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- Columbia Encyclopedia - Serving as a "first aid" for those who read, the sixth edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia contains over 51,000 entries with 80,000 hypertext links.
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- CRL Foreign Doctoral Dissertation Database - The CRL's (Center For Research Libraries) database for dissertations published outside of the United States and Canada is still in the construction phase. At this point, a total of 15,000 of 750,000 records are loaded into the database. Searchable by author, institution name, title, year, translated title, subject keywords, language, and country, the database also provides instructions for interlibrary loan procedure.
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- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature (1919 edition).
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- Globe and Mail - Globe and Mail, Toronto (last seven days)
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