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Title	Information	Subject(s)	APA	MLA
Academic Search Complete New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Academic One File	Includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. It includes newswires from 89 wire services, newspapers, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
African American Experience		Humanities	APA	MLA
American Government (ABC CLIO)	Provides students with different viewpoints through political commentaries and access to information about current events dealing with themes of American politics and public policy at all levels. Includes daily news reports on issues affecting state and federal governments, videos, quotes, abstracts and primary source documents. Also provides resources that compare the United States' and other nations' political and economic systems.	Government & Law	APA	MLA
American History (ABC CLIO)	Provides coverage from early exploration to the present. Discusses the political, scientific, economic, artistic and philosophical development of the country from an historical perspective. Includes feature stories, living history articles, This Day in History, maps, photos, videos, primary documents and topic explorations.	Social Sciences/History		MLA
America's Newspapers	Provides access to selected local, regional and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Coverage varies.	News & Current Events	APA	MLA
AP Multimedia Archive	A collection of photos, graphics, text and audio from the Associated Press. The photo archive is updated daily and dates back to 1826. Audio is in wav format and provides coverage from 1920. Also includes logos, charts, maps and 800,000 news stories written by AP writers.	News & Current Events (Visual Aids)	APA	MLA
Applied Science Full Text	Provides access to applied science and technology journals and magazines. Full text coverage begins in 1997. Subjects covered include Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Space Science.	Science	APA	MLA
Art Full Text	Provides indexing, abstracting and full text access to contemporary art worldwide with special emphasis given to developments in Canadian, Latin America, Asian and other non-western art, exhibition reviews and feminism criticism. Coverage from 1997. Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.	Arts/Humanities		MLA
ARTstor		Arts/Humanities		MLA
Biography Index	Cites biographical articles from all time periods, fields and nationalities accessible through more than 3,000 magazines and 2,000 current books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, it includes citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.	General & Interdisciplinary
Biography Resource Center	Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus	Provides indexing, abstracting and full text access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals. Full text citations link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.	Science	APA	MLA
Book Review Digest Plus	Indexes and provides excerpts and full text reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction from over 8,000 periodicals. Coverage is from 1983.	Books & Libraries
Business Full Text	Sources include The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal as well as 475 magazines and scholarly journals titles. Users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Coverage is from 1995.	Business	APA	MLA
Business Source Complete New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	Business	APA	MLA
CINAHL Plus Full Text New Interface! View Flash Demo	Provides full text access to more than 560 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 600,000 records dating back to 1937. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Tutorial	Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
COIN Career Library		General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Computer Database	Offers access to today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries.	Sciences	APA	MLA
Contemporary Middle East		Social Sciences	APA	MLA
CQ Global Researcher		Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
CQ Researcher Plus Archive	Explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science. 44 reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles.	Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
Credo Reference	Ready reference source consisting of more than 160 sources from a variety of publishers. Provides 1.8 millon entries and 40 million cross-reference links. It also includes a vast collection of art images.	Reference Sources	APA	MLA
Criminal Justice Periodical Index	Covers a wide variety of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Indexes over 230 titles and provides full-text and image access to more than 75 journals.	Government & Law	APA	MLA
Critical Companions To Popular Contemporary Writers	Provides access to titles by 46 of the most widely read contemporary authors. Analyszes character development, themes, style and plots. Includes a complete bibliography of books, selected reviews and criticism. Alternative readings section provides various literary perspectives.	Languages & Literature		MLA
Current History Online	A Journal of contemporary world affairs. Each issue contains a monthly chronology of world news.      Requires Username and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.	Social Sciences/ History	APA	MLA
Daily Life Online with World Cultures Today	A collection of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations, and time lines depicting essential activities of daily life across the globe and throughout history. Part of the Daily Life Online suite of databases.	Social Sciences/ Cultural Studies
eBooks/Netlibrary	Searchable collection of ebooks specifically selected for Florida's community colleges.	Books & Libraries	APA	MLA
Education Full Text	Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles from some 300 journals as far back as 1996. Indexing of over 750 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 450 peer-reviewed.	Education	APA	MLA
Education Research Complete New Interface! View Flash Demo	Covers all areas and levels of education by providing access to bibliography and full text scholarly sources. Multilingual education, heath education, curriculum instruction, administration, funding, testing and related social issues are some of the topics covered. Indexes and abstracts more than 1500 journals, contains 750 full-text journal titles 100 book and monograph full-text titles and includes full-text education-related conference papers. Tutorial	Education	APA	MLA
Encyclopedia Britannica	Enhanced digital edition of the print reference source of same title. Offers over 120,000 articles, a world atlas, online dictionary and thesaurus, articles from over 400 magazines and journals, safe websites, comprehensive statistics on a wide variety of country and access to a thousand plus images and videos. Accesible at three levels: elementary, student (upper elementary, middle/high school)and adult (university).	Reference Sources	APA	MLA
ERIC (via the Web)	Database of journal and non-journal education literature. Provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.      Free website	Education	APA	MLA
ERIC (via EBSCO) New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	Education	APA	MLA
ERIC (via FirstSearch)	A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). ERIC records include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest. The database includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. Includes 1.1+ million records from 1,016 journals and other documents from 1966 to the present. Updated monthly.	Education		MLA
Essay and General Literatue Index	Offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.	Languages & Literature
Expanded Academic ASAP	Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, provides access to 3,800 indexed and 2,200 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, medical journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 25 years of backfile coverage ia available.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Facts.com	Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other core reference databases including Issues & Controversies and Todays's Science to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.	News & Current Events/ Controversial Issues/ Sciences	APA	MLA
FirstSearch	Provides access to ArticleFirst, Clase Periodica, Ebooks, Electronic Collections Online (ECO), ERIC, Florida Group Catalog (FloridaCat), GPO Monthly Catalog, MEDLINE, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, World Almanacs (World Almanac), WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations and Thesis (WorldCatDissertations).	Reference Sources	APA
FirstSearch (Password Protected)	Provides access to ABI-INFORM, AGRICOLA, AHSearch, AltPressIndex, AltPressIndexArchive, BasicBIOSIS, BioDigest, BooksinPrint, BusDateline, BusIndustry, BusinessOrgs, BusManagement, Consumer Index, Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), Disclosure, Dissertations, EconLit, FactSearch, GEOBASE, MediaRevDigest, NewsAbs, Periodical Abstracts (PerAbs), PsychFirst, WilsonSelectPlus, and Worldscope.      Requires Authorization number and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.	Reference Sources
FMG on Demand	Films Media Group offers access to access to digital streaming videos spanning arts, business, communications, humanities, literature, science and social science topics. Play on QuickTime or Windows Media Player.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
The Gallup Poll	Public opinion polling data conducted from 1935 to today.     Requires Username and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.	Reference Sources
General Business File ASAP	Offers a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Covers industrial events and trends, and the latest in management, economics and politics. Provides access to broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.	Business	APA	MLA
General OneFile (formerly InfoTrac OneFile)		General & Interdisciplinary		MLA
General Reference Center Gold	Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles in a single database. It includes national news magazines, encyclopedias, core business journals, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service newspaper articles, more than 15 reference books, and more than 2,000 titles, including 1,200 in full text.	Reference Sources	APA	MLA
General Science Full Text	Periodical coverage includes 242 popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday).	Sciences	APA	MLA
Global Road Warrior		Reference Sources	APA	MLA
Granger's World of Poetry	Provides access to 190,000 poems in full text and indexing of 90,000 poems in 550 anthologies. Biographical entries include bibliographies and links to some of the poet's works, commentaries, notes on form and a glossary. Searching is possible by nationality. The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans is included.	Languages & Literature		MLA
GreenFILE		Sciences	APA
Grove Art Online (now Oxford Art Online)	Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, covering all aspects of the visual arts of every civilization from prehistory to the 1990s) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.	Arts/ Humanities
Grove Music Online (now Oxford Music Online)	An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Contains over 500 musical examples in sound as well as notated examples. Includes over 3000 links to related sites including sound archives and illustrations, illustrations and musical examples.	Humanities
Health and Wellness Resource Center	Offers access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, internet websites, encyclopedias and other reference sources including the Medical and Health Information Directory and PDR Family Guides. Includes an alternative health module and multimedia library of 700+ videos from the Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health library. Updated daily by new periodical and newspaper articles.	Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
Health Reference Center Academics	An advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals dating back to 1980 found in the Health & Wellness Resource Center. Also includes current editions of newletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews and reference books. Does not include reference sources or the Alternative Health suite of resources.	Medicine & Health		MLA
Health Source: Academic Edition New Interface! View Flash Demo	This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 additional journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. Tutorial	Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
Health Source: Consumer Edition New Interface! View Flash Demo	Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Tutorial	Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
History Reference Center New Interface! View Flash Demo	History Reference Center offers full text from more than 750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video. Tutorial	Social Sciences/ History	APA	MLA
Hoover's Premium	Contains information pertaining to the history, products, operations, employees, sales, subsidiaries,competitors, market niche, financial status and SEC filings for 40,000 firms. Over 12 million companies can be accessed through the database with more than 4 million European and Asia Pacific (APAC) companies included.	Business	APA	MLA
Hospitality & Tourism Complete New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	Business	APA	MLA
Humanities International Complete New Interface! View Flash Demo		Humanities		MLA
Humanities Full Text	Covers literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Provides access to full text articles from 230 journals as far back as 1995. Includes interviews, obituaries, book reviews, reviews of plays, radio and television programs, motion pictures, dance programs, musicals, plays and more. Indexing and abstracting provided for additional titles from 1984.	Humanities		MLA
Informe (Revistas en Espanol)	Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.	General & Interdisciplinary (Spanish Language)
InfoTrac Junior Edition	Designed for junior high and middle school students, and features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. Contains more than 215 indexed and 196 fulltext general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and United Press International, and several reference sources including The Columbia Encyclopedia.	General & Interdisciplinary (Junior/Middle School)
InfoTrac Kids Edition	A multi- source general interest database designed for elementary schools. It provides indexing, abstracts, and full text children's and general interest magazines, reference books and thousands of newspaper articles.	General & Interdisciplinary (Elementary School)
InfoTrac Professional Collection	A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily. Offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social sciences or sports/athletic training.	Education	APA	MLA
InfoTrac Student Edition	Offers a quick and easy way for secondary students to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Comprised of a variety of full-text sources that include magazines, newspapers and reference books, 559 indexed titles and hundreds of maps.	General & Interdisciplinary (Secondary/High School)		MLA
Issues and Controversies	Offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.	Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
Issues: Understanding Controversy & Society (ABC-CLIO)		Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
JSTOR	Provides access to back issues of hundreds of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Legal Periodicals Full Text	A bibliographic database that indexes articles from more than 1,000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association, university and government publications. Full text coverage for over 250 selected journals as far back as 1994 is also included. Provides access to some 1,400 monographs per year.	Government & Law	APA	MLA
LexisNexis Academic	Contains over 5,600 sources including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, legal resources, Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789 and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.	News & Current Events	APA	MLA
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text	A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.	Books & Libraries	APA	MLA
LISTA with Full Text (Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text) New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	Books & Libraries
LitFINDER	Includes over 125,000 full text poems, an index to 4 1/2 million lines of poetry, 850,000 citations, biographies and 2,500 poem explanations from all eras. Provides access to thousands of full-text short stories which are updated frequently plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. Contains thousands of full-text essays and includes literary criticisms and biographies focusing on the humanities and social sciences together with over 1,000 plays with character lists and full-text speeches categorized by genre.	Languages & Literature		MLA
Literary Reference Center		Languages & Literature		MLA
Literature Resources from Gale (formerly Literature Resource Center)	Contains biographical, bibliographical and critical content. Provides information on literary figures from all time periods. Built on three reference sources: Contemporay Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Additional Gale Group titles are included as well as literary journals and websites.	Languages & Literature		MLA
Magill's Medical Guide		Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
MAS Ultra School Edition	Designed for high school students. Contains full-text for more than 490 popular, high school magazines as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets and reference books.	General & Interdisciplinary (Secondary/High School)	APA	MLA
MEDLINE With Full Text New Interface! View Flash Demo	Tutorial	Medicine & Health	APA
Military and Government Collection New Interface! View Flash Demo	Designed to offer current news and information to all branches of the military and matters relating to the military and military life. Provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications. Also indexes and abstracts over 360 magazines, including Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense. Tutorial	Government & Law	APA	MLA
NetLibrary/eBooks	Searchable collection of ebooks specifically selected for Florida's community colleges.	Books & Libraries	APA	MLA
New York Times (Newsbank)		News & Current Events
New York Times Historical Edition	Full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times®, covering the period from 1851-2003	Social Sciences/ History	APA	MLA
Newsbank	Provides access to selected local, regional and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Coverage varies.	News & Current Events	APA	MLA
Nursing & Allied Health Source, Proquest		Medicine & Health	APA
OmniFile Full Text Mega	Full text periodicals, along with article abstracts, indexing, and page images, from over 4,000 journals. Coverage extends back as early as 1982. Includes all entries from Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Reader's Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text and Business Full Text databases.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	Based on the print series Opposing Viewpoints published by Greenhaven Press, as well as as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources. Provides viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles and more concerning social issues, such as genetic engineering, environmental policy, prejudice, abortion, health care reform, and media violence.	Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
The Orlando Sentinel (Newsbank)	Daily newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and surrounding areas. Provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Date Range: (4/1/1985-Current). Paid advertisements are excluded.	News & Current Events	APA	MLA
Oxford Art Online		Arts/ Humanities		MLA
Oxford English Dictionary	Searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. Provides the defintion, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. 2.5 million quotations are used to illustrate the evolution and usage of words. Updated quarterly.	Reference Sources		MLA
Oxford Music Online		Arts/ Humanities		MLA
Oxford Reference Online Premium		Reference Sources	APA	MLA
Physicians Desk Reference	Searchable index of hundreds of drugs and medications. Search by product name, manufacturer, product category, indications, contraindications, side effects, or drug interactions. Includes product photos.	Reference Sources/ Medicine & Health	APA	MLA
Play Index (Valencia)	Campus maintained database to provide access to plays in the circulating collection.      Staff maintained database. No authorization required.	Languages & Literature		MLA
Play Index (Wilson)		Languages & Literature
Points of View Reference Center		Controversial Issues	APA	MLA
Primary Search	Designed for elementary school students. Contains full-text for more than 50 popular elementary school magazines as well as pamphlets and reference books such as the Encyclopedia of Animals and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.	Reference Sources/ General & Interdisciplinary (Elementary School)	APA	MLA
PsycArticles New Interface! View Flash Demo	Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 50 journals and chapters from selected books published by the APA. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 50 journals. Journal coverage spans from 1894 to the present. Tutorial	Social Sciences/ Psychology	APA	MLA
PsychFIRST (FirstSearch)	Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages. 259,000+ records from over 1500+ journals from the most recent three years are searchable plus updates for the current year. Updated weekly.      Requires Authorization number and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.	Social Sciences/ Psychology
Reader's Guide Full Text	Searchable full-text plus abstracting and indexing for a broad selection of popular periodicals. Coverage dates: indexing 1983+, abstracting 1984+ and "select" full text 1994+. Daily updates.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Regional Business News	Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis.	Business	APA	MLA
Science Complete	Offers the complete content of three science-oriented databases at one time: Applied Science and Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text can be accessed simultaneously with a single search. Includes full text and abstracts for a wide range of scientific and general interest publications.	Sciences
Science Resource Center	Provides access to full-text science-related reference books, indexing, abstracts, and full text science-related magazines and academic journals, newspaper articles, images, multi-media resources and web site links. Contains a dictionary and glossary, timeline linking historical and scientific events and a high interest feature. Results are grouped by content level.	Sciences	APA	MLA
Short Story Index (Valencia)	Campus maintained database to provide access to short stories in the circulating collection.      Staff maintained database. No authorization required.	Languages & Literature		MLA
Short Story Index (Wilson)		Languages & Literature
SIRS Knowledge Source	Comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, and SIRS WebSelect. Updated daily, provides information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations.	General & Interdisciplinary	APA	MLA
Social Sciences Full Text	Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Full text access to approximately 215 journals with coverage back to 1995. Indexing and abstracting to over 625 periodicals as far back as 1983. Updated daily with integrated websites.	Social Sciences	APA	MLA
Social Studies (ABC CLIO)	Provides access to ABC CLIO's American Government, American History, World Geography, World History-Ancient and Medieval Eras and World History-The Modern Era databases.	Social Sciences
Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War		Social Sciences/ History	APA
Supreme Court Collection		Government & Law	APA	MLA
Testing & Education Reference Center	Helps prepare students for specialized tests for college, graduate school, the military or trade school. It includes preparatory tests from the GED (General Educational Development) to the GRE (Graduate Record Examination General Test). Provides a variety of search options to help find all the information needed on private high schools, scholarships and awards, distance education, two-year programs, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs. Assists in writing admission's applications essays or resumes.	Education
Thomson Healthcare Series		Medicine & Health	APA
Today's Science (FACTS.com)	Provides easy to understand information on the latest developments in science.. Articles include background information and useful Internet resources and search terms, as well as suggestions for further reading. Features overview articles linked to detailed news coverage, extensive use of illustrations, editorial cartoons, an automatic glossary, thorough linking to other FACTS.com databases, and specially created biographies of scientists. Coverage from 1992. Updated weekly.	Sciences	APA	MLA
Vault Online Career Library		Reference Sources	APA	MLA
Virtual Reference Library	Consists of the following titles: Beacham's Guide to Endangered Species of North America, Biology, Encyclopedia of Small Business, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, St. Jame's Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and World of Earth Science.	Reference Sources	APA	MLA
What Do I Read Next?	A powerful readers' advisory tool offering the expertise of specialists, critics and librarians to find the best examples of internationally known fiction and nonfiction. Contains over 100,000 titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, 562 awards titles, recommended reading lists and biographical information. Genres include inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western and historical novels, general fiction, classic fiction and nonfiction.	Books & Libraries
World Book Advanced	Contains 25,000 encyclopedia articles from the 22-volume print set plus thousands of additional reference articles, the World Book Dictionary, 10,000 maps and photographs, over 100 videos and animations and more than 9,000 audio clips. Provides access to editor-reviewed Web sites, primary sources, current events information and links to articles from more than 250 different periodicals. Update on a daily basis.	Reference Sources	APA	MLA
World Folklore and Folklife	Traces the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world. Provides information on myths, foodways, s, proverbs and sayings, music, religion,folk and fairy tales, medical folklore. literature and all ingredients of everyday life. Part of the Daily Life Online suite of databases.	Social Sciences/ Languages & Literature/ Humanities	APA	MLA
World Geography (ABC CLIO)	Contains over 20,000 primary and secondary sources that provide insight into the geographical, political, social, economic and cultural forces effecting our world. Provides nearly 200 overviews of countries, 1300 biographies and current events information of interest. Useful for descriptions concerning country-specific holidays and celebrations and for statistical data that allows the user to compare data between countries in such areas as illiteracy, population growth, natural resources, GDP per capita and more.	Social Sciences/ Geography	APA	MLA
World History-Ancient and Medieval Eras (ABC CLIO)	Covers ancient and medieval history from all parts of the world to the beginning of the Renaissance. Features include interactive timelines, profiles of city-states of the ancient world, biographies and current events-related features on the home page that draw connections between the history currently being made and its ancient and medieval origins. Sources range beyond Western civilization to include ancient Africa, the Muslim world, and the Orient.	Social Sciences/ History	APA	MLA
World History-The Modern Era (ABC CLIO)	Provides a chronological and thematic treatment of key historical events from 1500 to the present. Sources include government documents, speeches, photographs, video clips, and historic maps. Also includes more than 3,400 biographies, 80 topical explorations and 250+ country overviews. Users have the option of creating customized research lists.	Social Sciences/ History	APA	MLA
WorldCat (FirstSearch)	Provides access to more than 69 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages. Thousands of records provide evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors. Users can directly browse issues of periodicals in the ArticleFirst database from bibliographic records for these titles in WorldCat. Provides Interlibrary Loan module and holding information. Updated daily.	Books & Libraries

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