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African-American History Online [Facts On File]
  fofweb.com
Covers the people and events in African American history from the 1400s to the present.

American Indian History Online [Facts On File]
  fofweb.com
Covers the history of 377 Native American tribes in North America.

American National Biography
  anb.org
Provides biographical information on North American men and women of renown. Only profiles persons who are dead.

Biography Reference Bank Select [Wilson]
  hwwilsonweb.com
Covers people in the news and a full range of history-makers featuring biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries.

Career Library (Trial access through December 2009)
  coin3.com
Career Library contains detailed information on more than 2,500 occupations, including interest and skills assessments, connecting results to the appropriate career cluster and/or occupation list. The surveys and assessments are based on the 16 federal career clusters (in English and Spanish). The system also includes state-specific resources, a resumé builder, and an Occupation Video Library (in English and Spanish).

CQ Researcher
  library.cqpress.com
Full text access to the CQ Researcher, a collection of in-depth reports topics of public interest. Site best viewed using Internet Explorer (I.E.).

CultureGrams
  online.culturegrams.com
Access to background reports on 190 countries. Provides maps, statistics, and background the political organization and social customs of each country. Content is supplement with recipes for dishes served in countries profiled and reports on individual states in the U.S.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Great Athletes [Salem]
  salempress.com
Large and comprehensive collection of sports biographies available through Salem History.

History Resource Center: U.S.
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Covers people and events of historical significance in American history from Pre-Columbian America forward. Content includes primary source materials.

History Resource Center: World
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Collection of primary sources, reference works, and scholarly journals providing materials for the study of World History.

Kids InfoBits [Gale]
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5, features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age appropriate, curriculum related magazine, and reference content.

LearningExpress Library
  learningexpresslibrary.com
Provides access to practice tests and online mini-courses to help students, recent immigrants, and job seekers. Available practice tests include the SAT, ACT, GRE, Civil Service, Citizenship Exam, and TOEFL. Now contains e-books!

Literature Resource Center
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Contains biographical information about 120,000 authors and critical analysis of their works, including Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.

Opposing Viewpoints
  infotrac.galegroup.com
Covers popular research topics for students by gathering together relevant essays, reference book entries, statistics, magazine and newspaper articles, images, primary source documents, and Web sites.

ProQuest Newspapers
  proquest.umi.com
Full text access to the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today.

Science Online
  fofweb.com
Contains biographies, diagrams, essays, experiments, definitions, and timelines selected to support the Science curriculum for Grades 6 through 12. Site best viewed in Internet Explorer (I.E.).

Student Resource Center - Gold [Gale]
  infotrac.galegroup.com
A collection of databases designed to help students with a variety of school assignments. Includes its own Multimedia Gallery of still images, film clips, and sound bites.

World Book Online
  worldbookonline.com
Contains the complete text of the World Book Encyclopedia, an interactive atlas and a dictionary. Includes Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, Spanish language version of World Book's Student Discovery Encyclopedia.