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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 Related Databases

Biographies

African American Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

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.

 

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

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.

African America Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

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.

General

African American Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

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.

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.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, and archival materials in libraries worldwide.

Related Databases

For assistance with these databases, please consult a Reference Librarian.

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