SAGE Reference is offering free access to SAGE Reference Online until May 15th of this year.  Simply register for free access to over 50 encyclopedias and hundreds of handbooks in the social sciences.  Access includes The Encyclopedia of Journalism, which received an Honorable Mention for the Dartmouth Award this year.

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The Dartmouth Medal, honoring a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, is awarded each year by the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.  This year, 3 titles were honored, one as the Dartmouth Medal winner and two for Honorable Mention.  All 3 multivolume titles are available in ebook [...]

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For the first time in history, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Dartmouth Award, designating outstanding quality and significance to a reference source, was given to an electronic resource.  Greenwood’s Pop Culture Universe, was the 2009 recipient. The Committee selected Pop Culture Universe because it compiles over 300 sources of pop culture information into a fun, [...]

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