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ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest: 1971- )
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in accounting, finance, marketing, management, international business, real estate, and taxation. It provides abstracting and indexing from 1971 forward for over 1,300 titles, including 200 English-language foreign publications. Also included is full text for over 600 journals from 1992 forward.

Campus Research (Westlaw)
Campus Research is an online legal research tool designed and built especially for undergraduates and other non-law students. It is an abridged version of Westlaw and allows retrieval of cases and legal documents from both federal and state sources. Campus Research also includes law review and legal journal articles.

CCH Health and Human Resources
Covers human resource management, personnel practices, compensation, Equal Employment Opportunity, employment relations and OSHA compliance.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Conduct tax research on federal, state or international tax law.

CJPI Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest)
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in criminal justice, security issues, policing, organized crime, juvenile justice and law enforcement.

CQ Congress Collection
Contains in-depth research on historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.

CQ Electronic Library
Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in CQEL (pronounced SEE´quell). It also offers a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content.

CQ Public Affairs Collection
Includes CQ's primary source documents, statistical overviews, contact information, and in-depth reporting on current affairs.

CQ Researcher
Full text CQ Researcher (1991 - ). Contains in-depth research on current topics with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues and bibliographies for further information.

CQ Voting and Elections Collection
CQ Voting and Elections Collection includes data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide information on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.

LexisNexis Academic
Click on the link for legal research in the left sidebar. Contains statutes and case law for federal, state and international juristictions, as well as law review and legal journal articles.

LexisNexis Congressional
Includes legislative histories for public laws and testimony from congressional hearings. Track bills and search the Congressional Record and Federal Register, and locate information about congressional members and committees.

NFPA Codes Online
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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), based in Quincy, Massachusetts, is an international, nonprofit membership organization. Its mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life. The NFPA develops, publishes, and disseminates timely consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks.

WisLaw Wisconsin Statutes
CD-ROM
Contains the full text of Wisconsin Acts, the official statutes, Attorney General opinions, Wisconsin Supreme Court rules, and other materials. Dates of coverage vary.

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