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Adjunct Advocate Magazine
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Aging Research Guide
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All Music Guide - guide to all forms of music and musicians.
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AMA style of citing sources
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American Fact Finder - facts, popular tables, and maps for the U.S., states, counties, towns, and American Indian Reservations.
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APA style of citing electronic sources (Link takes you to "Research Tips" where you need to scroll down the page).
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APA style of citing paper/print sources (Link takes you to "Research Tips" where you need to scroll down the page).
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Applied Science and Technology Full Text Index (EBSCO) - index to articles about science and technology.
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ARTstor: This link takes you to the Delta College Journals and Magazines web page. Please scroll down that page in order to click on ARTstor.
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Art Full Text (EBSCO) - electronic index to articles covering a variety of art subjects.
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Art Index - paper index to fine arts periodicals and museum bulletins. This source is located on the index table next to the Reference Desk.
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Art 151 and 152 Research Guide
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Art 255 Research Guide
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ArticleFirst (FIRSTSEARCH) - index to articles based on the content pages of journals.
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ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Assessments - designing effective library assessments.
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Assignments - examples of good library assignments.
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Bankrate - Info on mortgages, bank rates, credit cards, new and used auto loans, CD’s, etc.
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Bartlett's Quotations website
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Bay City Times Index - paper index to articles in the Bay City Times. This source is located on the index table next to the Reference Desk.
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Bay County Library System
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Ben Carson Research Guide
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (INFOTRAC) - index to a wide range of biographical material.
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Book Review Digest (EBSCO) - reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books.
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Books - list of sources for finding books, including ValCat, the online catalog.
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Books on Colonial American Times Research Guide
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Business Full Text (EBSCO)
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Business Research Guide
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Business Periodicals Index - paper index to articles in business periodicals. This source is located on the index table next to the Reference Desk.
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Careers and Occupations Research Guide
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance website - accesses information of all Federal programs (grants) available to various organizations and the public.
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications website - indexes print and electronic Government information created by Federal agencies.
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Census (U.S) website (See also American FactFinder listed above for more statistics)
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Census DVD - provides information about the results of the census. Located at the Government Document Workstation near the Reference Desk.
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Census (Michigan) website
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Chemistry/Science Technology Research Guide
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ChiltonLibrary (INFOTRAC) - Chilton's online database can be found within InfoTrac.
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Choosing a Topic - gives a list of possible topics for research as well as exploring topics and formulating keywords.
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Chronicle of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education subscription is available only through Delta College computers located on-campus and through the Delta College sites. This is one of the requirements of the Chronicle's contract.
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CINAHL Basic - index to nursing and allied health journal and magazine articles.
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Citing Your Sources - shows how to cite using various styles, including MLA and APA. This link takes you to the Research Tips page. Once there, scroll down that web page.
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Class Schedule
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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is located within the Federal Digital System (FDSys) website.
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Computer Database (INFOTRAC) - index to computer-related articles.
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Congressional Directory website - provides information on members of Congress.
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Congressional Hearings in Mirlyn (Library of Michigan)
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Congressional Record (daily) is located within the Federal Digital System (FDSys) website.
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Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation website
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Country Studies/Area Handbooks - provides in-depth information for many countries.
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Course Catalog
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Currency Exchange Rates websites - includes historical currency values. Here are two sites:
www.eh.net/hmit
www.xe.com/ucc
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Dental Journals and Magazines Research Guide
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Dentistry Research Guide
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Detroit Free Press - this link takes you to the Newspaper web page.
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Detroit News - this link takes you to the Newspaper web page. Newsbank contains full-text articles of the Detroit News.
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Detroit News Index - paper index to articles from the Detroit News. This is not a complete index but this source is located on the index table next to the Reference Desk.
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Dictionary of Occupational Titles website
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Dissertations and Theses (FirstSearch)
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eBooks - replaces NetLibrary as a source for online books. The Library of Michigan (MeL) provides access to this database. This source can be found within the EBSCO database.
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EBSCO databases for finding full-text magazine and journal articles.
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ECO - An OCLC index to scholarly journals (FIRSTSEARCH)
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Economic Indicators website provides information on Gross Domestic Product, National Income, and much more.
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EDGAR SEC Filings and Forms website - provides financial information about public companies.
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Education Full Text (EBSCO) - index to leading publications in the field of education.
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Endocrine Disorders Research Guide
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Engineering Research Guide
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ERIC (FIRSTSEARCH) - index to published and unpublished publications in the field of education.
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Essay and General Literature Index (EBSCO) - index to essays, articles, collections of miscellaneous works.
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Essential Books on Michigan History Research Guide
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Exams (Online tests such as Civil Service, GED, and more)
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Expanded Academic ASAP (INFOTRAC) - index to full-text scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Coverage is similar to General Reference Center Gold.
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Federal Digital System (FDSys) provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
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Federal Register is located within the Federal Digital System (FDSys) website.
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FedStats - one-stop access to publicly available statistics from over 70 U.S. government agencies.
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Fifty States and Capitals - provides information for each state including: geographic, demographic, political, historical, and economic.
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Financial Aid (Delta College) including forms for FAFSA.
Usually, Delta's Financial Aid Code can be found on this site.
See also "Scholarships" on this list as well as "Grants and Financial Aid."
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Financial Aid Codes
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FindLaw website - provides information about laws, cases on state and federal level.
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FirstSearch - allows access to some databases/indexes that will provide citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles covering a variety of subjects. The list of databases on FirstSearch changed July 1, 2011. WilsonSelectPlus no longer is available. OmniFile Full Text Select is the replacement that can be found within the EBSCO databases.
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Foreign Government Resources on the Web
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Forms - interlibrary loan form, reserve form, and materials request form for purchasing an item for the Library.
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Gay Studies (see also LGBT)
Select LGBT Bibliography of Books/Resources (Located at Delta College)
Stonewall Book Awards: "The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience." Please click on List of Stonewall Book Award Books within Local Libraries for a list of local libraries that carry these books.
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Genealogy Reference Resource: Core Titles Research Guide
ALSO, please scroll down this list to HeritageQuest Online
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General Business File ASAP (INFOTRAC) - index to full-text business and company information.
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General Science Full Text (EBSCO) - index to general science magazines and journals.
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General Reference Center Gold (INFOTRAC) - index to full-text articles from a variety of sources on many different topics.
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Government Documents website - a list of links to government information.
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GPO (Government Printing Office) (FIRSTSEARCH) - index to U.S. government publications.
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GPO Access (NOW Called FDSys Federal Digital System) website provides free electronic access to information published by the Federal Government.
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Grants and Financial Aid Research Guide (PDF)
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (INFOTRAC) - index to magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on a very wide range of health topics.
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HeritageQuest Online - includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses and much more.
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Historical Statistics of the United States website - provides statistics from 1790 to 1990.
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Hoover's Online website - will provide some free company, industry, and market information.
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Hours of Operation for Library and LLIC
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Humanities Full Text (EBSCO) - index to articles that cover diverse subject areas of the humanities.
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Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (EBSCO)
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Information Literacy website - a list of links to information about "information literacy" such as "Doing the Research", Evaluating the Information", and "Information Literacy Objectives, Outcomes, and Assessment".
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Information Please website - one-stop source for ready reference from a large reference collection.
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InfoTrac - allows access to databases/indexes that will provide citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles covering a variety of subjects.
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InfoTrac Newstand (Formerly InfoTrac Custom Newspapers) - index to full-text articles. This database is one of the many databases within INFOTRAC.
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InfoTrac OneFile - "one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics."
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Interlibrary Loan a Book Form - a form to request a book from another library.
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Interlibrary Loan a Periodical Form - a form to request a magazine or journal article from another library.
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Internet Movie Database - a highly comprehensive and easy to use movie reference tool.
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Internet Public Library (ipl2) - ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).
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Issues and Controversies - gives the pros and cons of many issues. The link to this online source is listed on the BOOKS web page.
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Journal Articles - indexes (databases) that lead to journal articles can be found on the Journals and Magazines web page.
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Journal of Chemical Education
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Journals from the Institute of Physics - includes some free full-text articles.
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JSTOR - is a well-known index to very scholarly journal articles covering a variety of subjects. Delta Library subscribes to an abbreviated version of JSTOR.
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Kelley Blue Book - provides new and used car pricing; values on used motorcycles, ATVs, etc.
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Learn-A-Test (Online tests such as Civil Service and GED).
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LegalTrac (INFOTRAC) - index articles from law publications.
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LGBT (see also Gay Studies)
Select LGBT Bibliography of Books/Resources (Located at Delta College)
Stonewall Book Awards: "The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience." Please click on List of Stonewall Book Award Books within Local Libraries for a list of local libraries that carry these books.
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Library Departments and Staff
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Library Handouts
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Library Instruction Guidelines
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Library Literature (EBSCO) - index to articles covering the library profession.
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Library Mission Statement
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Library of Congress Classification Numbers
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LLIC Virtual Tour
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Loislaw: This link takes you to the Delta College Journals and Magazines web page. Please scroll down that page in order to click on Loislaw.
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Magazines - indexes (databases) that lead to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles can be found on the Journals and Magazines web page.
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Materials Request Form - a form to request that a specific item be purchased for the Library collection.
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Medical Periodicals Research Guide - a list of medical magazines and journals available at Delta or online.
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Medline (FIRSTSEARCH) - index to medical journal articles and other health information.
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Merck Manual website - health information written by leading medical experts.
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Michigan Compiled Laws
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Michigan Courts
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Michigan eLibrary (MeL) - "is an anywhere, anytime information gateway to hundreds of full-text magazines and newspapers and more than 10,000 electronic books."
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Michigan Fiction, Biography, and History Research Guide
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Michigan Government
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Michigan History Research Guide
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Michigan Law & Legal Resources
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Michigan Newspapers through NewsBank - scroll down the Newspaper web page to click on NewsBank.
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Michigan Statistics
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Mid-Michigan Remembers: Stories About Us
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Middle Eastern Media Research Institute - translates Arabic and Hebrew media to English.
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MLA style of citing electronic sources - scroll down the Research Tips page.
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MLA style of citing paper/print sources - scroll down the Research Tips page.
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National Geographic Index - index of National Geographic articles.
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NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) - indexes more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice.
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National Library of Medicine (PubMed) - source of scholarly medical information, especially from journals.
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New York Times Index - paper (print) index to articles from the New York Times Newspaper. Located on the index table near the Reference Desk.
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New York Times on the Web - provides an "archive" that will act as an index to citations and full-text articles.
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NewsFlash - Delta College Library News.
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Newspapers
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Nursing Research Guide
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Nursing Periodicals Research Guide - a list of nursing magazines and journals that are available in print or online.
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OAH: Organization of American Historians
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Occupational Outlook Handbook - describes about 250 occupations in detail.
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OSHA (Occupation Safety and Health Administration) - contains full text of all OSHA regulations, selected documents, and technical information from the OSHA Computerized Information System.
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Philosophy and Ethics Research Guide
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Physical Therapy Research Guide
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Physical Therapy, Jamie Duley's Class Assignment
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Physical Therapy Periodicals Research Guide - a list of physical therapy magazines and journals.
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Plagiarism - list of plagiarism awareness, detection, and prevention websites. (Under the heading of Teacher's Aids)
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Politics and Presidential Elections Research Guide
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Price Indexes including "What is a dollar worth calculator."
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Public Papers of the President website
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PubMed - index to over 14 million citations for biomedical articles. Citations are from MEDLINE and other resources.
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PubMed - the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?
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Psychology Research Guide
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Psychology Periodicals Research Guide - a list of psychology magazine and journals.
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Race and Culture Research Guide
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Radiography Research Guide
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Readers' Guide Full Text (EBSCO) - electronic equivalent to the paper index "Readers Guide to Periodical Literature." This is an index to magazine articles.
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Readers Guide to Periodical Literature - an author and subject paper index to periodical (magazine) articles. This paper source is located on the index table next to the Reference Desk.
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Research Tips - covers "Choosing a Topic", "Doing the Research", "Evaluating the Information", and how to cite your sources by using APA, MLA, or other formats.
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Reserve Form - a form to request that an item be placed on Reserve at the Reserve Desk.
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RxList: The Internet Drug Index
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Saginaw News (Within NEWSBANK) - Online index to full-text articles since 1998. Scroll down the Newspaper web page in order to click on NewsBank.
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Saginaw Valley State University Library website
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Saginaw's "Public Libraries of Saginaw" website
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Scholarships (local)
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Scientific Journals from the Institute of Physics - includes some free full-text articles.
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Slip Laws (Public) website
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Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO) - index to articles in many scholarly journals covering the social sciences.
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Social Security Handbook website
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Sociology Periodicals Research Guide - a list of sociological magazines and journals.
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Sonography Research Guide
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
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Suggested Library Websites - links to a variety of libraries that have helpful information.
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Tax Forms - FEDERAL
Tax Forms - Michigan
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Tests (Online exams such as ACT, Civil Service, GED...)
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360 Main Street.com provides information for local tri-county arts, entertainment, fun, and recreation.
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Thomas : Legislative Information website
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Travlang website - translation dictionaries
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Tutorials - to help teach you how to use EBSCO, InfoTrac, Marchive, ValCat, and more.
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United States Code - contains the general and permanent laws of the United States. The United States Code can be found within the Federal Digital System (FDSys) website.
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United States Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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United States Government Manual website - provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial and executive branches. This manual can be found within the Federal Digital System (FDSys) website.
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United States Reports (Supreme Court) website
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USA Counties website provides data about counties within the United States.
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Useful Internet Sites for Genealogists Research Guide
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ValCat - the online catalog for books, government documents, videocassettes and more.
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Virtual Tour (LLIC)
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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents website
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The White House website - home page of the White House for finding news, press briefings, proclamations, executive orders, speeches, and much more.
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WilsonSelectPlus (FIRSTSEARCH) - is no longer available through FirstSearch. OmniFile Full Text Select is a renamed WilsonSelectPlus. OmniFile Full Text Select is practically the same as WilsonSelectPlus, but OmniFile Full Text Select can be found on EBSCO's website.
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World Almanac (FIRSTSEARCH)
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World FactBook - provides information about countries.
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World War II and The Hiding Place Research Guide
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WorldCat (FIRSTSEARCH) - catalog of books and other materials in libraries WORLDWIDE.
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