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General Researching Guides: E-Resource & Database Collections
This guide contains our links to our main databases and e-resources as well as some useful guides on how to research effectively.
E-Resource & Database Collections
Keyword Searching Techniques & Boolean
Subject Searching
Finding Scholarly Articles
Finding Books
Using Reference Books
Primary Resources
Evaluating Internet Resources
Citation Resources
Other Libguides
Announcements
Our I-SHARE borrowing and
local item requesting services
are available through our catalog, accessible through the quick search or catalog links in the left column. Want to watch a movie or documentary? Check out our Academic Video Online streaming video collection found in the right column below. Extensive popular audio and e-book collections are found in our catalog and in the Overdrive link in the second section of the left column.
Quick Search
Look for Books & Media in our Catalogs
Melick Catalog Search
Find books, videos, periodicals, e-books and other physical and virtual items in Melick Library's holdings. You may also access your library account to review and renew items on this page.
I-Share Catalog
This combined catalog of 95 CARLI member libraries contains over 38 million items that may be searched and even requested via Interlibrary Loan. Items may also be checked out by Eureka College patrons in person at these libraries.
WorldCat.org
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Free to Eureka College users, this resource includes the ArticleFirst database (index of 22,300 journals), Electronic Collections Online, (index of 6,000, with some full-text and graphics), WorldCat (a combined catalog of over 70,000 libraries), and other specialized citation/catalog databases. You may place requests for items you are unable to find elsewhere in Melick's or I-SHARE's catalogs.
Area Public Library Catalogs
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This link takes users to the Resource Sharing Alliance databases and allows them to search the entire RSA database containing local public library collections or one particular database (i.e. Eureka Public where Eureka College patrons may receive a courtesy patron status and check out materials). This tool is particularly useful when a patron is looking for children’s, popular fiction, or audio/visual materials not typically held by academic libraries.
E-Book Collections
Overdrive Ebooks & Audiobooks
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This collection of over 36,000 e-books and audiobooks includes both YA and Adult fiction and nonfiction and is exclusive to Eureka College patrons.
Proquest EBook Central
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EBook Central contains nearly 4,000 multi-disciplinary scholarly titles which may be accessed directly through the portal, or via individual title links in Melick’s online catalog.
Springer Medicine E-book Collection
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This collection of full-text electronic book contains around 3,000 titles in the Medical field.
Taylor & Francis Ebook Collection
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This collection contains over 900 multidisciplinary scholarly ebooks. These are OpenAccess books, so no login is necessary.
Specialized E-Reference Books & Collections
Gale Virtual Reference Library
This database contains a dozen e-reference books, including encyclopedias in the areas of Education, Biography, History, Political Science, and Environmental Studies.
Sage E-Reference
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 20 full-text Reference books in a variety of subject areas.
Milestone Documents Series
This resource contains searchable full-text versions of 20+ multi-volume primary resource reference sets in American and World History.
Open Educational Resources
Open Textbook Library
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This resource contains over 700 open access textbooks that may be utilized and adapted freely. These titles are also searchable in our online catalog.
MERLOT
This link opens in a new window
This resource contains links to over 40,000 free educational resources including open access textbooks, case studies, tutorials, and online course in a variety of disciplines.
OER Commons
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OER Commons contains a growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER including full courses, interactive mini-lessons and simulations, Open Textbooks, and K-12 Lesson Plans, worksheets, and activities.
CARLI Open Illinois Hub
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This subsidiary of the OER Commons site focuses on OER content created by Illinois authors and contains a growing collection of Open Textbooks created by Illinois colleges and universities.
LibreTexts Commons
A curated collection of OERs produced using the LibreTexts OER creation tool. Includes items produced by members of our CARLI library consortium. Contains the option order print copies.
OpenStax
OpenStax, from Rice University, provides over 50 high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.
BC Open Collection
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A repository of hundreds of open textbooks peer reviewed and adapted by faculty in British Columbia, Canada.
Milne Open Textbooks
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Formerly Open SUNY, this collection contains over 2 dozen book authored by SUNY faculty.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.
MOM: Mason OER Metafinder
This link opens in a new window
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
Ebscohost Quick Search
JSTOR Quick Search
Need help? See the "
How to Search JSTOR
" guide.
This quick search box only works on campus. Please use this
link
to access when off campus.
Project Muse Quick Search
Search Project MUSE®
https://muse.jhu.edu
This quick search box only works on campus. Please use this
link
when off campus.
Nexis Uni Quick Access
Nexis Uni
contains news (including the New York Times), legal, and business sources.
PsycArticles Quick Access
PsycArticles
This link opens in a new window
PsycArticles contains nearly over 150 full-text scholarly journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Science Online Quick Access
Science Online
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Science is the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content.
Multi-disciplinary Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Articles
EBSCOhost
This link opens in a new window
This online resource includes several databases offering hundreds of thousands of full-text articles for every type of discipline. Of the over 80 collections, highlights include Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, MLA Bibliography, Medline Ultimate. Most offer full-text articles as well as newspapers, government, and health information resources. Scholarly and non-scholarly articles are available and there are also thousands of ebooks available as well.
PsycArticles
This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals and most from volume 1, issue 1.
JSTOR
This link opens in a new window
Contains over 4,600 full-text scholarly journals available with deep backfiles of titles from vol. 1 issue 1 to usually 3, 5 or 10 years ago in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences. It also has over 14,00 open access e-books and over 1.7 million free images.
Project Muse
This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 150+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Nexis Uni
This link opens in a new window
This collection of full-text databases provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Hundreds of national and world newspapers, including the New York Times, television and radio news sources are included. Full-text access is available before or just days after the information is published or broadcasted.
Sage Deep Backfiles
This link opens in a new window
Scholarly Journal Archive ending in beginning with the first year published and running through 2007 for each of the 300 titles.
Specialized Periodical and Document Resources
Black Thought & Culture
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 1,300 non-fiction writings by leading African Americans.
Chronicle of Higher Education
This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle is the premier Higher Education periodical that keeps readers up-to-date in the field of Education.
Harper's Weekly Online 1857-1912
This link opens in a new window
A searchable or browseable primary-resource-filled historical journal covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age time periods between 1857 and 1912.
IPA Source
IPA Source was developed to benefit singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. What started in 2003 as a support site for students in a university diction class has grown into the largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.
Newspapers.com - Illinois
This link opens in a new window
This collection contains over 550 Illinois newspapers with historical coverage from 1819-2013.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
This link opens in a new window
The University of Illinois provides searchable databases for historical full-text articles from select Illinois papers, Agricultural newspapers, entertainment publications, and student newspapers.
New York Times Archives
This link opens in a new window
Use this link to go to the Times' website to conduct archive searches. Articles from 1851-1929 are full-text and free Primary Resources. Conduct a search and then filter the dates to the range you require. Nexis-Uni contains full-text of the NYT back to June 1980.
Science Online
This link opens in a new window
Science is the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content.
Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 4,300 historical documents.
Library Hours
Melick Library Hours in Burgess 104
Regular Hours when school is in session:
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Closed weekends.
Streaming Videos
Academic Video Online
This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more and includes a massive depth of content and breadth of content-types such as documentaries, films, newsreels and demonstrations.
LearningExpress
LearningExpress
This link opens in a new window
A collection of tutorials and resource guides covering core Math and English/Writing skills, College Success Skills, Microsoft and other basic computer skills, Career Services skills, test preparation (GRE/MCAT/LSAT) and more.
Digital Images/Documents
CARLI Digital Collections
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Contains Digital representations of special collections including printed and manuscript materials, images, and sound recordings from CARLI Libraries, Illinois Sanborn Maps, and other primary sources in Illinois history.
Saskia Art Images
This link opens in a new window
Found within the CARLI Digital Collections database, Saskia contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
Illinois Digital Heritage Hub
This link opens in a new window
The IDHH contains a wealth of digital primary source materials contributed by archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums from around the state of Illinois.
Illinois Digital Archives
This link opens in a new window
This site is a repository for digital collections in the Illinois State Library as well as other Illinois libraries and cultural institutions. It contains newspapers, maps, photographs, oral histories, videos and other primary source documents.
HathiTrust
This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
This link opens in a new window
Access hundreds of online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
Directory of Open Access Books
This link opens in a new window
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to over 1000,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Digital Public Library
The Digital Public Library of America's goal is to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage sites, and make them freely available to students, teachers, researchers, and the general public.
World Digital Library
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Search 12,214 digital items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE.
Internet Archive
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Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Other Libguides
Be sure to check out our other helpful
Libguide
resource pages.
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Skip to Main Content
General Researching Guides: E-Resource & Database Collections
This guide contains our links to our main databases and e-resources as well as some useful guides on how to research effectively.
E-Resource & Database Collections
Keyword Searching Techniques & Boolean
Subject Searching
Finding Scholarly Articles
Finding Books
Using Reference Books
Primary Resources
Evaluating Internet Resources
Citation Resources
Other Libguides
Announcements
Our I-SHARE borrowing and
local item requesting services
are available through our catalog, accessible through the quick search or catalog links in the left column. Want to watch a movie or documentary? Check out our Academic Video Online streaming video collection found in the right column below. Extensive popular audio and e-book collections are found in our catalog and in the Overdrive link in the second section of the left column.
Quick Search
Look for Books & Media in our Catalogs
Melick Catalog Search
Find books, videos, periodicals, e-books and other physical and virtual items in Melick Library's holdings. You may also access your library account to review and renew items on this page.
I-Share Catalog
This combined catalog of 95 CARLI member libraries contains over 38 million items that may be searched and even requested via Interlibrary Loan. Items may also be checked out by Eureka College patrons in person at these libraries.
WorldCat.org
This link opens in a new window
Free to Eureka College users, this resource includes the ArticleFirst database (index of 22,300 journals), Electronic Collections Online, (index of 6,000, with some full-text and graphics), WorldCat (a combined catalog of over 70,000 libraries), and other specialized citation/catalog databases. You may place requests for items you are unable to find elsewhere in Melick's or I-SHARE's catalogs.
Area Public Library Catalogs
This link opens in a new window
This link takes users to the Resource Sharing Alliance databases and allows them to search the entire RSA database containing local public library collections or one particular database (i.e. Eureka Public where Eureka College patrons may receive a courtesy patron status and check out materials). This tool is particularly useful when a patron is looking for children’s, popular fiction, or audio/visual materials not typically held by academic libraries.
E-Book Collections
Overdrive Ebooks & Audiobooks
This link opens in a new window
This collection of over 36,000 e-books and audiobooks includes both YA and Adult fiction and nonfiction and is exclusive to Eureka College patrons.
Proquest EBook Central
This link opens in a new window
EBook Central contains nearly 4,000 multi-disciplinary scholarly titles which may be accessed directly through the portal, or via individual title links in Melick’s online catalog.
Springer Medicine E-book Collection
This link opens in a new window
This collection of full-text electronic book contains around 3,000 titles in the Medical field.
Taylor & Francis Ebook Collection
This link opens in a new window
This collection contains over 900 multidisciplinary scholarly ebooks. These are OpenAccess books, so no login is necessary.
Specialized E-Reference Books & Collections
Gale Virtual Reference Library
This database contains a dozen e-reference books, including encyclopedias in the areas of Education, Biography, History, Political Science, and Environmental Studies.
Sage E-Reference
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 20 full-text Reference books in a variety of subject areas.
Milestone Documents Series
This resource contains searchable full-text versions of 20+ multi-volume primary resource reference sets in American and World History.
Open Educational Resources
Open Textbook Library
This link opens in a new window
This resource contains over 700 open access textbooks that may be utilized and adapted freely. These titles are also searchable in our online catalog.
MERLOT
This link opens in a new window
This resource contains links to over 40,000 free educational resources including open access textbooks, case studies, tutorials, and online course in a variety of disciplines.
OER Commons
This link opens in a new window
OER Commons contains a growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER including full courses, interactive mini-lessons and simulations, Open Textbooks, and K-12 Lesson Plans, worksheets, and activities.
CARLI Open Illinois Hub
This link opens in a new window
This subsidiary of the OER Commons site focuses on OER content created by Illinois authors and contains a growing collection of Open Textbooks created by Illinois colleges and universities.
LibreTexts Commons
A curated collection of OERs produced using the LibreTexts OER creation tool. Includes items produced by members of our CARLI library consortium. Contains the option order print copies.
OpenStax
OpenStax, from Rice University, provides over 50 high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.
BC Open Collection
This link opens in a new window
A repository of hundreds of open textbooks peer reviewed and adapted by faculty in British Columbia, Canada.
Milne Open Textbooks
This link opens in a new window
Formerly Open SUNY, this collection contains over 2 dozen book authored by SUNY faculty.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.
MOM: Mason OER Metafinder
This link opens in a new window
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
Ebscohost Quick Search
JSTOR Quick Search
Need help? See the "
How to Search JSTOR
" guide.
This quick search box only works on campus. Please use this
link
to access when off campus.
Project Muse Quick Search
Search Project MUSE®
https://muse.jhu.edu
This quick search box only works on campus. Please use this
link
when off campus.
Nexis Uni Quick Access
Nexis Uni
contains news (including the New York Times), legal, and business sources.
PsycArticles Quick Access
PsycArticles
This link opens in a new window
PsycArticles contains nearly over 150 full-text scholarly journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Science Online Quick Access
Science Online
This link opens in a new window
Science is the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content.
Multi-disciplinary Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Articles
EBSCOhost
This link opens in a new window
This online resource includes several databases offering hundreds of thousands of full-text articles for every type of discipline. Of the over 80 collections, highlights include Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, MLA Bibliography, Medline Ultimate. Most offer full-text articles as well as newspapers, government, and health information resources. Scholarly and non-scholarly articles are available and there are also thousands of ebooks available as well.
PsycArticles
This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals and most from volume 1, issue 1.
JSTOR
This link opens in a new window
Contains over 4,600 full-text scholarly journals available with deep backfiles of titles from vol. 1 issue 1 to usually 3, 5 or 10 years ago in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences. It also has over 14,00 open access e-books and over 1.7 million free images.
Project Muse
This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 150+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Nexis Uni
This link opens in a new window
This collection of full-text databases provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Hundreds of national and world newspapers, including the New York Times, television and radio news sources are included. Full-text access is available before or just days after the information is published or broadcasted.
Sage Deep Backfiles
This link opens in a new window
Scholarly Journal Archive ending in beginning with the first year published and running through 2007 for each of the 300 titles.
Specialized Periodical and Document Resources
Black Thought & Culture
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 1,300 non-fiction writings by leading African Americans.
Chronicle of Higher Education
This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle is the premier Higher Education periodical that keeps readers up-to-date in the field of Education.
Harper's Weekly Online 1857-1912
This link opens in a new window
A searchable or browseable primary-resource-filled historical journal covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age time periods between 1857 and 1912.
IPA Source
IPA Source was developed to benefit singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. What started in 2003 as a support site for students in a university diction class has grown into the largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.
Newspapers.com - Illinois
This link opens in a new window
This collection contains over 550 Illinois newspapers with historical coverage from 1819-2013.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
This link opens in a new window
The University of Illinois provides searchable databases for historical full-text articles from select Illinois papers, Agricultural newspapers, entertainment publications, and student newspapers.
New York Times Archives
This link opens in a new window
Use this link to go to the Times' website to conduct archive searches. Articles from 1851-1929 are full-text and free Primary Resources. Conduct a search and then filter the dates to the range you require. Nexis-Uni contains full-text of the NYT back to June 1980.
Science Online
This link opens in a new window
Science is the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content.
Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000
This link opens in a new window
A collection of 4,300 historical documents.
Library Hours
Melick Library Hours in Burgess 104
Regular Hours when school is in session:
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Closed weekends.
Streaming Videos
Academic Video Online
This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more and includes a massive depth of content and breadth of content-types such as documentaries, films, newsreels and demonstrations.
LearningExpress
LearningExpress
This link opens in a new window
A collection of tutorials and resource guides covering core Math and English/Writing skills, College Success Skills, Microsoft and other basic computer skills, Career Services skills, test preparation (GRE/MCAT/LSAT) and more.
Digital Images/Documents
CARLI Digital Collections
This link opens in a new window
Contains Digital representations of special collections including printed and manuscript materials, images, and sound recordings from CARLI Libraries, Illinois Sanborn Maps, and other primary sources in Illinois history.
Saskia Art Images
This link opens in a new window
Found within the CARLI Digital Collections database, Saskia contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
Illinois Digital Heritage Hub
This link opens in a new window
The IDHH contains a wealth of digital primary source materials contributed by archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums from around the state of Illinois.
Illinois Digital Archives
This link opens in a new window
This site is a repository for digital collections in the Illinois State Library as well as other Illinois libraries and cultural institutions. It contains newspapers, maps, photographs, oral histories, videos and other primary source documents.
HathiTrust
This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
This link opens in a new window
Access hundreds of online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
Directory of Open Access Books
This link opens in a new window
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to over 1000,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Digital Public Library
The Digital Public Library of America's goal is to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage sites, and make them freely available to students, teachers, researchers, and the general public.
World Digital Library
This link opens in a new window
Search 12,214 digital items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE.
Internet Archive
This link opens in a new window
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Other Libguides
Be sure to check out our other helpful
Libguide
resource pages.
Next:
Keyword Searching Techniques & Boolean >>
Last Updated:
Mar 11, 2026 11:07 AM
URL:
https://libguides.eureka.edu/GeneralResearching
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Tags:
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catalog
citations
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