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Full textMcGraw-Hill's AccessScience is an online gateway to library of science and technology information. Updated daily, AccessScience delivers the latest content of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and other related information.
This database contains more than 8,500 articles written for students, researchers, and the general public. More than 5,000 contributors are the leading figures in their fields—including 35 Nobel Prize winners. It also includes late breaking news, biographies of famous scientists, a Student Center, tutorials, and much more—all brought to life by 13,000 high-quality illustrations and rich media content.
Reference Current Full textThis database serves as a unique guide to the ways in which names offer insight into the political, cultural, religious, and aesthetic meanings that people ascribe to particular environments, and in which the values of places change. The dynamism of the world system since World War II is graphically illustrated by changed names for both renewed and pre-existing places.
MultidisciplinaryThe ebrary Academic Complete Collection is a book database that offers full-text online access to over 30,000 authoritative titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Subjects include: Business and Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; Social & Behavioral Sciences. Ebrary is delivered via the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)(tm) featuring the ebrary Reader(tm).
Reference Current Full textA reference site for students, educators, and parents which includes the complete encyclopædia, with more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by professional editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions with pronunciation guides and word histories from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Plus, the Encyclopædia Britannica Intermediate which offers over 38,000 articles and 4,000 images, illustrations, maps and flags. This site can also be used to search an internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Agriculture/Nutrition/Food Science 2003-present Current Full textThis database is an expanded and updated version of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition (1993). Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia covers the fields of food science, food technology, and nutrition.
Psychology/Sociology Current Full textThis database covers all aspects of social and behavioral disciplines. Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia contains 4,000 articles, 150 biographies and 90,000 bibliographic references.
ReferenceIt is the largest and most prestigious English online dictionary in the world. Oxford English Dictionary explores the meaning and evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years with speed and ease.
Reference Current Full textA giant online database which includes a variety of library acclaimed dictionaries and reference works across the subject spectrum.