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Reference Resources


Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Associations Unlimited - Contains contact and background information on local, state, national and international membership organizations of all types.

Bartlett's Quotations - from 1919, more than 11,000 quotations.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Provides an index to over 13 million biographical sketches from numerous biobraphical sources.

Biography Resource Center - Contains biographies of over 300,000 people from hundreds of reference books and magazine articles.

Britannica Online - Consists of the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.

Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis - Includes a searchable interface: Acronym finder (an interface for Scientific and technical acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations).

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Includes Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment and History.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia devoted to music research.

Grove Dictionary of Art - Online version of the mutivolume art encyclopedia, covering all areas of the visual arts.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians on the Web - Online version of the popular music encyclopedia.

Merriam-Webster - Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Online Career Library by Vault - Access to current career information.

Oxford English Dictionary - (OED Online) Online edition of the renowned multivolume dictionary. Great for word origins and word histories.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations - 1950-1988.

Who's Who - Marquis - Over 1.3 million biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world includes birth and death information, family history, education and degrees, career history, creative works, awards, achievements, memberships, and more.





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Citation Resources

IUS Writing Help Center

Turabian Citation Generator

Style Wizard





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Statistical Resources

 

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States





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Art and Music Resources

Artstor
More than 200,000 art and historic images made from slides.

DIDO - (Digital Images Delivered Online) The Indiana University Department of the History of Art DIDO Image Bank is dedicated to the storage of low resolution (72 dpi) images from the Fine Arts Slide Library collection of over 320,000 images. Encompassing the full breadth of art historical periods and media, the Image Bank contains some 20,000 images.

Grove Dictionary of Art - Online edition of the multivolume art encyclopedia, covering all aspects of the visual arts.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians on the Web - Online version of the popular music encyclopedia.





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Business Resources

CCH Internet Tax Research Network - Comprehensive collection of publications covering tax law, cases and general information at both the federal and state level. (Click the ENTER button to enter the database.)

Mergent Online - Provides access to a broad range of company information, including EDGAR reports, financials, and insider trading.





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Literature Resources

Lit Finder - Includes Poem Finder (100,000 full text poems) and Story Finder (full-text of thousands of short stories plus analysis).

Literature Criticism Online
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Drama Criticism; Children's Literature Review and Literature Criticism from 1400-1800.

Literature Resource Center - Includes a wealth of information on authors and literary criticism.

Oxford English Dictionary - (OED Online).





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Social Science Resources

The CQ Researcher - Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher from 1991 to the present.

Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 - Historical maps and city plans of Indiana and Illinois cities.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Includes essays from the well-known "Opposing Viewpoints" book series.

 





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Internet Quick Reference

Internet resources selected by IU Bloomington's Reference Librarians. Includes:





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