• Encyclopedia  Americana (in-depth research)
• Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia (quick research)
• New Book of Knowledge online (student research)
• Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
• The New Book of Popular Science

Encyclopedia Britannica Online -- Highlights:

• Intuitive interface for easier navigation: Articles include an interactive Table of Contents, page numbers, and section headings to help orient users within each article.
• Over 75,000 articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, including 23,000 biographies.
• Magazines and News Headlines: Get headlines from The New York Times, the BBC, the SBS Australian News Service, and full-text articles from more than 700 magazines and periodicals provided by EBSCO and Proquest.
• Gateway to the Classics: An introduction to significant works of history, literature, philosophy, and science.
• Web Links: Access 166,000 Web sites selected by Britannica editors for additional quality information.
• Vivid graphics and multimedia: Over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files engage users and bring articles to life.
• Extensive World Atlas: Search thousands of maps, flags, articles, and statistics.

Novelist K-8  is specifically for children and young adults.

• Indexes poetry from 4,000 anthologies, 5,500 single-author works, and 6,500 periodical issues 

• International in scope, coverage from antiquity to the present 
• Over 80,000 authors included with key biographical data 
• Create instant bibliographies with full bibliographic information for poem sources, including page numbers 

Search by any word(s) in a poem title, first line, last line,  book title, author, thousands of designated subjects and more.

Essay/Speech/Play Finder  Essay/Speech/Play Finder joins Roth's family            of literature databases which also includes our acclaimed poetry databases, Poem Finder and its sister school version, The World's Best Poetry Online; and Story Finder. Essay/Speech/Play Finder is a unique database of full-text essays, speeches and plays. 
 

• Essays provides full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. The controlled vocabulary subject access provides for precise searching. Full bibliographic information and Library of Congress subject classifications are provided for source books.

•  Speeches   From antiquity to modern times, these speeches represent the finest examples of recorded oratory. Speechmakers have commented on the milestones of history as   well as the minutiae of everyday life. We are collecting the best and the best-known  speeches of the past 2,500 years and categorizing them into easily searchable genres. 

•  Plays Over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades,  tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, children's and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Plays are analyzed for subjects,  and also list all characters. This database will continue to grow with periodic updates to the most complete single-source for full-text plays available. 

Learning Express

LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

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Mergent, Inc. offers financial, business and legal professionals, information specialists and individual investors a full range of powerful research tools in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and online formats. Mergentâ€â�ž¢s databases contain key financial, fundamental and descriptive data for over 15,000 U.S. public companies, 20,000 non-U.S. public companies from nearly 100 countries, and 20,000 U.S. municipal entities, as well as extensive company analysis, corporate bond, unit investment trust, corporate actions, mutual fund and dividend information.

• Key financial, fundamental and descriptive data for 
• 15,000 U.S. public companies
• 20,000 non-U.S. public companies from approximately 100 countries
• Over 115,000 annual reports
• Data on 20,000 U.S. municipal entities
• Unit investment trust statistics featuring more than 20,000 payment options
• Corporate actions
• Dividend information on 12,000 stocks and 18,000 mutual funds

Extensive bond information on 68,000 issues

Morningstar

Profit from Morningstar analysts' independent opinions on 1,700 stocks and 2,000 funds. Our analysts pull no punches, give you honest opinions, and lay out the risks so you don't get burned.

FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980. FACTS.com connects all the relevant material in the database using approximately half a million internal hyperlinks. FACTS.com is updated every week. In addition, headline news stories from Reuters are updated every hour. 

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• Six volumes from The Greenwood Encyclopedia of 
•  27 volumes from the critically acclaimed Daily Life 
•  Related history reference works from Greenwood 
•   Related general nonfiction and monographs from 
•    Primary documents
•    And more 

What is NetLibrary?   eContent isn't new to libraries. What is new is the ever-widening array of choices and eResources available through the Web. As formats, languages and technologies multiply, so does the challenge to manage and deliver quality content â€â€� in ways that will work both today and tomorrow.

NetLibrary meets that challenge as the most versatile eContent provider for libraries and publishers today. It supports the most content from leading publishers, the most types of media � including eBooks and eAudiobooks � the widest audience of users and the most types of libraries. NetLibrary takes you far beyond the world of eBooks to provide a flexible and stable eContent platform that is positioned for continual rapid content growth.

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