Electronic Databases

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Subject List

Booklists and Readers Advsiory
Magazine/newspaper articles / Encyclopedias/ Directories
Auto Repair / Business & Law / Genealogy / Health / Literature / Science / Social Studies
Education & Test Prep /
Live OnLine Reference and Homework Help

Magazine/Newspaper articles

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)

The Daily Times Archive

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

ProQuest Direct

Abstracts and full text articles from thousands of magazines and newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times.

Ebsco Database

Search materials from periodicals to standard reference sources.  The individual titles are listed -- use this link to search multiple titles

Newspaper Source --

full text news articles and tv and radio news transcripts from national and regional resources

Magazine Articles For Kids!

Kidsearch

Middle Search Plus

Primary Search

Searchasaurus

Student Research Center

Books!

 

Novelist 

           Your Guide to Fiction (Ebsco)

Novelist K-8

           Guide to children's fiction (Ebsco)

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Social Studies

• America the Beautiful (State by State Info)
• Biography Resource Center
• Facts.com  (News digest on major U.S. and world events )
• History Reference Center
• Lands and Peoples (countries and cultures)
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations

Literature

• Literature Resource Center

Science

• New Book of Popular Science
• Science Resource Center
• Animals (Ebsco)

Health

• Clinical Pharmacology (Ebsco)
• Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Health Source - Consumer Edition (Ebsco)

Business/law

• Business Source Elite (Ebsco)
• Regional Business News (Ebsco)
• Business and Company Resource Center
• Thomson-Gale Maryland Legal Forms
  (thousands of legal forms available for download; a great "do-it-yourself" resource)

Auto Repair

Ebsco Auto Repair Reference Center

 

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Britannica
Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

Grolier Online

MasterFILE Premier

(access to hundreds of reference books)

New Book of Knowledge

Virtual Reference Library

La Nueve Enciclopedia Cumbre

(en Español)

Genealogy Resources

Heritage Quest

A unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes US Census records from 1800 on.

Ancestry.com

"The number one source for family history online." Access through Eastern Shore Regional Library. 

(This is available only in the Library or outlets)

National Telephone Book

Reference USA

A phone directory database with options for finding business or residential listings.

Skill Building

Testing and Education Reference Center

Information on college, graduate school, and special education; online interactive test preparation,

Grants Direct

Directory of funding resources, available in the main library only.  Please ask a librarian for assistance with this; it does require a staff log in.

 

ERIC

(Educational Research and Information Center)\

Wicomico Public Library
122 S. Division Street, Salisbury, MD 21801
Phone: 410-749-3612 Fax: 410-548-2968

Policy For Access To Electronic Information