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| Covers the history of Western and non-Western art. Recommends research resources and has a "Museums and Galleries" section arranged by country. Read the full annotation |
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| Among its more than 3,600 terms covering all aspects of art, ArtLex provides basic definitions of art terms, numerous illustrations, quotations, and pronunciation notes, and links to other Web resources. The site defines more than 1,700,000 words found in more than 200 dictionaries and glossaries. Read the full annotation |
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| A portal to current essays, book reviews, and new publications in the humanities, based on a survey of recently published periodical literature. Read the full annotation |
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| ARTstor is an image collection which documents artistic traditions across all times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture. Modeled after JSTOR, ARTstor draws its content from libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, and individual scholars. Read the full annotation |
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| Includes information about symptoms, conditions, and possible causes of ASD along with resources, information about congressional initiatives, and much more. Very frequently updated. Read the full annotation |
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| The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship aims to promote the scholarly study of
the theology, history, and practice of Christian worship and the renewal of worship in worshiping communities
across North America and beyond. Read the full annotation |
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates the content of CommSearch and the Mass Media Articles Index along with other journals in communication and mass media to create a resource with scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
CMMC offers complete indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals and select coverage of 230 more for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. Full text articles are available for more than 240 journals. Read the full annotation |
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| CQ Weekly reports on the work of the U.S. Congress. The CQ news team reports on virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis. Each issue gives readers in-depth reports on issues currently before Congress and on the horizon, plus a complete wrap-up of the previous week's news (status of bills, behind the scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and roll-call votes). Read the full annotation |
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| A joint project of New York University and New World Records. Nonsubscribers can search the catalog and read liner notes, many of which include bibliographies and discographies. Read the full annotation |
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| Portal for Dutch Studies in Language and Literature from the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Read the full annotation |
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| Presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. Read the full annotation |
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This is a collection of authoritative encyclopedias,
dictionaries, directories, almanacs and other references accessed via one interface or individually. Individual titles must be searched by logging into the database and then narrowing to a specific title. The Hekman library owns:
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The Brill Dictionary of Religion, 4 vols., 2006
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Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World
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Encyclopedia of Global Health, 4 vols., 2008
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Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 10 vols., 2008
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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures, 2004
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 4 vols., 2007
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures, 2003
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Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion, 6 vols., 2005
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Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 4 vols., 2005
- Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2 vols., 2006
- Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 2 vols., 2006
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 5 vols., 2006
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International Encyclopedia of Organizational Studies, 4 vols., 2008
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Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems, 2007
- Encyclopedia of Small Business, 2 vols., 2007
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life, 5 vols., 2009
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Guide to Reference is the “source of first resort” for identifying local materials that answer users’ questions, training reference staff, inventorying and developing reference collections, assisting interlibrary loan staff, and serving as a gateway to the wider repertory of the reference literature.
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| A collection of links to primary resources and documents that shed light on key elements in the political, economic, social and cultural history of the Netherlands. Arranged chronologically. Read the full annotation |
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| A select list of websites that leads to hundreds of other links on theatre and the performing arts. Collected by the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Read the full annotation |
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| The IoP Journal Database indexes and presents full text articles for nearly sixty electronic journals
related to physics and astronomy extending from 1874 to the current. Read the full annotation |
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| The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Read the full annotation |
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| The Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning is devoted to the study and promotion of pedagogy, learning, and educational leadership from an integrally Christian perspective. Read the full annotation |
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| LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America for people living in Latin America as well as others around the world who have an interest in the region. LANIC has become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students and private and public sector professionals. Read the full annotation |
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| LexisNexis Academic is an extensive set of full-text electronic databases of news, business, company, and legal information. It contains major archives of federal and state case law, media transcripts, and other full-text material. For more information consult the LexisNexis Academic help documents and/or search tutorial. Read the full annotation |
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| LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.) Read the full annotation |
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| Features a free world music podcast; "World Music Profiles," with weekly audio interviews and new music features; a vast world music directory, searchable by artist's name, genre, album, or country, and much more. Read the full annotation |
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| This database delivers full-text articles published in the New York Times from 1981 to today. Users can search for specific articles by keyword or phrase, author, headline, date, or date range. Read the full annotation |
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| Newspaper Direct Press Display gives access to newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The collection currently includes nearly 1,000 U.S. and international titles. Most have a 3-month back file. Read the full annotation |
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The gateway to Oxford's premiere music publications, including the fundamental New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (2001), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2006), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2001).
In this database, you can find articles on music history, instruments, composers, institutions, performers, and genres.
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| PAIR brings together a scholastic, eclectic group of Internet materials in a tightly organized, well-cataloged, and easily accessible format. Covers Asia from Turkey to Japan including links in English and local languages. PAIR includes a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines. Read the full annotation |
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Accessible from the LIbrary of Congress web site, this encyclopedia, which will be updated regularly, was developed by the Library's Music Division. It serves as a centralized guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance.
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| PROLA is the online version of Physical Review, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. This database goes back to 1893 and contains nearly 325,000 electronic articles. Read the full annotation |
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| Created by nurses for nurses and students, this site offers good
resource links, but the highlight is its "Careplan Corner," with
predefined nursing care plans. Users can copy, save, or print and
modify any of the plans. Read the full annotation |
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| Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed journals.
The Hekman Library has access to every article available from Science Direct via the Elsevier Article Choice program. Article Choice allows current faculty and staff at their discretion to purchase individual articles for $22 each. Read the full annotation |
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| The Scout Project research team creates and delivers practical Web-based information and software solutions for educators, librarians and researchers. Read the full annotation |
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| Beautiful architectural drawings of thousands of tall buildings around
the globe, contributed by members of the SkyscraperPage Illustrators
Association, can be found on this site. Users can browse by city,
country, or continent. The site includes completed buildings, as well as those proposed, under
construction, canceled, or destroyed. Drawings are initially displayed
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| This site contains numerous reference resources that help educators and parents better understand behavioral and other issues involved with special education. Read the full annotation |
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| Most helpful areas and free to all web users are the homepages of magazines/journals links, the programs, research centers, libraries, and archives links, women's organizations links, and especially the links by subject area. Read the full annotation |
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| WSSLinks is developed and maintained by The Women's Studies Section (WSS) of the Association of College & Research
Libraries, which discusses, promotes, and supports women's studies
collections and services in academic and research libraries. Read the full annotation |
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