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Features definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions that allows users to quickly and easily translate terms into their full names or meanings. New terms include medicine.

Contains 17,435 biographical articles on deceased Americans from the 1999 print edition. The ANB includes men and women that were significant in politics, scholarship, science, sports, business, theater, film, and activism.

Locate telephone numbers and addresses for both businesses and people. Other notable features include maps, reverse lookups (enter the phone number and it will return the owner's name and address), a toll-free directory, and links to international directo

Search the 1919 edition for passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

Calculate the distance between two cities, perform metric conversions, calculate inflation, and more.

Unclassified since 1971, the Central Intelligence Agency's annual World Factbook provides a reliable resource for information on independent states, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabitable regions, and oceans.

Credo Reference offers over 160 fully searchable reference titles, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

In-depth analysis of current political, policy and economic trends with an 18 month outlook. Quarterly and annual statistics with at least 150 data points picked from the most reliable sources and reviewed by analysts.

Electronic version of North America's oldest continuously published almanac includes weather forecasts, sunrise and ocean tide tables, gardening advice, historical facts, household advice and classified ads.

Search by name or Net ID.

The Gallup Brain is a comprehensive collection of current and archived polls taken by the Gallup Organization since 1935.

International calling instructions, country codes, area codes, and phone books.

The online version contains all of the facts from the printed almanac, plus a dictionary and encyclopedia.

Features over 1.3 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports.

See Merriam-Webster Online for a good quick reference site from an authority in dictionary publishing.

Lengthy reviews from the well-respected print publication. The keyword-searchable archive covers 1983 to the present, but the full text of many articles is only accessible to subscribers.

NoveList is an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles from its database of over 135,000 works.

The definitive record of the English language. Chronological examples of usage make it especially good for researching the historical development of words.

Contains essays on authors from all eras and genres. In addition to providing biographical and critical studies written by scholars and academics, DLB presents bibliographic information about each author's writings as well as sources for further reading.

Includes finance and statistics, governance, human resources, student information, the Bronze Tablet Award and other source of campus information.

Find the ZIP+4 code for a given address (or the community name, if you know the ZIP).