Frederick Douglass Library
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The following is a list of online databases available via the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you in finding Reference sources.
| Biographies | Dictionaries/Encyclopedias | General | Additional Resources |
Biography Resource Center
This database combines biographies and full-text articles
from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal
facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or
gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
LION (Literature
Online)
Literature Online is a fully
searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry,
drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and
reference resources.
Literature Resource Center
(LRC)
LRC is a the premier Internet
resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in
such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and
more. LRC also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical
material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series.
Access Science
Access Science is an electronic version of the McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology with many features. You may search by
word or phrase or browse by topic. It includes a science dictionary, news
articles, research updates, biographies, information about data, tables and
tools, a question and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
This sources contains the full-text of the 32-volume
Encyclopædia Britannica (plus thousands of additional articles and images not
available in the print set); Webster's Third New International Dictionary
Unabridged; and the Britannica Book of the Year.
Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database indexes over
25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Books in Print with
Reviews
This database is a
directory of
publishers, resource guides, and book industry news. This database includes
book reviews, access to children’s literature and autobiographies.
College Source Online
This database contains over 25,900 complete
college catalogs with links to the school's home page, financial aid
information, and career information. All listed U.S. schools are accredited.
Hoover's Company Records
Hoover's provides brief information on 15,000
companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver
information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top
officers, and more.
International Index to Black Periodicals
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from
over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the
U.S., Africa and the Caribbean - and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies
periodicals (1998 forward).
Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in History
Contains the
full text of primary source material on African-American history.
Testing & Education Reference Center
This database to
searches thousands of college and graduate school entries and identifies
scholarships that meet their financial needs. Use Testing & Education Reference
Center to take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your
education goals.
Tests in Print
TIP serves as a comprehensive
bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in
print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including
test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended
test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
Ulrich's
Periodical Directory
This database contains magazines, journals,
newspapers, newsletters and webzines from over 200 countries.
For assistance with these databases, please consult a Reference Librarian.
(10/16/2007)