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Online science reference tool that includes the full-text of the latest editions of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms. New trends in science are covered via the full-text of the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. This content is supplemented by biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, links to evaluated related web sites, learning resources and study guides, as well as illustrations, animations, and image galleries.

Simultaneously search the metadata and/or full-text of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819

Blackwell Reference Online contains full-text versions of reference titles from Blackwell Publishing including the highly regarded Blackwell Companions and Blackwell Handbooks. Temple currently has access to over 350 titles in the areas of Anthropology, Art, Business & Management, Classics, Communication & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and Sociology.

Business Expert Press's Digital Libraries are filled with practical, concise books covering specific areas of business, including supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy. They're written by international authorities, specifically for students seeking bachelors or masters degrees. 

Comprised of the following Chapman & Hall and CRC Press chemistry reference sources, CHEMnetBASE allows you to search and extract essential data and tables.

* The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
* Combined Chemical Dictionary
* Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
* Dictionary of Drugs
* Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
* Dictionary of Natural Products
* Dictionary of Organic Compounds
* Properties of Organic Compounds


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CQ Press Political Reference Suite contains the online version of many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. Users can search or browse the Reference Suite as a whole or by entering one of the online editions and beginning there. The database includes personalization options that save user profiles, document history, and searches. It also features CiteNow!, an exclusive CQ Press tool that helps users easily download full citations in MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, and APA styles.

The following online editions are also available in the Suite:

Congress and the Nation Series Documents the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency from 1945-2004. Includes in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Congress Facts, figures, and analysis on every aspect of the U.S. Congress and how it works.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Political Campaigns A complete analysis of American political campaigns, including people, processes, races, and issues.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the Presidency A guide to the structure and operations of the executive branch and the president's relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to U.S. Elections Thorough historical and statistical coverage of every major aspect of federal and gubernatorial elections in the U.S.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court A complete and thorough overview of every aspect of the Supreme Court.

Historic Documents Series Important primary source documents from the last three decades. Includes expert commentary and analysis that sets each year's events in context.

Political Handbook of the World Current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries. Includes names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations.

CQ's Politics in America Profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress. Includes key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts.

Supreme Court Yearbook Series Essential coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court - updated yearly since 1989. Includes case summaries of every opinion during each court term, along with tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law.

Washington Information Directory Current key contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations. Includes organizational charts and tables that untangle departmental structures and allows the export of contact information into letter templates. and other formats.

Vital Statistics on American Politics Data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more. Allows for data export into Microsoft Excel.

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Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition. Designed for graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a collection of English and foreign language books, directories, pamphlets, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Content is presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. With full-text search capabilities across 180,000 titles (33 million pages), this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

The complete text of over 500 handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from Taylor & Francis imprints. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content covers earth science, ecological economics, ecology, environmental modeling & systems analysis, envrionmental & ecological risk assessment, environmental & occupational health/safety, environmental chemistry & toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental law, management, & compliance, geology, GIS & mapping, landscape ecology, remote sensing & photogrammetry, resource management & sustainability, turfgrass science & engineering, and water science, technology, & engineering.

Concurrent user limit: 2

A growing collection of full-text, out of copyright books, as well as snippets from more recent titles.

Information science and technology reference titles

The complete text of over 300 materials applications handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content ranges from ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology.

Concurrent user limit: 2

The EbscoHost eBook Collection (formerly Netlibrary) provides online access to electronic versions of books from across all disciplines. Temple's collection is comprised of approximately 17,000 titles.

A listing of thousands of free books on the web.

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Temple subscribes to titles in the Biology, Business, Classics, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Math, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Religion, and Social Work subject-area collections.

Patai covers all aspects of the chemistry of functional groups - an essential tool for the organic chemist - including physical organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and techniques, reaction mechanisms, chapters on synthetic pathways, reactions and strategies as well as applications in drug discovery, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry and molecular biology.

Hundreds of online books in medicine, nursing, and allied health.

Concurrent user limit: 1 per book

Full-text of major reference works published by Sage Publications.

Includes more than 100 SEG titles from the 1950s to the present

SpringerLink provides online access to hundreds of journals and books across many disciplines, with a focus on the sciences. Note that Temple does not have access to all content.