Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
collects phrases and proverbs from sources as far back as the ancient world,
but nothing from the twentieth century here.
FREE.
Britannica Online
provides FULL TEXT articles, with more than 231,000 index entries and relevant Internet links
from the print edition plus more; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year.
From CUNY.
Electronic Text Archives
- archives of e-texts from various organizations collected by Google.
FREE.
Fergusons Career Guidance Center
has industry overviews and resources, career descriptions, scholarships, academic programs and employability skills.
From CSI.
Merck Index Online -
(Free) The online FULL TEXT edition of The Merck Index is available in text format
or an interactive edition.
FREE.
NetLibrary E-Books
- Browse or check out an electronic book after you
Create an Account on campus only, then accessible from home or off-campus with FULL TEXT of entire books online.
From CSI and CUNY.
Online Book Page -
This website lists over 20,000 books that are available on the Internet.
It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books.
FREE.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
provides information on top social issues such as birth control, civil rights, crime, Women's rights and more.
Available material for each topic includes articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents,
links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
From CUNY.
Oxford Art Online - Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Users can choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.
Oxford English Dictionary -
"The Definitive Record of the English Language" with the complete 2nd edition online,
plus updates as entered.
From CSI.
Oxford Music Online - Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference books in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).
Oxford Reference Online
- Reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, who's who.
From CUNY.
Perseus Digital Library -
Its first project was Greek literature and archaeology; it is now an evolving digital library
for the humanities, with interactions through time, space, and language.
FREE.
Roget's Thesaurus -
One of several versions of this public domain classic.
Simple search screen from the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.
FREE.
Twayne's Author Series -
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters
books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
From CUNY.
Infoshare
- Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more.
From CUNY.
Learning Express
- Practise tests and guies: TOEFL, Teachers' certificates, reading and math, GRE, SAT, ACT, etc.
From CUNY.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database is equivalent to the print version and has FULL TEXT reviews only of more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, psychological, achievement and intelligence tests, but not the tests themselves
From CSI.
U. S. Government Manual is the FULL TEXT online handbook for the Federal Government, and includes
information on agencies, officials, programs, and organizations.
U. S. House of Representatives contains
biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
U. S. Senate contains
biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
