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Academic Search Premier   Full text for scholarly and academic magazines and periodicals- covering nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguisitics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Bartleby  The reeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Biography Resource Center  A database of biographical information on more than one milliion people from throughout history, around the world, and across the disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by person, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Biography Resource Center: African Americans  Biography is the fascinating and intriguing story of human life.  It enriches our understanding of ourselves and others, the forces that make history, and the bonds tht all of us share.  Learn more about famous African Americans by consulting this resource.

Black History Month Resource Center  Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long timeline excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Center  Includes over 50 biographies, a five-century-long historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as the Hispanic culture quiz or planning a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

 INFOTRAC OneFile  Search over 8 million articles by subject or keyword.  The General Reference Center is a single point of access to full-text and image sources: periodicals, journals, reference books, investment reports, dictionaries, newsletters, pamphlets, maps and more.

In the First Person  In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories in English from around the world.

Kidspace  Homework Help, safe and educational links geared for kids.

Learning Express Library  Learning Express can help you with your educational goals.  Need a practice test for the GED? Need some practice with questions from the SAT? Studying for your U. S. Citizenship?  Get started here.  In addition to educational tests like the ACT and SAT, Learning Express Library offers tests, skill-buidling courses and other information for job seekers, elementary school children and more.

Literature Resource Center  Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and discipline.  Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Coverage of 2,000 of the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary theme. Combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and more.

Ohio Web Library The Ohio Web Library has resources to help Ohioans of all ages and all stages of life.  The Ohio Web Library  is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources.  The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers from Ohio and the nation, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more. The Ohio Web Library supports quality education, a skilled workforce, business growth, and lifelong learning in Ohio.

 


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