Online Resources
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The library offers access to online resources on a wide variety of subjects. Just click the tab for the type of information you're looking for to see a list of the resources that will help you find it.
Some resources are licensed for use in Wyoming libraries only and require a password if you are not accessing them from within a library. To use these resources from home, provide your library card and PIN when they are requested.
All Resources
Agriculture
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Agricola (part of EBSCOHost) - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. |
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Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. |
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Gardening, Landscaping and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. |
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GreenFILE (part of EBSCOHost) - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. |
Animals
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Ebsco Animals (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Select Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Searchasaurus, or the Kids Search Interface to search the Encyclopedia. |
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A completely revised and up dated version incorporating recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. |
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Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Offering broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. This student edition includes photos and illustrations, pronunciations and definitions within the text, and the Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic Range. |
Antiques & Collectibles
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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles - An antique/collectibles pricing tool, containing data from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers (GoAntiques & TIAS) and land-based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and subcategories with over 10 million images. |
Arts & Humanities
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Books & Authors - A new way to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation. |
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Diversity Studies Collection - A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 journals. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Fine Arts and Music Collection - With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
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Oxford Music Online - This invaluable research tool brings together 50,000 articles on all aspects of music, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, make it the unsurpassed musical authority. Now accessible through the Oxford Music Online gateway, and cross-searchable with the new Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
Auto Repair
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AllData Library Edition (Gillette library only) - A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. |
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ChiltonLibrary.com - ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. NOTE: This database is not compatible with the Safari web browser on MacOS. Mac users are encouraged to use the Firefox web browser. |
Biographical Information
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American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists in the physical, biological, and related sciences. |
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Biography Resource Center - This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. |
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Current Biography Illustrated (part of Wilson Web) - Contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from 1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covers recent and historical phenomena, topics, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations, and publications associated with the fields of occultism and parapsychology. Includes over 2,000 biographies of prominent individuals and personalities in these fields; country entries on the development of occultism and parapsychology; and pro and con narrative on some of the controversial topics. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Literature Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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LitFinder - 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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MAS Ultra - School Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Middle Search Plus (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature - Written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world. |
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Oxford Music Online - This invaluable research tool brings together 50,000 articles on all aspects of music, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, make it the unsurpassed musical authority. Now accessible through the Oxford Music Online gateway, and cross-searchable with the new Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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Scribner Writers Series - Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Twayne Authors Series - Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors. |
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Witchcraft in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covering the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the Colonial Period to modern day followers of Wicca. Chapters include full text or excerpts from trial transcripts, diary entries, public notices, and many other primary sources. Biographical essays highlight prominent figures related to the Salem witch trials. |
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World Vital Records - World Vital Records provides family history records from over 42 different content providers in 12 countries. Through use of this database, you can access a growing collection of worldwide genealogical records online. It is a useful addition and enhances other genealogy products the library provides. |
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Wyoming Authors Wiki - Includes fiction and nonfiction, by Wyoming authors. Searchable by author, county, and genre. |
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Wyoming Biography Database - Index to books that contain biographical profiles of Wyoming people. Currently, there are 7,128 entries from 22 books (most of these books are available through the interlibrary loan service of your local library). The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are best represented although there are some contemporary figures. |
Business
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Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
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Business Economics and Theory - With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research. |
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Business Source Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Updated daily. |
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Everyday Finance: Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a mix of basic and practical information on economics, personal money management, and starting a business. |
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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. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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GoWYLD: Wyoming Business - Wyoming Business Information Resources. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Morningstar Investment Research Center - Morningstar Stock, Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund, ETF Investment Research. Morningstar provides investment research, including stock and fund analysis, reports, and tools, as well as company, investing, and financial news. |
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ReferenceUSA - A nationwide telephone directory/database containing detailed information on 14 million U.S. businesses and 210 million U.S. households. |
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Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily. |
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Small Business Resource Center - Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. |
Careers
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Career Internet Database (Limited access outside of the library) - This looks at career requirements of education and training and salaries and the job market. Contact the library for assistance at 687-0115 or 464-0500. |
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Vocations, Careers & Technical Education Collection - Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. |
Current Events
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Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources. |
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Britannica Online - Academic Edition - Complete encyclopedia, a dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Additional resources include Gateway to the Classics, a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world. |
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Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students. |
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Britannica Online - School Edition - Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the appropriate grade level. Includes targeted resources for PreK-2 (Learning Zone), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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Environmental Studies and Policy - Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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InfoTrac Newsstand - An innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to web sites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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War & Terrorism Collection - A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
Do It Yourself
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AllData Library Edition (Gillette library only) - A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. |
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ChiltonLibrary.com - ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. NOTE: This database is not compatible with the Safari web browser on MacOS. Mac users are encouraged to use the Firefox web browser. |
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Gardening, Landscaping and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. |
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Home Improvement Collection - Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. |
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NetLibrary eAudiobooks - Library users can preview, download and listen to thousands of downloadable audiobooks from Netlibrary. You can download up to 10 eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eAudiobook files are "checked out" for 21 days and can be renewed at any time. They can be played on any desktop, laptop, and many portable devices.
Get more information on compatible media software and file formats or get help with connecting & downloading.
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NetLibrary eAudiobooks - Library users can preview, download and listen to thousands of downloadable audiobooks from Netlibrary. You can download up to 10 eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eAudiobook files are "checked out" for 21 days and can be renewed at any time. They can be played on any desktop, laptop, and many portable devices.
Get more information on compatible media software and file formats or get help with connecting & downloading.
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eAudiobooks
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NetLibrary eAudiobooks - Library users can preview, download and listen to thousands of downloadable audiobooks from Netlibrary. You can download up to 10 eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eAudiobook files are "checked out" for 21 days and can be renewed at any time. They can be played on any desktop, laptop, and many portable devices.
Get more information on compatible media software and file formats or get help with connecting & downloading.
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eBooks
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Alternative Energy (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - An introduction for students to issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options. While there is significant discussion of the non-renewable resources now used to meet the majority of the world's energy needs (oil, coal and natural gas), the primary focus of the set is on newer options to meet the ever-growing demand. |
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American Decades (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. |
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American Decades [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - This series covers 20th-century events and social history beginning in 1900 and ending in 1999, written expressly for middle school students. Topics for each decade include: Headline Makers, Topics in the News, Arts and Entertainment, Business and the Economy, Education, Government, Politics, and Law, Lifestyles and Social Trends, Medicine and Health, Science and Technology, and Sports. |
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American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists in the physical, biological, and related sciences. |
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Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Comprehensive revision of this classic reference source, originally published in 1940, featuring updated and revised entries from previous editions, as well as more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics not covered previously. This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure. |
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Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides detailed information on 52 drugs and other addictive substances, defined as illegal drugs, legal addictive drugs and other substances as well as commonly abused classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Statistics highlight each entry and sidebars provide information on the legal, historical or social aspects of the particular drug. Difficult words are defined within the text. Appropriate for middle school students. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2nd ed. [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Gives detailed yet accessible information on history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues. |
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Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covers recent and historical phenomena, topics, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations, and publications associated with the fields of occultism and parapsychology. Includes over 2,000 biographies of prominent individuals and personalities in these fields; country entries on the development of occultism and parapsychology; and pro and con narrative on some of the controversial topics. |
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - English-language reference source for philosophy lauded for its clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects for general readers, students and educators. |
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more. |
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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Contains approximately 3000 contributions from academics, lawyers, and judges concerning key constitutional law cases and legislative developments relating to constitutional issues. Cross references allow readers to pursue related and additional items throughout this outstanding work. |
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Encyclopedia of World Mythology [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Entry topics include gods and goddesses; heroes and other key characters; motifs and global themes; major myths; and national or cultural mythologies. Coverage spans a diversity of cultures, including standard Greek/Roman entries as well as Native North and South American traditions, Norse mythology, Asian Pacific mythology, Judeo-Christian tradition, and Islamic and Hindu mythologies. |
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Everyday Finance: Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a mix of basic and practical information on economics, personal money management, and starting a business. |
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Fashion, Costume and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Comprehensive survey of 120 cancers, cancer drugs, traditional and alternative treatments, side effects and diagnostic procedures.* |
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A completely revised and up dated version incorporating recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. |
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Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Offering broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. This student edition includes photos and illustrations, pronunciations and definitions within the text, and the Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic Range. |
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History Reference Online - The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection offering the same high-quality, authoritative, scholarly information librarians have come to expect from ABC-CLIO plus enhanced readability via a new reading pane, improved search and browse capabilities, and more. The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection provides modern tools for successful research inquiries. |
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides understandable and authoritative information on numerous topics in the various fields of science and technology. Features entries written by international leaders in science and technology. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature - Written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world. |
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide. |
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Witchcraft in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covering the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the Colonial Period to modern day followers of Wicca. Chapters include full text or excerpts from trial transcripts, diary entries, public notices, and many other primary sources. Biographical essays highlight prominent figures related to the Salem witch trials. |
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World Religions Reference Library (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A thorough, objective resource covering the history, traditions and worldviews of dominant and less prominent religions and their sects and offshoots. |
Education
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Britannica Online - Academic Edition - Complete encyclopedia, a dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Additional resources include Gateway to the Classics, a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world. |
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Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students. |
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Britannica Online - School Edition - Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the appropriate grade level. Includes targeted resources for PreK-2 (Learning Zone), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12. |
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of documents and journal articles on education research and practice going back to 1966 and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). |
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Educator's Reference Complete - 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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Educators Reference Desk - The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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History Resource Center: U.S. - Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series. |
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History Resource Center: World - A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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Learning Express Library - Providing a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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National Science Digital Library - NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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Teacher Reference Center (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
Encyclopedias
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Britannica Online - Academic Edition - Complete encyclopedia, a dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Additional resources include Gateway to the Classics, a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world. |
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Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students. |
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Britannica Online - School Edition - Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the appropriate grade level. Includes targeted resources for PreK-2 (Learning Zone), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12. |
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Ebsco Animals (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Select Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Searchasaurus, or the Kids Search Interface to search the Encyclopedia. |
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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eLibrary Elementary - A database tailored for the young reader and researcher. Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. |
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (part of EBSCOHost) - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A completely revised and up dated version incorporating recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. |
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Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Offering broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. This student edition includes photos and illustrations, pronunciations and definitions within the text, and the Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic Range. |
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MEDLINEplus - The National Library of Medicine's site for quality, up-to-date, and totally private consumer health information. Clinical trials, MEDLINE searches, drug information, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories and news are included. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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World Book Online - A great online encyclopedia for younger users featuring clearly written text and interesting illustrations, an interactive atlas, integrated dictionary, and background information about current events. |
Environment
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Agricola (part of EBSCOHost) - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. |
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Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. |
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Ebsco Animals (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Select Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Searchasaurus, or the Kids Search Interface to search the Encyclopedia. |
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Environmental Studies and Policy - Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
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Gardening, Landscaping and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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GreenFILE (part of EBSCOHost) - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. |
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A completely revised and up dated version incorporating recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. |
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Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Offering broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. This student edition includes photos and illustrations, pronunciations and definitions within the text, and the Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic Range. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to web sites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
Fiction Guides
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Bookflix - Bookflix is a new literacy resource for grades PreK-3 that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related eBooks. Animation, audio and interactive games are designed to reinforce core reading skills. NOTE: Mac users are encouraged to use the Firefox browser, as some users have reported problems with the Safari browser. |
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Dear Reader Online Book Clubs - Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. During the week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday we start new books. Sign up and start reading. |
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Literature Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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NoveList (part of EBSCOHost) - If you've ever wondered "What do I read next?", or tried to find another book like one by your favorite author, this database will help you just as a favorite librarian. |
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NoveList K-8 (part of EBSCOHost) - A fiction database, is designed especially for elementary and middle schools. |
Food
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Culinary Arts Collection - Includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines with thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
Genealogy
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Ancestry Library Edition (In Library Only) - Comprehensive online source of information for genealogical and local history research with a collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names. |
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GoWYLD: Genealogy - Wyoming Genealogy Resources. |
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HeritageQuest Online - Provides a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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World Vital Records - World Vital Records provides family history records from over 42 different content providers in 12 countries. Through use of this database, you can access a growing collection of worldwide genealogical records online. It is a useful addition and enhances other genealogy products the library provides. |
General Information
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Academic Search Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 140 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated daily. |
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Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students. |
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Current Biography Illustrated (part of Wilson Web) - Contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from 1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. |
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Fuente Academica (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Middle Search Plus (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
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Primary Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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WorldCat - WorldCat is the world's foremost bibliographic database, with over 54 million bibliographic records. |
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Wyoming Union List of Periodicals - A database of the magazines held in Wyoming Libraries. |
Geography & Maps
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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eLibrary Elementary - A database tailored for the young reader and researcher. Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MAS Ultra - School Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Middle Search Plus (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 - Provides digital access to Sanborn fire insurance maps for Wyoming cities and towns. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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United States Geography - All your state geography needs in one place. |
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World Book Online - A great online encyclopedia for younger users featuring clearly written text and interesting illustrations, an interactive atlas, integrated dictionary, and background information about current events. |
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World Geography - Comprehensive, current, authoritative, and accessible, this flagship collection of geography resources does more than just inform—it helps develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and understanding of global issues. |
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Wyoming Place Names Wiki - Discover the history behind place names in Wyoming. |
Government Information
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American Government - Providing impeccable content, helpful study tools, and innovative ways of matching current events with enduring themes of American politics and public policy at all levels - from grassroots activism to the White House. |
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Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids (part of GPO Access) - Providing learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers on how our government works. |
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (part of GPO Access) - The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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Fuente Academica (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. |
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GPO Access - A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. |
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Hein Online (In Library Only) - Online resource covering four centuries of legal research which includes history, law, political science, business, public policy, government, and criminal justice. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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LexisNexis Congressional Documents - Explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. This databases provides access to the full text of publications dating back as far as the late eighteenth century. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. |
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Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976 - The comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government. Describing over 1.2 million items published between January 1895 and June 1976, the Monthly Catalog helps you identify important and useful information on all subjects. |
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Wyoming Inventors Database - This database covers United States patents issued to Wyoming inventors from 1867 to the present. |
Grant Information
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Foundation Directory Online (In Library Only) - Containing records for all known active foundations in the United States and for numerous corporate giving programs. |
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Foundation Grants to Individuals (In Library Only) - Grants and foundations from the non-profit sector to individuals. |
History
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American Decades (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. |
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American Decades [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - This series covers 20th-century events and social history beginning in 1900 and ending in 1999, written expressly for middle school students. Topics for each decade include: Headline Makers, Topics in the News, Arts and Entertainment, Business and the Economy, Education, Government, Politics, and Law, Lifestyles and Social Trends, Medicine and Health, Science and Technology, and Sports. |
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American History - From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today's headlines, investigate the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. |
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Ancestry Library Edition (In Library Only) - Comprehensive online source of information for genealogical and local history research with a collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names. |
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Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students. |
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Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Comprehensive revision of this classic reference source, originally published in 1940, featuring updated and revised entries from previous editions, as well as more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics not covered previously. This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure. |
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Diversity Studies Collection - A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 journals. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2nd ed. [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Gives detailed yet accessible information on history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues. |
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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Contains approximately 3000 contributions from academics, lawyers, and judges concerning key constitutional law cases and legislative developments relating to constitutional issues. Cross references allow readers to pursue related and additional items throughout this outstanding work. |
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Fashion, Costume and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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GoWYLD: History - Wyoming History Resources. |
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Greater Yellowstone Bibliography - The Greater Yellowstone Bibliography (GYB) contains over 28,900 bibliographic citations to scholarly, popular, professional, and creative literature about the greater Yellowstone region of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The GYB includes citations to journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; books; book chapters; conference papers; state and federal government documents; theses; maps; CDs and CD-ROMs; sheet music; and promotional brochures and souvenirs. |
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HeritageQuest Online - Provides a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. |
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History Reference Center (part of EBSCOHost) - Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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History Reference Online - The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection offering the same high-quality, authoritative, scholarly information librarians have come to expect from ABC-CLIO plus enhanced readability via a new reading pane, improved search and browse capabilities, and more. The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection provides modern tools for successful research inquiries. |
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History Resource Center: U.S. - Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series. |
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History Resource Center: World - A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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LexisNexis Congressional Documents - Explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. This databases provides access to the full text of publications dating back as far as the late eighteenth century. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. |
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers - With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 - Provides digital access to Sanborn fire insurance maps for Wyoming cities and towns. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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War & Terrorism Collection - A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events. |
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Witchcraft in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covering the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the Colonial Period to modern day followers of Wicca. Chapters include full text or excerpts from trial transcripts, diary entries, public notices, and many other primary sources. Biographical essays highlight prominent figures related to the Salem witch trials. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
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World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras - Human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. |
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World History: Modern Era - Spanning the globe from 1500 to the present. |
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World Vital Records - World Vital Records provides family history records from over 42 different content providers in 12 countries. Through use of this database, you can access a growing collection of worldwide genealogical records online. It is a useful addition and enhances other genealogy products the library provides. |
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Wyoming Biography Database - Index to books that contain biographical profiles of Wyoming people. Currently, there are 7,128 entries from 22 books (most of these books are available through the interlibrary loan service of your local library). The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are best represented although there are some contemporary figures. |
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Wyoming Inventors Database - This database covers United States patents issued to Wyoming inventors from 1867 to the present. |
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Wyoming Memory: A Digital Archive of Wyoming History - Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present. |
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Wyoming Newspaper Project - For the sheer volume of information they contain, newspapers are the single most important printed record of human activity. Historians, genealogists, and other scholars rely on them to provide a first-hand and sometimes the only account of local news. The Wyoming Newspaper Project makes newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922 accessible in an easily searchable format, over the internet, for free. |
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Wyoming Place Names Wiki - Discover the history behind place names in Wyoming. |
Homework Help
- The library offers access to lots of great information in our online encyclopedias and databases. Most can be accessed from home using WYLDCAT on the Web.
- Check out the links our staff has chosen covering several different subjects.
- Campbell County School's Home Pages - Click on the link to your school to find suggested sites and some homework listings.
Investments
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Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
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Business Economics and Theory - With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research. |
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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. |
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Morningstar Investment Research Center - Morningstar Stock, Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund, ETF Investment Research. Morningstar provides investment research, including stock and fund analysis, reports, and tools, as well as company, investing, and financial news. |
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Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily. |
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Value Line Investment Survey - A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy. |
Languages
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Mango Languages - Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. |
Legal Information
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Criminal Justice Collection - Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Contains approximately 3000 contributions from academics, lawyers, and judges concerning key constitutional law cases and legislative developments relating to constitutional issues. Cross references allow readers to pursue related and additional items throughout this outstanding work. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Hein Online (In Library Only) - Online resource covering four centuries of legal research which includes history, law, political science, business, public policy, government, and criminal justice. |
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LegalForms - Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. |
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LegalTrac - Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. |
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LexisNexis Congressional Documents - Explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. This databases provides access to the full text of publications dating back as far as the late eighteenth century. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. |
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide. |
Library Catalogs
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University of Wyoming Libraries Catalog - Search the combined holdings of all the University of Wyoming Libraries. |
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WorldCat - WorldCat is the world's foremost bibliographic database, with over 54 million bibliographic records. |
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Wyoming Union List of Periodicals - A database of the magazines held in Wyoming Libraries. |
Library Science
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Information Science & Library Issues Collection - Library science students, information science and technology professionals and others will value this collection that is updated daily and covers all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (part of EBSCOHost) - Indexes more than 600 periodicals, 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. |
Literary Criticism and Reviews
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Books & Authors - A new way to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Literature Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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LitFinder - 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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NetLibrary eAudiobooks - Library users can preview, download and listen to thousands of downloadable audiobooks from Netlibrary. You can download up to 10 eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eAudiobook files are "checked out" for 21 days and can be renewed at any time. They can be played on any desktop, laptop, and many portable devices.
Get more information on compatible media software and file formats or get help with connecting & downloading.
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NoveList (part of EBSCOHost) - If you've ever wondered "What do I read next?", or tried to find another book like one by your favorite author, this database will help you just as a favorite librarian. |
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NoveList K-8 (part of EBSCOHost) - A fiction database, is designed especially for elementary and middle schools. |
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Scribner Writers Series - Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series. |
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Twayne Authors Series - Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors. |
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Wyoming Authors Wiki - Includes fiction and nonfiction, by Wyoming authors. Searchable by author, county, and genre. |
Magazines & Journals
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Academic Search Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 140 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated daily. |
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Business Source Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Updated daily. |
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Communications and Mass Media Collection - From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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EBSCOHost - Featuring more than20 databases which index academic, general interest, business and health magazines with many full text articles. Includes two full-text Spanish language databases. |
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of documents and journal articles on education research and practice going back to 1966 and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). |
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Educator's Reference Complete - 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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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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eLibrary Elementary - A database tailored for the young reader and researcher. Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Fuente Academica (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Insurance & Liability Collection - Connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of articles from industry-leading journals, which are updated daily. |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (part of EBSCOHost) - Indexes more than 600 periodicals, 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 Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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MAS Ultra - School Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Middle Search Plus (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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Pop Culture Collection - This collection is made up of 100+ subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
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Popular Magazines - Includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries". Titles like Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR and even Oprah are included in this database. |
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Primary Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily. |
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Psychology Collection - This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time. Your library's users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
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PubMed - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
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Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Teacher Reference Center (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. |
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Wyoming Union List of Periodicals - A database of the magazines held in Wyoming Libraries. |
Medical & Health Information
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources. |
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Alt Healthwatch (part of EBSCOHost) - 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. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. |
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Cochrane Medical Library - Regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, providing high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. |
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Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides detailed information on 52 drugs and other addictive substances, defined as illegal drugs, legal addictive drugs and other substances as well as commonly abused classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Statistics highlight each entry and sidebars provide information on the legal, historical or social aspects of the particular drug. Difficult words are defined within the text. Appropriate for middle school students. |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Comprehensive survey of 120 cancers, cancer drugs, traditional and alternative treatments, side effects and diagnostic procedures.* |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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Health and Wellness Resource Center - Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. |
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Health Reference Center Academic - Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. Updated weekly. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated twice weekly. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Medic Latina (part of EBSCOHost) - A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals. |
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MEDLINEplus - The National Library of Medicine's site for quality, up-to-date, and totally private consumer health information. Clinical trials, MEDLINE searches, drug information, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories and news are included. |
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Nursing and Allied Health Collection - All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. |
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Nursing Resource Center - Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. |
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PubMed - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
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Teen Health and Wellness - The first in the field to provide a near-comprehensive online health resource specifically for teens, this database encapsulates the best information on a wide variety of topics. High-interest features, as well as up-to-date resources, will allow students to locate reliable information in a discreet manner while being offered additional resources for contacting health care professionals within their communities for additional information or support. |
Multicultural Studies
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Diversity Studies Collection - A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 journals. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2nd ed. [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Gives detailed yet accessible information on history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues. |
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more. |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
Music
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Fine Arts and Music Collection - With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
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Oxford Music Online - This invaluable research tool brings together 50,000 articles on all aspects of music, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, make it the unsurpassed musical authority. Now accessible through the Oxford Music Online gateway, and cross-searchable with the new Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
Newspapers
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Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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eLibrary - Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files. |
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eLibrary Elementary - A database tailored for the young reader and researcher. Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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General OneFile - 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. |
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InfoTrac Newsstand - An innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format. |
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers - With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. |
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Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
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Wyoming Newspaper Project - For the sheer volume of information they contain, newspapers are the single most important printed record of human activity. Historians, genealogists, and other scholars rely on them to provide a first-hand and sometimes the only account of local news. The Wyoming Newspaper Project makes newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922 accessible in an easily searchable format, over the internet, for free. |
Online Book Clubs
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Dear Reader Online Book Clubs - Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. During the week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday we start new books. Sign up and start reading. |
Parapsychology
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Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covers recent and historical phenomena, topics, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations, and publications associated with the fields of occultism and parapsychology. Includes over 2,000 biographies of prominent individuals and personalities in these fields; country entries on the development of occultism and parapsychology; and pro and con narrative on some of the controversial topics. |
Political Issues
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
Religion and Philosophy
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - English-language reference source for philosophy lauded for its clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects for general readers, students and educators. |
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Religion & Philosophy Collection - Why do some people believe in Heaven? Is it fear, hope, upbringing or blind faith? Users of this collection can research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. |
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Witchcraft in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covering the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the Colonial Period to modern day followers of Wicca. Chapters include full text or excerpts from trial transcripts, diary entries, public notices, and many other primary sources. Biographical essays highlight prominent figures related to the Salem witch trials. |
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World Religions Reference Library (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - A thorough, objective resource covering the history, traditions and worldviews of dominant and less prominent religions and their sects and offshoots. |
Science & Technology...
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Academic Search Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 140 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated daily. |
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Agricola (part of EBSCOHost) - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. |
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Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. |
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Alt Healthwatch (part of EBSCOHost) - 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. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. |
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Alternative Energy (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - An introduction for students to issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options. While there is significant discussion of the non-renewable resources now used to meet the majority of the world's energy needs (oil, coal and natural gas), the primary focus of the set is on newer options to meet the ever-growing demand. |
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American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists in the physical, biological, and related sciences. |
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Cochrane Medical Library - Regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, providing high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. |
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Computer Database - Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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General OneFile - 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. |
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General Science Collection - A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments. |
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GreenFILE (part of EBSCOHost) - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. Updated weekly. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated twice weekly. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides understandable and authoritative information on numerous topics in the various fields of science and technology. Features entries written by international leaders in science and technology. |
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National Science Digital Library - NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
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Science Resource Center - Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
Social Issues
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Academic Search Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 140 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated daily. |
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Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources. |
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American Decades (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covers recent and historical phenomena, topics, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations, and publications associated with the fields of occultism and parapsychology. Includes over 2,000 biographies of prominent individuals and personalities in these fields; country entries on the development of occultism and parapsychology; and pro and con narrative on some of the controversial topics. |
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to web sites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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World Geography - Comprehensive, current, authoritative, and accessible, this flagship collection of geography resources does more than just inform—it helps develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and understanding of global issues. |
Social Science
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Academic Search Elite (part of EBSCOHost) - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 140 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated daily. |
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Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources. |
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American Decades (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. |
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American Decades [UXL] (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - This series covers 20th-century events and social history beginning in 1900 and ending in 1999, written expressly for middle school students. Topics for each decade include: Headline Makers, Topics in the News, Arts and Entertainment, Business and the Economy, Education, Government, Politics, and Law, Lifestyles and Social Trends, Medicine and Health, Science and Technology, and Sports. |
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American Government - Providing impeccable content, helpful study tools, and innovative ways of matching current events with enduring themes of American politics and public policy at all levels - from grassroots activism to the White House. |
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American History - From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today's headlines, investigate the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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Current Biography Illustrated (part of Wilson Web) - Contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from 1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. |
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Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Comprehensive revision of this classic reference source, originally published in 1940, featuring updated and revised entries from previous editions, as well as more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics not covered previously. This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure. |
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Diversity Studies Collection - A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 journals. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. |
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS. |
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Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Covers recent and historical phenomena, topics, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations, and publications associated with the fields of occultism and parapsychology. Includes over 2,000 biographies of prominent individuals and personalities in these fields; country entries on the development of occultism and parapsychology; and pro and con narrative on some of the controversial topics. |
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - English-language reference source for philosophy lauded for its clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects for general readers, students and educators. |
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more. |
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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed. (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) - Contains approximately 3000 contributions from academics, lawyers, and judges concerning key constitutional law cases and legislative developments relating to constitutional issues. Cross references allow readers to pursue related and additional items throughout this outstanding work. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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General OneFile - 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. |
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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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History Reference Center (part of EBSCOHost) - Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily. |
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SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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War & Terrorism Collection - A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events. |
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World Geography - Comprehensive, current, authoritative, and accessible, this flagship collection of geography resources does more than just inform—it helps develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and understanding of global issues. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
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World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras - Human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. |
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World History: Modern Era - Spanning the globe from 1500 to the present. |
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Fuente Academica (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. |
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Medic Latina (part of EBSCOHost) - A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals. |
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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids (part of GPO Access) - Providing learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers on how our government works. |
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Bookflix - Bookflix is a new literacy resource for grades PreK-3 that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related eBooks. Animation, audio and interactive games are designed to reinforce core reading skills. NOTE: Mac users are encouraged to use the Firefox browser, as some users have reported problems with the Safari browser. |
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Britannica Online - School Edition - Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the appropriate grade level. Includes targeted resources for PreK-2 (Learning Zone), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12. |
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CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. |
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Ebsco Animals (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Select Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Searchasaurus, or the Kids Search Interface to search the Encyclopedia. |
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eLibrary Elementary - A database tailored for the young reader and researcher. Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP - 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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Global Issues in Context - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. |
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History Reference Center (part of EBSCOHost) - Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases. |
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Literature Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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MAS Ultra - School Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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Middle Search Plus (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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NoveList (part of EBSCOHost) - If you've ever wondered "What do I read next?", or tried to find another book like one by your favorite author, this database will help you just as a favorite librarian. |
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NoveList K-8 (part of EBSCOHost) - A fiction database, is designed especially for elementary and middle schools. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to web sites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
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Oxford Music Online - This invaluable research tool brings together 50,000 articles on all aspects of music, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, make it the unsurpassed musical authority. Now accessible through the Oxford Music Online gateway, and cross-searchable with the new Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
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Primary Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily. |
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Searchasaurus (part of EBSCOHost) - Searchasaurus is a fun and friendly interface for younger users that makes it easy to search by providing visual cues to help with keyword or topic searches. Includes Teacher Resources, an encyclopedia, dictionary, and over 235,000 dynamic and education images. |
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Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Student Resource Center Gold - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. 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 pick lists. |
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Student Resource Center Junior - Offering easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. 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 pick lists. For Middle Schools only. |
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World History Collection - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. |
Telephone Numbers & Marketing Directory
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ReferenceUSA - A nationwide telephone directory/database containing detailed information on 14 million U.S. businesses and 210 million U.S. households. |
Practice Tests
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Learning Express Library - Providing a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. |
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Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection - With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. |
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MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. |
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OmniFILE Full Text Select (part of Wilson Web) - A multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts with coverage beginning in 1994. |
Web-based Book Resources
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Bookflix - Bookflix is a new literacy resource for grades PreK-3 that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related eBooks. Animation, audio and interactive games are designed to reinforce core reading skills. NOTE: Mac users are encouraged to use the Firefox browser, as some users have reported problems with the Safari browser. |
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Books & Authors - A new way to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation. |
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Books In Print (In Library Use Only) - Offers complete, unbiased bibliographic information on over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles. Featuring over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000 tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers with cover images, author biographies and annotations. |
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First Search - Search the Worldcat database using the First Search interface. Additional options for searching and library staff functions are available from this interface. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
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Literature Criticism Online - Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. |
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Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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NoveList (part of EBSCOHost) - If you've ever wondered "What do I read next?", or tried to find another book like one by your favorite author, this database will help you just as a favorite librarian. |
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NoveList K-8 (part of EBSCOHost) - A fiction database, is designed especially for elementary and middle schools. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature - Written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world. |
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University of Wyoming Libraries Catalog - Search the combined holdings of all the University of Wyoming Libraries. |
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WorldCat - WorldCat is the world's foremost bibliographic database, with over 54 million bibliographic records. |
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Wyoming Union List of Periodicals - A database of the magazines held in Wyoming Libraries. |
Wyoming
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GoWYLD: Genealogy - Wyoming Genealogy Resources. |
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GoWYLD: History - Wyoming History Resources. |
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GoWYLD: Wyoming Business - Wyoming Business Information Resources. |
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Greater Yellowstone Bibliography - The Greater Yellowstone Bibliography (GYB) contains over 28,900 bibliographic citations to scholarly, popular, professional, and creative literature about the greater Yellowstone region of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The GYB includes citations to journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; books; book chapters; conference papers; state and federal government documents; theses; maps; CDs and CD-ROMs; sheet music; and promotional brochures and souvenirs. |
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Wyoming Authors Wiki - Includes fiction and nonfiction, by Wyoming authors. Searchable by author, county, and genre. |
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Wyoming Biography Database - Index to books that contain biographical profiles of Wyoming people. Currently, there are 7,128 entries from 22 books (most of these books are available through the interlibrary loan service of your local library). The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are best represented although there are some contemporary figures. |
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Wyoming Inventors Database - This database covers United States patents issued to Wyoming inventors from 1867 to the present. |
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Wyoming Memory: A Digital Archive of Wyoming History - Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present. |
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Wyoming Newspaper Project - For the sheer volume of information they contain, newspapers are the single most important printed record of human activity. Historians, genealogists, and other scholars rely on them to provide a first-hand and sometimes the only account of local news. The Wyoming Newspaper Project makes newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922 accessible in an easily searchable format, over the internet, for free. |
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Wyoming Place Names Wiki - Discover the history behind place names in Wyoming. |
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Wyoming Union List of Periodicals - A database of the magazines held in Wyoming Libraries. |
