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2009 NAEYC Annual Conference
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November 18-21, 2009
Washington, D.C.
More than 20,000 early childhood professionals from around the world attend the NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo to discuss the everyday issues of our work with young children and families.
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2010 National Conference on Education
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American Association of School Administrators
February 11 -13, 2010
Phoenix, Arizona
The program content of the National Conference on Education supports AASA’s mission to support and develop effective public school system leaders who are dedicated to the highest quality education for all children. http://www.aasa.org/NCE/ |
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Index to periodicals and news sources covering all aspects of business |
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Access World News
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Articles from over 700 International newspapers, and 600 US newspapers. |
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African American Biographical Database
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Narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. |
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African Writers Online
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The key texts of modern African literature. 181 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. |
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American Film Scripts Online
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Full text database of approximately 1,000 film scripts digitized and searchable to provide access to the scene or character level. |
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American Poetry
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40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 influental American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. |
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Annee Philologique
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An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity from the second millenium B.C. through the early middle ages (c.500-800 A.D.); . |
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Detailed online movie tutorials on MS Office, Photoshop, SPSS, Media Player, PowerPoint and many, many more. |
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BBC Programme Catalogue
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(Experimental Prototype)
An online interface for identifying nearly
one million BBC radio and TV programs,
dating back 75 years -- searchable by
category, cast and crew. No video is
available at this time. |
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BioOne
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A scholarly journal collection focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. |
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Black Short Fiction
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A full-text collection of over 4,000 short stories by 272 authors from
Africa and the African Diaspora. |
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Black Women Writers
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Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. |
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Bound By Law
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The concept of "fair use" in copyright law explained in an entertaining comic book form. |
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Business Source Premier
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Indexing and full-text articles on all aspects of business. Includes: country economic reports, detailed company profiles, market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. |
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Captioned Media Program
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The CMP provides a free-loan media program of over 4,000 open-captioned titles (videos, CD-ROM, and DVD). Deaf and hard of hearing persons, teachers, parents, and others may borrow materials. There are no rental, registration, or postage fees. Several hundred titles are also streamed on the CMP web site.
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A proper citation will provide all the information a reader will need to locate the source.
CheckCite is a web-based program designed to help with citing sources for speeches, PowerPoint presentations and papers in MLA, APA, and Turabian styles. |
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
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Indexing, abstracts and full-text for articles, books and other publications in nursing and allied health. |
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Classical Scores Library
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Spanning the time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century, score types include full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. |
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Cochrane Library
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A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of treatment interventions in health care. |
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Columbia Earthscape
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Earth and environmental sciences articles, online datasets, books, lectures, animations, video and image banks, syllabi and international environmental documents. |
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Community of Science
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Community of Science (COS) is a multifunctional service helping researchers find funding, identify collaborators or experts, and promote their own research. |
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CQ Congress Collection
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Want to compare Barack and Hillary's voting records?
This database provides non-biased analysis and data relating to all aspects of Congress and its legislation. |
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CQ Historic Documents Series
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Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series contains presidential speeches, international agreements, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings & cultural discussions. |
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CQ Weekly
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In-depth reports on current issues in U.S., the previous week's news, status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes. |
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
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This criminology database contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. |
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CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
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Graphical content in many different natural science areas such as Biology, Earth Science, Agriculture, Food and Food Industry, Pharmacology... |
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Design & Applied Arts Index
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Indexes articles and reviews about new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century |
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale)
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This famous print resource, which describes the lives and careers of various authors and summarized the critical response to their work, is now available online. |
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus
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The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. |
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Not citing your sources counts as plagiarism and is an honor code violation at JMU.
Use  to help you stay honest. |
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This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 |
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Discovery Education streaming integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 7,700 full-length videos segmented into 77,000 content-specific clips. |
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Do You Know Your Liaison Librarian?
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A liaison librarian is assigned to each academic program to ensure that library services and collections meet the needs of the students and faculty. Do you know who your liaison librarian is? |
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DRAM Online
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On-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio. DRAM contains over 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels. |
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Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876
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Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of U.S. historic newspapers, fully text-searchable. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820." |
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Early English Books Online
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Digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics from 1475-1700. Images accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. |
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The Best of the Humanities on the Web
Online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities. The site contains dozens of lessons plans that draw on the resources offered here to promote active learning.
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A database of video, DVD, audio CD and CD-ROM reviews of materials from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. |
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eHRAF World Cultures
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Full-text information on all aspects of cultural and social life organized into cultures and ethnic groups. |
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eHREF Collection of Ethnography
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A full-text cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. |
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EnergyFiles
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Portal for energy-related collections including web sites and databases. |
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English Verse Drama
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English Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works from the Shrewsbury Fragments through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to the end of the nineteenth century. |
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Ethnic NewsWatch
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Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines. This database contains titles in both English and Spanish. |
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Europa Film Treasures online film archive brings together over 80 films from 15 different European countries and America.
Visitors can search for films of interest by country of origin, genre, sound (silent, soundtrack, or other), and film archive. |
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Europa World Year Book
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Provides the latest information covering covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. |
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Film Indexes Online
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Researching a film? Search the authoritative AFI Catalog and Film Index International for films going back to 1893 and from more than 170 countries. |
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Folkstreams.net
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"The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films."
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GeoRef
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Journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. |
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Go for the Gold is a program to help first-year students learn information-seeking skills. |
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HarpWeek
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HarpWeek, a full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century, now includes full content through 1912, increasing our access to 1857-1912. |
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images.MD
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images.MD compiles over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text. |
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Interactive Functional Anatomy
Detailed multi-layer graphics of all areas of the human body. Includes animated graphical simulations of common muscle movements, information for patients with explanatory text. |
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IONiC VIPeR
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A Cyber-Enabled Community of Practice for improving Inorganic Chemical Education through collaborative development of learning materials and their dissemination to the wider inorganic community. VIPEr (Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource) serves both as a repository and as a platform for social networking to facilitate virtual collaboration and community building. |
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IOP Physics journals now have RSS feeds
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Over 1000 Institute of Physics articles are published every month.
Keeping up to date with all this new research could be overwhelming.
RSS feeds send IOP articles directly to you desktop...
...saving you lots of clicking. |
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The James Madison Papers are available online at the Library of Congress web site. The collection consists of approximately 12,000 items, including correspondence, personal letters, drafts of legislation, legal & financial documents, that document the life of the "Father of the Constitution." |
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Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, anthropology, sociology, education, literature, sciences and other fields. |
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Latin American Women Writers
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A collection of poetry, prose, essays, and drama written by women writers from Mexico, Central America, and South America. |
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Latino Literature
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A collection of plays, prose, and poetry written Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Latino writers. |
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Latino Literature
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Full-text poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. |
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Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more |
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Madison Scholar
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This journal features the scholarly activity at James Madison University. Read about faculty and student research. |
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Market Research.com Academic
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This database provides thousands of full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from leading industry publishers. |
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MathSciNet
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Indexes mathematical journals from 1940 to present, including reviews from 1980 to present. |
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MLA International Bibliography
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Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. |
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Moving History
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A guide to UK film & television archives in the public sector. Published by the Center for British Film and Television Studies. |
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Moving Image Collections
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Discover, locate, and in some cases view moving images from around the world. Special "portals" provide customized information for general users, archivists and educators. |
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NAECTE Fall Conference 2009
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER EDUCATORS
November 18, 2009
Washington, DC
7:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Keynote speaker Dr. Stacie Goffin will share information from her book, Ready or Not: Leadership Choices in Early Care and Education. |
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Narrative Television Network
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Narrative Television Network makes movies and television accessible to visually impaired people by adding narration to the sound track. |
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National Association for Special Education Teachers (NASET) Calendar of Conferences, Events and Workshops |
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National Institutes of Health: Office of Science Education
Free resources for science teachers - by topic, educational level, and resource format. |
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Nature Online Streaming Video
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A collection of well-made, informative, and educational videos that feature summaries of research as detailed by the scientists who conducted the work. |
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NAXOS Streaming now has over 35,000 CD's
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More than 35,000 CD's, over 500,000 tracks, including GRAMMY® AWARD Winners Pacifica Quartet, Hila Plitmann, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta, and, of course, to the great composers whose music they interpret on these award-winning discs: Elliott Carter and John Corigliano.
For more info connect now! |
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Planning has already begun for the 2009 Annual Convention, "Once and Future Classics: Reading Between the Lines," which will be held in Philadelphia, November 19-24. Submit a proposal!
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Need help with Internet primary sources?
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This webpage is a great guide to finding, evaluating, and citing primary sources located on the Internet. It's full of links to additional information and other helpful sites. |
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New Database for Science Education
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Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science today. In a language and format designed specifically for students, it presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. |
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Congratulations to D. Yvonne Jones (JMU Libraries) for the article in Journal of College Science Teaching.
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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
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Selected full text 1975-present for U.S. and international newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. |
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Nutrition Abstracts And Reviews
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Index and abstracts on all issues related to food and health, physiology and biochemistry, nutrition and health, clinical nutrition, and allergies. |
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OPERA IN VIDEO now comprises 132 videos
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New material includes 24 videos released from Opus Arte. New operas include: Doctor Atomic by John Adams, Don Carlo by Verdi, La Fille du Régiment by Donizetti, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich, Saint François d'Assise by Messiaen, Tosca by Puccini, Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini. For more info connect now! |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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This source includes thoughtful commentary from newspaper and magazine articles, reference sources, websites as well as statistics and images. |
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Oxford Scholarship Online
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Full text collection of core scholarly books in economics, finance, philosophy, political science, religion and theology. |
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Past Masters: Philosophy & Theology
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Searchable scholarly, full-text editions in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. Writers in these collections include: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Mill, and Peirce. |
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Philosopher's Index
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Indexing and abstracts from books and journals in the fifteen fields of philosophy and related fields published from 38 countries since 1940. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. |
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Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
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Provides evidence-based information on the selection and interpretation of more than 350 laboratory, imaging and microbiology tests. (for PDA download). Email us to receive a registration number. |
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Primary Search
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Articles from 60 popular magazines for elementary school research. |
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A gray literature database, companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. Newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports; government reports; consumer brochures, and more. Includes abstracts and citations plus full text for a major portion of the records. |
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Psychiatry Online!
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Contains the DSM IV-TR and other notable reference books and online journals. |
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PsycINFO
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An index with abstracts to literature in psychology and related disciplines. |
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Congratulations to Michael Gubser (History Department) for his article in The Philosophical Forum.
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Congratulations to Jonathan Keller (Political Science Department) for his article Explaining Rigidity and Pragmatism in Political Leaders: A General Theory and A Plausibility Test From The Reagan Presidency
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Tired of formatting bibliographies?
Import references into RefWorks, which will format them in APA, MLA, or other chosen styles. |
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RESEARCH CHANNEL
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Remarkable speakers, researchers and scholars present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries relating to next generation technologies to distribute video and interactive media content worldwide. |
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Sabin Americana: 1500 to 1926
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Full-text digital edition of books published in "The Americas" from 1500 to 1926, includes items from the entire Western Hemisphere, Arctic, Antarctic, and the West Indies. |
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Hundreds of full-text business books covering a wide range of topics: problem solving, leadership, customer service, and employee performance and more! |
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Fully-searchable e-reference library of technical books from industry-leading publishers including Sun, O'Reilly, Microsoft, Macromedia, and New Riders. |
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Scopus has joined Web of Science at JMU Libraries to provide citations searching.
Scopus will sort your results by times cited, saving time in identifying that seminal article! |
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SPORTDiscus
Indexes articles and book chapters on sport, recreation, exercise physiology, and related subjects. |
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The Business Plans Handbook
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This database contains sample small business plans, including statements of mission, competition, suppliers, customers, advertising, pricing, and financial plans. |
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The STEM Education and Outreach Center's mission is to foster high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. Please visit the Center's website for curricular resources, special events, and much more. http://www.jmu.edu/stem/outreach/ |
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The Cochrane Library
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Get an expert's overview of the current state of medical knowledge about a particular medical condition or treatment method. Support your health care decisions with reliable evidence. |
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The Constitution
of the United States
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"In early 1787, Congress called for a special convention of all the states to revise the Articles of Confederation. On September 17, 1787, after four months of secret meetings, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention emerged from their Philadelphia meeting room with an entirely new plan of government -- the U.S. Constitution -- that they hoped would ensure the survival of the experiment they had launched in 1776." |
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The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
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Contains the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published by the University of Virginia Press through 2005, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement. |
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Bring poetry to life! Listen to poets reading their own work. Browse contemporary and historical recordings by author, title, theme, and form. The Poetry Archive includes lesson plans and activities for teachers with sections designed for students and children. |
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Search every word of every page of The London Times 1785-1985, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a complete page. All articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. |
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies |
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This free-access Internet resource funded by the National Science Foundation, is a great site for gaining a better understanding of all kinds of science. Highly recommended for teachers and science education majors. |
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VAECE Conference 2010
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Virginia Association for Early Childhood Education
March 18-20, 2010
Richmond Marriott Hotel |
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ValueLine
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Find out which stocks to buy or sell. ValueLine continuously analyzes and reports on companies in about 95 industries. |
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The 2010 Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference will be held at JMU March 12-13, 2010. The conference is for PreK-12 teachers and supervisors of mathematics as well as those engaged in teacher education of PreK-12 teachers of math. Proposals to speak at the conference are due by Oct. 15, 2009.
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A curriculum, instructional, technology and professional development resource for Virginia and worldwide educators designed to support classroom and learning activities for teachers, students, administrators, parents and future educators. |
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WDI Online
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The WDI provides a comprehensive overview of development drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partners. |
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Web Gallery of Art
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Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850). |
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April 11-17, 2010
Celebrate with the National Association for the Education of Young Children! |
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An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences |
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Women Writers Online
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Full text collection of essays, fiction, and poetry written by women from 1400-1850. |
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This database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images, is global in coverage, and includes all areas of visual imagery. |
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WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
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Financial datasets, Compustat corporate information, CRSP stock information and supporting research in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. |
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