Reference Databases
CountryWatch : Provides full text up-to-date news and information on 192 countries of the world. It features current and in-depth cultural, political, economic, corporate, environmental, and other education-related issues through journal articles, newspapers, speeches, conference proceeding, research, and etc.
Credo Reference : Online access to over 300 reference books.
EBSCO Animals : The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Encyclopedia Britannica : All the articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica plus thousands of additional articles. For a guide to searching this resource, click here: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA GUIDE .
Facts On File Reference Suite : Brings together selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Ebsco): provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale's Discovering Collection : A comprehensive database of reference content for the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. For a guide to using this database click here GALE'S DISCOVERING COLLECTION TOUR .
History Reference Center (Ebsco): offers full text from more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco): this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (Ebsco): this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines, also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Modern World History Online (FactsOnFile) : Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
NetLibrary : Provides digital full-text access to over 8,000 books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. These full-text, easy-to-use books are available to students, staff and faculty.
Points of View Reference Center (Ebsco): designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
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