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Sage.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Three-volume collection (2008) of "more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change--ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Virginia State Library / Google.
Available online.
An oldie, but a goodie. Google Books scan of Earl Swem's famous listing (1917) of all Virginia state "official publications" from 1776 to 1916. Does not contain links to documents.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2009) contains nearly 600 entries offering "information on the rulers of Britain, including their policies, personalities, key dates, and legacies." Not just personal names.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2008) contains critical and biographical essays on some of the important figures who have "shed new theoretical and empirical light on international events of the past ten years." Entries are grouped by subject sections -- "Realism," "Constructivism," "Feminism," etc.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Edinburgh University Press / NetLibrary.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
2008 volume contains essays "about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, as well as places like Latin America and the Philippines."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Sage.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Three-volume set (2009) contains entries up to 3,000 words in length offering "an interdisciplinary view of all types of human associations --- friends, lovers, spouses, roommates, coworkers, teammates, parents and children, cousins, siblings, acquaintances, neighbors, business associates," etc.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
American University in Cairo Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
dited by Radwa Rashour and first published in Arabic in 2004, this 2008 translation "traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century" with country-by-country essays. Also includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
This page contains all entries posted to New Reference E-Books and Databases in April 2009. They are listed from oldest to newest.
March 2009 is the previous archive.
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Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.