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With more than 750,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

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This database provides indexing and abstracts from more than 4,000 current serial and non-serial titles, including content from AIAA and NASA.

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The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.

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Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland).

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Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

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Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.

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Created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, NASA imagines offers public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource.

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As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press are downloadable to anyone free of charge.

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The National Ocean Service (NOS) studies, monitors, and protects coastaland marine areas in the United States.

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19th Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on archival collections of primary sources providing full-text, fully searchable content.

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All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.

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