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Academic OneFile

In-depth full-text news, business, legal, medical and reference information.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

Biography Resource Center
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Connecticut History Online

Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of over 15,000 digital primary sources, together with associated interpretive and educational material. Now in its tenth year, CHO is embarking on a collaboration with the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online (ECHO) to serve the needs of scholars, K-12 and post-secondary teachers and students, genealogists, and the general public. This new initiative builds upon a very successful collaboration of libraries and museums carried out in two IMLS National Leadership grant-funded phases (1999-2007) that focused on digital capture of historical artifacts, including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories, manuscripts and oral histories. These document events, people, and places that are part of the fabric of Connecticut and American social, business, political, educational, cultural, and civic life.

career Library

This database features over 25,000 occupations, 4,000 2-yr and 4-yr colleges and universities, surveys and assessments based on the 16 federal career dusters (also in Spanish);comprehensive Financial Aid Center, occupation video library...
CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. The CQ Researcher has been the choice of librarians for over 80 years. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.

Credo reference

Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica is a well-respected brand and has a long tradition of providing accurate and educational information on just about any subject you can think of. We pride ourselves in encouraging all our customers, young and old, to discover more about the world we live in.

Encyclopaedia Judaica

This 2nd edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists; 2,600 brand-new entries, many focusing on gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Included in each volume is an 8-page full color insert that provides a rich and thematic illustration of the many aspects of Jewish life and culture, as well as a record of the physical development of the State of Israel.

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning

The Encyclopedia of Distance Learning offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning. Over 400 international contributors from over 35 countries have provided extensive coverage of topics such as workforce training, accessing education, digital divide, and the evolution of distance and online education into a multibillion dollar enterprise.

Discovering Collection
The database's intuitive interface and easy-to-navigate functionality make it effortless for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
Encyclopedia of Connecticut History
First on line in 1999, the Gateway has grown to include information on over 200 cultural organizations throughout the state…their historical specialties, location and contact information. The activities calendar lists 100 or more heritage activities each month while the cultural resources for teacher’s section offers over 100 lesson plans, onsite student programs and professional development opportunities. The Laptop Encyclopedia of Connecticut History, the first online resource of its kind in the state, features hundreds of articles on Connecticut people, places and historical events.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic ASAP indexes over 6000 magazines and journals and provides full text access to 2500 of these titles.

General OneFile
MasterFile Premier (Ebsco)
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. For some titles, full text archives are available back to 1975. The database also contains full text for nearly 200 reference and travel books; 88,000 biographies; 60,000 primary source documents; and 91,000 photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated daily.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Military and Intelligence Database
Opposing Viewpoints
Controversial topics discussed by various authors with differing opinions.

Opposing Viewpoints : Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking offers activities, assessments and tools that encourage students to interact with, argue about and analyze issues and concepts — all the while developing the 21st century skills they need to thrive in today’s global workplace.

Project Muse

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Vocation & Careers Collection
A-Z Journal Title Locator

A-Z provides library patrons with a single, comprehensive list of titles to which they have access. With A-to-Z, users can quickly locate and link to journals of interest. Users can search for journals by keyword or browse an alphabetical list by title or subject.



   
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