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UAPL Online Reference Databases
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Provides full text for nearly 4,500 multidisciplinary journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. |
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Provides scientific coverage of more than 7,500 articles on twenty subjects from agriculture to veterinary science. |
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Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for nearly 180 international and many peer-reviewed journals and reports. |
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Presents a concise, statistical, 4-volume work identifying America's top-rated cities with populations of 100,000 or more. It covers 100 cities that have received high marks for their business and living environment. |
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Provides concise statistical profiles of top U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 99,999. Cities are ranked in multiple categories from Roadway Congestion to Economic Growth. |
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Presents social aspects of 10-year periods in 20th century American history covering arts, medicine, media, education, world events, religion, politics, lifestyles, law, religion, business, and sports. |
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Examines 10-year periods in 20th century American history illuminating each decade with first-hand accounts and primary source documentation representing a diversity of viewpoints. |
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Presents significant events for the first decade of the 21st century in all aspects of American history. |
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From New World explorers to today's headlines, this comprehensive and authoritative database investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. |
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Ancestry Library Edition |
Features comprehensive information for conducting genealogical and local history research. In-Library use only |
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Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. |
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Contains over 2,000 primary source historical documents provided by Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
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Provides a survey of the most important archaeological discoveries in North America, with in-depth essays on over 300 of the most important sites, as well as suggested books and articles for further reading. |
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Includes digital documentation of over 100,000 works of art from around the world for all time periods. |
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Contains repair information on more than 31,600 domestic and imported vehicles from 1945 to the present. ARRC includes over 200,000 drawings and photographs, 75,000 technical service bulletins, and 130,000 wiring diagrams. All content is created by ASE certified technicians. |
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Offers an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children's Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints. |
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Providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database. |
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Provides detailed repair information, photographs, diagrams, and maintenance tables for cars, trucks, vans and SUVs. |
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Covers 2-year and 4-year colleges in the United States and Canada, providing information on programs, degrees and much more. |
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Includes full-text articles from 1985 to the present, including recipes and obituaries. Searches may be narrowed by time frame or by browsing a specific issue. |
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Reports on how 4,383 hospitals in America measure up when caring for patients with a number of specific conditions. Each hospital is rated on 24 recognized quality measures and is compared to both state and national averages. |
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Details and ranks the living and business environment of 2,756 suburban communities in America's 75 largest metro areas. |
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Offers researchers the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. |
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Provides a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content which is designed to support patients' information needs. |
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Provides full access to the Consumer Reports website for product ratings and buying advice, plus exclusive online content such as new product evaluations, consumer reviews and much more. |
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Provides biographical information about authors, illustrators, poets, playwrights, journalists, and other writers. |
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Features photos, recipes, customs, lifestyle, and government info for 190 countries–plus a Kids Edition and a States Edition. |
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Provides content from a number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents on life around the world and through the ages. |
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Provides entrepreneurs and businesses a wealth of nationwide consumer and business information through a variety of simple, ready-to-use demographic reports. The perfect tool for finding untapped markets and household buying patterns, direct mail targeting, and much more. |
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Provides authoritative articles on a wide range of American history topics, from the well-studied and familiar to the obscure. |
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Digital Downloads (formerly Mid-Ohio Library Digital Initiative) |
Provides best selling audio and print books you can checkout and download to your PC and PDA at home, in the office, or anywhere in the world. Video and music downloads are also available through this resource. (Compatible Devices / Incompatible Devices) |
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Provides business, health, and education information from a variety of magazine and newspapers sources. |
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Provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business. |
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Includes 1,150 articles in European history from the print revolution to the French Revolution covering major topics as art, government and education. |
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Provides critical information on the most populous country and most dynamic trade market in the world, covering all aspects of life including the people, politics, art, religion and literature of this ancient civilization. |
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Researches the time period between the beginning of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I covering the people, major events, and developments. |
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Profiles the age of war and reconstruction in Europe from the Bolshevik Revolution to the European Union, linking it to the history of the rest of the world. |
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Contains articles on important ideas, beliefs, rituals, myths, symbols, and persons that have played a role in the history of religions from Paleolithic times to the present day. |
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Presents 600 detailed articles of all the information needs of small business owners, including financing; financial planning; business plan creation; market analysis; sales strategy; tax planning; human resource issues; and more. |
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Features comprehensive coverage of all aspects of constitutional law, including judicial decisions, congressional laws, executive orders and other public acts that have impacted our legal structure. |
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Covers American history from 1754 to 1829 and outlines the cultural development of the United States. |
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Contains more than 2,200 digests from the Educational Resource Information Center along with references for additional information, citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. |
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Helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly. |
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Offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats, organized by subject. |
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Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly. |
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Combines more than 1,500 clear, printable full color original maps with current statistical, geographical, and cultural information on more than 200 countries, all 50 states, as well as the world's continents and major regions. (Formerly Facts on File World Atlas) |
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Features news stories from 1940 to the present, news from Reuters, in-depth news features, and primary documents. |
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Provides biographic information on over 340,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across disciplines. (Formerly Biography Resource Center) |
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This premier media directory contains thousands of listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. |
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Contains current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. (Formerly West's Encyclopedia of American Law) |
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Offers coverage of pediatric diseases and disorders, along with issues related to physical and cognitive development for parents and health science students. |
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Presents authoritative, comprehensive information on special diets, dieting and popular diets, nutrition basics and the effects of dietary choices on one's health. |
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Fills a much-needed gap between legal texts focusing on the theory and history behind the law and more practical guides dealing with the law and its everyday effect upon its citizens. |
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Presents information on medical disorders and concepts and includes discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and related topics. |
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Highlights major areas of science including biology, genetics, microbiology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering, technology, and more. |
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Helps patients and families by showing them what happens during the diagnosis, surgical procedure, and aftercare; includes coverage of approximately 450 surgical procedures and medical tests. |
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Provides articles, topic overviews, statistics, and primary documents on social issues. (Formerly Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center) |
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Provides a curriculum-oriented science database focusing on key concepts in Earth Science, History of Science, Life Science, Physical Science, Science and Technology, Science as Inquiry, Space Science, and more. (Formerly Science Research Center) |
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Highlights developments in the animal world, starting with the simplest life forms, lower metazoans, and progresses through the more complex classes, culminating with mammals. |
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Supplies nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. |
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Contains over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI, and other collections for genealogical researchers. |
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Provides comprehensive coverage for many popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities. Includes full text for more than 740 magazines and books and hundreds of videos. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; needlework; outdoors & nature; scrapbooking and much more. |
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Assists homeowners in do-it-yourself home repair, maintenance, and remodeling projects with step-by-step instructions for thousands of projects around the house. Additionally, thousands of articles from magazines and reference books provide tips and suggestions to supplement the step-by-step project instructions. |
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James Dulley's $ensible Home |
Provides product reviews, home remodeling tips and do-it-yourself guides for all manner of projects. Update Bulletins are only available in a UAPL library location. In-Library use only |
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Allows elementary and middle school students to search by keyword or topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type, such as magazines, reference books, photos, and flags. |
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Provides access to academic and occupational online practice tests and tutorials such as: ACT, SAT, Civil Service Exams, TOEFL, and more. |
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Provides access to thousands of Ohio legal forms including business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues. |
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Includes fifteen different literature collections in the areas of poetry, drama, and fiction. |
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Presents biographies, literary criticisms, and bibliographies of over 130,000 authors and their works. |
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Offers interactive courses in any of 45 languages through a unique method of engaging the user in realistic conversations in the native language. |
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Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Designed specifically for high school libraries. |
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Offers full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, this database is designed specifically for public libraries. |
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Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE is a creation of the National Library of Medicine. |
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Contains full-text for 140 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. |
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Features comprehensive financial information on mutual funds, stocks, and ETFs. Create your own portfolios, compare funds to see how they work together, and read lists of current fund and stock recommendations. |
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Contains every issue of National Geographic Magazine from 1888 to current, as well as additional content from National Geographic such as maps, videos, images and books. |
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Provides access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, and USA Today for top news stories and articles on arts, sports, business, popular culture, and more. Most of these newspapers include coverage from the 1980s to the present. |
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Provides complete digital coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 2009. Search for specific topics or browse page by page through each issue. Access the historical Wall Street Journal and Washington Post from this same database. |
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Offers full text access to the Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Toledo Blade and the Dayton Daily News. NewsBank also has coverage of the Cincinnati Post through 2007. |
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Contains selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers. The database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts and selected full text for more than 260 regional newspapers. |
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Focuses on fiction and non-fiction titles popular with young readers at all grade levels. Search for titles or authors, or browse through hundreds of theme oriented book lists for novels of interest. |
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NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. With its intuitive interface and extensive feature content, NoveList Plus will help you to answer the question of what to read next. |
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Examines the relationship between food and health by analyzing how nutrition has affected the quality of life, health and fitness in different countries and different times in history. |
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Offers catalog access for locating books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
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Presenting the most extensive art reference source available, with over 26,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, and tens of thousands of images from Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art and other Oxford art reference works. |
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Provides an unsurpassed guide to the meaning and history of over 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English speaking world. |
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Containing multiple music sources in one easily searchable database, Oxford Music Online includes venerable reference works such as The Oxford Companion to Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
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Oxford Reference Online |
Features 100 language and subject dictionaries containing over 1.5 million definitions, facts, figures, and dates. In-Library use only |
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Refers to historical developments from prehistory through 2004 and explores the interrelationships between politics, economics, energy, transportation, technology, science, and medicine. |
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Presents information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for research without bias, advertising, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. |
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Offers the most comprehensive pricing tool in the world, containing data from eBay, Go Antiques, and TIAS. |
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Offers full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990. |
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Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high-quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles and more than 200 educational reports. |
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Contains nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and more. |
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Contains directory information on 14 million U.S. businesses and 89 million U.S. households. |
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Features comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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Provides extensive coverage from over 300 full-text journals on topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy and more. |
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Includes historical maps of Ohio towns and cities from 1876-1970. |
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Covers more than 7,500 sources of education-related financial aid and awards at all levels of study for students of all types. |
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Provides children with a specially designed search tool to access magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, and pictures. |
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Contains thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components. Engines types include: motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more. |
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Contains coverage of more than 500 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles, covering all areas of sociology, such as social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, and more. |
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage |
Features information on over 14,000 mutual funds and 10,500 company reports. In-Library use only |
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Provides a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. |
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Allows students to search for specific topics or browse subjects in magazines, newspapers, primary source documents, and images. |
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Provides a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full-text from more than 4,800 diverse sources. |
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Presents animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources. Includes storybooks, life learning books, and language learning books. |
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Introduces Upper Arlington's past through historical photographs, maps, magazines, and Upper Arlington High School yearbooks from 1923 through 1999. |
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Presents an index of most articles published from 1988 to the final publication of the Upper Arlington News on April 18, 2012. |
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Value Line Research Center |
Provides access to the authoritative Value Line Investment Survey and six other Value Line products, including the Small & Mid-Cap Edition and the Mutual Fund Survey. In-Library use only |
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Contains the most extensive listing of movies available on video and a multitude of cross-references within its 9 primary indexes. |
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Designed for vocational and technical libraries, high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public, this collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. |
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Provides full-image coverage of the nation's premier source for business and financial news from 1889 through 1995. Search for specific topics or browse page by page through each issue. Access the historical New York Times and Washington Post from this same database. |
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Provides full-image coverage of news from our nation's capital from 1877 through 1996. Search for specific topics or browse page by page through each issue. Access the historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal from this same database. |
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Provides accurate, independent information and ratings on more than 21,000 banks, insurance companies, and credit unions. In addition this source has investment rating from TheStreet.com on over 6,000 stocks and 16,000 mutual funds. |
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Consists of more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries from multiple sources. |
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Presents comprehensive information and unique insights into military conflicts from 1500 to the present; provides users with current, accurate, and enlightening information on the conflicts that have shaped our world. (Formerly United States at War) |
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Presents the online version of the award-winning encyclopedia with thousand of images, articles and primary source documents. |
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Offers a kids' version of the popular encyclopedia. |
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Presents a Spanish language version of the World Book Encyclopedia. |
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Explores important events and historical themes in every corner of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the Americas, from humankind's ancient origins to the year 1500. |
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Examines Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation. |
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Features easy-to-understand information on 200 countries and dependencies from all over the world. |
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