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AbleData (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
Product catalog providing information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment ...
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Unrestricted
AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online (McGraw-Hill)
Encylopedia articles, illustrations, definitions, biographies, bibliographies, and learning resources ...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
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.
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Reference Desk
ARBA Online (ABC-CLIO)
Reviews of print and electronic reference sources, written by librarians...
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Campus/Remote
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]
Campus/Remote
Atomic Learning
Web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use every day.
[more info]
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Bibliographic Index
Online access to Bibliographic Index is no longer available. Print volumes for 1937-2008 (v.1-48) are available in Carrier Library. Please stop by the public service desk for assistance with retrieval.
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Carrier Library - Reference
Bibliography of British & Irish History (Brepolis)
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides historical data on the British Isles from 55BC to present. Secondary sources only.
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Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - Anthropology (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books on anthropology.
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Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - Communication & Media Studies (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books on communication and media studies.
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Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - Gender Studies (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books on gender studies.
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Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in history.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - Philosophy (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books on philosophy.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - Religion (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books on religion.
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Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online Collection (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in the humanities and social sciences.
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Bloomberg BNA Tax and Accounting Centers
A comprehensive source for federal tax code, IRS publications, tax rules, tax forms, practice portfolios, and related news and commentary.
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Campus/Remote
Books in Print Global Edition (Bowker)
An index of English-language books, e-books, audiocassettes, and videos currently available world-wide ...
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Campus/Remote
Business Plans Handbook (Gale)
Access the series of Business Plans Handbook, volume 1 to current issue.
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Campus/Remote
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (Taylor and Francis)
Authoritative source for all types of data commonly needed by physical scientists, engineers, and students. Search by text or substance/property.
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Credo Reference (Credo Reference)
Search over 500 reference titles using Credo.
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Toronto)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts...
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Campus/Remote
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (American Musicological Society)
An index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since 1984...
[more info]
Internet
DSM-IV-TRĀ® Library (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
A set of searchable, full-text reference works for psychiatric diagnosis.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
E-EROS (Wiley)
This is the online counterpart of the Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (HROS)
[more info]
Campus/Remote
eHRAF World Cultures: Collection of Ethnography (Yale University)
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Check out these
online tutorials
for a quick introduction to eHRAF.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Encyclopedia of African American History (Oxford University Press)
Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present
includes approximately 1,200 A-Z cross-referenced entries, more than 400 images, a chronology of major events in black history, and complete coverage from
Plessy v. Ferguson
to the election of Barack Obama.
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Campus/Remote
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Gale)
Topics include the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.
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Campus/Remote
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Gale)
Encyclopedia articles about issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level ...
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Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Services)
Facts and overviews of historic events and issues since 1940.
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Campus/Remote
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Gale)
Essays on approximately 152 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats...
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Campus/Remote
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology (Gale)
Covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms...
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Campus/Remote
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searchable online reference book collection covering all subjects from the arts to zoology.
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Gale's Literary Index (Gale)
An author and title index to 40 major literature series published by The Gale Group ...
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Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
Several encyclopedias-in-one with articles and cross references covering music and musicians worldwide...
[more info]
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Grzimek's Animal Encyclopedia (Gale)
Encyclopedia of animals ...
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Guide to Reference (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline...
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Guide to Reference: Art & Architecture (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources in the Art & Architecture discipline...
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HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) (Library of Congress)
A multidisciplinary bibliography of materials on all aspects of Latin American studies ...
[more info]
Internet
IBM Redbooks
IBM Redbooks
provide guidelines for installing and troubleshooting computer systems. The redbooks contain step-by-step guides, sample code, and other support materials.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Interactive Functional Anatomy (Anatomy.tv)
Online interactive 3-d human anatomy.
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Campus/Remote
Issues & Controversies (Facts On File News Services)
Full text analysis of opposing viewpoints for more than 600 controversial topics in the news...
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Campus/Remote
JMU Libraries' Quick Search
Search the LEO Catalog and selected article databases at once!
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Campus/Remote
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO)
Descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized tests.
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Merck Index Online (Royal Society of Chemistry)
The Merck Index contains 11,500 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. Also includes chemical structure searching and drawing tools.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Micromedex
Look up drug information, interactions, and comparable products. Also includes the CareNotes and RedBook modules.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
NASW Clinical Register (Ovid)
Directory of registered social workers...
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Campus/Remote
Occupational Outlook Handbook (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Full-text descriptions of occupations in the United States.
[more info]
Unrestricted
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) (Oxford University Press)
This database contains the entire text of the
Oxford English Dictionary
and the
Historical Thesaurus of the OED
.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man
Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, including textual information, pictures...
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Internet
Opposing Viewpoints In Context (Gale)
Contains secondary and primary sources discussing today's social issues...
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Campus/Remote
Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press)
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects.
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Campus/Remote
Prokaryotes (Springer)
Provides scholarly articles on the biology of bacteria, including systematics, ecology, and physiology.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
PsychiatryOnline
A set of searchable, full-text reference works for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Reference Universe (Paratext)
Search most of JMU's reference collection for background articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.
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Campus/Remote
RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database of bibliographic records. For more info, view
RefWorks in 5 Minutes
, a short online video tutorial.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Rockingham: a Supplement to an Annotated Bibliography of a Virginia County
An index with abstracts to sources available in libraries ...
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Internet
Safari Books Online (ProQuest)
Safari Books Online is a fully-searchable e-reference library that houses a vast collection of technical books from industry-leading publishers. Also includes business related books.
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Campus/Remote
Sage Knowledge
Access full-text encyclopedias on subjects ranging from African American Studies to Sociology...
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SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service)
[tutorial]
Indexes and abstracts periodical articles in chemistry...
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Campus/Remote
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University)
Online encyclopedia of philosophy with each entry maintained and updated by an expert or...
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Today's Science (Facts On File News Services)
Full text summaries describe the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental...
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Campus/Remote
Ulrichsweb.com (Serials Solutions)
A directory of currently published periodicals (magazines, journals, newsletters, etc) ...
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Campus/Remote
World Almanacs (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Includes the contents of the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A...
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Campus/Remote
World News Digest (Facts On File News Services)
Facts and overviews of historic events and issues since 1940. Content includes full text articles, essays.
[more info]
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