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General Reference	Literature
Business and Economics	Magazines
Citations	Newspapers
Health/Medical	Sciences
History & Social Studies	Test Prep & Careers

General Reference:

World Book Reference: contents include an authoritative encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, articles and a Spanish edition.

Ebsco Host Research Databases: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Gale Virtual Reference Library: full text business, history, law and medicine reference books online.

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Business and Economics:

Business & Company Resource Center: contains magazines and journals as well as reference sources regarding the business and economics.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: full text business reference books online.

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Citations:

Citation Machine:

IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy:

MLA Citation Generator:

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Health/Medical:

Health & Wellness Reference Center: delivers health related magazines, journals, and newsletters (1980 - present); Newspapers (1999 - present); Pamphlets (current year plus two year backfile); and Reference (latest edition).

Health Reference Center - Academic: provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals.

Medline Plus: is a federal government web site that includes health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia and dictionary, with current health related articles and medical directories.

SIRS Researcher: database containing thousands of selected full-text articles exploring scientific, health, and other topical issues.

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History & Social Studies

ABC-CLIO World History: Social Studies database with focuses on history and social studies resources.

Biography Resource Center: blend of short biographies from reference sources and magazines.

Britannica: Annals of American History: primary source documents from American historical sources, speeches, memoirs, literature, publications, and includes media formats such as pictures, video clips and recorded materials.

CQ Researcher: assorted documents and information on various government issues, legal matters and current events.

CQ Supreme Court Collection: blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: full text business, history, law and medicine reference books online.

Modern World History Resource Center: documents from reference and primary sources as well as information from journals and periodicals.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: provides information on today's hottest social issues from selected published books, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

SIRS Researcher: contains thousands of selected full-text articles and web sites exploring history, social issues, and government documents, as well as information on the arts and humanities.

Student Resource Center - Bronze: delivers reference sources, full-text periodicals, newspapers, journals, pamphlets, primary source documents, web sites, and student research tools on geography, culture, history and literature.

US History Resource Center: contains United States historical based documents from reference and primary sources as well as information from journals and periodicals.

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Literature:

Lit Finder: contains full-text poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches with references and citations.

Literature Resource Center: (LRC) offers a wealth of information that includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.

Twaynes Author Series: View full text discussions of an author's works and a chronology of the author's life.

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Magazines:

Ebsco Host Research Databases: 700 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984.

Infotrac: periodical database is designed for students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

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Newspapers:

Infotrac Custom Newspapers: is an extraordinary new Web-based collection of full-text newspapers from around the United States and the world.

National Newspaper Index: is a database of articles from Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post from 1980.

Proquest: is a database of scholarly education periodicals and the New York Times Newspaper both current editions and historical New York Times back to 1851 editions.

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Sciences:

Science Resource Center: includes a database of current journals and reference sources of scientific information.

Ebsco Host Research Databases: database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications.

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Test Prep & Careers:

Testing & Educational Reference Center: includes information on colleges, distance learning programs, graduate level programs, career schools and test preparation for all types of educational exams.

Occupation Outlook Handbook: government database for all types of jobs and employment with facts that tell you about:

the training and education needed

earnings

expected job prospects

what workers do on the job

working conditions

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Created by Midwood High School Library Staff

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	the training and education needed
	earnings
	expected job prospects
	what workers do on the job
	working conditions