Reference Sources
Access
Science -- The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology Online.
ARTstor -- A
collection of images of artwork and architecture from museums
around the world.
Biography in Context -- Access to full-text
biographical information with related full-text articles from
hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Digital Library of
Appalachia -- Online access to archival and historical
materials related to the culture of the southern and central
Appalachian region.
The
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences -- A full-text encyclopedia in
the biological sciences.
Facts on File -- The "Issues and Controversies" database, which
contains unbiased information on current topics.
First Research -- Industry. economic, employment, and labor
market information.
Gale Databases -- Access Biography in Context, World
History in Context, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, GREENR,
and the Literature Resource Center.
Gale Virtual Reference Library -- A database of encyclopedias
and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
Global Issues in Context: Perspectives on International News and
Events -- Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue
and country portals that bring together a variety of specially
selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social,
political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural
issues.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural
Resources) -- Provides focus on the physical, social, and
economic aspects of environmental issues.
Grolier
Online Encyclopedias -- Search online encyclopedias including
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge for
Children.
Hoover's
Business Information -- In-depth business, company, and
industry information.
KYVL -- Kentucky Virtual Library links and access to databases
and Internet resources.
Life Quotes -- On
this website you'll find more than 36,000 quotations from
over 6,000 famous people, such as Benjamin Disraeli, Oscar Wilde,
Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mahatma
Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Confucius,
Woody Allen, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other
great authors.
Literature Resource Center -- Up-to-date biographical
information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on
more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods
and from around the world. Also contains Scribner Writer Series and
Twayne's Authors Series.
Oxford Art Online -- Access to the full-text versions of The
Dictionary of Art and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford English
Dictionary -- A searchable, online version of the OED, an
authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of the English
language.
Oxford Music Online -- Access to various full-text musical
dictionaries.
Oxford
Reference Online -- Search more than 200 dictionaries, language
references, subject reference works and the Oxford Companion
Series.
Polling the
Nations -- A database of survey and polling results gathered
from the and more than 60 foreign countries.
SYBWorld (Statesmen's Yearbook World) -- Country profiles with
political, social, economic, and biographical information on world
nations and their leaders.
World History in Context -- An engaging online experience for
those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most
significant people, events and topics in World History.