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| Contains the fully-searchable text of the 35th edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary,
edited by Michael Reade and Bohdan Romaniuk (4 vols.; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005). Provides more than 837,000 definitions. You
can search for either the acronyms and abbreviations or the definitions. | | Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as the Chicago-Style Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the style.
Note: Up to ten people can search this resource at any one time. If you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. | | | College Blue Book | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the College Blue Book (35th ed.; 6 vols; Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2008), which provides descriptions and information about degrees, programs, and financial aid sources for thousands of two and four-year colleges and universities. Also includes information about scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans as well as occupational educational programs. | | | Credo Reference | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library. | | | Europa World Year Book | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the current edition of the Europa World Year Book, which provides information about over 250 countries and territories and over 1650 international organizations. Includes basic statistical data (which can be used for country-to-country comparisons) as well as information about economic affairs, education, defense, government, and recent history. Also includes directories.
Note: The Little Library also has print copies of the Europa World Year Book from 1959 to the present (Reference R 341.1 E89). | | Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. | |  HeritageQuest | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of family and local histories drawn from over 25,000 books, the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930), and other collections as well as images of selected records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Also indexes over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals published since 1800. | | | LearningExpress Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides practice tests and tutorials. Includes practice tests for graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT), EMS (EMT-Basic Practice Test, Paramedic Practice Test), Firefighting, Law Enforcement, Real Estate, Teaching (CBEST, PPST: Praxis 1), TOEFL, and U.S. Citizenship, among others. Also includes tutorials on job hunting, interviewing, math skills, reading skills, and writing skills. | | (Current data with 10-year historical data) Provides performance data and investment ratings for over 16,000 mutual funds and 6,000 stocks from the NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges. Includes analyst reports for over 1,400 stocks and 2,000 funds and stock and fund screening tools. | | | ReferenceUSA | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains directory information for 13 million U.S. businesses, 120 million U.S. households, 650,000 physicians and dentists, and 95,000 U.S. and Canadian technology businesses. Information is drawn from telephone directories (both yellow pages and white pages); business information is supplemented by data from corporate annual reports, SEC 10K reports, and other public information sources. | | Contains the fully-searchable text of Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans (23rd ed.; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2007), with information about over 4,200 sources of education-related aid and awards. Also includes information on federal financial aid and state sources of funding. | | Contains the full text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged, one of the finest descriptive dictionaries for the English language. Over 472,000 definitions.
The Library has several copies of the print version of this dictionary in Reference at call number R 423 W38n3, 1971. | | | WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. | | Find U.S. ZIP codes for specific addresses, cities, or companies or find all cities in a specific ZIP code. From the U.S. Postal Service. |
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Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).
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