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
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: 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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