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American Studies: Reference Sources



Interdisciplinary


database photoEncyclopaedia Britannica Online

73,000 articles from the printed Encyclopædia Britannica, including more than 8,000 articles that are not found in the print set; 7,800 articles from the Britannica Books of the Year; and 17,000 additional articles from Britannica Student and Elementary Encyclopedias.

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database photoGale Virtual Reference Library

More than 80 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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database photoOxford Reference Online

More than 100 dictionaries and reference books in all major subject areas.

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Art and Music


database photoOxford Art Online

More than 45,000 articles from the printed 34-volume Dictionary of Art, and updated quarterly with new and revised articles, as well as thousands of images, and the content of The Oxford Comanion to Western Art, The Consice Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

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database photoOxford Music Online

Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., The Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

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Images and Multimedia


database photoAP Images

Associated Press (AP) photographs, graphics, and text for all news topics.

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database photoAmerican Memory

Multimedia collections on American history and culture.

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database photoSan Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

Photographs from the San Francisco Public Library's Historical Collection.

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Society


database photoRAND California

government documents

California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics. RAND's "Business and Economics" section contains information on employment, unemployment, industry and occupational wages, occupational projections, construction and real estate (including housing prices and foreclosures, and non-residential vacancy rates), inflation, foreign trade, retail and taxable sales, sales tax rates, gross state product, personal and per capita income, farm income, and airport operating statistics.

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database imageUrban Institute

Data and analyses on various domestic policy issues.

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