shows the entire page display of the newspaper, so you can see where articles, advertisements, and photos appear on the page. Articles are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat. You may download the reader here.

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• Oxford African American Studies Center
  Over 7,500 scholarly encyclopedia articles, from titles like the Encyclopedia of African American History, the Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, and the African American National Biography.
  

  

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  The core content includes the highly acclaimed Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes. The new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 documents the full range of the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass. The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the present offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century and will be available in late 2006. Bringing the contribution of African American women to the fore is the fascinating three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine. And finally, the much-anticipated African American National Biography presents African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies.

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• Oxford 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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  • Dictionary of National Biography
  • Oxford DNB

  

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• World Who's Who
  Biographies of international heads of state, politicians, religious leaders and ambassadors, to those in business, finance, technology, film, music, fashion, sport, literature and the performing arts. current.

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  • International Who's Who Online

  

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  Outlines the lives and achievements of nearly 22,300 of the most distinguished men and women from almost every country in the world.

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