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This free service offers detailed street and terrain maps, robust locator tools to find addresses/businesses/places, and a route planner for traveling by car, public transport, or walking.

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Search US Patent Office applications, European Union patent applications, and Japanese patent applications using Google's search structures. Search US Patent office data using Google search techniques. Includes searchable full-text of US patents from 1790.

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California State Controller's Office provides revenue expenditures, pension plans and other financial data at county level, with some data for cities and special districts.

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GQ Archive

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The backfile of GQ magazine, from its launch in 1931 (as Apparel Arts) to the present. One of the longest-running, most influential men's magazines, GQ expanded its initial focus on fashion to cover general men’s-interest subjects. The digital archive makes available a wealth of editorial content and photography, providing essential insights into the 20th/21st-century history of fashion, popular culture, masculinity, and society.

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Grand Tour

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Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe between c1550 and c1850, exploring the British response to travel on the Continent for pleasure, business and diplomacy. Includes manuscripts, visual materials and printed works. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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GreenFILE

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GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

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The Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and multimedia.

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Produced by McGraw-Hill Construction, this free website (with ads) focuses on environmental and sustainable building news and projects around the world (but with a US emphasis).

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Dean Giustini's comprehensive guide to grey literature resources. See links to additional guides on understanding grey literature.

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The New York Academy of Medicine's publication of grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics. As of January 2017, this site is no longer updated, but the resources are still accessible.

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Developed by National Palace Museum and Soochow University in Taipei. The largest encyclopedia in pre-modern China. Compiled in the early 18th century, it was intended to be a comprehensive survey of all branches of knowledge and includes a large number of illustrations.

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A collection of advice on writing and usage containing definitions, suggestions, rules for spelling, information on diagramming sentences, etc. Includes numerous computer-graded quizzes.

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Summaries of guidelines and recommendations from United Kingdom governmental agencies and European and global professional groups. Includes links to full-text of guidelines. Registration is not required to access guidelines.

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Gunsho Ruiji

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Is a major collection of Japanese manuscripts from the premodern through early modern periods compiled by Hanawa Hokiichi in the early nineteenth century. Categories cover history, literature, religion, language, customs, art, music, cultivated arts, education, morality, legal codes, politics, economy, and society. This database includes the original publication Gunsho Ruiju, a second installment Zoku Gunsho Ruiju, and the third (final) installment Zoku zoku Gunsho Ruiju.

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gutenberg-e

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The Gutenberg-e prize winning books represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology.

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The Making of Modern Law is a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law for research in British and United States legal history.

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The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 is a digital collection of more than 10,000 titles describing courtroom dramas published between 1600 and 1926.

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The Making of the Modern World provides digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth.

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March of Time

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From 1935-1967, American theatergoers and television watchers were witness to Time Inc.'s unique and controversial newsreel series, The March of Time.

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MarinLit

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This resource is a science database dedicated to marine natural products research in journal articles, including new and revised compounds, synthesis, ecology, and biological activities.

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Contains thousands of market research reports by analyst Ernest Dichter and his Institute for Motivational Research, commissioned by advertising agencies and businesses such as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and CBS on products ranging from tobacco and broadcasting to cars and hotels. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Find lengthy, detailed market reports or brief white papers describing all types of businesses. Covers international and US markets.

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The Marks Project is a no-fee research hub of American Studio Ceramics and a free marks registry for contemporary American ceramic artists.

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The database provides up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government and entertainment including access to multiple Who’s Who publications.
Access to the database is limited to 5 users.

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Part of the Global Issues Library, this curated database provides a rare breadth of study for students to investigate both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries. Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies is organized around a selection of key historical and contemporary events and themes, bringing together archival and reference materials, court cases, first-hand accounts, videos, Supreme Court audio files, research on rehabilitation, training materials and artistic works.

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Mass Observation Online

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Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization, together with printed publications, photographs and interactive maps. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. Still growing, it is one of the most important sources available for qualitative social data in the UK.

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The MassTransit website is dedicated to "Better Transit Through Better Management", and their offerings include industry news, email newsletters,video profiles, and opinion pieces about the world of mass transit.

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MathSciNet

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MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.

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A web-based PANCE/PANRE exam prep platform with timed and untimed practice modes and simulated test that replicates the official test and its conditions.
Instructions: For full access to this resource, you must create a PA EXAM PREP account. First time users should follow the link above to create a free PA EXAM PREP account. If you are a returning user, follow the same link, and scroll to the bottom and select "Already have an account? Click Here."

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Free peer-reviewed publication and repository produced by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) with teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. Good for finding new lesson plans and inspiration for teaching.

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Medici.tv

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Video recordings of performances, operas, ballets, master classes, documentaries, and interviews; also includes live events.

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Medieval Family Life

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All of these medieval manuscripts are brought together here with fully searchable transcripts, a variety of contextual data and illustrations. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Medieval Travel Writing

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Provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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