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  • CountryWatch: News about and information on 192 countries
  • CQ Researcher: Comprehensive reporting and analysis on current political and social issues
  • Current Issues - Reference Shelf Plus: Selected full-text articles on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues
  • Facts on File: Includes Facts on File World News Digest (1940 - Present), provides comprehensive reporting and analysis on current political and social themes; Issues and Controversies, explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture; and Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
  • Gale Literary Databases - CA, CLC, DLB: Access three of the world's premier literature resources with a single search. When you simultaneously search Contemporary Authors (CA), Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select), and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), you'll find in-depth information on the lives and writings of more than 130,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. This series includes integrated indexes to both the DLB and CLC print series
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference tools
  • JSTOR: Arts & Sciences I: Established in 1997, JSTOR's first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
  • LexisNexis: Full-text articles from world, U.S. regional, trade and professional, news, business, legal, medical, and reference sources
  • Literature Resource Center: LRC is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world
  • NetLibrary E-Books: Over 7,000 electronic books available
  • Opposing Viewpoint Resource Center: Pro and con viewpoint articles on current social issues, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text journal articles.
  • Oxford English Dictionary - OED Online: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium
  • Proquest: Articles from over 4,000 academic and popular magazines and journals
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