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Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. It includes a growing herbaria community-contributed collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials. Also includes reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, and links to taxonomic literature.

GlobalData Explorer is an upgrade of our existing Marketline subscription, offering more coverage and deeper insight into companies and sectors throughout world. Spanning across all major industries, GlobalData Explorer provides key insight that allows for the comparison of sectors and understanding of market drivers shaping an industry. The database contains all content and functions that are available in MarketLine as well as added features, including an advertising database, job analysis, sector reports, themes, and social media analytics. This resources offers broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries, impacting companies, and driving innovation.  

Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, fashion plates, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts. Full text is available.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Provides access to information disseminated by the U.S. Government Printing Office, including official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Index of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Full text is available.

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art deals with all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art. Includes articles on all subject areas in American fine art, including biographies of major artists, architects and patrons, architecture, painting, new media, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art, new media art, art education, and more.

A comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. This encyclopedia provides art historical and cultural information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites, and stylistic developments. Encompassing over four thousand years of artistry and innovation, the text spans every art form, medium, and civilization from Cycladic, Minoan, Helladic, and Etruscan art to the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures. Also included are hundreds of entries on the qualities and historical uses of materials, concise definitions on art forms and styles, and in-depth articles discussing the history of armor, jewelry, furniture, textiles, and ceramics.