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ABC News Polling Unit
Narrative results from ABC News polls. [more info]
Internet
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]
Internet
Academic Advising & Career Development Resource Center
JMU's Academic Advising & Career Development Resource Center. [more info]
Internet
Academic Employment Network
Useful mainly as a source for teaching positions. [more info]
Internet
Academic OneFile (Gale)
This resource was canceled by VIVA. Please begin using Academic Search Complete (EBSCO). Indexes, abstracts and provides selected fulltext for scholarly journals and popular magazines in all subjects. [more info]
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ... [more info]
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Academy Awards (Oscars)
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Access World News (Readex)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources. [more info]
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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!  [tutorial] Provides both full-text accounting standards, and interpretation / guidance [more info]
Internet
ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)
Collection of over 2100 books of high quality in the humanities online ... [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
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]
Adult Education/Human Resource Development
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Advanced Polymers Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to the manufacturing, uses and properties of thermoset... [more info]
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Advertising Redbooks (Lexis Nexis)
  Find detailed information about domestic and international advertising agencies and advertisers... [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]
African American Biographical Database (Cancelled) (Chadwyck-Healey) (Cancelled)
This resource has been cancelled, effective 6/30/2009. Access to this resource will end 6/30/2009. Please begin using other resources. AABD is a collection that contains extended narratives of African Amerian activists, business people, former slaves, educators... [more info]
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African American Song (Alexander Street Press)
African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info]
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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]
AgeLine (AARP) (Cancelled)
This resource has been cancelled, effective 11/15/2009.  Please note that this product is no longer free. It is available as a trial until mid-November.
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research...
[more info]
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. 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]
Agricola (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to all aspects of agriculture.... [more info]
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Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to agricultural products involving both plants and animals.. [more info]
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AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts (CSA)
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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Algology, Mycology & Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C) (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to algae, fungi, protozoa, or lichens... [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]
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AllLaw.com
A comprehensive portal to legal information. [more info]
Almanac of American Politics
Click 'more info' for online version....Search through in-depth profiles and photographs of every governor and member of Congress... [more info]
Carrier Library Reference, JK271.B343
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (Prentice-Hall)
Includes ratios for over 175 industries compiled from IRS information.... [more info]
Reference Desk
Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO)
Search through more than 180 full text journals and reports on topics that range from acupuncture to nutrition... [more info]
Alternative Press Index (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines... [more info]
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Alternative Press Index Archive (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from 1969-1990... [more info]
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Aluminium Industry Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to aluminum, production processes, products, applications... [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
Amazon.com
Popular website that began as a bookseller but now sells everything from automotive supplies to video games. [more info]
Internet
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
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 Dietetic Association
The American Dietetic Association is the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being.   [more info]
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... [more info]
American Hospital Directory
Directory and comparative data. [more info]
Internet
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
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 Political Science Association (APSA) Documentation
Sample citations and references (courtesy of UW-Madison's Writing Center) are drawn from the Style Manual for Political Science, revised edition, 1993, and from The Chicago Manual of style, 14th edition (1993) [more info]
Internet
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
American Sign Language Dictionary (On disc)
Request in Media Resources... 
[more info]
Media Resources
American Social History Online
A web tool for finding and using digital content from over 175 American Social History research collections.  A project of the Digital Library Federation. [more info]
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]
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
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]
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past... [more info]
Internet
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
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American Universities
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Internet
AMICO Library (OCLC)
See CAMIO... [more info]
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Amtrak
Train routes, fares, and schedules [more info]
Internet
Anatomy.tv (Primal Pictures)
Includes detailed multi-layer graphics of all areas of the human body... [more info]
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Animal Behavior Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to animal behavior... [more info]
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Animap Plus County Boundary Historical Atlas (Gold Bug)
Displays boundary changes by year for each county in the 48 adjacent United States from colonial... [more info]
Reference Desk
Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
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An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity...
[more info]
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Annenberg Media: 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
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]
Internet
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 (CSA)
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]
Anthropology Bibliography on Disc (G.K. Hall)
A bibliographic guide to anthropology and archaeology... [more info]
Reference Desk
Anthropology Plus (OCLC)
Indexes journal articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from 2,500 journals and selected edited works... [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]
Internet
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [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) [more info]
APA Style Guide to Electronic References
This guide is a revised and updated version of section 4.16 of the 5th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, pp. 268-281), P-1. [more info]
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APA Style Help (American Psychiatric Association)
[more info]
Aqualine (CSA)
Index for trade, technical and scientific literature concerning all aspects of water resources. [more info]
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ARBA Online (Greenwood Electronic Media)
Reviews of print and electronic reference sources, written by librarians... [more info]
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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)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories... [more info]
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Armed Conflict Database
Full-text and statistics for international and internal conflicts... [more info]
Internet
Art & Design Databases (CSA)
Use this to find journal articles, news items, and reviews in art & design periodicals [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]
Artbibliographies Modern (CSA)
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]
ArticleFirst (OCLC)
An index to the tables of contents of journals in all subject areas... [more info]
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Arts & Humanities Search (OCLC)
Indexes articles from arts and humanities journals plus relevant articles from social science... [more info]
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ARTstor
Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info]
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ArXiV
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. [more info]
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to aquatic organisms. Marine, freshwater, and brackish... [more info]
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ASFA 2 : Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-living Resource (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to oceanography: physical, descriptive, dynamical... [more info]
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ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to research and policy on the contamination... [more info]
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ASFA and Aqualine (CSA)
Get the most out of our water related data by searching ASFA and Aqualine simultaneously [more info]
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ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to all aspects of marine and freshwater... [more info]
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ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to marine biotechnology, molecular biology ... [more info]
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ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to aquatic organisms, pollution, aquaculture, conservation... [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 (CSA)
Indexes and abstracts articles covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. [more info]
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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Associations Unlimited (Gale)
Information about associations and professional societies, listings for nonprofit membership organizations ... [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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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA)
Use this to find journal articles on architecture and design [more info]
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