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E-Reference Desk

Virtual Reference Desk
Provides help to academic researchers on a variety of topics: on U.S. selected government documents; U.S. government agencies, programs, departments, and committees.

Acronyms and Abbreviations Search

Acronym Finder
A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology & telecommunications.

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Almanacs

The Almanac of Politics and Government
An annual compilation of information about the United States and World politics and government.

Anyday in History

Information Please Almanacs
Find answers and articles in IP's almanacs.

Biography

4000 Years of Women in Science

Biography Center
Indexes more than 10,700 biographies on the Web.

Forbes World's Richest People

List of U.S. Presidents

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Constitutions

Constitutions of the Countries of the World

Countries

World Fact Book
A standard reference source, data is available for over 250 countries. For each country, map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issue information is provided for the latest year available. There are also seventeen individual reference maps and eight appendices.

Transitions Online
A leading Internet magazine covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.

E-resources on IT available on Armenia Development Gateway Portal

EURASIANET
Provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.

ArmeniaWeek
Is published by the FOURTH MILLENNIUM SOCIETY, publishers of AIM.
The site is updated every Friday. Provides the summary of the most important news in Armenia.

United Nations Office in Armenia
As part of the UN Secretariat, DPI is the principal source of public information about the UN system in the country. DPI provides up-to-date public information materials on the aims and activities of the UN in political, economic, social and humanitarian fields to a diverse local audience.

Global Development Network
Provides access to online journals related to the social sciences

Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Glossaries

English-Armenia, English Russian Dictionary

Phrase Finder
Type a phrase and retrieve a list of related phrases.

Political Dictionary
Terms used by policy-makers, journalists, commentators, and analysts, in discussing national and international politics.

Rhyming Dictionary
Find words that rhyme with, almost rhyme with, or sound exactly the same as a certain target word, or find words that approximate or have the same meaning as an intended concept.

Thesaurus.com
Browse the thesaurus by an alphabetical list of head words or by categories of word types. Based on Roget's.

Online Databases

ACM
Association for Computing Machinery is the ultimate online resource for those interested in the computing industry. Through subscription we will have access to all ACM journals and magazines, both in print and online, including an archive where available. You may access and retrieve online full text articles from all workstations via IP addresses within American University of Armenia.

Cambridge Journals Online - New!
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) provides full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - New!
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

EBSCO
Provides full text for over 5,360 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, business, management, economics, finance, accounting, and much more.
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EOLSS-Online
The Online Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems covers the following subjects: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Biologicaland medical sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Sciences, engineering and Technology Resources, Chemical Sciences, Water Science and Resources, Energy Engineering Resources, Environmental and Ecological Sciences and Resources, and more...
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HighWire Press
Offers free online access to the limited journals on Public Health.

HINARY
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative provides access to over 2,000 medical and health journals and various databases and electronic reference works.
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InfoTrac
Premier database for research in all academic disciplines.
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Ingenta Select - New!
Ingenta's collection of academic and professional online publications
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Oxford Journals Online - New!
Offers access to over 120 prestigious journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
Access and retrieval will be via IP.

SpringerLink - New!
SpringerLink is one of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and reviewed journals from Springer-Verlag publisher. SpringerLink offers over 500 fully peer reviewed journals and more than 2000 books online.
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The Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections - New!
Access to three of the most significant mathematics collections digitally available: the Mathematics Collection from Cornell, the Mathenatics Collection from Gottingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math Collection.
Access and retrieval will be via IP.

Wiley InterScience
Provides access to publications from JohnWiley & Sons, Inc.
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E-Journals

Financial Times

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics - New!
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Entrepreneur

Scientific American

The Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the academic world's No. 1 source of news and information.
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Encyclopedias

Britannica.com
Complete searchable contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica plus links to web sites and articles.

Columbia Encyclopedia.
Sixth Edition 2000 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations, and over 80,000 cross-references.

The Encyclopedia of Finance
Explains basic concepts in clear language. The encyclopedia covers six main topics: Stocks, Securities Analysis and Research, Debt Securities, Mutual Funds, Investment Strategies, and Retirement Planning.