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

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  • 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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  • Business Index ASAP — has full-text academic and business journals that can be used for research on management issues, economic indicators and business theory/practices as well as information on companies and industries worldwide.
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  • Child Development — features articles and research on children from early childhood through teenage with material on childhood education, health and parenting topics.
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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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  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select — is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
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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 Directory Library — provides listings for many industries. It includes these directory sources: Brands and Their Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, and National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.
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  • General OneFile — supplies articles on accounting, personnel management, business law, and communications and many other topics.
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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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  • Gale Virtual Reference Library — is a collection of eBook encyclopedias and almanacs.
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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 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 Resources — lets you search several literature databases at the same time on a Web site designed specifically for literature research. Find the full texts of literary works, journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
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  • LitFinder — contains full-text poems, short stories, speeches and plays including some material in Spanish.
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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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  • Women in History — provides access to journal articles covering all types of women’s issues including health issues, feminism, gender issues and cultural roles.
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