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America the Beautiful

Authoritative information on U.S. states and territories. Contains over 1,000 articles, 2,500 photos, fact boxes, timelines, 400 maps, educational games, and 500 profiles of important people, including biographies of all U.S. presidents. Grades 4 and up.

AncestryPlus

Over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases. A source for conducting genealogical and local history research. Included are digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 on, The American Geneaological Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, and more. * in library use only

Auto Repair Reference Center

The Auto Repair Reference Center is a full text database containing information on Repair procedures, service bulletins, service recalls, wiring diagrams, labor and quick tips for automobiles produced between 1954-2001. Not all types of automobiles are represented in the database and not all information is available for those automobiles that are represented in the database.

Baltimore Sun Archive

Free Access through Maryland Public Libraries to the Sunpaper from 1990 to the present. (This is available only in the Library or branch sites

Biography Resource Center

More than 300,000 biographies throughout history, the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Reference resources, periodical articles and portraits.

Business and Company Resource Center

Business and Company Resource Center is 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.

 

Business Source Elite

Provides full text for over 1,100 scholarly business journals dating back to 1985, includes full text for over 450 peer-reviewed publications.

Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database

Clinical Pharmacology

Provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Daily Times Archive

This growing archive currently searches local news from 2002-present.

EBSCOhost

A powerful online reference system offering a variety of proprietary full text and popular databases from leading information providers. Databases range from general collection to subject-specific for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

EBSCOhost - Text Only

A text only version of the powerful online reference system offering a variety of proprietary full text and popular databases from leading information providers. Databases range from general collection to subject-specific for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

EBSCO Animals

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexes, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

ERIC

Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 educational digests along with references for additional information citations and abstracts from over 980 journals.

Encyclopedia Americana

Contains over 45,000 articles. Covering academic fields and curriculum topics. Links to maps, flags and images. For high school level readers and up.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica encompasses several resources in one place. For children, there is Britannica Online for Kids and for high school students and adults there is Encyclopedia Britannica Reference Center. In addition to these age specific encyclopedia resources, a dictionary, thesaurus, and dictionary of quotations are included. Several features such as timelines, a world atlas, and multimedia content are a part of the learning tools as well.

Facts.com

News digest on major U.S. and world events from 1980, with selected coverage from 1940.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

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. 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).

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

A fact-filled reference resource, rich in multimedia content. Designed for the young researcher. Contains over 38,000 articles.

Heritage Quest

Research for tracing family history and American culture, for beginning and professional genealogists. Includes original page images for all documents.

Health Source-Consumer Edition

Search for information on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences, and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition

Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals.

History Reference Center

The History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive history database for today's libraries, with full text for more than 270,000 entries from a myriad of historical sources.

 

 

Kids Search

Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source t ype - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. (Grades K to 5)

Lands and Peoples

An encyclopedia of geography, countries, cultures, and current events.

 

Legal Forms From Thomson - Gale

Gale's Legal Forms has thousands of legal forms available from all 50 of the United States. Each state has at least 1000, and some as many as 3000, unique legal forms in the database. Each form is downloadable in at least Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat, while many also are available in WordPerfect and Text formats. Forms are arranged by state, then by topic, such as Divorce, Real Estate and Wills. Each topic is subdivided when appropriate, such as divorce/child custody and divorce/property. A great do-it-yourself resource for legal assistance. By teaming with U.S. Legal Forms, the latest legal forms are available quickly and easily.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

LISTA 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.

Literature Resource Center

More than 300,000 biographies throughout history, the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Reference resources, periodical articles and portraits.

Live Homework Help (tutor.com)

The live homework help is available seven days a week from 2 p.m. through 12:00 a.m. Eastern time in the subjects of math, science, social studies, and English. It is also available in Spanish Sunday through Thursday 5 p.m. - 10 a.m.. Students can connect to a tutor through any computer with Internet access, including computers at their local public library or at home. This service is brought to you by Eastern Shore Regional Library and provided to the eight county libraries on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

MasterFILE Premier

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Middle Search Plus

Provides full text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. Articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and the inofrmation dates back to 1990.

Newspaper Source

Selected full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.

New Book of Knowledge

Designed for elementary and middle-school readers. Articles with facts and figures, projects and experiments, literary selections, internet links, photographs, maps, artwork, games and puzzles. Provided by Grolier Online.

New Book of Popular Science

Designed for elementary and middle-school readers. Articles with facts and figures, projects and experiments, literary selections, internet links, photographs, maps, artwork, games and puzzles

NoveList

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom.

NoveList K-8

NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. NoveList K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Updated monthly, NoveList K-8 is your starting place for learning about the books that you and your students need and will want to read!

Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en línea

(Una encyclopedia en linea euyo énfasis es América Latina)

Full-length online encyclopedia developed with the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus. Contains over 17,000 articles. Suitable for students of Spanish as well as native speakers. Uers must search the database in Spanish, but an English-Spanish dictionary is included.

OCLC FirstSearch

Underlying FirstSearch is the WorldCat database, the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographic resource available. Your users will find relevant records quickly and the location of resources—in your collection or at other libraries locally and around the globe—with the click of a button.

 

Primary Search

Provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school search. Articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator(Lexiles), and full text information dates back to 1990.

ProQuest

Access to current periodicals including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Baltimore Sun. Updated daily and contains full-text articles back to 1986. Offers "page image" which include graphics and tables.

 

Regional Business News

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Reference USA: Business, Residential and Health Care

Extensive information on 13 million businesses, 120 million households and 650,000 physicians and Dentists.

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.

Searchasaurus

A magazine index made especially for kids! It searches Primary Search and Middle Search Plus for full text magazine and encyclopedia articles, pictures, and Encyclopedia of Animals.

Student Resource Center

EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easil y sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. (Grades 6 to 12)

Testing and Education Reference Center

This online education resource provides everything a student needs to learn more about further education and assists in making informed decisions on their future from one single, handy database. Testing & Education Reference Center also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Some of the standardized tests included are: AP exam, SAT, GRE, civil service exams for places of employment like the U.S. Post Office, NCLEX for nurses, real estate, military, PRAXIS for teachers, and GRE. In addition to the standardized tests, this resource offers online information about private high schools, colleges and universities, graduate schools, and specialty schools.

 

 

World Book

The premier online reference source. With thousands of articles, state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed web sites, periodical content, and more!

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