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RESOURCE TYPE : General Reference Resources
Associations Unlimited (Gale)
Information from the Encyclopedia of Associations series, with IRS information added.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Comprehensive index to biographical sketches in reference books.
Book Index with Reviews (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive database that provides information on book, music, and video titles. Full-text searchable book reviews from Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others are included.
Contemporary Authors (Gale)
Biographical information and bibliographical references for writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale)
A collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
CQ Researcher
1991-present. Each week, offers an in-depth exploration of an issue in the news.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Provides broad coverage of all types of physical science data commonly encountered
by scientists and engineers.
Digital Dissertations (ProQuest) - now ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
The online version of Dissertation Abstracts, with citations for dissertations from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities beginning in 1861, and master's theses beginning in 1980. For a fee, the full text of many of these titles is available in paper and microform formats, and titles published from 1997 forward are available in digitial format. (Check The Source catalog and Interlibrary Loan for availability at no charge.) In addition, see Dissertations & Theses @ University of Northern Colorado for free downloads of theses and dissertations completed at UNC beginning in 1997 (click the yellow Continue box to begin searching).
DSM-IV-TR
Online version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, available through PsychiatryOnline (which includes several other related books and journals).
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of specialized encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Gold Rush
Gold Rush is a tool to help you find the best databases to search for information from a specific journal or on a broad topic. Gold Rush will also help to determine whether or not you have access to a particular database.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (Ovid)
1985-present. Information about measurement instruments in the health and psychosocial sciences.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
A complete literature reference database featuring biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and reviews of commercially available standardized educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests.
NoodleBib
Create APA and MLA style reference or source lists. PLEASE NOTE: To use NoodleBib from off campus, a user name and password are required. The user name and password list is online; click on User Names and Passwords, then enter your name and UNC ID number to see the list (see page 2).
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
Provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles about various social issues.
Oxford Art Online
Includes Grove Art Online (an online encyclopedia of the visual arts with over 45,000 articles and over 130,000 images), Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographical entries for 50,000 people connected with Britain's past, from the 4th century BC to 2000.
Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reference Online
A collection of over 100 subject specific reference sources and dictionaries from Oxford University Press.
ReferenceUSA
Directory information on U.S. and Canadian businesses, residents, and health care providers.
Testing & Education Reference Center
Current information on colleges and universities, scholarships, and financial aid. Also includes a wide variety of test preparation eBooks and sample tests.
Ulrichsweb.com
The online version of Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, providing detailed information about serial titles published throughout the world.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
A catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide.
Free Reference Web Sites
The following sites list a wide variety of helpful resources including freely available almanacs, dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias, as well as resources for finding acronyms, biographical information, current events, quotations, and more.
- Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections > General Reference Resources
- Librarian's Internet Index > Ready Reference & Quick Facts
- Library Spot
- MeL Internet > Reference Desk (from Michigan eLibrary)
(Note that these sites are not among the resources purchased by the UNC Libraries, so we can't vouch for the quality of their contents.)
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