Reference Tools

Databases
The following selected English-language databases provide references and full-text access to global, non-subject specific resources.

Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers—many with full text and images. Part of the InfoTrac group of databases.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Part of the InfoTrac group of databases.

General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. Part of the InfoTrac group of databases.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference sources, including:

National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast
        transcripts, international news and non-English language
        sources.

U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal
        news, law reviews and international legal information.

Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to
        1789.

Business news journals, company financial information, SEC
        filings and reports, and industry and market news.

NewsBank
Full-text content of: Boston Globe (1980–Current), Boston Herald (1997–Current), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989–Current).

NewsDirectory.com
A directory of thousands of online English language newspaper and magazine sites searchable by topic and geographic region. Jewish sites include links to Tikkun, Forward, Jewish Press, Hadassah and many others.

OnlineNewspapers.com
Check here for Israeli newspapers including Ha'Aretz, Jerusalem Post, Ye'diot Achronot, Ma'ariv and more. Find current information on Israeli politics, events, business and entertainment in English, Hebrew and Russian.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of English language sources, and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

WorldCat
WorldCat is a combined catalog of books, web resources and other material in libraries around the world.

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