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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    ***Access to database is only available at Reference Desk***

  • 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.

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