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MAD CADON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA.


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MagazinePLUSON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Japanese index to over 4 million articles in 8,500 journals and magazines covering medicine, science, law, humanities, popular culture, business and social sciences.


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Making of America : Cornell
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.


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Making of America : Michigan
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.


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Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Searchable full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises containing more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.


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Making of Modern Law : Trials 1600 - 1926ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains precedent-setting transcripts of cases covering constitutional and historical issues.


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Making of the Modern World 1450 - 1850ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides the full text of more than 61,000 books and scores of serials covering economic and business literature published from 1450 through 1850.


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Making the Modern World
United Kingdom's National Museum of Science & Industry site that offers stories about science and invention from the eighteenth century to today.


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Market Access Database
Provides text of trade barriers in 34 non-European Union countries, and trade statistics between EU and these nations.


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Material Safety Data Sheets
The MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) is designed to provide workers with safety information on chemicals that they are exposed to in the workplace.


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Mathematics Didactics Database
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering literature in mathematical education and related fields, MATHDI's database of over 70,000 references covers approximately 500 volumes and other serials published worldwide.


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Medi Lexicon
A dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.


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Medical Encyclopedia
The adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia available from the National Library of Medicine includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.


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Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web
Contains links and strategies for effective searching of health information on the Internet.


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Medici Archive Project
Tracks all references to people, places and topics in the Medici Granducal Archive. Also includes documents for Jewish History, Religion & Culture containing letters relevant to Jewish life in the Granducal Period (1537-1743).


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Medknow Publications
Peer-reviewed open access journals in the field of medicine.


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MedlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
MEDLINE indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.


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MedTerms Medical Dictionary
Contains easy-to-understand explanations for over 16,000 medical terms.


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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy provides in-depth information on the vast expanse of human diseases, disorders and injuries, as well as their symptoms and recommended treatment.


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Merck Manual of Geriatrics
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics provides information of clinical relevance on geriatric care, including specific information regarding nursing care, pharmacy, and planning issues.


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Merck Manual of Health & Aging
Provides information on aging and the care of older people in words understandable by the lay public. Contains sections on the: Fundamentals of Aging; Caring for Self and Others; Medical Conditions; and Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues.


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Merck Manual of Medical Information
The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition) explains what a disorder is, who is likely to get it, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, how it might be prevented, and how it can be treated.


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Merck Veterinary Manual
Provides clinical information for the veterinary practitioner and other animal health professionals.


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Mergent Corporate Manuals (Mergent WebReports)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Mergent / Moody's manuals provide extensive historical and current information for public companies worldwide, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs, properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets, long term debit, options, and other financial data.


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Mergent OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides global detailed financial data for over 35,000 active and inactive companies.


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MERLN
Contains student papers, lectures, conference proceedings, personal paper collections, reports and legislation for research and scholarship on military topics.


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Merriam-Webster OnLine
The dictionary provides pronunciation, function, usage, etymology and definitions with links to related terms; the thesaurus gives word function, usage examples, synonyms and related words.


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Metacrawler
MetaCrawler works by querying Google, Yahoo!, Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and others and then organizing and displaying the results into a uniform format.


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MetaPressON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
MetaPress provides citations from hundreds of journals, newsletters and other professional and academic publications in all subject areas.


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Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitoring Project
MEMRI's TV monitoring center focuses on political, cultural, religious, and other developments and debates in the Arab and Muslim world and in Iran.


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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Contains the full text of the MERIA Journal, a quarterly refereed academic journal on Middle East issues.


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Middle East Virtual Library
MENALIB is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies providing access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media.


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Middle Eastern & Central Asian StudiesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.


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Military and Government CollectionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military and matters relating to the military and military life, with a subject emphasis on engineering.


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Mineral Industry Surveys
Mineral Industry Surveys (MIS) conducted by the USGS are periodic on-line statistical and economic publications designed to provide timely statistical data on production, distribution, stocks, and consumption of significant mineral commodities.


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Mineralogy Database
Contains over 4,000 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library. Provides calculated properties, physical properties, and optical properties for minerals.


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Minerals Yearbook
The Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication that reviews the mineral and material industries on approximately 90 commodities and over 175 countries.


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MIPT Terrorism Information Center
MIPT provides comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders.


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MLA Directory of PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.


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MLA International BibliographyON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies.


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Molecular Biology Database Collection
The Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection contains links to over 700 freely available databases.


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Morningstar Investment Research CenterON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Morningstar provides financial data on over 8,000 stocks and 23,000 mutual funds, with independent reports on 1,200 stocks and 2,000 funds.


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Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE is a movie review index with links to over 450,000 full-text reviews covering more than 40,000 films from international, national, and local newspapers, arts and entertainment journals, and other sources.


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Moving Here : 200 Years of Migration to England
Search the database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.


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Moving Images Collections
MIC documents moving image collections around the world through a catalog of titles and directory of repositories.


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MPI Data Hub
Provides access to the latest facts, stats, and maps on immigrants in the United States and Europe, and asylum seekers worldwide.


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MPRESS : The Mathematics Preprint Search System
Database containing citations, and some full text, of forthcoming publications (primarily published in Europe) covering mathematics.


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Multinational Collections Database
Lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, comparative in nature.


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Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
Contains descriptions of more than 400 collections accumulated in Britain by individuals and societies engaged in the overseas missionary movement between the 18th and 20th centuries.


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Museum Directory
Contain description and visitor information, along with a listing of events, for thousands of museums. Also try the Virtual Library Museum for international as well as domestic listings.


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Music Education Search System
Consists of 3 searchable databases: The Music Journals database; Poland-Cady Abstract Collection; and Index to the Boletin de Investigacio Educativo Musical.


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Music IndexON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations to articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from over 640 international music periodicals.


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Music Resources on the World Wide Web
Subject guide to music resources maintained by Yale University.


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Musical Borrowing: an Annotated Bibliography
The bibliography has more than 1200 items, more than 500 of them annotated, of published materials and theses relating to the use of existing music in the tradition of Western music.


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My Search
My Search returns simultaneous search results from Google, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, AlltheWeb, and LookSmart.


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MyiLibrary eBooksON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A collection of over 400 ebooks covering science and the social sciences.


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