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World Book Advanced

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Fall 2020

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary

English Spanish Dictionary

Statistical Sources

The Historical Statistics of the United States

ProQuest Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
Searchable tables of U.S. data
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Searchable index and abstracts; some full text tables
Statista
Searchable statistical tables, reports, and infographics

Biographical Sources

Ancestry Library This link opens in a new window
Genealogy resource
Current Biography Illustrated
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of World Biography

Other Sources of Interest

ChiltonLibrary
Automotive repair information

Law.com Dictionary

Gale Legal Forms
Readers Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
An index of articles from more than 550 popular magazines from 1890 to 1982.
Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982
An index of 1.5 million book reviews from popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Includes reviews for more than 300,000 books.

Oxford Essential Quolations

URSUS Catalog Search

Additional Catalogs

MaineCat

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