Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Former title: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Assists researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications.
Provides biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. Offers substantive narrative profiles, each about 2,000 words long. Searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. Includes indexing of academic journals and other periodicals, images, and books.
Multidisciplinary online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles, including handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries and more.
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
