Electronic Reference Books
This collection contains searchable full text for more than 1,300 popular nonfiction books for elementary school students. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics, and more.
This collection contains searchable full text for more than 2,450 popular nonfiction books for high school students. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics, and more.
This collection contains searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books for middle school students. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics, and more.
Used for collection development, readers' advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, Children's Core Collection & Catalog Archive includes fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, magazines, websites, and online subscription resources recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
Credo Reference is an online reference service made up of full-text books from the world's best publishers. Whether you're working on a research paper, trying to win trivia, or just curious, Credo Reference has something for you.
Famous First Facts offers fast access to entries on thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history from the date of the earliest human artifacts found in America, in 10,000 B.C., through 1997.
Gale Directory Library is the electronic verson of traditional print titles. This includes Ward's Business Directory, Encyclopedia of Associations, and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. Users can perform state-of-the-art searches, sort and export data to analyze or generate mailing lists, print/email/download individual entries, and perform further research through hot-linked websites and email addresses.
Search over 100 electronic reference books individually or as a group. Titles include subject specific encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, handbooks, and almanacs.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index cites articles from English-language periodicals covering a variety of topics. Humanities topics include Archaeology, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Social Sciences topics include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Middle and Junior High Core Collection is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books for young people in grades five through nine, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. Nonfiction works are classified by subject according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Works of fiction and story collections are designated Fic and S C.
