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DIY database of full-text hobby and craft magazines, hobby profiles, recipes and videos to inspire creativity and nurture extra-curricular interests. This database is available via EBSCO's Explora experience. Hobbies & Crafts Source allows users to conduct keyword searches and browse by category.
This resource contains both text and streaming video content. Search the collection or browse topics by clicking on the "My Collections" tab to view the list of historical primary source databases. Topics include early North American history, the Gilded Age, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Dance, and much more! This collection of primary sources includes rich information from books, government documents, original documents, documentaries, interviews, etc. If you wish to work exclusively with streaming video content, then access those topics apart from the text resources in the Alexander Street Press-Video Collections.
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Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice.
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The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers delivers complete coverage of rules and best practices in scientific publishing. Since 1960, the esteemed Council of Science Editors has offered authoritative guidance on clearly and effectively writing scientific manuscripts. In the ninth edition of The CSE Manual, this leading international association offers its most comprehensive recommendations yet, continuing to guide authors and editors through the ever-evolving world of scientific publishing.
Explore Congress in action with a comprehensive online resource for congressional publications and legislative research. Perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. Includes member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources in addition to the full text of publications dating back in some cases as far as the late eighteenth century in searchable PDF format. The full Content Coverage Chart will illustrate the depth of this resource.
Offers access to private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with Dun & Bradstreet's private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
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Collection of databases containing primary source content from newspapers, magazines, books, manuscripts, U.S. and UK Government Documents, and more.
This resource is a primary source database and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. There are 1400+ individually indexed tables with attached spreadsheets. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.
Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. The database includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. This online resource contains a complete file of 18th to 20th-century papers, spanning nearly 11 million pages from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material dating back to 1688.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are foremost among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the past three centuries, for Britain, its colonies and the wider world. As such, they constitute a major part of the world’s historical record. Parliamentary Papers influenced public opinion and social and political philosophy and provided a forum for the ideas of thinkers of the day.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) includes the complete file of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, also known as Sessional Papers or Blue Books, dating from 1715 through to today.
This includes:
• Bills – drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages.
• House of Commons Papers – documents resulting from the work of the House of Commons.
• Command Papers – government papers conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to attention of the House, presented ‘by Command of Her Majesty’.
The latter two categories breakdown further into:
• Reports of Committees – Select or the Whole House. Appointed to investigate issues of concern.
• Reports of Commissioners – commissions appointed by the Crown to investigate social problems, to conduct inquiries into events, and as a preparation for legislation.
• Accounts – statistical information, originating primarily from the Treasury, the Board of Trade and the War Office/Admiralty.
• Papers – correspondence from ambassadors, governors, army officers abroad; commercial, trade and navigation accounts, statistical abstracts: judicial, taxation, etc; census data; slavery and slave trade documents; treaties.
Plus, the 18th Century Collection includes pre-Hansard debates, House of Lords and House of Commons journals, rare private bills, other legislative materials, and reports and papers presented to both Houses.