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MountainLynx is the WVU-P library catalog.  Patrons may search for items by author, title, and subject.  The catalog also accesses the library holdings at West Virginia University at Morgantown, Potomac State College, West Virginia Institute of Technology, West Virginia State College, and West Virginia Northern Community College.  Materials located at these libraries may be obtained through interlibrary loan.

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 ebrary offers full-text, searchable databases of books in all academic disciplines.  Combined, our aggregated and publisher-branded databases include more than 40,000 books maps, reports and more from over 180 of the world's leading academic, trade and professional publishers.
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Contains over 1100 monographs from US and European publishers. Many of the titles may be downloaded as PDF files.
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, sixty contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
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Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
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netLibrary (www.netLibrary.com), a division of OCLC Online Computer Center, Inc., is the leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content management services for the institutional library market.  netLibrary develops, archives, hosts, and maintains eBook collections for thousands of academic, corporate, public, and school libraries throughout the world.
 
Naxos Music Library
Off campus access:
user name: wvup
password: wvup
Classical Music plus six  other genres including Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music.   All new releases added monthly (On average over 35 per month in 2005)
CD Quality sound (128Kbps; broadband required) and / or Near-CD Quality (64Kbps; broadband or DSL / ISDN required) and FM Quality (20Kbps; suitable for a dial-up connection)

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With your ACM web account to take advantage of ACM's Online Books Program, powered by Books24x7®. Read up on today's most popular IT topics. Browse or search text and create annotated bookmarks for quick future reference. Find solutions for your workplace, textbooks to support your courses, or learn about a new content area.
Topics include: .NET, Visual Basic, C++, C#, ASP, Linux, Java, Data structures, Data mining, Networking, Security, SQL, MS Windows Server 2003, Web design and development


 
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Oxford African American Studies Center

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field.

    
 EBSCOhost
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Lexis-Nexis provides access to full text journals, newspapers and other materials covering news, business, legal research, medicine and reference sources.
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      Scholastic BookFLIX  

The New York Times databases covers all articles appearing in the Times from 1851 to the present. 
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  Britannica Online

 

Encyclopædia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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American National Biography American National Biography Online is an exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation. 
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Hoover’s is a great resource for Research Projects, Business training for future Sales and Marketing professionals, and Job Searching.  Your Hoover’s Pro subscription will give your users access to a wealth of Company and Industry information.
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Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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HighWire Press A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.
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National Academic Press The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented by the NAP are unique in that they attract the nation’s leading experts in every field to serve on their award-wining panels and committees. The nation turns to the work of NAP for definitive information on everything from space science to animal nutrition.
Trueflix Similar to Grolier Online, True Flix is an innovative online interface that uses books, videos, and the web to inform students on various topics previously covered in Scholastic's award winning True Book series.
Education in Video Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

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