Best Online General Reference Service
Awards the online service that best packages reference information. Includes encyclopedias, maps, wikis, etc. for home or business use.
Academic OneFile, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Academic OneFile is a comprehensive database that provides information in a variety of formats including nearly 12,000 peer-reviewed journals and thousands of podcasts, videos and recordings. The content is as diverse as its users, offering full-text coverage of the major bibliographic databases, journals in multiple languages, on-demand translation, and the ability to download to MP3 devices. |
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PowerSearch Plus, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning This platform provides access to your entire online collection and Web from one starting point. Researchers can explore the depth and quality information present in your library's offerings. Provides single-search across disparate content sources in an intuitive interface, optional visual representation of information, enabling deep discovery, revealing connections amongst disparate content. |
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Encyclopedia.com, HighBeam Research, Inc. Encyclopedia.com, completely redesigned in 2008, offers a new visual display, user-rating tools and more content. Where other free and paid encyclopedias include only one source, Encyclopedia.com helps users verify facts with FREE access to over 100 reference sources, including Britannica, Columbia Encyclopedia and the Oxford University Press. |
nationalgeographic.com, National Geographic Society Nationalgeographic.com is the award-winning Web site of the National Geographic Society, attracting more than 13 million unique visitors a month with its best-in-class content. On the fastest-growing platform of the 21st century, Nationalgeographic.com provides digital consumers with on-demand content including news, video, photography, maps and award-winning short-form video. |
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ProQuest Central, ProQuest ProQuest Central is the world’s largest aggregated full-text database. With more than 11,710 titles—over 8,800 titles in full text— it is designed to act as a central resource for researchers at all types in a wide variety of libraries. |
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World Book Web, World Book, Inc. The World Book Web, offering the authoritative content of World Book is designed for diverse ages, reading levels, and learning styles. The reference collection includes: World Book Kids; World Book Student (launched September 2008); World Book Advanced, World Book Discover (launched June 2008); and L'Encyclopedie Decouverte (launched April 2008). |

