Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia, including its viewpoint articles that present the pros and cons of the issue. This database also includes a language translator which allows documents to be converted into eight different languages.
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. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Search and browse topics including sample business plans, how-to articles, overviews, and directories, including the Encylopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management, Consultant's and Consulting Organizations directory and more. Includes business books from John Wiley and over 200 business journals, including titles like: Better Asset Management, Black Enterprise, Consumer Comments, Cosmetics International, and more.
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided.
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. In addition, the online Dictionary is a dynamic resource for economists which: allows remote access to members of subscribing institutions
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals.
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.
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.
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
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.
This database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, health, government, history and sports.
Offers detailed descriptions of more than 2,000 popular jobs in 94 industries, as well as over 23,000 resources to help people select, plan, and advance their careers.
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. (Contains information about people, places, objects, events and ideas.)
This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works covering art, biography, business, geography, history and social science, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy and psychology, religion, science and technology.
Britannica's Global Reference Center, the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages. These extensive and thorough databases are intuitive and fast, delivering trustworthy information from around the globe.
A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Included in the database are full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets from a wide variety of medical sources as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine".
Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this comprehensive database features virtual searchable content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents, virtual origin maps and links to Spanish language content. Also included are image, title and subject indexes, and classroom resources which provide additional activities, lesson plans, blogs and essays.