The Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology, going back to 1864. It acts as an unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges form biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides authoritative information about authors from all time periods and from all parts of the world while placing them in the larger perspective of literary history.

This online set provides access to all volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook.

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SAGE Knowledge hosts full-text reference e-books. Hekman Library owns 62 reference titles in this library as of June 2020.

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Discover inspiring cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Europeana collections provide access to millions of digitized items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for. Content includes rare books, manuscripts, images, sound clips, and videos.

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In many cases, MeLCat will replace InterLibrary Loan, especially for books held in Michigan libraries. InterLibrary Loan is still the preferred method of delivery for books held outside Michigan and for all journal article requests.

For help using MeLCat, try these links:

• MeLCat Help
• YouTube: MeLCat Tutorial

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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive provides complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines and provides students and researchers with the primary source material needed to develop a contextual understanding of the entertainment industry as it evolved over the 20th century.

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A Library of Congress website providing access to information about historic American newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. This site also includes the Newspaper Title Directory, which lists newspapers published in the United States since 1690, and can help researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time and where to access them (which libraries have those titles).

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The Chicago Manual of Style Online 17th continues the Manual’s tradition as an authority for generations of readers seeking answers to all things related not only to the written word, but also to the myriad and evolving ways in which words and ideas are shared and published.

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The Hekman Library no longer has access online to the Grand Rapids Press. The link provided here will take users to the MLive site, which offers a 14-day searchable archive of the GR Press and other Michigan newspapers. People with valid Grand Rapids Public Library cards can search a more extensive archive of the press.

Hekman does have microfilm of the Press (1893-1931; 1992-2008).

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EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system that offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

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EBSCOhost eBook Collection is a wide-ranging multi-subject platform of ebooks covering everything from literary criticism to cybersecurity. Originally known as NetLibrary, this database has been combined with many others and relaunched under its new name. Also contained as subsets of this larger collection are the resources: eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) and eBook Business Collection (EBSCO).

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The ProQuest databases give you access to all kinds of documents, from newspapers and television and radio broadcasts to scholarly journals, dissertations, ebooks, and government documents.

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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

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The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception is the first comprehensive reference work on the Bible and its reception. It records how biblical texts have been read, interpreted and integrated into thought, science and culture throughout the centuries, making it an essential resource for scholars in biblical, cultural, and religious studies and related fields.

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The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide with full-text coverage.

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Cambridge Core provides access to unique, scholarly content published by Cambridge University Press, in one user-friendly and fully searchable online platform. The search interface includes both electronic books and journals.

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Oxford Art Online is the gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. It includes reference articles on topics that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, and also provides thousands of images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.

Note: There is a sign-in limit of one simultaneous user. This means that if one person is signed in, a second user will have to wait in line until that person signs out and a log-in becomes available.

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RIA Checkpoint is an important accounting resource, delivering comprehensive tax and accounting content from leading industry experts like RIA, WG&L, IBFD, EBIA and more. It also integrates content with additional tools.

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Oxford Reference Online is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource. The Hekman Library has purchased 60+ reference titles, and they span all subject areas, with strengths in the humanities.

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Ambrose Video 2.0 is a host site for a selection of plays from the BBC Shakespeare collection, including Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night.

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AGRIS is a global database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology, including grey literature not available through normal publication and distribution channels.

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MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM, United States). It contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. It indexes literature published from 1966 to the present.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index, available via Web of Science, provides access to bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading arts and humanities journals.It covers a broad array of topics in the humanities from 1975 to the present.

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Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Knowledge, provides essential data from the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines with full-text access.

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Science Citation Index Expanded, accessed via Web of Knowledge, provides bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Full-text links included.

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Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities with coverage back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the Web of Science Core Collection, which indexes thousands of scholarly journals by author, author affiliation, and cited reference. In addition to the Core Collection, Web of Science provides access to several regional, subject, and format-specific database.

The suite of video tutorials teach aspects of searching, analyzing results, creating a researcher profile, and more. EndNote Web, the bibliographic management tool, is integrated into WoS.

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SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. Disciplines covered include: architecture & design, biomedical sciences, business & management, chemistry, earth sciences & geography, economics, education & language, engineering, environmental sciences, food science & nutrition, medicine, philosophy, physics, psychology, public health, and social sciences.

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IEEE Xplore is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.

This database now only provides citation information and not access to full-text articles. Please use the library's InterLibrary Loan service to acquire articles.

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Google Scholar provides access to scholarly literature on the web. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. If Calvin has access to an electronic journal, links to the articles in that journal will appear in Google Scholar.

Link Google Scholar to Hekman Library to optimize your access to scholarly resources. Check out our video to walk through this process on the Hekman Library Youtube channel.

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Oxford Music Online includes as its foundation the premiere music encyclopedia, Grove Music Online, as well as the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. It offers extensive, peer-reviewed coverage and summary sources on different music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship; it is also searchable by topic, instrument, era, region, place type, and occupation.

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ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities E-Book collection is a digital collection of high quality books in the humanities and related social sciences.

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BioOne is a database of high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. As a nonprofit organization, BioOne exists for the benefit of the scientific community. 

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Ancestry Library Edition is available from select computers in the Heritage Hall Archives located in Hekman Library.

Ancestry Library Edition provides access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, such as census, military, and court records.

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GreenFILE focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and more.

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