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- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-2000) (Newsbank) — Find news articles covering topics in government, politics, social issues, culture, literature discoveries, inventions and more from hundreds of primary sources . Newsbank also includes current events and special reports.
- American History in Video — Study and analyze American historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaires.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress — (1774 - present)
- Biography In Context (Biography Resource Center) (Gale) — Search for people - both current & historic from all eras and fields of endeavor.
- Biography.com — Search 25,000 biographies, past & present
- Books In Print.com Professional — Offers complete bibliographic information on over 9 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, e-book, audio, and video titles. Includes tables of contents, annotations, reviews, images and author biographies.
- Credo Reference — General reference source, aggregating content of major subjects from the "best publishers of reference."
- Films on Demand — Collection by Films Media Group (FMG) of online educational videos. These films are viewed through streaming video and can be linked by faculty into online classes. Flash is the recommended viewing software. If streaming is not smooth, try a lower playback file size (300, or 400).
- Gale Reference (GVRL) — All of your favorite reference books online. Search within one reference title, across several reference titles, or even across several other Gale databases. Note: GVRL may perform better with Firefox browser rather than Internet Explorer.
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HathiTrust
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HathiTrust (pronounced "Hot'-y" is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.
- Literature Resource Center (Gale) — Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline; 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- Mobile Search to Academic Search Premier & Other Ebsco Databases — Ebsco-provided databases formatted for your mobile phone, iTouch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Dell Axiom, Palm 750 and other devices. Your database choices include our nursing, business, and history databases, Agricola and GeoRef. Javascript must be enabled on your device (BlackBerry users see Enable Javascript on BlackBerry.)
- North American Indian Thought & Culture — Includes American Indian, Alaska Natives, & Canadian First Peoples autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, & audio files.
- Proquest Central — An interdisciplinary database by Proquest; includes JBI (nursing evidence-based journals) and agricultural journals.
- Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 — Wilson's Reader's Guide Index provides article citations written between 1890-1982. This resource cross-links to the library's Article Linker which searches for full-text articles. Now provided by EbscoHost.
- Reference Universe-- Search Hinckley Library Reference (Paratext) — A search engine to search the complete back-of-the-book indexes and articles to over 16,000 reference works and then matches them to Hinckley Library's reference collection.
- Serials Locator — Have a journal citation but need to find which database carries the full text? Search for the journal's title in this electronic journal locator tool created by SerialsSolutions.
- USA.gov — The official portal for all USA federal, state. and local information, from online documents and resources to social security benefits, government jobs and tips on stretching your dollars.
- Who's Alive and Who's Dead — Best source on the internet for finding out which of the noted personalities of our time are still with us.
- World of Scientific Biography by Eric Weisstein — Contains author compiled encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
- Wyoming Biography Database — Index to books that contain biographical profiles of Wyoming people; currently 7,317 entries from 27 books.
