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Reference Resources (comprehensive links to reputable online almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias...)

Statistics Sources
Includes "America's Top-Rated Cities"

Geography/Geology Databases

• Use Academic Search Premier from EBSCOhost to locate articles on the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta
• Use Business Source Premier to locate financial articles, e.g., convention facilities
• Use Regional Business News to get local articles about KC from business sources
• Use NewsBank to find Kansas City Star articles on transportation, hotels, restaurants and venues in KC
• Use Readers' Guide Retrospective to locate articles on the 1976 Olympics in Montreal

Look up periodical titles available at B.D. Owens Library, including both print/hardcopy and electronic journals, magazines and newspapers.

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Citing Sources:
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Search for Articles:
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    3. Click Missouri Titles
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    Kansas City and hotel capacity