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Electronic Reference Books

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary Edition

This collection contains searchable full text for more than thirteen hundred 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.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary Edition is available on Android and iOS.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition

This collection contains searchable full text for more than twenty-four hundred fifty 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.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition is available on Android and iOS.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition

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.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition is available on Android and iOS.

Children's Core Collection

Used for collection development, readers' advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, Children's Core Collection 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.

Please note: This database has a simultaneous user limit. If you are unable to access it, please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Credo Reference

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 a game, or just curious, Credo Reference has something for you.

Gale Directory Library

Gale Directory Library is the electronic version 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.

Gale Directory Library is available on Android and iOS.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search over one thousand electronic reference books individually or as a group. Titles include subject-specific encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, handbooks, and almanacs.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is available on Android and iOS.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective cites articles from English-language periodicals from 1907-1984. Humanities topics include Archaeology, Art, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. Social Sciences topics include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Community Health & Medical Care, Criminal Justice, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Geography, Gerontology, Minority Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

Please note: This database has a simultaneous user limit. If you are unable to access it, please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is available on Android and iOS.

Middle and Junior High Core Collection

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.

Please note: This database has a simultaneous user limit. If you are unable to access it, please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Middle and Junior High Core Collection is available on Android and iOS.

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