Aluka building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.
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"Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa ... The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides."--History and mission page.

CountryWatch
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Provides up-to-date information on the countries of the world. Coverage encompasses: a political overview, with news, maps, political history, governmental structure and principal officials, political conditions, foreign relations, and military information; an economic overview, including macroeconomic data, key sector data, and global ranking tables; an investment overview, including taxation and key enterprises; a social overview, including, social etiquette, travel guides and health advisories; and an environmental overview, including environmental issues and pollution trends.

Garland encyclopedia of world music online
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The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

Music online
(Audio | Scores | Images | Reference)
Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content from all the Alexander Street Press music databases to which an institution subscribes.

Multidisciplinary Reference Databases

Britannica Online
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Affords online access to the full text of the 32-volume print edition. Among other features, this site includes Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, as well as Britannicas Own World Atlas. Searches of the Encyclopedia retrieve encyclopedia articles as well as a variety of related web sites chosen by the editors. Offers links to a selection of full-text periodicals

Credo Reference
(Coverage varies. | Books | Reference)
Provides access to over 3 million entries from 400+ aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers. Included are dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, handbooks, gazetteers, atlases, directories, and more.

Oxford reference online
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Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection brings together nearly 200 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Works in the collection include an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, many English-language and bilingual dictionaries, as well as subject encyclopedias and dictionaries in a wide range of subject areas including: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Food & Drink, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Science