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R2Library | Full Text | Vendor: Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. This service is available exclusively through hospital, academic, and institutional libraries. This resource provides access to the 73 titles in the "Nursing Library."

RDS Business Reference Suite | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The RDS Business Reference Suite allows you to search one or more of the databases from Responsive Database Services (Business and Industry, and TableBase).

Readers' Guide Full Text | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Subjects include aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children, computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science, sports, and television. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

Readers' Guide Retrospective | 1890-1982 | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Subjects include aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children, computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science, sports, and television. Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982.

Reclaiming the Everglades | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: Reclaiming the Everglades documents the history of the Everglades and the south Florida environment from 1884- 1934. The digitized items represent a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government. The collection is a collaboration between the libraries at the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Reclaiming the Everglades is an LC/Ameritech award-winning collection, also available through through the Library of Congress's American Memory <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/everhome.html>.

Redbooks.com | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Provides exclusive information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. Each listing includes advertising expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal year-end and annual sales, contact information on key personnel, brand name info, S.I.C. classifications and other key data. This resource also includes detailed profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, contact information on agency personnel and much more.

Reference Universe | Some Full Text | Vendor: Paratext
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Contents/Info: Provides access to back-of-the-book indexes, electronic article titles, reviews and links to subject encyclopedias and reference works online and in print. [This resource will no longer be available due to state budget cuts after January 31, 2008.]

RefWorks | Vendor: Refworks
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: With RefWorks, users can create their own personal database by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. [Off-campus users, click here for directions to follow after you have installed the Write-N-Cite plug in.]

Regional Business News | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications including business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Research Centers Directory | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Research Centers Directory reports on the programs, facilities, publications, educational efforts and services of North America's leading nonprofit research institutes.

RIA Checkpoint | Full Text | Vendor: RIA
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Contents/Info: A centralized, tax research tool providing access to: complete tax law, expert analysis, treatises, tax-related news and cases and rulings and more. [IMPORTANT ACCESS INFORMATION: The link above provides direct access to this resource without the ability for personal customizations. In order to create a RIA Checkpoint account with customizations, FAU students must CLICK HERE to register. In order to register, you need to be on campus or authenticate via EZproxy off campus prior to accessing this link. FAU faculty, staff, and registered students should CLICK HERE and enter their user name and password. RIA resets student passwords on August 1st and January 1st. You will need to reregister following these dates.]

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | 1967-present | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.

Ringling Collection | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of 19th Century American and British actors and actresses. There are more than 6,000 images in this digital collection depicting more than 3,000 actors and actresses. The Collection is important not simply for its pictures of the idols of a bye- gone era but for its depictions of clothing, hair styles, and other indicators of the period's social mores and attitudes. The original collection is housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida.

Risk Abstracts | 1990-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.

RLG ArchiveGrid (Formerly: Archival Resources) see ArchiveGrid | Some Full Text | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. [This resource will no longer available due to state budget cuts beginning January 2008.]

RLG Union Catalog (RLIN) | Vendor: Eureka
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Contains records for materials from many different libraries, museums, and archives. Each record describes an item or collection; most give local holdings information. You can limit your search in this file by material type. [This catalog has been merged with WorldCat.]

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP Onine) | Full Text | Vendor: Routledge
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic Web version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP). As well as regular additions of new articles, this resource also provides editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web and revisions and updates of key entries.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies | Vendor: FirstSearch
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A unique and rich new source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences about materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe.

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