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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Events, organizations, concepts, and individuals core to women's studies are covered in this volume. Concise definitions with historical significance included. Basic bibliography for each entry.

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The HDA contains digital collections related to Calvin College & Calvin Theological Seminary in the academic departments of Art, Biology, CAS, and History.

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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

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IoPScience is an online service for journal content published by the Institute of Physics Publishing.

A number of short tutorials have been designed to help you search the database.

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Ministry Matters offers practical inspiration for preachers, teachers, and worship leaders. It includes thousands of original articles and blogs, unique book reviews, and weekly worship and preaching helps. In addition, there are full text commentaries for student research such as The New Interpreter's Bible and Abingdon Old and New Testament Commentaries.

This research resource will be of primary interest to seminary students. 

NOTE: We have capability for only 10 simultaneous users. If you are turned away you may have to wait a few minutes until a spot opens up.

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Naxos Jazz Music Library offers a mixed selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz.  More than 229,000 tracks from over 20,000 albums are offered. The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 200 labels, and include the catalogue of Blue Note Records, Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy, and others. 

Playlists can be created by students and professors for private use or for in-class discussion and analysis, but please NOTE: Naxos is a streaming-only resource, and any downloading or burning from Naxos violates both copyright law and the Terms of Use agreement. Naxos Jazz Music Library allows 5 simultaneous users - if it is busy, please try logging in later.

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Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to over 150,000 CDs of both standard and rare musical repertoire and catalogues or titles from over 950 record labels, with over 600 new titles added to the collection each month. NML includes a wide breadth of musical genres - instrumental, orchestral, chamber music, choral, opera, musical, jazz, blues, rock, world, new age, and more - and is also searchable by works, people, instruments, countries, and historical periods.

Playlists can be created by students and professors for private use or for in-class discussion and analysis, but please NOTE: NML is a streaming-only resource, and any downloading or burning from NML violates both copyright law and the Terms of Use agreement. NML allows 15 simultaneous users - if it is busy, please try logging in later.

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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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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.

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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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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The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) offer long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. The OREs cover both foundational and cutting-edge topics in order to develop an anchoring knowledge base for major areas of research across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Multi-media features embedded in the articles, along with cross-referenced links to related content, will further expand the utility and scope of the OREs.

Currently, Hekman Library subscribes to four subject areas: Climate Science, Communication, Encyclopedia of Social Work, and International Studies.

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