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ENCYCLOPEDIA DATABASES
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Credo Reference - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Credo Reference] 
This databases consists of over 350 reference e-books covering a range of subjects. There are also over 200,000 images and audio files. The Credo platform allows users to do seamless outbound searching in other OLLU resources such as the online catalog or scholarly databases. |
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Black Women in America - [Contents: full-text reference | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This second edition reference publication is a digital collection that contains 600 entries of achievements and contributions of African-American Women. |
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Encyclopedia of Social Work - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: early history - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This encyclopedia contains over 400 entries and 200 biographies of key figures in social work history. It includes demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. |
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Oxford Companion to World Exploration - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: early history - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This online reference offers topics about world exploration such as advances in navigation, discovery of the world, polar expeditions, and the new age. It contains over 800 entries that ranges on everything from ancient cultures to modern space exploration. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature - [Contents: full text | Coverage: 1600s - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This digital reference contains 350 entries pertaining to the history of American literature. It includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists; as well as works on literary movements, periods, and themes. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This online encyclopedia has 500 entries covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
An online reference that has 900 entries by scholars from 35 countries; this encyclopedia contains information about markets, industries, and labor. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the U.S. - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This online encyclopedia contains 936 essays about the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinos and Latinas from Hispanic nations that address topics such as politics, religion, education, art, health, and history. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
The first comprehensive reference that chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica. It has over 600 articles that range in topics from archaeology, anthropology, history, religious studies, historiogeography, and art. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: 1750-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
Consists of over eight volumes with 2,000 articles on world events pertaining to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. Each article has an up-to-date bibliography, and the text has over 700 images and 50 maps. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This reference contains over 4,300 articles about theatre and performance from ancient Greeke theatre to the lastest developments in London, Paris, New York, etc. It covers dance, opera, film, television, and popular performance. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This reference has 650 biographies of women's role in history. It is a four-volume set that contains topics on geography and history, culture and society, movements, and gender studies. |
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WorldAlmanac - [Contents: full text | Coverage: current year | Updates: annually | Provider: FirstSearch]
This database is best used to find data, statistical profiles, and other factual information on a wide range of topics including arts and entertainment, U.S. states and nations of the world, science & technology, national defense, economics, history |