Resources for Reference - Francis A. Drexel Library @ SJU

ARTstor -

A digital archive of over 500,000 images, with a special focus on the needs of arts and education communities.

Books in Print® (Global) -

Publishing information for worldwide English-language books, audios, and videos covering all disciplines.

Book Review Index Online -

Book Reviews of popular, academic, and professional works.

ChoiceReviews.online -

CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

Credo Reference -

A collection of 275 over reference books including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles in a broad range of academic areas that include: art, business, health, history, language and literature, religion, and more.

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) -

Topics covered include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) -

Illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) -

Accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. OED traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

Polling the Nations -

A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the U.S., and more than 80 other countries. The database includes the full text of the questions and responses covering a broad range of issues. A "Graph This Question" button allows users to export the question to an Excel worksheet and then create pie charts, bar charts etc.

Earlier editions of this publication may be located in the Library Catalog under the title American Public Opinion Index.

Resources for College Libraries (RCL) -

ACRL's Choice and Bowker's recommended books for academic libraries.

Ulrichsweb.com -

Publishing information on periodicals and serials.