Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library includes numerous encyclopedias, which provide reliable overviews of many topics. For example, a search for "Xhosa" brings up an article from the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life.
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