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Getting Started
This page contains:
- Links to SUBJECT pages (on the right)
- Reference works for background information
- Links to statistical sources
- Variety of web resources
Subject & Reference Pages
Not sure where to start? The Reference Librarians (Peggy, Jane, John) are available to answer your questions or assist with your research.
Reference -- for Background Information
- This reference source provides fully searchable full-text content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, definitions, multi-media, illustrations, graphics and biographies.
- Subjects: All sciences, technology, mathematics, medicine, computing, food science, and psychology.
- This electronic reference offers full-text portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States.
- Special collections celebrate the diversity of American history: Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, American Indian Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage.
- This reference source contains over 3,000,000 full-text entries from nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, speeches and images.
- Subjects: All areas of academic study.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
- This reference source provides full-text documents, facts & figures, video and images, timelines, world data, world atlas and a gateway to the classics.
- Subjects: All topics -- science, geography, world studies, history, daily life, ecology, sports, technology, and the arts.
- This historical dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language tracing the usage of words over the past 1000 years.
- Subjects: Linguistics and its history.
- This reference source contains full-text entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, and images, including bi-lingual dictionaries.
- Subjects: All areas of academic study.
- In Famous Quotes and Authors you'll find the wit and wisdom of men and women from all walks of life and from all ages - from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln to William Shakespeare, Margaret Mead to Garrison Keillor.
- Examines food in relationship to nutrition, world health issues, agriculture, environmental concerns, current events and political decision-making.
Statistical Information
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Economy at a Glance
- Statistics provided nationally and by state, include unemployment figures, wage information, employment projections, maps, and tools.
- Focuses public attention on economic mobility---the ability to move up or down the income ladder within a lifetime, or from one generation to the next. Nonpartisan presentation of the facts, figures and trends in mobility.
International Economic Statistics (IES)
- A product of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Library, this portal simplifies the search for world-wide economic indicators.
- Information on county population estimates, migration profiles, and other census data.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Resources include policies, statistics, and analysis of current world economic and social issues.
- Official statistics from countries, governmental agencies and intergovernmental organizations.
- Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Published since 1878, this is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. [Print versions are available in the Library Reference Room (call # HA202 .U5)]
- Prepared by the CIA, this resource includes data on countries worldwide as well as statistical information on geography, people, economy, communication, and transportation.
Other Web Resources
Advertising Age's The Advertising Century
- Chronicles the history of the American advertising industry.
Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- The tool to locate electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
- EBSCO database provides peer-reviewed and nonscholarly articles.
- Subjects: Environmental laws, regulations and studies.
Missouri State Agency Databases
- Subject: All topics covered by government organizations.
- Lists the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions for hundreds of jobs. Provides job search tips, links to information about the job market in each state, and more.
Smithsonian Institution Research
- Provides links to nine research centers with topics ranging from art to zoology.
- Provides official information and services from the U.S. government. This site makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. Includes a tutorial on obtaining government information.