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AccessScience.

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AccessScience offers thousands of articles and illustrations in the fields of science and technology. News headlines, video clips, biographies, and more are available.

Grolier Online.

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America the Beautiful is a comprehensive source about the states and territories of the United States of America with lots of pictures, maps and statistics.

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Current Biography Illustrated provides profiles and images of people making news today as well as famous people back to World War II including celebrities, politicians, sports figures, writers, actors, scientists, and others.

eLibrary.

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eLibrary contains interview transcripts, speeches, and other primary source materials. It features a "go to the best part" button to help you browse quickly through your search results.

Grolier Online.

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Encyclopedia Americana Online includes the full text of the print Encyclopedia Americana and more.

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Europa World Yearbook contains political and economic information about more than 250 countries and territories through background information, statistics, and government and media contacts.

EBSCOhost.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia offers short articles on a variety of subjects including short biographical profiles.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of eBook encyclopedias and almanacs.

Grolier Online.

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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains articles, bibliographies and more.

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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.

EBSCOhost.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition has articles, pamphlets and reference texts on health issues ranging from self-help to drugs and alcohol.

Grolier Online.

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Lands and People Online provides information on cultures, geography, languages, and news and history of every independent country and continent in the world with maps, flags, photos, and Web links.

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MedlinePlus is an authoritative information source from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations and is organized by help topic. MedlinePlus also provides full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

Grolier Online.

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New Book of Knowledge has features of the print version plus Wonder Questions, facts and figures, projects and experiments, literary selections, and more.

Grolier Online.

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New Book of Popular Science contains hundreds of articles in the print version plus science games, puzzles, and brain teasers. Top-of-the-news science stories are updated weekly.

Grolier Online.

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Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre was conceived and developed with the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus. Based on the print encyclopedia, Cumbre, it contains thousands of articles, thousands of photographs, and more.



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Oxford English Dictionary Online provides the meaning and history of the English language. It also contains millions of quotations.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has signed biographies of the people who shaped all aspects of the British past from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000 with portrait illustrations.

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Searchasaurus is designed for elementary school aged children and allows them to search by keyword or topic. A dictionary, encyclopedia, and pictures are included.

 


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