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The AccessMeL
Periodical List-Full Text (AMPL-FT) is a single alphabetical
listing of periodicals which contain full text articles from
AccessMichigan databases. Created by Oakland Schools
New Media Information Center staff.
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African
American Song is the first online resource to document
the history of African American music in an online music listening
service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such
as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives,
among others. |
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America's GenealogyBank Quickly find your ancestors in over four centuries of rare documents and records. Search thousands of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and genealogies. Plus, the complete American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Social Security Death Index and more than 23 million obituaries. |
American
Family Immigration History Center. A searchable
archive of people who passed through Ellis Island between
1892 and 1924.
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American
History Online is the ideal source for research on
U.S. history. This complete electronic resource offers the
most comprehensive range of information available in a wide
range of useful formats, from biographies to images to primary
sources to maps and charts. |
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Library of Congress' American
Memory Historical Collections, a major component of
the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia
collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded
sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana
collections. There are currently over 70 collections in the
American Memory Historical Collections. |
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Ancestry-Library
Edition -- ProQuest has partnered with MyFamily.com
to create Ancestry Library Edition, one of the most important
genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled
coverage of the U.S. and the U.K., including census, vital,
church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections
from Canada and other areas. This collection of more than 4,000
databases and 1.5 billion names is essential to having a complete
genealogy collection and its valuable content is a strong complement
to HeritageQuest Online. (Limited to in-house library
use only). |
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Art
Museum Image Gallery - The Art Museum Image Gallery
is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia
gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around
the world, including the Detroit Institute of Arts. All images
are rights-cleared for educational use. Use of the
the Art Museum Image Gallery is exclusively for education, research
and scholarship. |
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Authors
4 Teens is a one-of-a-kind web-based resource that
explores the craft, insight, habits, hobbies, studies and
passions of today's top young adult authors. |
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Biography
and Genealogy Master Index. This
database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look
for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical
locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master
Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information
on multiple persons. It also
acts as an index to other indexes. |
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Biography
Resource Center Covers all time periods from the beginning
of recorded human history, with more than 200,000 biographical
entries and 6,000 portraits. Also includes the Marquis
Who's Who database, containing more than 1.4 million
thumbnail biographies from these 20 respected Marquis sources,
encompassing print volumes published from 1985 to the present.
Journal
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Books
in Print is a comprehensive listing of all books published
in the United States. BIP has 4.3 billion records, including
audio and video titles, books out of print, e-books and books
on demand. It also includes book reviews, book stock information,
tables of contents, author biographies and book cover images.
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Business
and Company Resource Center with Investext Plus and
PROMT,
1980 - present. Brings together company profiles, company
brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies and periodicals. Journal
List.
(May require Adobe Acrobat to view  some
information in its original format with original fonts, formatting,
and graphics. ) |
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ChiltonLibrary Automotive Repair provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site. |
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Classical
Music Library is the world's first streaming classical
music service for libraries that enables listening and learning
on home computers. The library features a catalog of 10,000-plus
classical music recordings and is supplemented by thousands
of program notes, biographies and images. Listening with headphones
or speakers connected to a computer, you can browse, search
and organize the music in any way you choose and create your
own playlists. Any computer with an Internet connection and
audio-enabled computers can use Classical Music Library. We
recommend the following software:
- For PCs - Windows 98 (or higher), Internet Explorer v5.5sp2
(or better) or Netscape 6+, and Windows Media Player v8
(or better).
- For Macs on OS9 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above,
or Netscape 4.7 or above. For Macs on OS10 - Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.2 or Netscape 6.2.
 Flash
Player 6 is required for all systems. Please note: Due to
the nature of the Internet and computers, some operating
systems and browser configurations are not compatible with
the service.
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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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Corporate
Affiliations Online -- The Directory of Corporate
Affiliations by LexisNexis includes 200,000+ parent companies,
affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions worldwide. DCA data
allows you to determine "who owns whom" and to establish a
hierarchy of corporate ownership down to the eighth level
of corporate linkage. Coverage includes public and private
companies in 189 countries. |
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Current
Diagnosis and Treatment -- The online version
of Current Diagnosis and Treatment includes the most comprehensive,
reliable, and up-to-date reference available to answer common
questions to everyday medical needs. Topic-based presentation
of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders and over 1,200 black
and white and color images not available in print. |
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CultureGrams
provides
short backgrounds on the geography, history, customs, culture
and people of the countries of the world. |
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The Detroit
Free Press. 1982 - present. (Newsbank) |
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The Detroit
News. 1999 - present. (Newsbank) |
The
Eagle Newspaper |
With a direct mail circulation of more than
577,000 homes, C&G
Newspapers reach more than one million readers
in 39 communities. No other newspapers have greater market
penetration and readership in our market area than C&G
Newspapers. In our communities the sixteen C&G Newspapers
reach more homes
than the Detroit News, Free Press, Macomb Daily, Oakland Press
and Daily Tribune combined. |
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Get today's local news stories from the online
Birmingham-Bloomfield edition of the Eccentric. |
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Educators Reference Complete This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. |
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Encyclopedia of Life Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. |
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Expanded
Academic Index - 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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The Facts
on File online database contains information on the
last seven decades of current events; with key statistics,
and opinions on controversial topics and developments in science.
Includes substantial background information and various perspectives
on relevant news stories. |
|  Facts
on File Science |
Facts
on File Science Online conveys the visual nature of
science in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner. All content
in this comprehensive database is divided into sections based
on the science curriculum established by the National Science
Education Standards, enabling students and researchers to
access printable diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays
in a specific subject area or discipline with a single click.
Thousands of hyperlinks allow users to follow a diagram to
a definition and on to a related essay or biography. |
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more! |
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 Fiction
Connection. Looking for your next good read? Use Bowker's new readers' advisory
product, Fiction Connection, to discover titles similar to those
you already enjoy! |
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Firstsearch
offers 67 databases on a variety of subjects, including Reader's
Guide, Sociological Abstracts, and the New York Times. |
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Gale
Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias,
almanacs, 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. "Always open. Always available".
Title
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General
Business File ASAP provides indexing and abstracts
for more than 1,000 business journals from 1996 to the present.
It includes access to more than 450 full text journals, more
than 110,000 company profiles, 50,000 investment reports and
thousands of PR Newswire releases. Journal
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General
Reference Center Gold is a general database for searching
magazines, newspapers and reference books. Some
articles have abstracts, some have full text. Indexes articles
from 1980 to the present. Journal
List. |
| GRAND
RAPIDS PRESS |
Grand
Rapids Press (2002-Current) |
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Greenwood
Daily Life brings history up close by providing award-winning
content in an authoritative and accessible database. What
did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing?
If we are to understand history, we must look at people's
everyday lives. |
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The Grolier
New Book of Popular Science features easy-to-understand
articles and activities focusing on science, medicine, technology
and science news. (To use the New Book of Popular Science
from Home, click here.) |
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Grolier
Online includes access to Grolier's quick reference
Multimedia Online Encyclopedia, and the more
in-depth Encyclopedia Americana. (Home users, click
here) |
| Harrison's
Online
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Harrison
's Principles of Internal Medicine -- Updated daily,
the site delivers the complete text, illustrations, and expanded
features from the 16th edition of Harrison 's Principles of
Internal Medicine, including additional references, many links
to MEDLINE abstracts, and important information from emerging
fields. The fully searchable database regularly presents new
and revised content from the distinguished editors and contributors
of Harrison 's. |
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Health
and Wellness Resource Center has articles on everything
from medicine and diseases to fitness and nutrition. Coverage:
magazines 1980 - present, and newspapers 1998 - present. Journal
List. |
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Health
Reference Center Academic 1980 - present.
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy,
Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational
Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription
Drugs, etc. Journal
List
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Heritage
Quest Online. Provides easy access to more than 7.5
million page images from 1840 onward. Also included
are monographs and serials in genealogy and local history
from all 50 states. |
History
Resource Center U.S. |
History
Resource Center U.S. provides
integrated access to over 1,000 primary source documents, over
30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journals covering
themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from
pre-colonial times to the present. |
History
Resource Center World |
History
Resource Center World offers
a virtual library of the resources needed for 20th century world
history within a flexible, comprehensive and convenient search
tool, drawing on themes and trends from the current history
curriculum and world history textbooks. |
| Informe! 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. |
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In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumesthose that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals. |
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The Information
Please reference site integrates Information Please
Almanacs on sports, entertainment and general knowledge; the
Random House Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia
Encyclopedia. |
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Infotrac
Kid's Edition (Journal
List) |
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InfoTrac
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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Issues
and Controversies is a full-text database combining
objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points
of view on more than 300 topics. |
Lansing
State Journal |
Lansing
State Journal
(1/1/1999-Current) |
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The Learn-A-Test
online test collection provides test preparation materials
and interactive practice exams based on official tests.
Helps individuals improve scores on academic, civil service,
military and professional licensing and certifications. Examples
include SAT, ACT, GED, GMAT, MCAT, ESL, U.S. Citizenship,
real estate, and law enforcement exams. Provides immediate
scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized
analysis of scores. |
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Legal
Forms Online (MICHIGAN FORMS ONLY) provides
the most extensive free forms site available to library patrons.
Hundreds of legal forms available with more forms being added
daily. The site provides Michigan Forms only. |
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LegalTrac
- Use this database to find articles in all major law
reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals
and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State
Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also
included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International
Law. |
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Literature
Resource Center -- LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English
and Twayne World Authors. Biographical information
on over 90,000 current writers, excerpts of criticism of literary
works written since 1900, as well as detailed essays on 2,000
major writers. Journal
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MagillOnLiterature
Plus combines all the
quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors
in a fully integrated
and enhanced single database. This database is composed of
approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works
of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000
images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature
Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief
plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed
setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long
and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and
philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage
of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists
of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies.
In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays
provide details about important literary genres, time periods,
and national literatures. |
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Medline
is an extensive health research database created by the National
Library of Medicine. Journal
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Merck
Manual, Home Edition. The online version of
a professional medical resource translated into commonly used
English, with vital information about diseases, diagnosis,
prevention, and treatment. |
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Michigan
eLibrary. Information on various web sites compiled
by U of M, the Library of Michigan and other libraries.
This is an excellent site to begin searching for Michigan
related information. |
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Michigan
Newspapers. - Search a selection of Michigan newspapers. |
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Included in Morningstar
are analysts' independent opinions on 20,000 stocks and funds.
Find a stock or fund to meet your needs and research current
or prospective holdings. |
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Check out E-books from our netLibrary
collection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Collection
includes more than 8,000 titles on a wide range of subjects.
(Go to the netLibrary
account creation page to create and account first, then
return to our catalog to search for netLibrary titles in our
collection. At home users can create a new NetLibrary account
from
this link) |
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Three databases of full-text New York
Times articles are available:
 1851
- 1999 from Proquest's Historical New York Times
1999
- present from Proquest.
The
last
12 Months from Gale Group
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Use
the Novelist
database to find books to read based on other novels you've
liked, authors you enjoy, or types of fiction, such as romance
or mystery. You can search by author, title, specific
types of novels, or even lists of best books. |
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The
Oakland Press
Online. |
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Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center helps you find, learn
and measure the many different viewpoints surrounding a number
of complex social issues that confront our society today.
Journal
List. |
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Other
Full Text Newspapers -- find full-text articles in
120 outstanding newspapers from around the world, including
the Lansing State Journal, Grand Rapids Press, LA Times,
London Times, Boston Herald, Christian Science
Monitor, Financial Times (London), Houston Chronicle,
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and Business News, and
many more. Title
list and coverage dates. (Gale) |
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Oxford
Reference Online --
The Premium Collection contains over 200 dictionary, language
reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University
Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these
books, providing unprecedented access to a comprehensive information
resource. |
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Paris
Review -- Over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled
up into 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews. |
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Play
Index - Covers every important
play ever written!
Find citations to some 30,000 plays published individually or
in collections from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic
form patrons prefer. Search over 500 monologues for auditions
or course assignments. |
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Poem
Finder on the Web is continually updated, international
in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present.
Includes 600,000 indexed poems and 50,000 full-text poems.
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Professional
Collection - Search a customized
set of journals. |
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ProQuest Obituaries - this database contains over 10 million obituaries and death notices from across the U.S.
Newspapers include: The New York Times
(1851-2003) Washington Post (1877-1990) Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) Atlanta Constitution (from 1868 -1929) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985) Chicago Defender (1909 -1975) Boston Globe (1872-1923). |
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Public Library of Law Public Library of Law is the largest free law library in the world assembling law available for free scattered across many different sites -- all in one place. PLoL is the best starting place to find law on the Web. |
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Reference Shelf Plus - Reference Shelf Plus presents a carefully-selected database of full-text articles from key publications on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues, chosen to make up a well-rounded overview, and organized by topic for easy access. |
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Over 14 million U.S. businesses are listed in
ReferenceUSA.
Detailed listing provides name, address, city, state, contact,
county, phone, fax, employees, sales, SIC code and yellow
page listing.
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Do you want to speak like a native? The Rosetta
Stone 's award-winning method uses thousands of real-life
images, written text, and voices of native speakers to teach
you like a native learner. Each lesson taps your intuitive
ability to connect words and meanings "from the inside."
You learn to speak, read and write the new language quickly,
naturally and easily. The Rosetta Stone has 24 languages to
choose from.
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| Sanborn
Digital Maps |
Sanborn
Digital Maps (1867-1970) detail property and land-use
records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000
U.S. towns and cities across a century of change. The maps provide
a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and
shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows
and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers,
and more. The plans often include information and shading for
steel beams or reinforced walls, plus symbols for stables, garages,
warehouses, etc. |
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Locate more than 65,000 short stories with electronic
searching in the Short
Story Index (1984 - 1997). Users can retrieve works
by author, title, subject, genre, literary technique and source,
or any combination of these elements |
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Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business." |
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Smithsonian
Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian
Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's
musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators,
students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety
of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and
preservation of diverse musical forms. |
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Standard
& Poor's NetAdvantage is the world's foremost
provider of industry-leading research on companies, industries,
stocks, bonds, funds and the economy. |
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StateGrams.
Tour the
50 states and the District of Columbia in these fun reports
filled with facts, symbols, timelines and more. |
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Story
Finder offers thousands of full-text short stories,
explanations, biographies and more. |
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Student
Edition - Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed
for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed
and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for
information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture,
health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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Search
the Thomas
Register, the most comprehensive resource for industrial
information, products, services, CAD drawings, and more. |
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Today's
Science provides current full-text news on the latest
scientific discoveries. Topics include health, environment,
technology, life science, physical science, earth and space
science, and science and society. |
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The ValueLine
Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's
leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options
and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
(in-house library use only). |
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Full-text articles from the Wall
Street Journal, from
1984 - present. (Proquest) |
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Washington
Post -- includes full-text articles from 1977 to present.
(Newsbank) |
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What
Do I Read Next? Incudes more than 88,500 recommended
titles, more than 47,000 plot summaries, and information for
552+ awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures,
find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning
titles. Search by genre, subject, author title and more. |
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Wilson
Biography Reference Bank covers some 170,000 names
and 28,000 images from antiquity through today. It also
includes articles from periodicals. |
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 Middle
and Junior High School Catalog
 Wilson
Senior High School Library Catalog
Wilson
Fictional Library Catalog
Wilson
Public Library Catalog
The various Wilson collections
cover fiction, non-fiction, and short story collections at
different reading levels. Includes review sources for librarians.
Also offers dynamic links to BTPL's catalog, to check our
library's holdings.
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World
Almanac delivers the full-text version of the almanc
with monthly updating, daily highlights and special features
unique to the online version. |
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The World
Almanac Encyclopedia contains the complete full text
of 26,000 articles from Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia,
thousands of links to content from the World Almanac and Book
of Facts and special reports linked to the World Almanac Reference
Database. Many articles updated or revised monthly. |
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World
Book Online Reference Center is a general encyclopedia,
a Spanish encyclopedia, a Research Library of primary source
material, a news page and more. |
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World
News Digest (1980 - present) and
World News Archive (1940 - 1979) . The complete
text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1940 - 2002. |
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WorldCat
contains records for books, web resources and other materials
from library catalogs around the world. |
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