Databases
Agriculture Databases
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.
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Science in Context-Features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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Science Reference Center- research database providing easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
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Green FILE-Draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 600,000 records, and full text for nearly 10,000 records.
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Explora for High School-An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra: High School Edition-Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library-A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO eBook Collection-A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Art Database
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.
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Biography in Context-Includes entries on more than 500,000 individuals spanning history and geography. Updated daily and includes multimedia content and information culled from various resources such as reference books, magazines, and websites.
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Explora for High School-An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra: High School Edition-Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library-A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO Ebook Collection-A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Business Databases
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.
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Business Source Complete-this database includes premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886.
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Regional Business News-Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Corporate ResourceNet-Provides access to the full text of more than 1,120 journals and magazines, 377 of which are peer-reviewed. Greater than 760 of the 1,900 plus titles indexed are peer reviewed. It also includes company profiles and trade publications.
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Entrepreneurial Studies Source-A tool for business students and researchers, providing the latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. It offers full text for business journals, magazines and reference books, as well as case studies and company profiles.
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Small Business Resource Center-Your one-stop source to learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. Whether you're looking for how-to information on small business planning, bookkeeping, financing, human resource management, marketing, regional tax laws, or starting a home-based business, you'll find it all in Small Business Resource Center.
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Testing & Educational Reference Center - A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Resources include over 300 practice tests and courses, dozens of ebooks containing valuable study material and practice tests, information on over 4,000 accredited schools, scholarship search featuring $8 billion in available scholarships, resume builder with over 1,000 brainstorming phrases to get you started, and career modules covering subjects from career change to salary negotiations.
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Vocational and Career Collection-Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
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Explore for High School-An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra: High School Edition-Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
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eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library-A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO Ebook Collection-A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
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Small Business Reference Center-This database offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as the necessary tools and instructions to address a wide-range of small business topics. In addition, it provides business videos, a help and advice section, and information on how to create business plans.
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Research Resources
English Databases
Research
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Points of View Database-Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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TOPIC Search-This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 300 diverse sources including international newspapers and periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Biography in Context-Includes entries on more than 500,000 individuals spanning history and geography. This curriculum-aligned resource offers media-rich content in context so that users can perform research on individuals and learn about their significance within their time and place. Updated daily and includes multimedia content and information culled from various resources such as reference books, magazines, and websites.
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Science in Context - Features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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Explora for High School-An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra: High School Edition-Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Literature
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Contemporary Authors-Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references for over 130,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Users can search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more. Updated monthly.
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Dictionary of Literary Biographies-Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures. Now imagine this print reference - more than 16,000 articles and thousands of images - online and digitized to match the look and feel of the print source! This award-winning content is now easy to search, retrieve and analyze.
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Literary Reference Center Plus-A full-text database providing information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet any and all of their research or instructional needs.
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LitFinder-Covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content. This includes approximately 140,000 full-text poems, 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays, 2,000 full-text speeches and 1,700 full-text plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
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Magill On Literature Plus-combines all of the quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. It is a source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library-A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO Ebook Collection-A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Teacher Resources​
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SAS Curriulum Pathways- provides interactive, standards-based tools, resources, and apps for grades K-12. SAS focuses on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage insights that conventional methods cannot.
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Teaching Books.net - Developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Foreign Language Database
Spanish​
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Consumer Health Information (Spanish) - A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
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Fuenta Academica Premier - A source for academic research, providing key coverage of major subject areas. Fuente Académica provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
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Inorme Academias - Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. This Spanish language database includes full text articles from nearly 700 publications, most of which include full-text articles. Also includes Portuguese and English language materials. Covers 1980 through the present.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
French
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Consumer Health Information (French) - A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
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Vente et Gestion - French language business journals. A tool for both academic and professional researchers, Vente et Gestion provides full-text access to a wide variety of content relevant to business and related subjects, sourced from top French language journals on business and industry.
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Explore for High School- An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO eBook Collection - A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
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Referenica Latina - This comprehensive database offers content from a variety of sources, including an inclusive collection of images, health reports, and full text for reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas. Additionally, the resource covers a full spectrum of Spanish-language scholarships inside and outside academia
Research Resources
Teacher Resources
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SAS Curriulum Pathways- provides interactive, standards-based tools, resources, and apps for grades K-12. SAS focuses on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage insights that conventional methods cannot.
Guidance Databases
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Occupational Outlook Handbook - put out by the US government, this handbook is updated monthly with information on a variety of jobs, their duties, salaries, professional organizations. Also included is the fastest growing jobs in the job market and highest earning jobs.
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Testing & Educational Reference Center - A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Resources include over 300 practice tests and courses, dozens of ebooks containing valuable study material and practice tests, information on over 4,000 accredited schools, scholarship search featuring $8 billion in available scholarships, resume builder with over 1,000 brainstorming phrases to get you started, and career modules covering subjects from career change to salary negotiations.
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Vocational & Career Collection - Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
Health and Wellness Databases
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Consumer Health Complete - A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center - Provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and related information. Contains up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, all of which is reviewed by medical experts. Includes Healthology, which provides health and medical video content and physician-authored articles. In partnership with HealthDay, also brings you the latest reporting and top headlines from Consumer Health News.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition - A collection of consumer health information providing access to over 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. Also included in this database is searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and over 100 health reference books. Additionally, the database contains nearly 10,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Topics covered include AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, and more.
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Medline Plus - MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Reference Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO eBook Collection - A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Science Databases
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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GreenFILE - Draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 600,000 records, and full text for nearly 10,000 records.
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Points of View - Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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Science in Context - Features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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TOPIC Search - This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 300 diverse sources including international newspapers and periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition- Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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Science Reference Center - Research database providing easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
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EBSCO eBook Collection - A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Teacher Resources​
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SAS Curriulum Pathways- provides interactive, standards-based tools, resources, and apps for grades K-12. SAS focuses on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage insights that conventional methods cannot.
Social Studies
Geography
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Biography in Context - Includes entries on more than 500,000 individuals spanning history and geography. This curriculum-aligned resource offers media-rich content in context so that users can perform research on individuals and learn about their significance within their time and place. Updated daily and includes multimedia content and information culled from various resources such as reference books, magazines, and websites.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
History
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Biography in Context - Includes entries on more than 500,000 individuals spanning history and geography. This curriculum-aligned resource offers media-rich content in context so that users can perform research on individuals and learn about their significance within their time and place. Updated daily and includes multimedia content and information culled from various resources such as reference books, magazines, and websites.
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History Reference Center - Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research, this database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
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Hoosier State Chronicles - Provide free, online access to high quality digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers
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Indiana History Online - Contains primary source materials from Indiana's history. Includes a wide variety of old documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises, books, and children's books. Also contains introductory essays and other educational materials that provide historical context. Searches and displays materials as they were originally published, including words and ideas we might now consider offensive or rude. Material is compiled from several resources, including Sabin, but contains only the specific items related to Indiana, not their entire contents.
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Indiana Memory - A collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. It is a gateway to Indiana's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media. As a portal to the collections, Indiana Memory assists individuals to locate materials relevant to their interests and to better appreciate the connections between those materials.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Social Sciences
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World Book Student- Special features like Behind the Headlines puts the day's top stories in context for children with straightforward language and links to related articles. The extensive Biography Center houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Kids can even search by time period, nationality, gender, and more to narrow their selections. Don't forget about our built-in Dictionary and easy-to navigate Atlas. It's easy to get lost for hours exploring numerous maps from countries and cultures across the world.​
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Census.gov - Serves as a leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
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Points of View - Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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Social Science Full Text - Provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more. Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
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TOPIC Search - This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 300 diverse sources including international newspapers and periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Explora for High School - An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Business and Careers, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more.
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MAS Ultra - High School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for 500 popular magazines. Full text is also available for over 85,000 biographies and over 80,000 primary source documents. Also contains nearly 400 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book); an Image Collection of nearly 600,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
eBook Resources
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Gale Virutal Reference Library - A collection of multi-disciplinary reference eBooks offered by Gale.
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EBSCO eBook Collection - A collection of over 6,000 multidisciplinary books. Topics include college and career development, health and medicine, and business and economics.
Research Resources
Teacher Resources
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Interactive eBooks - Lightbox is a fully interactive, multidimensional, supplemental solution for PreK-12 educators looking to improve engagement and literacy skills. It supports the varied approaches you use to help students master the standards and accommodates the needs of all learners.
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SAS Curriulum Pathways- provides interactive, standards-based tools, resources, and apps for grades K-12. SAS focuses on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage insights that conventional methods cannot.