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The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. In the late 1800's, Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a record of the condition of women at a given time. The scope of the collection allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms.

JoVE creates videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. These simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.
JoVE also publishes the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods journal. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity. The scope of the journal includes novel techniques, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold standard protocols in the physical and life sciences.

MLA International Bibliography Full Text contains: 2.8 million detailed bibliographic citations documenting the scholarly record from the early 20th century forward; Access to the MLA Thesaurus and the Directory of Periodicals; along with 1,000 full text journals. Critical scholarship is comprised on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials.

The O’Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Additional content includes learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, and audio books.
(This represents an expansion of the Safari Technical Books.)

Provides test preparation materials and practice exams for many tests, including NCLEX-RN, PRAXIS, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, and GMAT. Student-created accounts provide immediate scoring, answer explanations and results analysis.

Delivering a core list of key headings, together with patterns and examples to guide the cataloger in creating further headings as required, Sears List of Subject Headings has been the standard thesaurus of subject terminology for small and medium-sized libraries since 1923.This new edition of Sears List of Subject Headings keeps pace by including hundreds of new subject terms, all organized using language that makes the most sense to the modern library researcher. This essential resource features: •Arranged in an easy-to-use thesaurus-like format, with an emphasis on subject terms that makes sense to average researchers •Entries provide helpful guidance on which subject term to use for thousands of categories of information. •Entries also include helpful notes utlining USE FOR, SEE ALSO, BROADER TERM, NARROWER TERM, RELATED TERM and FORMER HEADING •Agreement with the Dewey Decimal Classification system to ensure that subject headings conform with library standards. •Many new and revised headings include Scope Notes to clarify the specialized use of a term or to distinguish between terms that might be confused. •Accompanying list of canceled and replacement headings, and legends within the list that identify earlier forms of headings.

Delivering a core list of key headings, together with patterns and examples to guide the cataloger in creating further headings as required, Sears List of Subject Headings has been the standard thesaurus of subject terminology for small and medium-sized libraries since 1923.This new edition of Sears List of Subject Headings keeps pace by including hundreds of new subject terms, all organized using language that makes the most sense to the modern library researcher. This essential resource features: •Arranged in an easy-to-use thesaurus-like format, with an emphasis on subject terms that makes sense to average researchers •Entries provide helpful guidance on which subject term to use for thousands of categories of information. •Entries also include helpful notes utlining USE FOR, SEE ALSO, BROADER TERM, NARROWER TERM, RELATED TERM and FORMER HEADING •Agreement with the Dewey Decimal Classification system to ensure that subject headings conform with library standards. •Many new and revised headings include Scope Notes to clarify the specialized use of a term or to distinguish between terms that might be confused. •Accompanying list of canceled and replacement headings, and legends within the list that identify earlier forms of headings.

Social Explorer is a demographic research tool that includes over 220 years of data and enables the creation of customizable, interactive maps.

Social Explorer, allows you to: *Access the most current and comprehensive demographic information with over 40 billion data elements and 220 years of data, including the entire US Census from 1790 to the present ; * Visualize data with customizable, user-friendly maps, allowing unparalleled exploration of demographic and social change, revealing the patterns buried in raw numbers; *Create interactive, easily navigable maps, making it easy to explore the vast array of available demographic information; *Develop professional-looking reports, presentations, and graphics - save and automatically export reports to Excel and a variety of statistical packages ; *Save time and eliminate errors - reports automatically calculate aggregates, percentages, and medians. Also, full source documentation is available for all reports and every variable links directly to information about where the data originated and how it was computed.

Virginia Chronicle is a historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 149,000 issues and a million newspaper pages.

The Library of Virginia houses local court records, state records, personal papers, business records, newspapers, special collections, books, journals, etc., that date back to the 1600's. Collectively, these records contain the names of millions of African Americans both enslaved and free. These names are access points to the individual stories of African Americans who lived in Virginia from the establishment of slavery in the 1600s until its demise in 1865. Taken as a whole, these individual stories help to shed light on the narrative of a people that has not been fully told.

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