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Electronic Reference Resources Use the database titles listed below to find electronic reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and specialized resources. Reference Categories
Biographies | Colleges & Universities | Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Facts & Statistics | Images | News | Periodical Directories | Quotations | States & Countries | Tax Information |
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| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 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. |
| Basic Legal Research (in Lexis Nexis) Full text of articles from law reviews and legal news media, patents, federal and state cases, codes and regulations, European Union Law, Canadian statutes and regulations, and select international case law, treaties and agreements. |
| Biographical Information (from Lexis Nexis) Biographies, obituaries and other people-related news stories, mostly about company executives, from 60 magazines, newspapers and Who's Who listings. |
| Biography Resource Center Comprehensive source that indexes nearly 300 periodicals and 427,000 biographies of more than 335,000 people. |
| Book Collection: Non-Fiction Research database for school and public libraries that includes articles on civics, science, careers, health, sports, technology, biographies, etc. from more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. |
| Business (from Lexis Nexis) Offers full-text business and industry news, accounting journals, company financial reports, SEC filings and reports, company profiles and business directory listings. |
| Business Source Complete: Enhanced Interface An alternative interface for Business Source Complete and includes country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. |
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| Cambridge History of English and American Literature Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. |
| CCH Tax Research Network In Library Use Only Online access to the Commerce Clearing House Tax Service. |
| College and University Home Pages Directory listing of over 3,000 college & university Web sites. |
| CollegeSource Online 14,084 College Catalogs, complete cover-to-cover. |
| Copyright Information List of useful online resources. |
| Country Profiles (from Lexis Nexis) Contains political, economic and key facts for countries. |
| County & City Data Book: 2007 The Census Bureau provides a convenient summary of statistics on the social and economic structure of the counties and cities of the United States. |
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| Encyclopedia.com Site features premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography. |
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| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library Full-text database which offers electronic access to over 140 titles (550+ volumes) with subjects ranging from Multicultural Studies to History to the Arts. |
| GeoRef Comprehensive geoscience resource from AGI with over 2.6 million citations covering books, maps, reports, etc. from 1785-present. (primarily abstracts) |
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| History Reference Center Database containing more than 100 history periodicals, 1,500 reference books, 58,000 historical documents,12,000 historical photos and maps, 80 hours of historical video, and 43,000 biographies of historic figures. |
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| Information Please Almanac A large compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures. |
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| Knovel Electronic book database which offering access to over 500 scientific and engineering reference resources including subjects such as Food Science, and BioEngineering. |
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| LandView VI (Library Only) A geographic reference tool which displays a detailed network of roads, rivers, and railroads, jurisdictional and statistical boundaries, EPA-regulated sites, and key geographic features of the U.S. provided by the U.S.G.S. and others. |
| Learning Express Interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help users succeed on the academic or licensing tests. Please Note: You must register to use. Choose "New User" under Please Sign In and create a Username and Password of your choice. You do NOT need to use a library card to register. If you are on-campus it will recognize you as a Tech student. If you are off-campus, the Tech login screen will open and after you login, you will be recognized as Tech student. |
| Literary Reference Center Provides reference information from antiquity to the present day with information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works. |
| Louisiana Academic Library Catalogs Access to Louisiana Academic library catalogs through the LOUIS consortium. |
| LOUISiana Digital Library Louisiana's doorway to the unique cultural and historical resources of Louisiana's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. |
| LOUISiana Libraries Union Catalog Online union catalog of Louisiana Academic Libraries. |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, containing essential information for test evaluation in such diverse areas as psychology, business, education, and leadership. |
| Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Updated annually with more than 10,000 new words and phrases and 40,000 usage examples, along with 165,000 entries and 225,000 definitions. |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals Lists more than 7100 journals, 4400 of which are indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, including names, addresses and contact information of editors, submission guidelines, frequency, subscription rates and circulation. |
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| National Center for Educational Statistics Primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. |
| NetLibrary
Database of electronic books which are accessible remotely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please note that pages can be printed only one at a time. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary An historical dictionary of the English language tracing through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources the usages, variant spellings, pronunciations and senses of more than half a million words. Updated quarterly. |
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| Prescott Memorial Library Catalog Access to online catalog covering the Library's collection of materials. |
| Proquest Digital Dissertations Database for doctoral dissertations and selected master's theses from the U.S. and other countries dating to 1861. |
| PubChem National Institutes of Health database which provides information on the biological activities of small molecules and a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. It combines PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. |
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| Research Starters Documents which provide guidance when researching a variety of educational and business subjects. |
| Respectfully Quoted A dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service with 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate. |
| RIA Checkpoint Tax information about federal, state, and local taxes, international taxation, pension and payroll estate planning. Password required for all users. |
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| Scribner's Writers Series Database of biographical essays about more than 1,600 literary authors. |
| SDC Platinum In Library Use Only (Computers 1-3) Provides a robust database for analyzing investment banking and deal trends, identifying comparable deals, monitoring deal activity, and generating industry-leading league tables and market-share analysis. |
| Serials Directory, The Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. |
| Smithsonian Image Gallery Contains a sampling of visual records that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog which includes over 138,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian. |
| Standard and Poor's Research Insight / Compustat In Library Use Only (Computers 1-4) Provides reliable financial data and company reports, performance graphs and textual documents. Includes market summaries, forecasts, total returns, sales growth and price and earnings momentum. (Use toolbar shortcut on computers 1-4 to access program.) |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States - 2009 The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. |
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| Tax Information(from Lexis Nexis) Includes the Internal Revenue Code, IRS Actions & Memoranda and Private Letter Rulings, Treasury Regulations selected from the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, federal tax cases, state tax cases and tax opinions by state attorneys general, as well as articles from the Internal Revenue Bulletin, law reviews, tax analysts' journals and daily tax news. |
| Thomas Register Find a product, service or company from a database of 155,000 U.S. and Canadian companies. |
| Twayne Author Series Database of 600 titles in literary biography and criticism of American, British, and other international authors. |
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| Value Line Over a dozen print and electronic products on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles, including The Value Line Investment Survey. |
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| Webfeat
Federated search engine to search online catalog and databases. |
| World Book Advanced Encyclopedia Popular, commercial encyclopedia that revises 33% of its pages each year. Many colorful illustrations and cross-references enhance over 150,000 entries. |
| WorldCat OCLC online catalog to participating worldwide library collections. |
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| Zach's University Analyst Enter a ticker symbol for comprehensive company research with highly detailed information on each company. |
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