Reference Book and Encyclopedia Databases
(see also Business Research Services & Reference Books and
Health Sciences Reference Books)
For additional listings of the over 590 individual reference books in the
Credo Reference/XreferPlus and
Gale Virtual Reference Library
collections, see the various database subject pages.
- Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Indexes biographical dictionaries, who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and
other readily available reference
sources that cover individuals, both living and
deceased, from every field of activity
and from all areas of the world.
Enables you to quickly determine which
publication to consult for biographical information.
- Books in Print
Professional (Bowker)
- Bibliographic database with more
than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming,
audio book, and video titles. Includes full-text reviews from 15 respected,
professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers
Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice, as well as the first chapter of more than
30,000 entries.
- Cabell's
Directory of Publishing Opportunities (Cabell)
- Helps professors, graduate
students, and researchers publish their manuscripts by providing the following
information for a large number of journals: editor, address, phone, email, website,
acceptance rate, and percentage of invited articles - topic areas the journal
emphasizes and type of readership - manuscript guidelines, style, format,
and number of copies required - type of review process, number of reviewers,
time required for review, and availability of reviewers' comments - and fees
charged to review or publish the manuscript. Cover journals published in the
fields of Business, Education, Library Science, and Psychology.
- Cataloger's Desktop
(Library of Congress)
- Incorporates of all of the indispensable cataloging publications that catalogers use daily, but
were previously available only in a large number of individual print editions. Includes the full text of
the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd edition);
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations; Subject Cataloging Manual: Classification, Shelflisting,
Subject Headings; MARC 21 Formats for Bibliographic Data, Authority Data, Holdings Data, Classification
Data, Community Information; Latest editions of all MARC Code Lists; assorted specialized cataloging manuals;
and much more. (Only a limited number of users may access this at a time. Please log out when you are
finished.)
- Charleston Advisor (Charleston Company)
- Provides peer reviewed critical evaluations of web products for
information professionals using a rating system that scores each product based
on content, searchability, price, and contract options/features. Reviews include a
narrative description of the product and its content, examination of its strengths
and weaknesses, citations to other reviews of the product or related materials,
opinions gleaned from web-based opinion forms, and usage experiences. In
the case of opposing opinions, an opposing composite score may be calculated. Also
includes reports from the field, opinion editorials, and other non-review articles.
- Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
- Provides an extensive array of information about more
than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings,
film strips, and other children-focused media.
Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject
terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more
than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books,
ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and
nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500
new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes
award information and placement on Best Books lists.
- ChoiceReviews.online
(ACRL)
- Produced by the Association of College and Research
Libraries, this provides access to the entire database of Choice reviews published since September
1988, covering significant current books and electronic resources of interest to
those in higher education. Updated monthly, Choice publishes more than 6,500 reviews by
subject experts each year. The newest reviews are arranged by academic discipline and broad
cross-disciplinary topic. All reviews can be searched by combining various criteria.
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- Comprehensive source for theory and
research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that
includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs,
foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy
briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written
by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political
science classes, and special features.
- Community
Resource Database of Long Island (Middle Country Public Library)
- Directory of community
services and resources with information on more
than 11,000 health, human service, and
education agencies and programs
such as parenting education,
child care and camps, services for persons with
disabilities, education and training
opportunities, support groups, health facilities, individual and
family counseling, food pantries,
hotlines, AIDS/HIV treatment, child abuse and domestic violence
programs, financial management, library
programs, housing and much more serving
citizens in Suffolk and Nassau Counties. (No password needed)
- Credo
Reference/XreferPlus (Credo/xrefer)
- List of titles.
Provides access to over 250 reference books from 50 publishers that cover
every major topic, including art, medicine, history, technology, science, law, literature, quotations,
business, social sciences, and more for a total of over 2 million entries. Includes 180,000 audio
pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, & medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of
places & geographic features, as well as customizable, exportable data tables from the
US Census & other sources. Entries also provide cross-reference links ("xreferences")
to related entries from other books and publishers across the entire collection and interactive,
visual "concept maps" of cross-references.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Ebsco Animals
(Ebsco)
- Ebsco's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth
information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of
indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature
and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links
are available.
- Encyclopedia
of Information Science and
Technology (Idea Group Inc)
- Online version of the five-volume, comprehensive, research-based
encyclopedia that covers concepts, issues, and trends related to the utilization
and management of information science and technologies.
Includes more than 550 articles written by over 900 noted researchers,
as well as a compendium of over 5,000 terms, definitions,
and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms.
Covers such topics as business applications, databases, data mining,
decision support systems, enterprise resource planning, geographic information systems,
information modeling, information systems, education applications,
evaluation, library applications, knowledge management, multimedia,
security, software engineering, telecommunications, networking,
web applications, and more.
- EndNote
Web (Thomson Scientific)
- Works with ISI Web of Knowledge and other databases to
enable users to save, organize, format, and share their lists of citations.
- Click on the "Sign Up" link to create your
individual account and to choose a password.
- FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security
Trends (SIPRI)
- Provides statistics and reports, organized by country, that
cover: armed forces, conventional weapon holdings, and military
activities - arms production, trade, embargoes and export
controls - conflicts and peace keeping activities, landmines, and failed state
indicators - general country indicators, population and economic
statistics, global peace index, and political terror scale - form of
government, elections, membership in international organizations,
treaties and agreements - military expenditure and research -
nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles - security news, links to
related websites, chronology of security related events, and
disease outbreaks - energy security and coal - human rights and
freedom - and more. Produced by the International Relations
& Security Network and the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute with information from thirty international
partner organizations.
- Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and Four Almanacs (FirstSearch)
- (formerly World Almanac) Contains the full text of Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia,
The World Almanac & Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A.,
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts,
and statistics covering: American life, people in the
news, arts & entertainment, science & technology,
computers, sports, economics, taxes, the environment,
profiles of U.S. states and territories, historical
anniversaries, U.S. cities & states, national defense,
vital statistics, nations of the world, and much more.
- Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Ebsco)
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering an array of
topics. The database contains various
images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- List of titles.
Full text of over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the
library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
- General
Science Collection (Ebsco)
- Offers full text coverage of the encyclopedia,
Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century, as well as more
than 60 of the most popular science publications. Provides information on all aspects of the
scientific world, including the observation, description, identification, and experimental
investigation of phenomena, as well as the application of science to industrial
or commercial objectives.
- Gray's Anatomy (Elsevier)
- Web edition of the classic reference book, now in its 39th edition,
featuring all of the very latest clinical human anatomy knowledge with
1,930 illustrations (over half in full color) that make extensive use of
new imaging modalities and emphasize the structures that are most
relevant to medical practitioners. Entries are organized by body region
or can be searched by keyword. (A password is required to access this from both
on-campus and off-campus computers. Please inquire at the Reference Desk or
call x2305.)
- History
Resource Center: US (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical
(primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference
articles, and over 65 full-text journals
covering themes, events, individuals and periods
in U.S. history from pre-colonial times to
the present. The material also includes access
to the citations for over 180 additional
history journals from the Institute for
Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation
Index.
- History
Resource Center: World (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Contains the full text of 110 journals, 27 reference books, and
1800 primary sources, as well as images, maps, and charts, to provide expansive
geographic and chronologic coverage of world history, including ancient Europe,
Latin America, the Far East, the Renaissance, and more.
- InPrint :
Publishing Opportunities for College Librarians (ACRL)
- Describes journal publishing opportunities in
library and information science, higher education, computer
technology, and other related areas. Includes such relevant information as
acceptance rate, response time, preferred article length, and whether the
publication is refereed. A brief description of the editorial policy, topics covered,
style, and audience is included along with contact information for each publication.
[Password required. Inquire at the Reference Desk or ext. 2305]
- ISI
Web of Knowledge (Thomson Scientific)
- Consists of the
ISI
Web of Science that includes
Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Covering back ten years, these indexes not only allow you to search for articles
within these fields, but also for the bibliographies within each article in order to get
lists of both the sources used by that article and the later articles that referred
back to your article as a source.
Journal
Citation Reports (from the previous
year) and HighlyCited.com enable you to see how often a particular journal or
author is cited by other publications to evaluate their impact on the scholarly world.
Users can create their own profiles to personalize their searching experience. Also
provides access to the medical database,
Medline,
from 1950 to the present
as well as other resources and weblinks (Biology Browser) in science and research.
EndNote Web
enables users to save and format their lists of citations.
[Note: Access is limited to six simultaneous users, so please click the "Log Out"
button when you are finished.]
- Junior
Edition - K12 (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this
database is designed for students in junior high
and middle school, with reference books, magazines, and newspapers
(most are full-text) for
information on current events, the arts, science,
popular culture, health, people, government,
history, sports and more.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
- Reference books, directories, polls, World Almanac,
and business reference library. Country profiles, statistics,
and business analysis. General news. Company news, directory,
and financial information. Industry and market news. Government
and political news (national and regional). Biographical information.
General medical and health topics; full-text of medical journals and
newsletters; abstracts. Accounting, auditing, and tax information sources.
Legal newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters from across the
country; federal case law; U.S. Code, Constitution, and Court Rules;
state case law, constitutions, statutes, and other legal materials.
- Literature
Online (LION) (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
- Contains the full text of over 350,000 works of English and
American poetry, drama, prose fiction, and literary theory produced from the tenth century to the
present day (including works from Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, India, and the
Caribbean), as well as the King James Bible.
Criticism resources enable simultaneous searching of the
MLA International Bibliography
and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature and include the
full text of 192 literature journals. It also contains the
full text of the reference books: Shakespeare Glossary,
Concise Oxford Dictionary, Encyclopedia of the Novel,
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms,
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature,
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English,
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century,
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged,
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism,
Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, and
thirty-eight volumes of the Cambridge University Press' New Essays on the American Novel.
Includes bibliographies, KnowledgeNotes student guides, biographical entries for over
3,700 authors, and over 4,100 links to literature related
websites. PoetsOnScreen offers a growing collection of over 800 video clips of
contemporary poets reading their poems and classic poems.
- Literature
Resource Center (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides access to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical
analyses of authors from every age and literary
discipline. Combining Gale Group's core
literary databases in a single online service,
the Literature Resource Center covers more
than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists,
journalists, and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- Magill
on Literature Plus (Ebsco)
- Combining MagillOnLiterature and
MagillOnAuthors, this database contains
editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and
extended character profiles, covering works by more than 8,500 long and
short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers.
Also contains over 6,500 biographical
essays on more than 3,500 different authors, more than 1,000 images,
a glossary of 1,310 literary terms, and 376 genre-driven
overview essays providing details about important literary genres,
time periods, and national literatures.
- Martindale-Hubbell
Law Directory (Lexis-Nexis)
- Search for lawyers and firms by
name, agency, company, firm, city, county, state, country,
area of practice, or language.
- MasterFile
Select (Ebsco)
- This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 700 general reference
publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering
virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFile
Select also includes 35 full text reference books and an Image
Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook (Ebsco)
- Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides users
with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse
areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Covers from Volume 9 to the present.
- Naxos
Music Library (Naxos)
- Provides access to over 90,000 music files from more than 6,200
CDs with almost 7,000 composers represented. Includes practically all standard
repertoire, a wide range of rare repertoire, jazz, world music, and more from the complete
Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, with titles from the leading independent
labels being continually added. Most recordings come with scholarly
notes that have been written by respected musicologists. Additional text content
includes the lives and works of the greatest composers; history and explanations
of classical music and instruments; history, explanations, synopses,
and libretti of operas; glossaries, and pronunciation guide. Music can be searched by
genre, composer, country, title, period, year of composition, instrument, music category,
name of artist/performing group, or a combination of these criteria. Faculty can create
and edit playlists that can be made available to students.
- Oxford Art Online
- Formerly Grove Art Online, this provides access to the full text of the
34 volume Grove Dictionary of Art, as well
as the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
It contains over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting,
sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and
photography from prehistory to the present day including over 1,500 thumbnail
art images and line drawings. Compiled over a
period of 15 years, with ongoing additions of
new and updated articles, it represents the work of more than 6,800
scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own
specialist field of study.
- Oxford
Music Online
- Formerly Grove Music Online, this
contains the full text of the New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (29 volumes), the New Grove Dictionary of
Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the
Oxford Companion to Music. Over 29,000 articles cover
all aspects of music including new schools of
thought within musicology, such as
feminism, nazism, and gay and lesbian music, as well as
increased coverage of world, jazz, popular, and
20th-century music. Also has over 3000 links to related websites,
including sound archives and illustrations.
- PEP
Archive (Ebsco)
- Produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, this database offers
the full text of 20 peer-reviewed psychoanalytic journals and more than 40 classic
psychoanalytic books dating as far back as 1920, including the full text of Freud's
correspondence with his chief collaborators and all major works by Bion, Klein, and
Winnicot, as well as contributions by other important figures, for a total of over 50,000
articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters, and commentaries, as well as 4,000
figures and illustrations.
- RCLweb:
Resources for College Libraries (Bowker)
- Formerly Books for College Libraries, this core list of hand-selected print
and electronic titles for academic libraries features 65,000 titles arranged into 58
curriculum-specific subjects. Can be searched by a variety of criteria including: RCL subject,
LC classification range, Dewey number range, audience, format, awards, and date added to
the database. Includes the full text of reviews from Choice. Updated quarterly.
- RefWorks (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
- RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager
that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text
files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and
automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
- Select "Sign up for an Individual Account" and then choose your
own login name and password.
- SPIN: Sponsored Program Information Network (InfoEd)
- Consolidates information about funding opportunities
for research, scholarship, programs, residencies, conferences, creative
projects and more in order to help users make comparisons between a
multitude of programs and their sponsors and therefore pick the best
prospects for their funding applications. Made available by the
LIU Office of Sponsored Research.
For more information or to obtain a password to access
this database from off-campus, contact Christopher P. Egan at (516) 299-2712.
- Turnitin (iParadigms)
- Compares submitted student papers against a database of websites,
journal articles, and other student papers to determine which passages, if any,
have been plagiarized and from which sources. Also includes features for class
assignments, peer review, and grading.
(More information about Turnitin and setting up an account.)
- Twayne
Authors Series (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Includes biographies and literary criticism from the Twayne World, US,
and English Authors series that each contain the full text of 200 frequently used
Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600
individual full-text titles.
- Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on
serials, consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series,
newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other periodicals
around the world. It covers all subjects of regular and irregular publications that are circulated free
of charge or by paid subscription. Includes
publication information, whether the periodical is referreed, where it is indexed,
online availability or website, and more
(more information).
- Westlaw
Campus
- Cases from the courts of all 50
states and the federal courts;
statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes
published in the United States Code Annotated;
federal regulations published in the Federal Register
and the Code of Federal Regulations;
annotations from American Law Reports, a publication containing
attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze
case law on a particular legal issue;
articles from American Jurisprudence 2d, a comprehensive
encyclopedia of state and federal law
articles from law reviews and journals.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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robert.delaney@liu.edu
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