Basic
Library Research Guide
Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Handbooks, etc.
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Ref. BF31 .M33 2003
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Magill's Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology
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Ref. BL80.2 .N347 1971
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Great Religions of the World
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| Ref. E184 .S75 H557 2003 |
Hispanic American Almanac: a Reference Work on Hispanics
in the U.S. |
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Ref. GT3150 .T25 2000
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Death and the Afterlife: a Cultural Encyclopedia
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Ref. HF1001 .E466 2001
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Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
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Ref. HQ534 .E53 1999
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Encyclopedia of Family Life
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Ref. LB15 .E47 2003
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Encyclopedia of Education
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Ref. PN771 .C59 1973
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Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Ref. Q175.35 .E53 2005
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Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
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Ref. QH540.4 .E39 2003
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Ecology Basics
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Main PN94 .C67 1989
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Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Statistical
and Biographical Sources
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Ref.CT104 .D54 1998
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Dictionary of World Biography
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Ref. HA202 2003
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
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Ref. HA214 .S73 1998
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Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions and
Trends
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For additional
print resources, search the St.
Joseph's College Libraries Online Catalog
Sources
for Basic Research Articles
The
following databases may be useful for this subject area. To use the following
databases on campus,
click on the Journal
Articles / Database link.
Academic
Search Elite (EBSCO) |
Britannica |
CountryWatch |
CQ
Library |
New
York Times Historical (Proquest) |
Oxford
Reference Online |
Proquest
Newspapers |
Research
Library (Proquest) |
TopicSearch(EBSCO) |
Wilson
Biographies |
Wilson
OmniFile |
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Basic Research Related Websites
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Background
Notes
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Foreign Country information from the State Department.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
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FirstGov
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Gateway to Federal and State agencies and information
http://www.firstgov.gov/
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| Online
Newshour |
News stories and indepth background information on current
topics.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/index.html |
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Public
Agenda
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Provides background, public opinion and statistics on controversial
topics.
http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/issuehome.cfm
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World
Factbook
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Provides country profiles, maps, and flags of the nations of the
world
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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