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Includes AP study guides..Search the science dictionary, choose a topic, or find a scientist. Study guides for advanced placement are included for biology, chemistry, and physics.
Biography Resource Center Search by name or occupation.Find famous people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity and sex
Discovering Collection Includes a Multimedia Gallery for images. Search by subject, keyword or full-text in all sources or choose an area: Geography & Cultures; Multimedia; History; Person; Literature; Science & Health
Electric Library Reliable electronic resources for K-12; Includes articles in Spanish..
Using Advanced Search, you may limit the results:
 - Restrict reading level to elementary, middle, high school, & beyond. 
 - Emphasize Business, Health, Peer-Reviewed or Spanish language content.
 - Click on Publications, then select picture icons to limit sources to newspapers, 
magazines, books.
FactsOnfile NewsServices World News, Current Issues. - Search World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac. - You may also enter a date to find the important events of that day. (Check your birthday!)
Gale Virtual Reference Library Includes 327 authoritative reference sources.
- Use basic or advanced searches, or view publication titles by clicking next to the subject areas (eg., arts, education, law, medicine, religion, etc).
- Familiar titles include: Encyclopaedia Judaica;New Catholic Encyclopedia; Countries and Their Cultures;Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia; Middle Ages Reference Library;Encyclopedia of World Biography; Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual; Encyclopedia of Surgery.
General Reference Center Gold Latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies. This general interest database may be searched separately or as part of the Thomson Gale "Power Search" that searches multiple research sources at once.  Try the subject guide or publication search.

Grolier Online - in Library or
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A one-stop resource for elementary, middle, high school, and adults. Includes:
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for middle school and up.
- New Book of Popular Science for middle and high school.
- Lands and Peoples for middle and high school.
- America the Beautiful for elementary and middle school.

Literature Resource Center Authors' lives, criticism, reviews.
- Authors by type lets you find Female Hispanic American authors (search by gender and ethnicity) or Indian authors who write about social change (search by nationality and theme)
- Authors on the Highway gives book reviews by Publishers Weekly
Opposing Viewpoints Social issues and current events for debates.Includes primary documents, statistics, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

ProQuest

Articles from professional journals, good for academic research.Get articles from current magazines, newspapers, and professional journals.  A separate option allows you to search the Historical New York Times archives.
Twayne's Author Series Authors' lives and criticism.Search by Genre, Time Period, Nationality
for information on the author’s life, works written, and criticism.
   

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