Online Resources By Name: R

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+ Readers' Guide (Abstracts & Retrospective)

URL: http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=%20RDGAB,RGR
Off Campus Access: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: General, Mass Media, Current Events

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature indexes and abstracts the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Also includes Readers' Guide Retrospective, which covers dates back to 1890.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1890-
Database Producer: H.W. Wilson.

+ Reference Universe

URL: http://0-refuniv.odyssi.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/
Off Campus Access: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Library Science

Reference Universe is an updated database of article titles and back-of-the-book indexes for subject encyclopedias and reference works. Find the most relevant, authoritative reference works of interest to you. The best way to use Reference Universe is to simply type your term or phrase of interest and note the works that are returned in the order of greatest number of hits. Make sure you check the link to see if your library holds the work.

Format: Index to Reference Books
Update Schedule: Updated every two weeks
Database Producer: Paratext

+ Regional Business News

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=bwh

Off Campus Access: Connect to Regional Business News via Proxy.

Subject Areas: Current Events, Economics

Regional Business News is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: Last 30 days
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing

Religion Index - See ATLA Religion Database

+ Religion and Philosophy Collection

URL: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=rlh
Off Campus Access: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: Religion, Philosophy, Asian Studies
Religion and Philosophy Collection covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With over 290 full text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Weekly.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

+ Reproductive Physiology Animations

URL: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=uccom
Off Campus Access: Same as above. This resource is freely available to anyone.

Subject Areas: Biology

Reproductive Physiology Animations is a collection of learning modules on human reproduction from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The modules have animation, and some have sound.

To view the modules in the sequence used at UC COM, use "Browse by Title", which is in order by module number.

These animations are played via Macromedia Flash Player, which is pre-installed on most web browsers. Users may download files, for example to insert into a PowerPoint presentation or a Blackboard course. You may select and rearrange modules to fit your need.

Format: Digital Media
Database Producer: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

+ RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

URL: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=rih
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Subject Areas: Music

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. RILM provides a broad, international coverage and concise abstracts. All scholarly works are indexed (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.). Concert reviews, recording notes, pedagogical manuals, etc. are indexed if they are of scholarly interest.

Areas of coverage encompass historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1967-
Update Schedule: Monthly
Database Producer: Repertoire International de Literature Musicale. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.

+ Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

URL: http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Off Campus Access: Same as above. This web site is freely available to anyone.

Subject Areas: General

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: By the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries. Available through Bartleby.com.

+ Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

URL: http://0-firstsearch.oclc.org.dewey2.library.denison.edu/fsip?dbname=RussianAcadSci&done=referer
Off Campus Access: Same as above. Authenticate with your full name and all the numbers on the back of your Denison ID card.

Subject Areas: History, Political Science, International Studies

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies is an index to the literature in Slavic studies, covering periodicals published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe, plus books, manuscripts, and dissertations. Author-title information is given in the original language of publication; abstracts and keywords are in Russian; subject headings are in both Russian and English.

Subject keywords: Anthropology. Archaeology. Area studies. Anthropology. Demography. Economics. History. International relations. Law. Linguistics. Literary criticism. Philosophy. Political science. Religion. Scientific policy. Sociology.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1980-
Update Schedule: 2-3 times per year
Database Producer: INION: The Russian Academy of Sciences, distributed by OCLC Online Computer Library Center

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