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Associations Unlimited
Description : Contains information for approximately 144,000 international and US national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Features full contact information, SIC codes, meetings and publications information.
Coverage: Current

AutoRepair Reference Center
Description: Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes more than 33,800 vehicles covered from 1945 to present, nearly 800,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs, approximately 83,200 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer, over 99,800 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing, specifications & maintenance schedules.
Coverage: 1945 to date
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Description : An index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Coverage: 1946 -

Biographies Plus Illustrated
Description : Contains full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books by H.W. Wilson. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, and keyword.
Coverage: 1998

Book Review Digest Retrospective
Descritption: Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, and most have at least two. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. However, books on science for the general reader are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Coverage: 1905-1982
Novelist
Description: Guide to fiction--recommends what to read next and includes book discussion gudes. Suggests titles for adults, teens, and older children (9-12 years). Includes information on award winning books, author biographies, reading level of books, and related information.

CCH Tax Research Network
Description : Includes a comprehensive federal tax library as well as numerous state publications.
Coverage: 1913-present for Standard Federal Income Tax Reporter; 1954-present for letter and revenue rulings

Enciclopedia Universal en Español
Description: Spanish language version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, high school edition
Dissertation Abstracts
Description : The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
Coverage: 1861 -

FEDSTATS
Description: FEDSTATS provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
Coverage: Current

Funk and Wagnells New World Encyclopedia
Description: Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Coverage: Current with annual updates

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Description: comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
Coverage: Current

Ingenta
Description: Formerly Uncover, this database provides free searching and browsing of more than 25,000 publications.
Coverage: 1988 -

Knovel Library
Over 800 fulltext books and databases in the areas of engineering, chemistry, and environmental science.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Description : LexisNexis Academic provides access to nearly 5,000 publication on a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Coverage: 1990 -

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Description: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Coverage: mid-1960's to date.

Oxford English Dictionary
Description: Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Coverage: 1st, 2nd Editions and all supplements are included. Currently being revised.
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netLibrary
Description: Provides access to electronic books (eBooks) and information. The collection is composed of reference, scholarly, and professional eBooks. These eBooks can be viewed, searched, and checked out via the Internet.
Coverage: various publication dates

STAT-USA
Description: STAT-USA, an agency in the Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. They supply vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the US Government.
Coverage: Current
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Ulrich's
Description: Online edition of Ulrich International Periodicals Directory. It provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web. Nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects, are profiled.
Coverage: Current

Bartlett's Quotations
Description: Bartlett's Quotations is a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.
Ancestry Library
Description: Ancestry Library is a geneological database that includes Cenus, Birth, Death and Marriage records, Military records and much more.
Coverage: Varies depending on type of search.

Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 400 English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
Coverage: 1984 -
Vendor: WilsonWeb

WISCAT
Description: Statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin. It contains 5.6 million bibliographic records with local holdings statements for 1125 libraries throughout Wisconsin.
Coverage: 1700s -

Birds of North America
Description: The Birds of North America (BNA) is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. In additon to frequent contributions to the web site, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of bird's songs and calls.

rev. 20 August 2009

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