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19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale)
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19th Century UK Periodicals contains full text journals, magazines, and speciality newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian age across all class distinctions.
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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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Special Collections now has “amazing” new additions to its Periodicals Collections. “Amazing Stories” was a science fiction pulp magazine started in 1926, featuring short stories that varied from issue to issue. |
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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 College of Journalism
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Hundreds of videos, audio clips, discussion pages, and more covering every aspect of TV, radio, and online journalism. |
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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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Special Collections has a growing collection of Black Mask Magazines. The Black Mask is a pulp magazine launched in 1920 by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. The Black Mask focused primarily on mystery and crime stories. The famous Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett first appeared in the September 1929 issue. |
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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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The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. |
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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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Use CheckCite to help you cite your sources for papers and speeches. |
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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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Children's Books
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One of the books housed in Special Collections, The Long Winter, by Laura Ingles Wilder, tells the story of a very harsh winter on the prairie. This Newbery Honor Book (1941) is illustrated by Helen Sewell, and Mildred Boyle.
Carrier Library's Special Collections contain over four hundred children's books, many of them historic classics. |
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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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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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Detail from Das güldene A B C für Jederman, der gern mit Ehren wolt bestahn Published in Ephrata [Pa., s.n.] 1772
Special Collections has a small selection of broadsides almost exclusively German language and 18th century.
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Nicolai Sanderi’s De origine ac progressu schismatic Anglicani published in Rome, 1586 contains a history of the Reformation with additions by Robert Persons and John Hart’s account of his imprisonment in the Tower of London. |
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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 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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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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The third installment of the Dressing for Education exhibit series, "The Fashionable Fifties at Madison College" is currently on display in the historic lobby of Carrier Library.
Professor Pamela S. Johnson’s research for the exhibit was made possible by a grant from Special Collections’ Margaret Burruss Endowment. |
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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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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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Detail from Farm Friends, a rare large format children’s picture book dating from the early 20th century.
The Children’s Books in Special Collections feature over 400 titles including folk tales from around the world and Caldecott winners. |
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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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Films on Demand is a streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine. Also includes access to archival films and newsreels. |
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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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Government Documents
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This library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code). |
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Detail from Gray’s New Map of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia 1877. The Map Collection is primarily composed of local, municipal and land development maps from the last century along with reprints of 18th century surveys. |
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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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Henkel Family Papers
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Browse documents pertaining to an important Shenandoah Valley family, the Henkels, whose printing press published more Lutheran material than any other press in the country. Some items have been digitized and are readily available for viewing. |
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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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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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JMU Founding Documents
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A selection of digitized documents and images representing JMU's first decade; records include early commencement programs, Normal Bulletins, Board of Trustees minutes, faculty minutes, yearbooks, student handbooks, student posters, selected correspondence and documents of President Burruss, and an interactive, annotated historical timeline, 1908-1910. |
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JMU Yearbook Collection Online
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The JMU yearbooks have been digitized and are available online. The collection of yearbooks range from 1910 to 2011. The first yearbook, The Schoolma'am, was consecutively published until 1961 when the official name was changed to Bluestone. |
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Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals. |
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King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. When the filmmakers follow their crop into the food chain it raises questions about how we eat-and how we farm. DVD 3659 and online. |
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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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Detail from a single vellum leaf in a Latin Antiphonary, Catholic Church, Germany ca. 1350. The initial and line of text under the red stave reads “Alleluia” in an early Gothic hand. Music, rubrics and texts from the Books of Psalms and Matthew. |
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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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Material ConneXion is a comprehensive database that includes descriptions, uses, properties, and images of over 7,000 materials.
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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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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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A collection of resources on U.S. politics and policy |
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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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Odes of Anacreon translated from the Greek by Thomas Moore and published in London in 1803 features a watercolor fore-edge painting of a coastal scene with two figures on the shore, cliffs and a sailing ship. |
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OmniFile Full Text Mega
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An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences. |
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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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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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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 provides abstracts and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. It covers 16,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 36 million records going back to 1966 and cited reference searching back to 1996. |
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Shenandoah National Park Oral History collection
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The Shenandoah National Park Oral History collection is now freely available online. The collection consists of 135 interviews of people who were living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia prior to the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. Most of the interviewees resided on land that was claimed by eminent domain by the commonwealth of Virginia and subsequently turned over to the US government in the 1930s. |
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This masthead for the Spirit of the Valley comes from a small selection of digitized newspapers in the Rockingham Union Lodge Collection. The newspaper was in the contents of a time capsule interred in 1906 and opened in 2006. |
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SPORTDiscus
Indexes articles and book chapters on sport, recreation, exercise physiology, and related subjects. |
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The Breeze
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An archive of the JMU student newspaper The Breeze is now available online. The archive runs from 1922 to present with fully searchable PDF files. |
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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 Civil War 150 Legacy Project
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Document Digitization and Access is a multi-year initiative to locate, digitize and provide world-wide access to the private documentary heritage of the American Civil War era located throughout Virginia.
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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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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray published in London, 1840 features a masterful watercolor fore-edge painting of a country church vignette hidden under the gilding on the text block. |
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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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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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VideoBlocks contains downloadable stock footage, motion backgrounds, production music, sound effects, and more. |
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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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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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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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