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Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

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The online Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
Credo Reference helps you start your research with 800+ full-text reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, subject handbooks, image collections, and videos, on a user-friendly online platform.

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely and openly available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

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An exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly e-books that combines ebook databases ebrary and EBL into one platform.

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FirstSearch is a proven and highly trusted tool that empowers anyone to find the authoritative content they need in every format from worldwide library collections.

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

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Dictionary and thesaurus of American English.

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Full content of issues from February 21, 1925 to present are digitized.

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This database indexes over 50 million records of open access digital resources. It used the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to amass the data. This is just an index rather than a repository, but the entries do link to the items described in most cases.
Notes: Oxford upgraded OED in July 2023, causing unplanned access issues. Remote users may hit a paywall - click on the "sign in through your institution" button.

Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of social science subjects.

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ProQuest Central brings together many of our most used databases to create the most comprehensive, diverse, and relevant multidisciplinary research database available. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

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User database for New School community to import, store and organize citations for automatically formatted papers and/or bibliographies, in any of hundreds of format styles such as MLA and APA.

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Alternate Name(s) Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
1956-present. Provides indexing of the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the social sciences, and navigation of the full citation network. All cited references for all covered publications are fully indexed and searchable by topic, cited reference searching, or related reference searching. Create your own free account to track citation activity with Citation Alerts, and more. Also provides access to indexing and open access journals articles in Spanish and Portuguese (via SciELO), Russian, or Korean. Please select the respective databases from the databases drop-down menu on the search page.

WorldCat, or World Catalogue, developed by OCLC, is North American-centric, covering collections of small and medium-sized libraries, as well as those of larger ones. It includes some libraries abroad as well. It is the mega-database libraries turn to for definitive citation information and information on interlibrary loan availability.

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