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Academic One File

This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Academic Search Premier

A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.

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African American Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

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Amazing Animals of the World

Detailed facts about where each animal lives, what it eats, how it sounds, and why it might be endangered today or in the near future helps students conduct meaningful research and prepare reports.

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American Indian Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians.

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American Periodicals (1740-1940)

APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,800 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. Also contains titles archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), including labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.

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AP Multimedia Archive

Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library.

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ARTbibliographies Modern

Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.

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AudioBookCloud

Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and even Spanish language audio books! There are 1,000 books in the collection. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download.

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Berg Fashion Library

Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion.

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Biography in Context

Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

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Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1903-1982

Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction in major subject areas.

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Bookflix

BookFlix pairs classic fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic. (PreK - 3)

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Books in Print

A bibliographic database of over 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, currently in print and information on forthcoming and out-of-print books. Also offers: reviews; tables of contents; cover images; author biographies; awards information; and annotations.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Business & Company Resource Center

Includes company profiles,executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols, news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, financial ratios, rankings, suits & claims (for civil claims suits in the area of Human Resources only), products & brands, industry overviews and associations.

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Business Insights: Essentials

Business Insights provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full text periodical articles. Formerly known as Business & Company Resource Center.

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Business Source Premier EBSCO

Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

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Career Cruising

Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.

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Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1830-1891

Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1891 (before Ellis Island). Searching via Stephen Morse's One Step Search Form.

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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)

Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language.

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Columbia Gazetteer of the World

A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.

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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.

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Contemporary Authors

Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.

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Credo Reference

Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.

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Current Biography Illustrated

Full text of Current Biography magazine. 

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Design and Applied Arts Index

International index to design and craft journals.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography

Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.

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Directories in Print

See Gale Directory Library for access to Directories in Print.

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Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers.

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EBSCO Primary Search

Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. The content of EBSCO Animals is also included.

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EBSCOHost

Provides access to over 30 databases with citations, abstracts and selected full-text. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete and other subject-specific resources. Specific databases available through EBSCOhost are listed at the EBSCOhost site and in this directory.

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Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection.

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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
 

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Encyclopedia Americana

The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database.

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Encyclopedia Judaica

Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes.

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Encyclopedia of American Religions

See Gale Directory of Databases for access to the Encyclopedia of American Religions.

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Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations

A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States. See Gale Directory Librayr for access to the Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations.

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ERIC (CSA)

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

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ERIC (EBSCO)

U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals.

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Ethnic NewsWatch

Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.

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Fiction Connection

Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy.

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FreedomFlix

Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. 

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Freegal Music

Freegal is downloadable music service which provides access to the catalog of artists in Sony Music Entertainment. Library cardholders can download three songs a week with their barcode and pin number. Freegal works with any MP3 device, including iPods. The New York Public Library's subscription to Freegal Music is generously supported by a grant from Community Funds, Inc. -- the Robert R. Asiel Memorial Fund.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO[grades 5-8]

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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Gale Directory Library

Search across a range of directories. Includes: Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Associations - International Organizations; Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Associations - Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources; Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations; Gale Directory of Databases; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Government Research Directory; Information Industry Directory;International Research Centers Directory; Law and Legal Information Directory; Market Share Reporter; National Faculty Directory; Publishers Directory; Research Centers Directory; Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies.

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Gale Directory of Databases

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Databases

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Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research. 

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General One File

This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.

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Government Research Centers Directory

See "Gale Directory Library" for access to this title. Use Advanced Search. 

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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia.

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Grolier Online

Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

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Health Reference Center Academic

Includes over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines.

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Infotrac Newstand

Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international.

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Kids Search

An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. The content from EBSCO Animals is included. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre

Spanish-language encyclopedia written from the Latin American perspective provides coverage of all curriculum-aligned topics so English Language Learners can conduct authentic research in their native language.

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Lands & Peoples

articles, almanacs, graphics and charts to help students explore the differences in the world’s lands and peoples.

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Latin American Newstand

ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.

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Latino American Experience

Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this database features content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents.

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LearningExpressLibrary

Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.

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Library Literature and Information Science Full Text

Provides indexing and abstracting of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 160 journals.

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Literature Criticism Online

Search a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres through a combined or individual search of a set of 10 literary series from Gale.

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Literature Online

A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources.

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Literature Resource Center

Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

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Mango Languages

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 38 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.

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MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

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Middle Search Plus

Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center

Access Morningstar financial reports, screening, analyst reports and porfolio screening. Use the Help & Education link to access information about this database and online course modules on investing.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

National Newspaper Index (1977-present)

Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.

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New Book of Knowledge

An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students.

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The New Book of Popular Science

Covers the vast worlds of science, technology, and medicine with curriculum-aligned articles and a rich array of photos, maps, and technical illustrations that help clarify scientific processes.

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New Book of Popular Science (for students)

A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers.

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New York State Newspapers

A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text.

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Newsletters in Print

A directory of newsletters in the United States, covering many subjects. See Gale Directory Library for access to Newsletters in Print.

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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.

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Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea

Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints contains nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.

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Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online offers users the ability to access the vast content of Grove Art Online, The  Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms all in one interface.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online

 Oxford Bibliographies Online is a library of discipline-based subject modules designed to help researchers find reliable sources of information for their research.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary contains all work to date of the third edition, reflecting daily updates and revisions. Also includes the full-text of the second edition, and a historical thesaurus. 

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Oxford Music Online

A gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Contains the Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

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Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

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Philosopher's Index

Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.

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PressDisplay

Provides access to current newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.  Includes over 1,000 U.S. and international titles.

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Project Muse

Provides full-text access to over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality book-length scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

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ProQuest Research Library

Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.

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Publishers Directory

A directory of United States and Canadian publishers. See Gale Directory Library for access to Publishers Directory.

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Readers' Guide Abstracts

Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting for more than 300 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.

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Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Business News Wire is now called "Regional Business News"

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Research Centers Directory

A directory of reseach centers, covering all subjects and disciplines.

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Searchasaurus [grades 1-3]

Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. Also includes the content from EBSCO Animals.

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Small Business Resource Center

Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Includes sample business plans, directories, including the Encylopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management, and more.

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Social Services Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development.

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Sociological Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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Something About the Author

Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists. 

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TrueFlix

TrueFlix is an online resource that helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.  

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TumbleBookCloud

TumbleBookCloud is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades.

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TumbleBookCloud Junior

TumbleBookCloud junior is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos and Audio Books suitable for elementary grades.

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TumbleBooks

Animated, talking picture books. Story books, puzzles and games, audiobooks, and books in other languages are all offered through the NYPL site.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Twayne's Authors Series

Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.  *Twayne's Authors Series  is now available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.

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U.S. History in Context

Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.

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What Do I Read Next?

Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read.

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World Book Online Reference Center

Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.

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World History in Context

From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.

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WorldCat -- OCLC

Search for materials held in libraries around the world.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.

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