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Items whose title begins with M:
Making of America
University of Michigan site
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Separate sites at Cornell and the University of Michigan contain different sets of materials.
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Making of America (Cornell site)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Separate sites at Cornell and the University of Michigan contain different sets of materials.
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Making of Modern Law
Provides digital images of every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages.
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Making of the Modern World
The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
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Margaret Thatcher: Complete Public Statements 1945-1990
"Collection of more than 7,100 statements made by Margaret Thatcher and includes speeches, broadcasts, press conferences, interviews, and articles."
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Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM workstation
Margaret Thatcher: Complete Public Statements 1945-1990 (*Update and Errata Only*)
Updates and corrects errors in the Margaret Thatcher: Complete Public Statements 1945-1990 resource, which is a"collection of more than 7,100 statements made by Margaret Thatcher and includes speeches, broadcasts, press conferences, interviews, and articles."
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Market Research Library
Contains more than 100,000 industry and country-specific market reports, authored by U.S. Commercial Service specialists working in overseas posts. Includes Country Commercial Guides, which cover general economic trends and outlook, political environment, marketing U.S. products and services, leading sectors for U.S. exports and investments, and trade regulations and standards.
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MarketLine
formerly Datamonitor 360
Marketline international industry analysis and company profiles. Country statistics and market data analytics; financial deals, product information, news, opinion, and reports.
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MarketResearch Academic
MarketResearch.com Academic is a database that provides access to the fulltext of marketing studies produced by a variety of research firms. If you are looking for studies on the demographics of a certain market - Gen Y or Active Seniors, for example - then this is a great database. It has marketing research studies and/or case studies on different markets from acne medications to snack food to health care for children to restaurants to the herbal supplement market. Market research reports cover the following major industries and categories: business services, consumer goods, food and beverage, demographics, heavy industry, life sciences and technology and media.
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MasterplotsComplete [ Masterplots ]
This database combines the contents of the 22 sets of literary reference books published by Salem Press; there are over 2,000 author biographies and over 11,000 critical essays on fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. Most entries also contain a brief bibliography for further reading. Authors and texts in the fields of American, African-American, British, European, World, juvenile, and women’s literature are covered. You may search by title, author, principal characters, locale, subject, or genre (e.g., drama or fiction, western or arthurian romance). Each essay on a text contains basic information about publication, setting, genre, as well as plot summaries and brief analyses of forms, structures, themes, and meanings.
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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
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MathSciNet
Covers pure and applied mathematics and statistics, including applications to other fields, such as physics, computer science, and engineering. Most entries contain either an author’s abstract or a critical review. Math.
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MCB University Press journals
-- See Emerald
Medline
FirstSearch version
International coverage of over 3800 journals in the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Medline encompasses information from three print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Mental Measurements Yearbook contains full text information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
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Merck Index Online
14th Edition
The Merck Index contains 10,250 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. The entries are not a listing of Merck & Co., Inc. products, but rather cover a wide range of compounds, which have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest.
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Mergent
Mergent Online provides access to detailed corporate financial histories (including capital changes) and operational histories for international public companies. Mergent has company financial reports (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and retained earnings reports) dating back 15 years/quarters and includes financial ratios. Mergent also provides company overviews, joint venture information, property descriptions, subsidiaries, officers/directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. Customized reports on a company or multiple companies can be created and data can be downloaded into Excel. The database also includes newswire headlines, annual reports, and country reports containing statistical data.
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Mergent WebReports
Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.
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Microsoft Encarta Africana
"Explores the history, achievement, and culture of African peoples wherever they are found."
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Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS)
"MECAS is a systematic, and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa." Coverage includes political affairs and law, international relations, economic affairs, cultural heritage, society and social welfare, ethnic diversity and anthropology, religious events and movements, recent history (1900- ) and archaeology. The database contains: Middle East Bibliography (1946-2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, MECAS Citation database and the School of Oriental & African Studies Library Catalogue (1900- ).
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Middle English Compendium
The Middle English Compendium offers easy access to and interconnectivity among three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.
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The Military Balance
Statistics. Up-to-date figures and information on defence budgets, procurement totals, equipment holdings, and military deployments.
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Mintel Reports
Mintel offers market research reports focused on the consumer in the U.S., U.K., European, and some Asian markets. They cover a variety of sectors such as: consumer goods, leisure and travel, personal finances, technology and electronics, retail, clothing, and food, food service, and drink. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports include market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. A highlight of Mintel is the inclusion of Simmons National Consumer Survey (NCS) , a leading authority on the behavior of the American consumer
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MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
MITECS consists of concise articles, each written by a leading researcher on the topic, that provide an accessible introduction to important concepts in the sciences of cognition. Each article also provides a list of references and suggestions for further readings for the interested reader to learn more about the latest research on the topic.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
An index to information about the periodicals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography
"The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication."
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes over 4,400 journals, as well as books, proceedings and dissertations in the area of critical literature and language, folklore and linguistics, as well as theatre and film studies. Includes some full-text articles.
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MLA International Bibliography (via Literature Online)
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Molecular Biology sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians
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Mundus: gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom
A web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. These materials, comprising the archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artefacts, are held in a large number of libraries, record offices and other institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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