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This database focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Oceanic Abstracts has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to the oceans.
Category: Marine Science
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1981 - current
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The online library of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Best known for its publications and its statistics, the OECD’s work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development, science and innovation.
Category: Business, Business-Economics, Business-International Business, Public Administration, Social Sciences
Material Type: Books, Company Profiles, Journals, Proceedings, Reference Sources, Statistics
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1998 - current
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Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Category: Music
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy. This online library that allows students to investigate current issues and topics from a number of perspectives.
Category: General Purpose Databases, K-12 Resources, Political Science, Social Sciences
Material Type: Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, Reference Sources, Statistics
Access: On & Off Campus
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OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.  A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index.
Category: Biology
Material Type: Journals, Proceedings, Reports
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The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. 
Category: African-American Studies
Material Type: Books, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: The core content includes:
  • Africana
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
  • Black Women in America
  • African American National Biography
  • Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

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Bibliography of topics in social work and related disciplines.  Entries have an introduction to the topic before identifying  introductory works, journals, theoretical works and citations to key literature of sub-topics.
Category: Counseling, Social Work
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
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An illustrated collection of more than 50,000  biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain’s history and culture from the Romans to the 21st century. 

Provided by the Katharine Otis and Bruce Oswald Hunt Biography Collection endowment.

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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).
Category: English Literature, General Purpose Databases, Linguistics
Material Type: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Second Edition
Notes: User Guide

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Grove Music Online [Oxford Music Online] comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition as well as Oxford Dictionary of Music and Oxford Companion to Music

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Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Economics, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Consumer Health, English Literature, Environment, Exercise & Sports Science, Foreign Language & Literatures, General Purpose Databases, Geography, History, Law, Library Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Nursing, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science - General, Social Sciences, Sociology, Statistics, Theatre & Dance
Material Type: Biographies, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias, Electronic Books, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
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