E-Resources for Electronic Reference Tools
Searchable database of over 14.8 million English and Spanish language book, audio book, and video titles. (Bowker) VALE
Founded to help professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals. We strive to maintain current information on over 4,000 journals. The Directory helps you to determine which journals typically publish manuscripts similar to yours or could be the best fit for your manuscript. It describes the type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, type of review, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, number of copies required and manuscript topics. Information on the journals printed and electronic launch dates and ISSNs are also provided.
Provides searchable online access to the 16th (2010) and 15th (2003) editions of the standard style manual, as well as a downloadable facsimile of the first edition (1906). Also includes Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide, and Chicago Style Q&A (editors' answers to questions submitted by readers, updated monthly).
Credo Reference provides a complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotation books, bilingual dictionaries, measurement conversions, and more.
Curriculum and reference resources in the sciences, history, geography, health, and careers. Targeted to students, teachers, and general readers.
Provides a completely interactive learning platform of practice tests for skills improvement, U.S. citizenship, jobs & careers, as well as job search & workplace skills. These include civil service tests, praxis tests, law enforcement tests, as well as prepatory exams--GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT.
lynda.com is available free to all Rowan University students, faculty, staff, and administrators beginning March 2012. This includes 24/7 online access to the entire library of over 1100 courses such as SPSS, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, MS Office, Wordpress, iPad, and much more. New courses are added weekly. The lynda.com Online Training Library® is also available via the free lynda.com iPhone and iPad App.
Lynda.com has been provided by Information Resources Training Services.
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Sue this online source for the latest information as we are no longer updating our print copies.
Since 1995, Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources. Refdesk has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed.
Contains information on U.S and Canadian businesses, residential information compiled from white pages of telephone directories and information on U.S. health care providers. (NJ State Library)
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
First time users will be asked to create an account for RefWorks. If you are attempting to access RefWorks from off campus you will be asked to login in using your campus username and password first. After that you will need to provide your RefWorks username and password.
For more help with RefWorks, see the RefWorks tutorial.
This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. (Ebsco)
Science.gov searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
International Directory of Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters.
Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.
FirstSearch provides access to a core collection of reference databases. The FirstSearch Base Package includes WorldCat as well as other databases such as CAMIO, Electronic Books and OAIster. Users of WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local can access these FirstSearch databases through a user-friendly single-search box.
WorldCat is a global network of libraries that unite their collections into one master catalog. Our participation in WorldCat--the world library catalog--allows you to find items in our collection, and in the collections of more than 10,000 other libraries.
