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ABC/CLIO History
Social Studies databases covering world history from ancient to modern.
 
American National Biographies
Portraits of more than 17,400 American men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.
 
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Authoritative literary criticism from Harold Bloom.
 
 
 
 
JSTOR
Scholarly journal storage. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Good for researching peer-reviewed articles that were published from 1 to 75 years ago. Covers over 1,000 titles in wide range of subject areas.

NewsBank
NewsBank World Wide provides access to current and archived content from more than 2,000 newspaper titles, as well as newswires, transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Included also is America's Historical Newspapers covering the years 1777-1922.
 
Gathers essays, statistics, articles, and primary source documents supporting opposing sides of topics. Great resource for debate research.

Oxford African American Studies Center
Carefully edited reference works covering research from 1619 to the present.

Offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age. In addition to examining the lives and expeditions of heroic and influential explorers, the book covers navigational and marine sciences and ranges from ancient cultures through modern space exploration. 
 
The OED is widely regarded as the definitive dictionary of the English language worldwide, past and present. Includes etymologies, pronunciation and illustrative quotations for 301,100 main entries.

Oxford Foreign Language Dictionaries
 

POWER Library
Provides connection to a vast collection of journals and resources throughout the state of Pennsylvania. This is also our source for interlibrary loan.

ProQuest Platinum
Indexes over 2,000 current (and past 20 years) journals and newspapers in all subject areas.
 
 

 


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