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ALLDATA Welcome to ALLDATA® Online, the world's most comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.  |
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids Follow along with Ben Franklin as a how to guide to how the government works. |
Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who® The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 300,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who™. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 275 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path. |
CIA World Fact Book What the inside scoop from the spy agency themselves on every country in the world? Then this Web site for you!  |
EBSCO Premier 1,800+ Provides full text for over 1,810 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. |
Fastweb.com FastWeb is the nation's recognized leader in helping students make the decisions that shape their lives: choosing a college, paying for college and finding jobs during and after college. Recommended by over 16,000 guidance counselors and financial aid officers, FastWeb is the most trusted college resource on the Web. Last year, one of three college-bound high school seniors used the site, and more than 700 magazine and newspaper articles recommended FastWeb. In total, more than 11 million students have used FastWeb since its launch in 1995. |
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf Gale's Ready Reference Shelf integrates 14 of Gale's most popular reference directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations, and more. Fully searchable across all files, this database contains information drawn from the following Gale databases: Encyclopedia of Associations: National Associations Encyclopedia of Associations: International Associations Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State, and Local Associations Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations Publishers Directory Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media Directories in Print Newsletters in Print Gale Directory of Databases Gale Guide to Internet Databases Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers Research Centers Directory Government Research Centers Directory International Research Centers Directory Encyclopedia of American Religion |
Health and Wellness Resource Center Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers. |
Infotrac Informe Spanish-language and bilingual general interest magazines and pamphlets in full text. Includes 60+ full text periodicals with coverage of more than 2 years and 500 full text pamphlets. |
Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students, the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most used literary databases in a single Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path. |
Reference USA ReferenceUSA is a research and reference tool licensed to libraries, educational institutions and government agencies. |
Scholastic BookFlix Engaging online literacy resource to help build a love of reading and learning in all your children! |
Scribner Writers Series The Scribner Writers series, "long the gold standard for literary criticism" according to the American Library Association's Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 38, No. 1), includes some 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from thirteen acclaimed print sets. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study. Since the publication of the first volumes of AMERICAN WRITERS in 1974, the series has been a standard resource in academic, public, and senior high school libraries for use by students, teachers, scholars, librarians, and the general public. |
SIRS Discoverer An informative database of full-text articles, helps develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher. |
SIRS Knowledge Source An online resource that provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents and graphics from reference databases -- SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance. |
Spanish Books in Print Your reliable, unbiased source for Spanish-language titles! Find in-print, forthcoming, audio,video, and out-of-print Spanish-language titles, and detailed publisher information. |
Texas Almanac - Millennium Edition The Texas Almanac Online is an electronic version of the Texas Almanac 2000 - 2001. This database provides information seekers with valuable information about the history, culture, political climate, and geography of the state of Texas. |
The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors The Twayne Authors Series is the premier literary reference resource series comprising: Twayne's U.S. Authors Twayne's English Authors Twayne's World Authors Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum. The Twayne Authors Series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, or the development of literary genres. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of authors' works, these studies take account of major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism, and provide new critical insights and original points of view. Each treatment of an author averages from 175 to 200 pages in length. |
