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- ABC-Clio eBOOKS
Contains more than 340 encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and guides focusing on U.S. and world history, current issues, politics, and geography. Browse by individual titles or cross-search across all titles by keyword in full text, title, or author.
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Contains more than 340 encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and guides focusing on U.S. and world history, current issues, politics, and geography. Browse by individual titles or cross-search across all titles by keyword in full text, title, or author.
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- Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology
Full-text of many handbooks on various aspects of developmental psychology.
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This collection of reference works on the Credo platform includes:
- Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence
- Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
- Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
- Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development
- Blackwell Handbook of Perception
- Blackwell Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- Blackwell Handbook of Research Methods in Experimental Psychology
- Blackwell Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes
- Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes
- Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes
- Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes
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- Cambridge Collections Online (CCO)
Full-text of over 200 Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics; and Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Includes over 2,200 essays on these topics.
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Topics include Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard, Stravinsky, the French Novel, and Jewish American Literature.
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- Cambridge Histories Online
Coverage includes: American and world history; economic history and the history of science; together with historical treatments of literature; linguistics; music & theatre studies; philosophy; religion; anthropology and political thought.
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Full-text of 60 works of narrative synthesis by major scholars published in over 250 volumes by Cambridge since 1960. see a
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- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Includes:
- Encyclopedia of Education 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia 6v, 2002
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa 2nd ed., 4v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Public Health 4v, 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America 3v, 2004
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Communication and Information 3v, 2002
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
- Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior 2v, 2004
- Encyclopedia of Sociology 2nd ed., 5v, 2000
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family 2nd ed., 4v, 2003
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- National Academies Press
National Academies Press provides more than 3,000 books online free. Items published by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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It also publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health.
- netLibrary
Full text of over 7,000 electronic books in a variety of subjects including job hunting. Includes current books in copyright (1987-current) and older titles (classic novels, etc).
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- Oxford Reference Online
100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Subjects include: biology; classics; computing; dance; earth sciences; economics; mythology; history; law; literature; medicine; opera; performing arts; politics; science, theater; and more.
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We subscribe to three collections at Oxford, all via the Boston Library Consortium. They are:
- Core Collection, United States
- Premium Western Civilization
- Premium Collection
Includes the Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford Dictionary of Dance, and Who's Who in Opera.
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- R2Library
Electronic books in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Create a user name & password to access the R2 Library from off-campus.
books published 2004-current.
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Titles include:
- Basic and Clinical Neurocardiology
- Current Consult. Cardiology
- DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics
- Functional Neuroanatomy
- Grant Application Writer's Handbook
- Medical Interview
- Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine
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Remote access to the R2 Library requires a free personal account by creating an individual user name and password.
One user per book at a time.
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- Safari Tech Books
Full text of 250 electronic books in technology and business fields, from publishers such as O'Reilly & Associates, Que, New Riders, Sams, Prentice-Hall, and Addison-Wesley.
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- Thieme Electronic Medical Book Library
Electronic textbooks on anatomy, audiology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neurology, neuroscience, nutrition, otolaryngology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, radiology. Designed for medical school students.
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Includes the following titles:
- Clinical Tests for the Musculoskeletal System
- Color Atlas of Biochemistry, 2nd Edition
- Color Atlas of Cytology
- Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis
- Color Atlas of Genetics
- Color Atlas of Hematology
- Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol.3
- Color Atlas of Immunology
- Color Atlas of Neurology
- Color Atlas of Neuroscience
- Color Atlas of Pathology
- Color Atlas of Pathophysiology
- Color Atlas of Pharmacology
- Color Atlas of Physiology
- Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy
- Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery
- The Human Body
- Medical Microbiology
- MRI Parameters and Positioning
- Neurology
- Normal Findings in CT and MRI
- Ophthalmology
- Ophtho Notes
- Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy
- Pocket Atlas of Nutrition
- Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases, 2nd Edition
- Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy
- Pocket Atlas of Sectional Anatomy, Vol.2
- A Pocket Guide to the Ear
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