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- Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals,
including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and
searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Updated daily. Available in 13 languages.
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Alt HealthWatch
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 nearly 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.
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Covers vehicles from 1945- present. Includes complete automotive repair manuals originally published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series; factory
drawings and step-by-step photographs; technical service bulletins & recalls; wiring diagrams; specifications & maintenance schedules and more. Updated continuously. All content has been created by ASE
certified technicians.
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Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full
text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting,
finance and economics. Updated daily. Available in 13 languages.
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Regional Business News
This database 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. Available in 13 languages.
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Consumer Health Complete
Full text articles from health reference books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, newswires, alternative health sources, etc. Covers all areas of health and
wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine, drug and herb information & much more. Available in 13 languages.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
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. Available in 13 Languages.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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
For elementary/middle school students (K-8). User-friendly interface covering key subject areas. Includes Primary Search, EBSCO Animals, Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, photos, maps, flags and much more. Automatically searches all appropriate databases simultaneously.
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MasterFILE Premier
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. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, 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. Available in 13 languages. Updated daily.
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Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television &
radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Updated daily. Available in 13 languages.
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 NoveList Fiction
NoveList is a comprehensive fiction database searchable by
genre, author, title, plot, and series. Besides locating good books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through book talks, discussion guides, feature articles and author interviews.
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Student Research Center
For secondary school students, user-friendly interface searches many databases at once. Search by content type: magazines, newspapers,
biographies, country reports, film & video. Includes TOPICsearch, Health Source, and Newspaper Source, an online dictionary, encyclopedia and much more. Available in 13 languages.
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TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics
discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources. Available in 13 languages.
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 ProQuest
Contains articles published in the Providence Journal, varied coverage since 1983, complete coverage
beginning in 1988, written by Providence Journal writers. The archive does NOT include any photos or graphics.
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 Heritage Quest Online
Full-text genealogy and local history collections combined with
digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records from 1790-1930. Includes Freedman's Bank (1865-1874).
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WorldBook Online Reference Center
World Book Encyclopedia articles enhanced by magazine articles, atlases & maps, pictures & video, historic & primary source
documents, Today in History, literary works, special reports & news, student resources and much more. Updated weekly.
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