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Need Country Information? Check out Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior This excellent database provides business and travel information for countries around the world. Sections include: Country Facts Society & Culture Health & Medical Technical/Electrical Also included is a Resource Guide that provides useful and practical information on … Continue reading
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Science Direct unavailable on Sat. 3/17
The Science Direct databases will be down for maintenance from approximately 5:30am – 6:30pm this Saturday. Please contact us with questions.
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Get Company Statistics Quickly with ReferenceUSA
Ever wonder how many people work at your nearby burger joint? Or how many Starbucks coffee shops there are in Portland? The perfect source for this type of information is the database ReferenceUSA. With a clean and user-friendly interface, ReferenceUSA … Continue reading
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Most Frequently Used Databases at GFU
We librarians love statistics. All sorts. Especially statistics about libraries. When it comes to the libraries here at GFU, we like to know such information as the average number of items circulated by subject area, which specific books have circulated … Continue reading
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The Lincoln Log
Image via Wikipedia The Lincoln Log http://www.thelincolnlog.org/view What exactly was Abraham Lincoln doing on June 11, 1850? As it turns out, he was writing a letter to one Nathaniel Hay, describing the details of a potential home-improvement project. If you’re … Continue reading
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Key Indicators Interactive Database
Pew Global Attitudes Project Key Indicators Database http://pewglobal.org/database/?src=hpgraphic The Pew Global Attitudes Project has conducted a myriad of research projects over the past decade. With their team of researchers, they have asked people around the world about their opinion of … Continue reading
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Tip For Using Lit Resource Center
Here’s some helpful information for using Literature Resource Center. This database includes access to Gale’s Literary Index which is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms … Continue reading
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Learn About EBSCO Databases
Image by OZinOH via Flickr You can watch an overview of EBSCOhost 2.0 in a Flash tutorial. This provides good introduction for beginners or anyone who wants to become more proficient in using any of our EBSCO databases. Note that … Continue reading
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About Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is an annotated bibliographic database provided by GFU libraries that covers the history of the world from 1450 to present, excluding the U.S. and Canada. In addition to world history it includes military history, women’s history, history of … Continue reading
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Birds of North America
Image via Wikipedia Birds of North America Online is available through GFU libraries. It provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada. Can’t find a species? Keep in … Continue reading
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