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ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases Social Studies

American Government, American History, Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society State Geography, United States at War, World Geography, World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras

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Cengage (Gale) databases English, Health, Social Studies, and Professional

Academic OneFile, Biography Resource Center, Educators Reference Complete (Professional), Gale Virtual Reference Library, History Resource Center-World, Literature Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Critical Thinking, Power Search Plus, Sources in U.S. History, Testing & Education Reference Center

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Columbia University Press--Grangers English

Annual subscription to comprehensive poetry database. Features: 250,000 full text poems, 450,000 poem citations, Poem commentaries, Poet Biographies, 600 plus term glossary Poetry in over a dozen languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, German, Latin, and Yiddish.

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Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library Social Studies--Government, Law, Politics

Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library. CQEL is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. It also offers students a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content. Includes 8 modules: CQ Researcher, CQ Researcher en espanol, CQ Congress Collection CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Public Affairs Collection and CQ Voting and Elections Collection.

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Congressional Quarterly Encyclopedia of American Government Social Studies--Government, Law, Politics

A one-stop, easy-to-navigate reference on Congress, the Presidency, Supreme Court, and U.S. Election process, which is based on the award-winning A to Z Encyclopedia series

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Congressional Quarterly Politics in America Online Edition Social Studies--Government, Law, Politics

CQ's Politics in America has been called "the ultimate insider's guide to politics" and is an essential resource for readers who want authoritative information on the members of Congress.

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Congressional Quarterly Supreme Court Collection Social Studies--Government, Law, Politics

Content not available anywhere else! This collection blends CQ's unique historical analysis and summaries of the most important Supreme Court decisions together with justice biographies, statistics, and a quantitative analysis on essential topics, an institutional history of the Court, and news feed on current events and public opinion surrounding the Court's decisions. The Supreme Court Collection was recently awarded the Professional Scholarly Publishing award for Best Internet-Based Electronic Product for Social Sciences / Humanities

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Congressional Quarterly Historic Decisions Online Social Studies--Primary Source Documents

CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to present and provides a clear, logical organization and tools for exploring these rich resources.

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Country Watch Foreign Language, Social Studies

Country Watch Premium provides the most cost-effective, current and comprehensive source of socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and investment information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the world's 194 countries and many non-sovereign nations. CountryWatch Premium is made up of four distinct features, the Country Reviews, CountryWatch data, and Map Gallery, each complementing the other to provide maximum depth and coverage.

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Discovery Education Science Science

Databases of films across the science curriculum

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EBSCO Publishing Databases Health, English, Science, Foreign Language, Social Studies

Advanced Placement Source, Book Collection: Nonfiction, Health Source: Consumer Edition, History Reference Center, Points of View Reference Center, Science Reference Center, Ultra Online Package

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Encyclopedia Britannica Foreign Language Encyclopedia

Encyclopedias in French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Spanish

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Facts on File Databases English, Health, Science, and Social Studies

American History Online, American Indian History Online, American Women's History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online, Bloom's Literary Reference Online, Curriculum Resource Center, Ferguson's Career Guidance Online, Health Reference Online, Modern World History Online, Science Online, World Atlas, Issues and Controversies in American History

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Greenwood American Reference Books Annual

"ARBA is published in two formats: annually in print—Volume 36 publishes March 30, 2005—and as a subscription-based web site, ARBAonline. The web version includes the data from Volume 28 (1997) - present. New reviews of reference works are published monthly in ARBAonline, and the reviews published from February through January in ARBAonline are published in the print edition. On February 1, 2005, Libraries Unlimited and its sister company, Greenwood Electronic Media (GEM), launched this new version of ARBAonline. ARBAonline—the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works—has been entirely redesigned to offer a new layout and enhanced searching and browsing. Search functionality has been enhanced to offer easier, more powerful searches. Users will now be able to search by author, ISBN/ISSN, and content area. In addition, you will be able to browse by subject, or can zero in on new features by browsing the monthly updates. "

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Greenwood American Mosaic--The Latino American Experience Social Studies

Wide-ranging and easy to use, the Latino American Experience (LAE) is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.

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Greenwood World Folklore and Folk life English, Social Studies

The latest addition to the Daily Life Online suite, World Folklore and Folk life traces the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world. Organized by subject and region/country, this database allows users to research topics from scary stories to gender roles with ease

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H.W. Wilson Databases Art, English, Health, Science, Social Studies, and Professional research

Art Museum Image Gallery, Biography Reference Bank, Core Collections: Children's Middle & Junior HS & Senior HS (Professional), Current Issues in Health, Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus, Graphic Novels Core Collection, Science Full-Text Select

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Journey Back in Time English, Social Studies

Thousands of historical newspaper articles, gazettes, documents, and writings available to students, educators, researchers, and historians. Selected historical newspapers an documents cataloged and indexed in easy to locate thematic units which are really useful to the aspiring researcher.

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NewsBank Databases Art, English, Health, Social Studies

Access World News, America's Historical Newspapers, Newsbank English, Science, and Social Studies--Homework Help for Every Subject

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Oxford University Press--African American Studies Center English, Social Studies

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes more than 7500 articles by top scholars in the field, thousands of biographies, more than a hundred primary sources, as well as thousands of photographs, pictures, timelines, and charts.

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Oxford University Press--Islamic Studies Online Foreign Language, Social Studies

An authoritative, dynamic online resource for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians, Oxford Islamic Studies Online brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and will be regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online English, Social Studies

This landmark reference work, with state-of-the-art online features and 10,000 portrait illustrations, allows students to explore the lives of the people who shaped all aspects of the British past – and with it many of the influential men and women in American and world history.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection Art, English, Foreign Language, Health, Science, Social Studies

Whether it’s ready-reference or lengthy scholarly articles, this online reference library provides students with reliable answers to their questions across the full subject spectrum, featuring English and bilingual dictionaries, over 4500 maps, over 6000 illustrations, and 20th Century timelines.

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ProQuest Databases Art, English, Foreign Language, Science, Social Studies

Black Studies Center, eLibrary Curriculum Edition, Culture Grams, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Learning Literature, World Conflicts Today

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Teaching Books.net English

Teaching books is a unique service that provides up close and personal interviews (multimedia abounds!) with some of the most loved and respected children and young adult authors.  Also included are an array of lesson plans and other resources for use by language arts teachers and for students.

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Tech4Learning--Frames

Frames – is the perfect stop-motion animation tool for digital storytelling, clay animation and time-lapse projects. Creating animation engages students in the curriculum encourages problem solving, and provides a means to collaborate and communicate ideas. Combing digital images from cameras or existing image files with narration provides motivational options for students to recite stories, conduct interviews, or provide ‘on scene’ reports that focus on demonstrating content knowledge and understanding.

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Tech4Learning--Recipes4Success

Recipes4Success – is a comprehensive set of online resources designed to help infuse technology into existing curriculum. Recipes4Success supports technology integration, providing tutorials and just-in-time references for common classroom tittles, as well as a wealth of handouts and online tools that support effective technology work. Trainers and teachers will find Recipes4Success to be an invaluable and time-saving tool for providing class and individual differentiated instruction.

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