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Online databases Free access to of variety of online databases

December 2013

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ACCESScience McGraw-Hill Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

The database is updated continuously and covers a wide range of topics from biochemistry to archaeology and anthropology and is ideal if you have a general interests as well as for students and professionals.

Biography in Context Biographical database with information about some 525.000 living and deceased persons within all subject areas. It also contains full text articles from some 250 periodicals and 22.000 photos. In addition, there are 15.000 links to Internet sources for further details.

Credo Reference Credo makes it possible to search 600 handbooks and reference titles from reputable publishing houses like Cambridge University Press and Elsevier and gives priority to providing information via animation, sound files, pictures and video clips. The database covers a wide range of topics from accounting to euro-jargon and natural disasters. There is also a wide selection of dictionaries.

Current Biography Illustrated Contains approximately 15.000 biographies in full text and 9400 obituaries with emphasis is on Anglo-Americans. The database is based on the printed edition, which has been published since 1940.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online The primary work within English-language encyclopaedias. It can also be used for searching 300.000 selected websites related to the articles.

Global Issues in Context Provides a global perspective on many topics within eight principal areas: Business and Economy, Health and Medicine, Conflict and Diplomacy, Science and Technology, Environment and Climate Change, Society and Culture, Government, Politics and Law, and Women, Children and the Family. The work endeavours to achieve a varied view of world events by involving media from all over the world.

Keesings Articles based on information from news agencies, NGOs, universities and governments in more than 80 countries. Contains objective descriptions of political, social and economic events for each country and major international organisations. Keesings is a primary source for modern history and covers the period from 1931 onwards.

Library PressDesplay Online access to 1700 newspapers from 92 countries in 48 languages.

Literature Resource Center Comprised of two databases: • Contemporary Authors, which contains comprehensive articles about some 145.000 writers, primarily native English speaking, and fiction writers. • Contemporary Literary Criticism with analyses and full-text criticism of the works of contemporary writers.

Searches are conducted in both databases simultaneously.

Oxford Reference Online Contains more than 150 reference books from Oxford University Press covering every topic imaginable from Irish literature to medicine.

Science in Context English-language articles and themes that take an in-depth look at selected topics covering biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, the environment and technology. The database has articles from reference works, 400 periodicals, and links to good websites.

Student Resources in Context Covers a wide range of topics in the natural sciences including mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and space travel, medicine, geology, biology and much more. The database contains some 1.8 million Englishlanguage documents from reference works, 200 full text periodicals, newspapers and multimedia products. Links to approximately 500 websites.