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Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Book Index with Reviews (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: An index of book, music, and video titles with over 800,000 full-text reviews.

CQ Researcher (Provider: CQ Press)
Description: special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics

ERIC* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Index of education journals, reports, and dissertations, some with links to full-text.

Literary Reference Center Plus* (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Includes literary journals, books, author biographies, plot summaries, and more.

Literature Resource Center* (Provider: Gale)
Description: literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, bibliographies, links to web resources, and more

MAS Ultra* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: A basic reading level collection of journal articles, reference books, documents, and photos.

Opposing Viewpoints (in context) (Provider: Gale)
Description: A multimedia database with in-depth analysis of thousands of social issues. Includes essays, journal articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more. A companion to the Opposing Viewpoints book series.

Primary Search (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic reading-level articles from over 70 popular magazines.Also includes Encyclopedia of Animals.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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