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McIntyre Library Online Reference Shelf

Encyclopedias

Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.) Online encyclopedia including articles and pictures
Encarta Online Reference tools, college information and other articles
Encyclopedia Britannica (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval.
Encyclopedia Mythica Mythology, Folklore & Legend
Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Provides scholarly essays and encyclopedic articles on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics.
Funk Wagnalls Encyclopedia. (EBSCO) (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia.
Literary Index (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) A master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. The Literary Index combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles. Many of the titles in the literature series are available in the library.
Literature Resource - Reference (Gale) (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Biographies, bibliographies and analysis of over 115,000 authors. In-depth coverage of 2000 of the most studied authors.
Litfinder (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Full-text access to thousands of poems, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches in the areas of Literature, History, Economics, Sociology, Art & Architecture, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, and Drama dating back to the 9th Century BCE. Includes a glossary of literary terms.
MagillOnLiterature (EBSCO) (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. This database includes Masterplots, Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Literary Annual 1990-2001, Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Magill Book Reviews.
Stat-USA (requires password) (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Database of business and economic information maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. It provides access to approximately 3,000 statistical publications including the National Trade Databank.
TableBase (Restricted to UW-Eau Claire) Provides international statistics on companies, products, industries, and demographics. Tables are from a range of sources including trade and business publications, investment research, trade associations, statistical annuals, primary research, international organizations and government.

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