Link: Virtual Reference Library
About: Virtual Reference Library from Gale on NCLive is a collection of 25 reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. The titles cover a wide range of subjects from the arts to medicine and from multicultural studies to social science. You can search one title at a time, up to 10 titles that you select, or by broad grouping such as biography, education, or history. Full-text.
Dates of Coverage: varies.
Truncation: [*]. (To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with a truncation symbol. The search engine will then find all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing).
Wildcard: [?]. (The wildcard helps when the spelling of a word is incomplete. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with the appropriate wildcard symbol. The search engine finds all citations of that word with the symbol replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next).
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