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articles & more information from journals, newspapers, online reference resources

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.

Chicago Manual of Style Online
The online version of the Chicago Manual of Style, along with a variety of tools including Chicago Style Q&A.

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.

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.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost)
1985-present. Information about measurement instruments in the health and psychosocial sciences.

International Encyclopedia of Communication
Coverage spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
A complete literature reference database featuring biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.

MATHnetBase
An online library of handbooks, pocketbooks, and primers from CRC covering mathematics and related fields.

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.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Includes signed articles by 1,506 eminent contributors providing a current overview of economics.

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.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, with 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present. Over 1.2 million full text dissertations are available for download in PDF format, and over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

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.

(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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