Subject Resources


Reference Resources

Good Starting Points

Facts on File Issues & ControversiesFull text icon
Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.  more info

Facts on File World News DigestFull text icon
News back to 1940 plus an almanac, encyclopedia, and more.  more info

Funk & Wagnalls New World EncyclopediaFull text icon
Contains 25,000 encyclopedic entries.  more info

Oxford English DictionaryFull text icon
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.  more info

Oxford Reference CollectionFull text icon
More than 100 reference titles and 50,000 entries from the Oxford Companion series.  more info

World AlmanacFull text icon
Fundamental reference resource.  more info

More Databases

Auto Repair Reference CenterFull text icon
Repair information back to 1954.  more info

Books in Print
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, with optional reviews  more info

CAMIO
Catalog of art museum images online.  more info

Choice Reviews OnlineFull text icon
ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988.  more info

ClasePeriodicaFull text icon
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities  more info

Disclosure Corporate SnapshotsFull text icon
Directory information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges.  more info

Facts on File Today's ScienceFull text icon
Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today  more info

Google Scholar
Find citations with links to online & print holdings at UAA/APU Consortium Library  more info

Heritage Quest OnlineFull text icon
Census records, family histories, and other genealogy resources.  more info

Keesing's World News ArchivesFull text icon
Access from 1987 to present to news digest articles from around the world.  more info

LexisNexis AcademicFull text icon
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

Library LiteratureFull text icon
Materials on libraries and information science.  more info

LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts  more info

Mental Measurements Yearbook Index
Searches the indexes of all volumes of Buros Mental Measurements Yearbooks.  more info

Mergent OnlineFull text icon
In-depth business and financial information.  more info

NewsBank: America's NewspapersFull text icon
Contains hundreds of full-text local and regional U.S. newspapers.  more info

OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals via WorldCatFull text icon
Now available inside WorldCat!  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Natural HistoryFull text icon
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - PrehistoryFull text icon
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

SLED - Full-text articles available to all AlaskansFull text icon
Magazines, Newspapers & More: Full-Text Articles for Alaskans.  more info

Small Engine Repair Reference CenterFull text icon
Contains the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer  more info

Southeast Asia: A Historical EncyclopediaFull text icon
The authoritative reference work on Southeast Asian history.  more info

Summit Training VideosFull text icon
Over 150 online videos for safety and compliance training  more info

Testing and Education Reference CenterFull text icon
Test preparation materials and practice exams. Find college, graduate, and career/vocational programs.  more info

TOPICsearchFull text icon
Current events database.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Abbreviations.com
The world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet.  more info

Biographical Dictionary
A service of S9 Technologies.  more info

Census Data
Links to some major population data sites.  more info

Citation Style Guides
Gives information and examples for writing papers and citing research.  more info

Dictionaries
English language dictionaries as well as specialized dictionaries.  more info

Directories for Phone Numbers, Zip Codes, and Area Codes
Some of the best directory services.  more info

Directory of America's Hospitals
American Hospital Association data searchable by the hospital's location (by region, state, or distance from any ZIP code), type, specialization, and services offered.  more info

Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
A collection of academic discussion lists and resources of interests to the academic community.  more info

IPL Reference Center
From the Internet Public Library.  more info

Portals to the World
Information about the nations and other areas of the world.  more info

Quotations
Links to some of the best Web quotation sites.  more info

Reference Topics
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

University of Alaska Libraries
Links to University of Alaska system libraries.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Alaska almanac : facts about Alaska
From Alaska Northwest Books, current edition available.  more info

World Book encyclopedia.
2001  more info

 



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