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URL: http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=%20RDGAB,RGR

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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. Date coverage is 1890 to the present.

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

URL: http://0-refuniv.odyssi.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/

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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
Database Producer: Paratext.

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

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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.

URL: http://olc9.ohiolink.edu/ABC-CLIO/religion.html

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Subject Areas: Religion

Electronic reference books on Religion.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: ABC-CLIO.

URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/reli

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Subject Areas: Religion, Philosophy, Asian Studies

ATLA Religion Index is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. This comprehensive bibliographic database spans over 50 years. The database covers the subdisciplines in the fields of theology and religion, plus religious research in related fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, medicine, law, and business.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1949-
Update Schedule: Quarterly.
Database Producer: American Theological Library Association (ATLA).

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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.

URL: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=uccom

Off Campus URL: 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. There are gaps in the existing set; the complete collection will be available in March 2005.

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.

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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 Litterature Musicale. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.

URL: http://eureka.rlg.org/Eureka/zgate2.prod?ACTION=INIT&DEFIL=RUC&LOGOFF=http://www.ohiolink.edu/resources.cgi&USERID=TEHUELFV

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Subject Areas: Library Science

RLG Union Catalog serves as a major union catalog for everything from books and serials to archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, and more. This database is the catalog of the holdings of members of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and other users of the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), including research and academic libraries; archives and museums; law, medical, and theological libraries; art and music libraries; area studies collections; public and corporate libraries; historical societies and book clubs. The catalog extends from the advent of printing to the present.

Format: Catalog
Update Schedule: Daily.
Database Producer: Research Libraries Group.

URL: http://www.bartleby.com/62/

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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.

URL: http://0-roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu.dewey2.library.denison.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/Roperweb/iPOLL/iPOLL.htx;start=HS_iPOLL_LoginSetup

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Subject Areas: Communication, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology

Search and retrieve US public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion. A full-text retrieval system, iPOLL is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.

NOTE: To enter the database, you must provide an e-mail address. Your email address is used solely to provide access to the complete array of iPOLL services and support. In all other regards the information you provide will be kept in accordance with our existing privacy policy: The Roper Center does not disclose, sell or transfer personal information about our website visitors, unless required to to do so for law enforcement or by statute.

Format: Statistical Resources, Archival Resources
Database Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

URL: http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=RussianAcadSci&done=referer

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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies is an index to the literature in Slavic studies, covering more than 19,000 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: 1986-
Update Schedule: 2-3 times per year.
Database Producer: Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences. Distributed by the Research Libraries Group.