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Electronic Reference Books & Collections |
eReference Book Collections
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African American History and Culture
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| (FactsOnFile) - an electronic encyclopedia covering African-American history, from African beginnings through the slave trade, civil rights movement to the present, organized by category: biography, primary sources, subject, timeline, images, and maps and charts.
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American Women's History
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| (FactsOnFile)- explores the various aspects of American women's history, organized by category: biography, primary sources, subject, timeline, images, and maps and charts.
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Biography Reference Bank
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| (Wilson) - covers 500,000 people from antiquity through today. Combines the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, and full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases, to bring you Wilson's largest biography database yet.
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Credo Reference
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an online full text collection of electronic reference books in a variety of subject areas.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
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an online full text collection of electronic reference books in a variety of subject areas.
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
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provides online access to the full collection of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, and Children’s Literature
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Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)
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a gateway to art research; includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music)
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| A gateway that provides individual or simultaneous access to Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Oxford Reference
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| (Oxford) - the Premium Collection provides multidisciplinary subject reference works, including the Oxford Companions Series, as well as English and foreign language dictionaries, and language reference works.
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PsycBooks (APA)
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full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
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PsychiatryOnline (includes DSM-IV)
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| (APPI) - provides a searchable version of DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR Casebook and its Treatment Companion, the APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, and Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and re-certification are also included.
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Sage Reference Online
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| A searchable collection of over 90 encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences, business, education and health, and history.
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World Almanacs
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| (Firstsearch)- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
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eReference Books (single titles)
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American National Biography
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| (Oxford) - the online version of the 24 volume reference work, with special subject collections in Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and American Indian Heritage.
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Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work & Social Welfare
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(Wiley) – an online version of the four volume handbook covering professional, practice, policy and research issues in social work.
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CQ Encyclopedia of American Government
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| (CQ Press)- provides concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy.
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Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations (Gale)
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covers worldwide membership organizations, including U.S.-based organizations with a multinational membership.
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Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. (Gale)
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covers nonprofit membership organizations of the U.S of national scope.
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Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations (Gale)
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covers nonprofit membership organizations of the U.S on the regional and local level.
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Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources (Gale)
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covers a wide range of live, print and electronic sources of information of interest to business professionals.
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Encyclopedia of Social Work
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(Oxford) - covers contemporary issues, historical foundations and key figures in the field.
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Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
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(Wiley-Blackwell) – updated version of the 11 volume source, covering classical sociology, contemporary developments, and key figures in the field.
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Guide to Reference
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an online version of Guide to Reference Books, a core publication of librarianship in the United States
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Oxford-English Dictionary
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| (Oxford) - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Second Edition of the OED is currently available as a 20-volume print edition as well as online. This resource is sponsored by the Friends of the Adelphi Library.
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Adelphi University Library
Reference Desk
Adelphi University
P.O. BOX 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701
p - 516.877.3574
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