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Fully searchable version of the 15th (2003) and 16th (2010) editions of The Chicago Manual of Style, including a Quick Guide with sample citations. Print copies of the manual are available at the Doheny Reference Desk, Leavey Library's Lower Information Commons Desk, and Architecture and Fine Arts Library.

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CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

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CollegeSource Online features over 14,000 full text college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Other resources include links (and some catalogs) to international universities; financial aid information and assistance; career planning links; and college entrance exam information.

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Country Studies

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The Country Studies/Area Handbook Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

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This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.

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LibDex is a website which serves as a directory of libraries of all types (though it appears not to be comprehensive in its coverage) in dozens of countries around the world.

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A comprehensive resource for Library and Information Science research, this EBSCO database provides full text articles from more than 430 LIS journals, indexing for hundreds more and selected full text monographs.

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The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's catalogs and its very significant digital collections.

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LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (no longer subject to copyright restrictions).

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Lyell Collection

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The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike.

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SAGE Premier

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This resource is the largest journals package offered by SAGE. It includes international, peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of nearly 300 scholarly and professional societies. Its interdisciplinary coverage is unparalleled, spanning subject areas including business; humanities; social sciences; science, technology, medicine; and many more.

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ScienceDirect

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Access over 2,200 peer reviewed academic journals and selected books.

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Search back files of Scientific American from 1845 to present.

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Scirus

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Scirus searches an international collection of institutional repositories and other resources, so it can be a good way to find technical reports, preprints, and other less common publications.

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SPIE Digital Library

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The SPIE Digital Library contains the world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. With more than 445,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.

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