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• CREDO reference
• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  ECCO offers online access to one of the most extensive libraries of eighteenth-century English books in the world.
• Gale Biography in Context
  state-wide access
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Browse list of online reference titles to match your resource needs
• International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
• Issues & Controversies
  World News and Social Issues
• Sage Knowledge
  Scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks in social sciences, health, and environment
• Social Issues in America; An Encyclopedia
  More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered.

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The print reference collection is located on the first floor of Rice Library.

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