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Gale Group provides access to literary criticism, authors' biographical information, history, and science databases.

Databases
  • Biography Resource Center — provides in-depth coverage of current and historic people. It provides articles and portraits.
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  • Business and Company Resource Center — includes company profiles, histories, chronologies, rankings, brand information, investment reports, ratios and articles on over 300,000 companies.
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  • Computer Database — covers computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
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  • Expanded Academic ASAP — covers every academic discipline through scholarly journals, news and general interest magazines, and the New York Times.
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  • Gale Virtual Reference Library — is a collection of eBook encyclopedias and almanacs.
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  • General Reference Center Gold — provides indexing, abstracts, and full-text for thousands of magazines and newspapers including the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor.
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  • Health and Wellness Resource Center — offers medical journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, pamphlets, and medical encyclopedias and dictionaries on a broad range of health topics. It includes a drug/herb finder and information on alternative medicine.
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  • InfoTrac OneFile — supplies articles on accounting, personnel management, business law, and communications and many other topics.
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  • InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy — features a selection of hundreds of magazines and journals covering religion and the related areas of philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.
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  • Junior Edition — offers magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary is one of the reference books included.
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  • Kid's Edition - K12 — is designed for elementary school students with information on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, government, history, and more.
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  • Kid's InfoBits — is for the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a graphic interface, a subject search, and full-text, age-appropriate magazines and newspapers on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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  • LegalTrac — indexes hundreds of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
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  • Literature Resource Center: LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors — Literature Resource Center includes biographical information, literary criticism from scholarly journals, book reviews, plot summaries, timelines, articles covering literary movements and bibliographies on thousands of writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and of all nationalities. It integrates the resources of several literary resources to provide access to a wide range of literary sources of information about authors and their works.
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  • Litfinder — spans poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. It also contains study guides, glossaries, pictures, and more.
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  • Military and Intelligence Database — provides hundreds of military-related and general magazines.
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  • Professional Collection — is a custom selection of hundreds of full-text journals.
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  • Science Resource Center — covers the latest scientific developments from hundreds of magazines. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers content directly related to state and national education standards.
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  • Student Edition — focuses on general reference materials with a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, government, history, and many other topics. It contains audio and video clips and primary sources.
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  • Student Resource Center Gold — provides a selection of original reference material, overviews, critical essays, primary source documents and full-text magazines and newspapers with audio and video clips, photographs, maps and graphics.
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  • What Do I Read Next? — contains descriptions of thousands of highly recommended adult, teen and children's fiction titles from multiple genres. This database is very useful if you would like to know the sequence of a series of titles by one author or if you are looking for other authors who write in a similar genre or style.
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