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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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• 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. varies.
  

  

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  Topics include Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard, Stravinsky, the French Novel, and Jewish American Literature. Access

  • The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
  • The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture

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• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  Get basic information on thousands of topics covering history, politics, literature, news, and the arts.

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  • Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  

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  Includes:

  • An Internet directory that includes thousands of links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
  • Access to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  • Britannica Heritage, which explores articles, images, and media from past editions of the encyclopedia. It will include studies of the changes through the editions, contributions from notable people, and collections of historical maps, etc.
  • Multimedia and full-motion video.
  • An additional timeline browse feature for searching historical events.
  • An interactive World Atlas to search history, geography, government, or the economy.
  • Timelines - Trace developments and changes in several different subject areas with Britannica's timelines. Available at three different reading levels and rich with images, the timelines include links to articles in the encyclopedias.
  • Year in Review Browse - Gain new insights into significant events and people of the recent past by browsing by year through Britannica Books of the Year.

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• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  Covers all areas of biology with many references and illustrations, and over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles. Also covers anatomy, genetics, and neuroscience.

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  • ELS

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  Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a research-level encyclopedia covering all areas of biology with many references and illustrations, and over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles. Articles are organized in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity.

  Subject coverage:

  • Biochemistry
  • Cell biology
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Developmental biology
  • Ecology
  • Evolution and diversity of life
  • Functional and comparative morphology
  • Genetics and molecular biology
  • Immunology
  • Microbiology and virology
  • Neuroscience
  • Plant science
  • Science and Society
  • Structural biology

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• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Full-text of several print reference books from Gale.

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  • GVRL

  

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  See complete title list. 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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• Grove Music Online
  Emphasizes art music in the Western tradition (“classical music”), with general coverage of jazz, non-Western, and folk music. Topics include people, places, instruments, techniques, genres, and styles, from ancient times to the present.

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  • New Grove Music Online

  for off campus access, please use this link: http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/

  

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  Contains the full text of the largest and most comprehensive music encyclopedias in the English language, including the twenty-nine-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the three-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition).

  • Grove Music Online has full-text search capabilities and subject classifications for browsing.
  • Articles are written by scholars with subject expertise and include bibliographies pointing to important works of scholarship on the topic.
  • Topics include musical genres and forms, musical instruments; places; organizations and institutions; musicology, theory, and criticism; and people (e.g., composers, performers, scholars, librettists, patrons, publishers, instrument makers, and others who influenced or contributed to the world of music).
  • Many of the composer biographies include detailed lists of works.
  • Many articles include visual examples, Sibelius-enabled musical examples (score and audio clips), and links to Web sites and audio archives.
  • Annual updates include new articles and corrections to older articles.

  Note: Some of the print equivalents are available in the Music & Dramatic Arts Library (e.g., Music Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001 for the twenty-nine volume New Grove). Consult HOMER, the UConn Libraries' catalog for further details.

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• Knovel Library
  Over 800 full-text engineering and scientific reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards in engineering and chemistry.

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  • Physical Chemical Properties for Biologists, Chemists and Engineers

  

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  Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, food sciences, and mechanical engineering. Knovel has embedded data with a set of innovative analytical tools to make the data found more productive. The software allows for graph plotters, equation plotters, digitized graphs and other tools to customize data from the available tables.

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• Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
  A dictionary of American English.
  

  

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• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  Full text access to the print encyclopedia. 2006.
  

  

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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 Art Online
  Over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography) from prehistory to the present. current.

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  • Grove Art Online

  

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• Oxford English Dictionary
  Full-text of 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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  • OED

  

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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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