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ABC News Polling Unit
Narrative results from ABC News polls.  [more info]
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ABC-CLIO eBook Collection (ABC-CLIO)
Collection of ebooks covering history, geography, world cultures, military history, gender studies, politics, pop culture, religion, mythology, science, technology, and environment.  [more info]
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ABI Inform (ProQuest)
Index to periodicals and news sources covering all aspects of business.  [more info]
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AbleData (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
Product catalog providing information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment ...  [more info]
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Academe This Week
Current issue of Chronicle of Higher Education  [more info]
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Academic Employment Network
Useful mainly as a source for teaching positions.  [more info]
Internet
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ...  [more info]
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Academic Video Online (VAST) (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Cross-search video collections from Alexander Street Press from one platform. JMU-licensed content only.  [more info]
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Academy Awards (Oscars)
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Internet
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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Access World News (NewsBank)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources.
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AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online (McGraw-Hill)
Encylopedia articles, illustrations, definitions, biographies, bibliographies, and learning resources ...  [more info]
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Accounting Research Manager (CCH)
Only 2 users at one time - be sure to Logout when you are done!  Logout button is in the left hand column of links. [tutorial]
Provides both full-text accounting standards, and interpretation / guidance.  [more info]
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)
Collection of over 2100 books of high quality in the humanities online...
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ACM Career Resource Center
Job seekers: post your resume, search for jobs, create job alerts, and get career news...    [more info]
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ACM Digital Library (ACM)
Abstracts and full text for over 400 ACM journals, transactions, newsletter articles, and conference proceedings.  [more info]
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Acronym Finder
Over 188,000 abbreviations and acronyms and initialisms.  [more info]
Internet
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Ad Age DataCenter
Ad Age DataCenter includes profiles of top advertisers, media, and agencies.  Also includes job data, advertising spending, award winners, and agency family trees.  [more info]
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Ad Council
Explore public service advertisement (PSA) campaigns from the Ad Council, a leading producer of PSAs and the creator of such slogans as "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  [more info]
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Ad*Access
Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.  [more info]
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Advertising Age
Get the latest information and news on marketing, media, and advertising agencies.  Be sure to click on the DataCenter link for in-depth data!  [more info]
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AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
Digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.  [more info]
Internet
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Africa Knowledge Project (Africa Resource)
Africa Knowledge Project (AKP) provides access to scholarly information on Africa and its Diaspora.  [more info]
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Africa Resource
An educational portal that develops and distributes academic research materials and products on Africa and African Diaspora.   Includes peer-reviewed journals, bibliographies, hip-hop, scholarly essays, art exhibitions, poetry, profiles, autobiographies, syllabi, multimedia, a who's who directory, and much more.  [more info]
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AfricaBib
AfricaBib allows searching of several databases, including Africana Periodical Literature, which indexes over 500 international journals. Maintained as a free service by the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.   [more info]
Internet
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African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature.  [more info]
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African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900...  [more info]
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Africast
Provides streaming access to African television stations.Aims to provide coverage on current events in Africa through African voices.  [more info]
Internet
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AgeLine (EBSCO)
Find materials related to gerontology and aging from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.  [more info]
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US Dept. of Health and Human Services)
An agency under the United States Department of Health and Human Services whose aim is to improve the delivery of healthcare.  [more info]
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Agricola (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to all aspects of agriculture.  [more info]
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AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics...  [more info]
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Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender...  [more info]
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Alexander Street Literature and Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Cross-search all of our ASP literature and drama collections in one place!  [more info]
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All Movie Guide (AMG)
Search for a title to find links for more films with the same personnel, themes, moods or genre.  Also offers choices for browsing by decade and country. Also lists purchase information from a variety of online vendors, but the best feature of this source is the ability to find similar titles.  [more info]
Internet
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Almanac of American Politics
Search through in-depth profiles and photographs of every governor and member of Congress.  [more info]
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Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (Prentice-Hall)
Includes ratios for over 175 industries compiled from IRS information.? You must know your NAICS code to use this source.  [more info]
Reference Desk
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Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO)
Search through more than 180 full text journals and reports on topics that range from acupuncture to nutrition...  [more info]
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Alternative Press Index & Archive (EBSCO)
API and Archive contains bibliographic information on over 300 international periodicals dealing with alternative, radical, and left information.  [more info]
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AMA Physician Select
Information on every licensed physician in the United States. Search by physician name or specialty.  [more info]
Internet
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Amazon.com
Popular website that began as a bookseller but now sells everything from automotive supplies to video games.  [more info]
Internet
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America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state.  [more info]
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America's Job Bank
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and ca. 1800 state Employment Service Agencies. Ca. 250,000 jobs are listed. Searching is by state or region and by type of position. Most jobs are full time and in the private sector.  [more info]
Internet
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America: History and Life (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present...  [more info]
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial...  [more info]
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American Chemical Society Journals
Index to journals published by the American Chemical Society...  [more info]
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs...  [more info]
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American Decades (Gale)
Online reference book chronicles American events, people, and places for each decade  [more info]
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American FactFinder (US Census Bureau)
U.S. Census Bureau search tool that provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic information.  Note: American FactFinder works with Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Other browsers may not perform as expected.  [more info]
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American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
Full text database of over 1,000 film scripts digitized and thoroughly indexed...  [more info]
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American Founding Era Collection: Rotunda (University of Virginia)
Cross-search primary and secondary papers of major figures of the early republic, including James Madison, Dolley Madison and George Washington.  [more info]
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American History in Video (Alexander Street Press)
American History in Video from Alexander Street Press contains over 5,000 streaming videos providing over 1,000 hours of commerical and governmental newsreels, archival footage, and documentaries pertaining to events in America's history.  [more info]
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American Hospital Directory
Directory and comparative data.  [more info]
Internet
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American Medical Association (AMA) style guide
This document contains information for creating citations in American Medical Association (AMA) style.  [more info]
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American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture...  [more info]
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American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
A biographical resource for notable people in American history with a database offering portraits...  [more info]
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American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first...  [more info]
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American Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes 40,356 poems by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry...  [more info]
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American Presidency Project
Comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to the study of the President of the United States.  [more info]
Internet
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American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches...  [more info]
Internet
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American Sign Language Dictionary (On disc)
Request in Media Resources...  [more info]
Media Resources
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American Society for Nutrition
The American Society for Nutrition (3,500 members) is the premier research society dedicated to improving the quality of life through the science of nutrition.    [more info]
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American Society of Cell Biology: Image and Video Library
This is a collection of peer-reviewed cell images, video clips, and digitized texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life.  [more info]
Internet
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American Society of International Law (ASIL)
ASIL's research portal pulls together international law items, ranging from primary documents to publications of the ASIL.  View the ASIL Guide for help in conducting research in international law.  [more info]
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American Song (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. American Song is a history database with music from America's past.  [more info]
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American Song Mobile (Alexander Street Press)
Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Apple users: (iPod, iPad, etc.) Use the "Send to Mobile" button to create playlists and play tracks.  The Play button will not work, as flash players are not supported on Apple devices.
Android users: You are able to use the regular Play button as well as the Send to Mobile button to play tracks and create playlists.  [more info]
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American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government...
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American Universities
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Internet
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AmphibiaWeb
Provides information on amphibian taxonomy, natural history, declines, and conservation.  [more info]
Internet
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Amtrak
Train routes, fares, and schedules  [more info]
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Anatomy.tv (Primal Pictures)
Includes detailed multi-layer graphics of all areas of the human body.  [more info]
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Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
Users will need to create a free individual account to use the advanced features. An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity...  [more info]
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Annenberg Learner: Teacher Resources
Educational, online videos in many subjects. Select from the list and then look for the VoD (Video On Demand) icon for the free content. Free registration required.  [more info]
Internet
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Annual Review of Political Science (Annual Reviews, Inc)
A great way to keep up with research trends, this source provides reviews of scholarly literature on various topics...  [more info]
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Annual Reviews (Annual Reviews, Inc)
Index with full text of Annual Reviews in biological and medical sciences, physical sciences...  [more info]
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ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts articles about information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subjects.  [more info]
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Anthropology Bibliography on Disc (G.K. Hall)
A bibliographic guide to anthropology and archaeology...  [more info]
Reference Desk
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Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from 2,500 journals and selected edited works in the field of anthropology.  [more info]
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AnthroSource (American Anthropological Association)
Search across 32 anthropology journals, with full text online for recent dates. Developed by the American Anthropological ...  [more info]
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AnyWho Directories
Find People, Businesses, Toll Free numbers, Web pages,Reverse Lookup and more  [more info]
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AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image database containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images dating from the 1500s. Also includes charts, graphs, tables, and maps.  [more info]
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APA Style Citation Examples
Created by JMU Libraries, this document contains examples for the most frequently cited material in APA (American Psychological Association) format; includes examples of citing Internet resources. (MS Word document)
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APA Style Help (American Psychological Association)
Created by the American Psychological Association, this site provides tutorials for the APA style as well as a detailed FAQ section to take you straight to the citation answers you need...  [more info]
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APSA Documentation
American Political Science Assocation (APSA) citation guide created by the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Writing Center.  [more info]
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Aqualine (ProQuest)
Index for trade, technical and scientific literature concerning all aspects of water resources.  [more info]
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ARBA Online (ABC-CLIO)
Reviews of print and electronic reference sources, written by librarians...
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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications...  [more info]
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ArchiveGrid (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories...  [more info]
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Area Studies Video Online (Alexander Street Press)
Access to this specific video collection is now only available through Academic Video Online (VAST). Please use the limiters within VAST to search specific video collections. Contains over 175 videos on Middle Eastern, Latin American, African, Eastern European, Asian, and other global communities.  [more info]
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Armed Conflict Database
Full-text and statistics for international and internal conflicts...  [more info]
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Art & Architecture in Video Online (Alexander Street Press)
Access to this specific video collection is now only available through Academic Video Online (VAST). Please use the limiters within VAST to search specific video collections. Collection of over 200 documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture.  [more info]
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Art & Culture
Art & Culture is a site dedicated to the arts. Users can create their own profile pages to display their own art or follow other artists, musicians, museums, galleries, filmmakers, festivals, and more.  [more info]
Internet
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Art & Design Databases (ProQuest)
Use this to find journal articles, news items, and reviews in art & design periodicals.  Bibliography of the History of Art is no longer part of Art & Design Databases; see BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art).  [more info]
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Art Abstracts (EBSCO)
Indexes and abstracts articles and reproductions from art periodicals published throughout the world.  [more info]
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Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
Images of art and architectural works in the public domain for non-profit use by all levels of the educational community.  [more info]
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Artbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)
Use this to find journal articles, books, and other info about all forms of modern and contemporary art.  [more info]
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Artcyclopedia
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ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing.  [more info]
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ArticleFirst (OCLC / Firstsearch)
An index to the tables of contents of journals in all subject areas...  [more info]
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ARTstor
Image database containing over 1 million images in subject areas such as art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, world history, literature and more.  [more info]
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ArXiV
arXiv is an e-print repository in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Note: arXiv is not a journal, it is a repository of papers that have usually been submitted to, but not yet printed in, a journal. Use and cite articles contained therein appropriately.  [more info]
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ASBC Methods of Analysis
Provides scientific methods for brewing malt beverages.  [more info]
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ASFA and Aqualine (ProQuest)
Get the most out of our water related data by searching ASFA and Aqualine simultaneously  [more info]
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ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to aquatic organisms, pollution, aquaculture, conservation, and more.  [more info]
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Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information.  [more info]
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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ProQuest)
Indexes and abstracts articles covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.  [more info]
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Associates Programs Source (EBSCO)
This database contains 1,000 full-text journals and 11 full-text books covering subjects from fashion design to veterinary assisting...  [more info]
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Association of Alternative News Media
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) is a diverse group of 127 alternative news organizations covering every major metropolitan area and other less-populated regions of North America.
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Associations Unlimited (Gale)
Information about associations and professional societies, listings for nonprofit membership organizations.  Before using this resource, be certain of your SIC industry classification code.  For a tutorial, click here.  [more info]
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Athenaeum
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (EBSCO)
Citations and some full text to international periodicals, books, and book chapters on religion and theological studies...  [more info]
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Atomic Learning
Web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use every day.  [more info]
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Attacks on the Press
Attacks on the Press is an annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. It recounts incidences around the world where journalists were attacked, killed, or imprisoned.  [more info]
Carrier Stacks, PN4751 .A88
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)
Use this to find journal articles on architecture and design  [more info]
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