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  • CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
    Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works & sources for further study

  • CREDO Content from hundreds of reference books covering many subjects.

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  • GALE'S LITERARY INDEX     Look for authors & titles in the Index by name, birth date, death date, or nationality.
  • GALENET DATABASES    Including Business & Company Resource Center, Discovering Collection, General Business File ASAP,  General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile, Junior Edition K12, National Newspaper Index, Twayne Authors Series, Health & Wellness & Alternative Health Resource Center, Contemporary Authors & more.

  • GALENET VIRTUAL LIBRARY Including American Civil War Reference Library, American Revolution Reference Library , Business Plans Handbook , Encyclopedia of Small Business , Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine , Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders , Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health, History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, Major Acts of Congress .
  • GENERAL BUSINESS FILE ASAP
    Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

  • GENERAL ONFILE
    One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

  • GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER GOLD
    General interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
  • GENERAL SCIENCE COLLECTION
    *Click on EBSCOHost Web.
    Offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world & offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.

  • GREENFILE
    Focuses on the relationship between human beings & the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources & beyond.

  • GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA
    Reduce search time across a wide variety of media with the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia—the powerful database that contains both resources for students and activities for teachers and librarians to use with their students.

  • GROLIER ONLINE
    Including Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful. *WITH TEACHER RESOURCES
  • GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF ART
    Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource.
  • GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC & MUSICIANS (incl. Grove's Dictionary of Opera)
    An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.
  • HEALTH CENTER ACADEMIC

  • Health Management from Proquest

  • Health & Wellness Center   Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.  Delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.

  • Historical Newspapers

  • History Behind the Headlines v.1-6
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  • IMAGE COLLECTION

  • INFORME!    Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologia, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

  • INFOTRAC DATABASES Including Business & Company Resource Center, Discovering Collection, General Business File ASAP,  General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile, Junior Edition K12, National Newspaper Index, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Twayne Authors Series, Health & Wellness & Alternative Health Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, & Kids InfoBits.
  • INFOTRAC ONEFILE (incl. Consumer Reports)   A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

  • Investext Plus Premier financial research database available today. Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.
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  • Junior Edition K12  Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.




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  • KIDS SEARCH Designed especially for youth in grades K-8


  • LANDS AND PEOPLE   Provides accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, and current events.

  • LITFINDER (short stories, poems, essays)   International in scope, covers all time periods, & contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

  • Literature Resource Center Find up-to-date biographical information, full-text literary criticism & reviews from all time periods around the world.
  • Major Acts of Congress

  • MASTERFILE SELECT (incl. Consumer Reports  *Click on EBSCOHost Web, then click on the first selection of the menu.  This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 800 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 20 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
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  • PETERSON'S TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER
    Scroll to bottom of database list. Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

  • POINTS OF VIEW Online guide for debates, developing arguments, writing position papers, & for developing critical thinking skills. Essay includes questions & additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political & societal publications.

  • PRIMARY SEARCH  *Click on SEARCHASAURUS.  Articles & citations for elementary school students.

  • PROMT Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

  • Proquest Health Management

  • PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS   Be sure to select the ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times in the Database list. Search the Historical New York Times (1851-2001), which offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

  • ProQuest Newspapers, Including Newsday (1985-current)  Coverage of 150+ major U.S. & international newspapers such as The New York Times& the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources & news wires.
  • TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER WITH CAREERS! Search colleges & graduate schools, take SATs & other high school & college & graduate entrance exams. Also, find out about hundreds of occupations, take a career assessment & build a stellar resume.

  • TOPICsearch  Middle & high school students:  This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

  • TUMBLEBOOKS! Happy Tumbling from the TumbleBook Family! Online e-books for kids!
    User: hillside pass: libra


  • TWAYNE'S AUTHOR SERIES    Includes World, US, and English Authors. Contains full text of the frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books.

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