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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections is an online database that provides public access to digitized materials from the collections of the Margaret Herrick Library. Currently, the database contains more than 3000 items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music and movie star ephemera. The database also includes complete copies of more than 250 Academy publications, dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927. |
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Delivers the latest content of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and related information. |
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An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities. |
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This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. |
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The Library of Congress American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. |
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The Library of Congress American Memory photos and prints comprising of 66 collections. |
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Open the door to history. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. |
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ArticleFirst (OCLC) Connects you to information in a wide range of subjects in either ArticleFirst (articles) or WorldCat (book) databases. It can also be used to gain access to MLC's catalog from anywhere. |
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An internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing unlimited access to books and information on the web. |
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Biblical Archaeology Review is the only magazine that connects the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience eager to understand the world of the Bible. Covering both the Old and New Testaments, BAR presents the latest discoveries and controversies in archaeology with breathtaking photography and informative maps and diagrams. Also includes Bible Review from 1985-2005, and Archaeology Odyssey from 1998-2006. |
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Bibliotheca Sacra’s studies in theology, Bible exposition, ministry, and current issues have provided an invaluable resource for serious Bible students. Its articles by respected theologians and reviews of the latest publications will enhance your ministry and deepen your theological insights. |
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Britannica Online Academic Edition Provides access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Also included is access to research tools, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia. |
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Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. |
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This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike. |
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OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, |
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Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database Is an ever growing online database of reviews and related information on children's literature. |
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Clase/Periodica (OCLC) Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. |
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CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. |
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This database offers patrons the most reliable and interesting profiles of the people making tomorrow’s headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. |
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Directory of Open Access Journals Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. |
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Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic picklist's and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
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EBSCO is now a key provider of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and other insitutions worldwide. Nearly 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks and growing . . . |
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Link to the Database Selection Menu of 18 EBSCO databases. |
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EBSCOhost ALSO PROVIDES: Kids Search - Elementary & Middle School Databases Points of View Reference Center Searchasaurus - Elementary School Databases Student Research Center - High School & Middle School Databases |
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EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service provides online access to a select number of publications that the MLC Library subscribes to in print. EJS puts the e-journals in a single place on the Web, so you don't have to jump all over the place to find the printed articles you need. |
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EBSCO MegaFILE combines its largest and most essential databases into a single, easy-to-use product. Databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News. |
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Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. |
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Electronic Collections Online A&I (OCLC) An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. Note: Not all articles are available in full text. Use the "Limit to" field for full text results. |
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ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. |
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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! |
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Contains articles from the back issues of over 900 magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers. Search their online article archive or browse by category list or publication name. |
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Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited, accurate texts—drawn from the Folger Editions, the leading Shakespeare texts used in American classrooms—in a beautifully readable format with the added power of in-depth, behind-the-scenes coding. The texts—including full source code—is a free, online resource for students and teachers, theatergoers, scholars, and others. |
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Link to the Common Menu of the 12 Gale resources. |
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Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products. The referenced products themselves will contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. |
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Gale Student Resources In Context This next-generation portal reaches out to today's learners with a Web-like user experience, which intuitively conveys needed information on all core subjects from Science to Literature to History. From the eye-catching, media-rich homepage to the fast navigation options, Student Resources in Context helps students develop both research and critical-thinking skills while covering the spectrum of student-focused subject matter. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. |
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A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology. |
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| Google Books Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic. |
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Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. |
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GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC) Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). |
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Is the most trusted first stop in research for students, educators, librarians and parents. Contains two learning environments, eight curriculum-aligned databases and links to academically-relevant articles, Web sites and periodicals. |
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Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant, an animal famed for its long-term memory. HathiTrust is a collection, (10 million volumes, over 2.7 million of which are public domain), of digital content from research libraries, Google Books project, and Internet Archive digitization initiatives. It is a large collaborative repository started in 2008 by thirteen universities with the common goal of preserving cultural collections for use now and in the future. HathiTrust provides a number of discovery and access services, notably, full-text search across the entire collection. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition This source is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. |
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Historical Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922) Historical Minneapolis Tribune provides images of the complete content of the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper. The entire coverage is searchable and features detailed date and document type options. Both specific articles and entire pages can be displayed and printed in Adobe (PDF) format. |
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Infobase eBooks (Literature)
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Informe! (Espanol/Spanish Interface) Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. |
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The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology. |
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Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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Has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats.
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Junior Reference Collection offers easy access to award-winning content from the acclaimed Gale U*X*L product line. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, JRC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, and multimedia content, including audio and video clips and more than 7,400 photographs. New to the database are popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. For Middle Schools only. |
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Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database with almost 125 titles, is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, from publishers such as Cobblestones and Scholastic and Time, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a completely new, visually appealing look and feel; the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; the ability to sort results by relevance, as well as by date; the option of filtering search results by source type; and the ability to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to the Folder. |
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Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
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Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries. |
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Literature Resources from Gale Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world. |
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Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered. |
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Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections An online database that provides public access to digitized materials from the Library’s collections. Currently, the database contains more than 3,000 items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music and movie star ephemera. The database also includes complete copies of more than 250 Academy publications, dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927, and provides access to significant items including selections from the Alfred Hitchcock papers and the Cecil B. DeMille photographs, as well as the annual Academy Awards programs. |
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MAS Ultra - School Edition provides full text from over 460 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 520 magazines. Formats Indexed: Journal articles, book reviews, pamphlets, etc. |
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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 84,774 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
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MEDLINE (OCLC) A comprehensive database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1966 - present. |
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Includes timely, consumer-oriented test reviews, providing evaluative information to promote and encourage informed test selection. |
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Content contains more than 140 full text periodicals, over 400,000 photos, maps and flags, 84,774 full text biographies and 105,786 primary source documents. |
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Minnesota Reflections brings you nearly 31,000 images and documents shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students, and the public. |
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Net Library see eBooks Collection |
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[We have received notice from the ERIC database producer that the full text through ERIC is unavailable until further notice. Users will get a page saying the PDF files are currently unavailable. The producer has indicated that they will keep us informed as they work through the problems.] 8/10/2012 Link directly to the list of available OCLC databases through Firstsearch. |
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OAISter (OCLC) Union catalog of digital resources. Digital resources including: born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. Collections including: theses, technical reports, research papers, and image collections |
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A free search portal to Oxford resources. |
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Twenty-one titles from Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference collection in History and Culture, and Literature and Language. |
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Is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. |
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Includes the full text of: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Access is also available to the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. |
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PapersFirst (OCLC) OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Center. |
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Is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. |
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Points of View Reference Center Points of View Reference Center features a series of full-text essays representing opposing viewpoints on a variety of important issues. Students can use this resource as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. |
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Primary Search contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. Also includes and image collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags. |
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Proceedings First (OCLC) An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Center. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. |
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Professional Collection by Gale Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24 hour access from school or home. The Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator. |
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Professional Development Collection Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. |
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Offers full text access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. |
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Includes: Historical Papers: Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis Morning Paper,Barron's, Argus Leader, St. Cloud Times, ProQuest Newsstand. |
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a bi-weekly basis. |
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Salem Literature by Salem Press Salem Literature is the online version of Salem Masterplots. A reference book series which summarizes the plots of significant works of literature and films. The MLC Library holds the print version in Reference. |
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Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. |
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Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. |
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Contains dynamic reference work, maintaining academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. |
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Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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Student Research Center - Junior offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. For Middle Schools only. |
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This next-generation portal reaches out to today’s learners with a Web-like user experience, which intuitively conveys needed information on all core subjects from Science to Literature to History. Student Resources in Context provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: articles from acclaimed publications, periodical and newspaper articles, primary sources, multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables, video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources. |
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Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia - 10th ed. Covers emerging technologies affecting genetics, global warming, communications, informatics and nanotechnology. |
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Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Essay File The Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary online essay file is maintained by the WLS Library. The content here is organized in three main indexes: author, subject, and scripture. Audio and Video content is also included in this resource. |
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WorldCat (OCLC) A list of OCLC databases accessible via FirstSearch. |
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World Almanc/Book of Facts (OCLC) Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. |
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Both the novice historian and the advanced academic researcher will find useful information
in this collection of leading journals in the field of world history. Articles are updated daily and provide balanced coverage of events in world history — both current thinking and established scholarly work. Articles are updated daily and provide balanced coverage of events in world history — both current thinking and established scholarly work.
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WorldCat Dissertations and Theses (OCLC) A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat. |
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