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All Subjects

  • New Gale PowerSearch - Includes access to General Onefile, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Health Reference Center Academic, Academic Onefile, Literature Resource Center, Heath and Wellness Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
     
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library - Search all of our Gale eReference books.
     
  • Newpapers (Proquest) - Complete full-text online editions of the San Diego Union Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.

Arts

Biography

  • New UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography - Features 750 biographies of notable historic and current figures from around the world. Entries focus on the people most often studied in middle and high school. Highlights include photos and illustrations; a chronology; a glossary; sidebars covering facts of interest; and indexes by nationality, ethnicity, occupation, and general terms.

Business

  • Business Leader Profiles for Students - Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.

Child Development

  • Child Development - Part of the Macmillan Psychology Reference Series, this title covers issues related to human development from conception through adolescence. Written for the general reader.

Cultures

  • New Countries and Their Cultures - "Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information."
     
  • New Encyclopedia of Food and Culture - "Presents 600 articles on food and its place in human culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. Students, academics, and general researchers will find entries on everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines. Entries range from 250 to 10,000 words each and are supplemented by 400 photographs and illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, timelines, and a comprehensive index."
     
  • New Encyclopedia of World Cultures - "This reference set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture."

Current Events and Controversies

  • CountryWatch - An information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests.
     
  • CQ Researcher - Reports on current and controversial issues of the day; summarizes pros and cons; provides annotated bibliographies.
     
  • Opposing Viewpoints Research Center - Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.  Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistic, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. An Infotrac database.

Education

  • New Encyclopedia of Education - "Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice."
     
  • New World Education Encyclopedia - "This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This edition provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances."

Environmental Health & Safety Technology

  • Environmental Encyclopedia - Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.

General Reference

Geography

  • New Countries and Their Cultures - "Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information."
     
  • CountryWatch - An information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests.

Health

  • Health and Wellness Resource Center - Provides articles on a variety of health topics, including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and more.  An Infotrac database.
     
  • New UXL Complete Health Resource - "Health--Encyclopedias. Diseases--Encyclopedias. Body, Human. Human physiology. Human anatomy. Anatomy. Physiology. Health. Mental Health. Medical Care."

History

Law

  • West's Encyclopedia of American Law - Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

Literature

  • Books in Print - Provides publication data for books in and out of print. Includes over 1.9 million listings retrievable by title, author, subject, publisher, publication date, and ISBN.
     
  • Electronic Book Collection (netLibrary) - A collection of almost two thousand electronic books on all subjects.
     
  • Literature Resource Center - Provides keyword access to major biographical and critical resources for more than 100,000 authors and their works. Includes full-text digital editions of: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.  Also includes numerous full-text articles from approximately seventy literary journals, as well as authoritative web links to literary subjects. An Infotrac database.

Music

  • Grove Music Online - Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).

Psychology

  • Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology - Covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms, landmark case studies and experiments, applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports, and career information.
     
  • Learning and Memory - Provides an overview of the full range of current knowledge about learning and memory. This edition features new articles and article updates that capture advances in the ever-changing fields of memory, neuroscience, and cognition. New entries include autobiographical memory, collective memory, déjàvu, schizophrenia and memory, and more.

Religion

  • Encyclopedia of American Religions - Contains general essays that historically trace the major religious families and traditions, as well as directory listings that include contact and descriptive information on individual churches, religious bodies, and spiritual groups.

Sociology

  • New Countries and Their Cultures - "Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information."
     
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America - Contains 8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns. Also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans, and Amish. Each essay lists organizations and research centers; name, address, and contact information for periodicals, radio, and television stations; and a further readings section.
     
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture - Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
     
  • The Sixties in America Reference Library - The Sixties in America Reference Library presents a broad overview of the turbulent 1960s, a decade that forever changed the American social, political, and cultural landscape. The Sixties in America: Almanac covers major issues of the period, from Cold War politics and the civil rights movement to antiwar protests and Motown. The Sixties in America: Biographies features profiles of the major figures from the 1960s, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rachel Carson, Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali. The Sixties in America: Primary Sources includes excerpts from speeches, diary entries, and other primary source materials.
     
  • New Encyclopedia of World Cultures - "This reference set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture."

 

 

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