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Credo General Reference
A search engine covering hundreds of reference works, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, and books of quotations, plus subject-specific titles covering topics such as arts, business, history, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, and technology.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Complete text of the 18-volume original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, plus the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, published in 2007 by Charles Scribner's Sons and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Interdisciplinary Databases

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
A database covering science, technology, and medicine from prehistoric times to the present, including records of journal articles, books, dissertations, and other materials.
Scopus
Interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed research articles in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and art/humanities

Please note: there are problems with the Scopus service. Full-text links and exports to some citation managers are not working. A workaround to get the full text is to copy and paste the article title into ONE SEARCH on the library home page, and you'll be able to access the full text.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary, scholarly and popular journal literature, news, some full text. 1990-present
HathiTrust
A digital library containing assets from over 100 research libraries, with document types including books, images, images, music scores, newspapers, and videos. Use the yellow "Log In" button to find and select Colby College, then follow the login prompts.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Newspapers, dissertations, digital collections. We are a member with borrowing and downloading privileges
Disserations and Theses

More specific than Google:

Search broadly for research topics in books, using broader terminology. Start with CBBcat but move on to what we can obtain from other libraries:

NExpress
Search NExpress to identify additional relevant books obtained directly from CBB, Middlebury, Northeastern, Wellesley, Williams, Vassar.
MaineCat
CBB is in here too; you may find more technical government reports.
WorldCat
Excellent source for topics. Books available from throughout the US; request on Interlibrary Loan.