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Recommended Subject-Focused Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works

Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

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Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of Social Problems

Electronic Resource

Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History

Electronic Resource

Guide to Countries of the World

Electronic Resource

Handbook of World Families

Electronic Resource

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life

Electronic Resource

Recommended Online Reference Databases

The following databases provide access to online encyclopedias covering multidisciplinary topics. Remember, these subject encyclopedias are great sources of background information on countless topics.

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Britannica Online (Encyclopaedia Britannica) The academic online version of the famous Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Facts on File Online Databases (now Infobase Learning) Offers a menu of all of the Facts on File (now Infobase Learning) reference and news databases, with options for searching simultaneously in several databases.
Gale eBooks (Gale Cengage Learning) A comprehensive collection of reference resources such as subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries, available in a single database.
Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press) (VALE) Key reference for art; offers artist biographies as well as subject entries on artworks, genres, historical periods, and so on; includes Grove Art Online. The database also provides access to some 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. NOTE: Permits only eight simultaneous users.
Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) (VALE) Authoritative resource on the English language, with information describing the meaning, tracing the history, and clarifying the pronunciation of more than 500,000 words in English.
Oxford Music Online (Oxford University Press) (VALE) Key reference for music; offers biographies of composers and performing artists as well as subject entries on works, genres, instruments, and so on; includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music. NOTE: Permits only five simultaneous users.
SAGE Knowledge Provides reference resources such as subject-focused dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials published by SAGE.

Recommended Statistics Databases

The following databases provide access to statistics and other kinds of data.

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Statista Presents data as infographics and features reports on over 80,000 topics, including media, business, healthcare, politics, society, technology, and education.

Recommended Multimedia Databases

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BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Video) Thirty seven plays from the BBC television Shakespeare series from 1978 to 1985.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press) Provides access to a collection of online videos that enable students to observe the practice of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Films on Demand (Infobase Learning) Films on Demand provides access to "video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content." Click "Collections" to access videos in various subject areas, such as Art & Architecture, Allied Health, Biology, Business & Economics, Criminal Justice & Law, Drama & Theatre, Education, English, Gender & Sexuality, Guidance & Counseling, Health & Medicine, History, Psychology, and more. The platform also offers Archival Films & Newsreels.
Naxos Music Library Offers streaming audio access to CDs, focusing on classical music but also including some jazz, folk, blues, world, pop, rock, gospel, and spoken word.
Naxos Music Library Jazz Offers streaming audio access to CDs by jazz legends and contemporary jazz artists.
Stash (Stash Media) -- Click on SIGN IN Online video library of Animation VFX and Motion Design Note: Click on SIGN IN.
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press) A collection of some of the world's best-loved plays, performances, documentaries, and even rehearsals, all provided in full streaming video. Includes many world renown actors and directors.

Recommended Tests and Measures Databases

The following databases provide information that will help you identify psychological tests and measuring instruments.

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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (OvidSP) Provides "information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HaPI...[helps] identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation." NOTE: Permits only 10 simultaneous users. Please Logoff when finished.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (VALE) Offers reviews of standardized tests in education, business, psychology, and leadership. Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
PsycTests (EBSCOhost) (VALE) “Serves as a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, including thousands of actual test instruments and test items that are available for immediate download and use in research and teaching.”

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Recommended Subject-Focused Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works

Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media

Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence

Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology

Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

Encyclopedia of Social Problems

Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History

Guide to Countries of the World

Handbook of World Families

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life

Recommended Online Reference Databases

Recommended Statistics Databases

Recommended Multimedia Databases

Recommended Tests and Measures Databases

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