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MAS Ultra™ - School Edition
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc.
All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and over 107,000 primary source documents. MAS Ultra™ -- School Edition also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts); an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Content includes:
- Nearly 500 full-text magazines
- More than 360 reference books
- 85,670 biographies
- Over 107,000 primary source documents
- Over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, and color PDFs
MAS Ultra -- School Edition is made available via Student Research Center and/or EBSCOhost®.
Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.
The database also contains selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
.Content includes:
- Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers
- Selected full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers
- Full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News and NPR, etc.
Newspaper Source is made available via Student Research Center, and/or EBSCOhost®.
Health Source®: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
Also included in this database is searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society.
Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 9,900 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
Content includes:
- Nearly 80 Full-Text Magazines
- Full Text for Current, Health-Related Pamphlets
- Nearly 130 Full-Text Reference Books
Health Source: Consumer Edition is made available via Student Research Center and/or EBSCOhost®.
TOPICsearch™
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
TOPICsearch contains:
- Biographies
- Book Reviews
- Government Information
- Newspapers
- Pamphlets
- Periodicals
- Public Opinion Polls
TOPICsearch is made available via the Searchasaurus® interface, Kids Search, Student Research Center, and/or EBSCOhost®.
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
ERIC contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Content includes:
- More than 1.3 million records
- Links to more than 323,000 full-text documents
ERIC is made available via Student Research Center, and/or EBSCOhost®.
Professional Development Collection™
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world.
Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals including:
- Booklist
- Education
- Education Digest
- Education Week
- Educational Leadership
- High School Journal
- Journal of Education
- Journal of Educational Research
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Reading Teacher
- School Library Journal and many others.
Content includes:
- 729 Abstracted and Indexed Journals
- 519 Full-Text Journals
- 526 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed Journals
- 356 Peer-Reviewed, Full-Text Journals
Professional Development Collection also contains:
- Educational Reports
- Author Supplied Abstracts
- Native PDFs
Professional Development Collection is made available via Student Research Center, and/or EBSCOhost®.
Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin; Encyclopedia of Animals™; and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Content includes:
- More than 140 full-text periodicals
- Thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags
- 84,774 full-text biographies
- Over 107,000 primary source documents
Middle Search Plus is made available via the Searchasaurus® interface, Kids Search, Student Research Center, and/or EBSCOhost®.
Primary Search®, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for more than 80 popular, elementary school magazines.
All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.
The American Heritage® Children's Dictionary by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Content includes:
- 82 full-text magazines
- Thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags
Primary Search also includes:
- The Encyclopedia of Animals
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition
Primary Search is made available via the Searchasaurus® interface, Kids Search, and/or EBSCOhost®.
Vocational & Career Collection™ provides full-text coverage for more than 340 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Hotel & Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.
Trade and industry periodicals include:
- Advertising Age
- American Machinist
- Drug Store News
- Hotel and Motel Management
- Modern Machine Shop
- Pediatric Nursing
- Restaurant Business
- Reeves Journal
- Wireless Week
Vocational & Career Collection is made available via Student Research Center and/or EBSCOhost®.
Academic Search™ Elite
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information.
Academic Search™ Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
The database includes PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Content includes:
- Over 3,650 Abstracted and Indexed Journals
- More than 2,100 Full-Text Journals
- Over 2,900 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed Journals
- More than 1,700 Peer-Reviewed, Full-Text Journals
"Academic Search Elite is a user-friendly, flexible, and customizable system for researchers and librarians. Very highly recommended for all libraries." Christine K. Oka, Bibliographic Services, Northeastern University - from Library Journal
Business Source® Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for over 1,000 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
Regional Business News™ is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Elite. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional US and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 80 sources.
Business Source Elite customers will receive supplemental access to the following resources:
Coverage includes:
- Over 1,000 Business Publications
- More than 10,100 Company Profiles from Datamonitor
MasterFILE™ Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles* (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.
* Science News is available in HTML back to 1975.
Content includes:
- Nearly 1,700 full-text periodicals
- Over 510,000 photos, maps and flags
- Over 107,000 primary source documents
- More than 500 full-text reference books
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Advanced Placement Source
Advanced Placement Source is designed to meet the extensive needs of high school students enrolled in various AP courses. It offers a world of knowledge for students who seek to achieve academic excellence. This database is designed to support students in multiple areas of study including mathematics; physics; chemistry; biology; computer science; human geography; psychology; economics & statistics; government & politics; environmental science; U.S., European & world history; the arts and music. Advanced Placement Source contains more than 5,700 full-text journals and over 300,000 photos, maps and flags.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/aq-coverage.xls
Auto Repair Reference Center™
EBSCO Publishing has partnered with Point 5 Technologies to create Auto Repair Reference Center™. The Auto Repair Reference Center database includes automotive repair information supplied by Point 5 Technologies, Inc., under license from Nichols Publishing, the former publisher of Chilton® Information and information from Delphi Integrated Service Solutions. Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes more than 33,100 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 250,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 77,570 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 144,600 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; unlimited remote access and much more. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.
Biography Reference Center ™
Biography Reference Center™ offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
In addition to keyword searching, users can also locate biographies of interest by browsing more than 25 genre categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and many others.
Content includes:
- 9,000 Biographies from American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
- Biography Today's Complete Collection
- Biography's Complete Collection
- Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
- Columbia University Press Biographies
- Congressional Biographies from the American Reference Library
- Encyclopedia Britannica Biographies
- Hutchinson’s Biography Database
- Notable American Women, Harvard University Press
- People in the News Collection
- Profiles of United States Presidents
- Salem Press biographies
- And many more..
Book Collection: Nonfiction™
Book Collection: Nonfiction™ is a rich research database for school libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers such as Allosaurus Publishers, Bess Press, Inc., Branden Publishing, Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Fulcrum Publishing, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds, Inc., Morning Glory Press, Oliver Press, Rourke Publishing, LLC and Stackpole Books. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,048 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/nd-coverage.xls
CINAHL®
CINAHL® provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 72 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cin20-coverage.xls
Career Guidance System™
This resource offers students, counselors, teachers and parents a centralized location to work together on career and college guidance. Career Guidance System™ offers a quick, user-friendly system over the Internet, suited to many situations - whether a class of students is drafting career goals, or a student conducts a college search independently, or a counselor assists students. This comprehensive system also offers individualized portfolio tools, and reporting features for educators and administrators, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Career Guidance System helps to make the career curriculum connection, and guide plans for post-secondary options.
Career Guidance System offers several important elements:
Career and Postsecondary Exploration – In this exploratory segment, users search current data on over 2,500+ occupations, apprenticeships and military jobs; access a resume builder with tips and options for customization; view occupational interviews with experienced professionals; locate jobs classified into U.S. Department of Education's 16 Career Clusters; mine current data on nearly 4,000 two-year and four-year colleges as well as private trade schools; and access occupational videos in English and Spanish.
Assessments – This segment lets users access research-based interest and skills assessments, which connect specific results to career clusters and/or occupations. These assessments are available in English and Spanish.
Academic Planning – This component allows for exploration of higher education and finds institutions that meet specific needs and goals. It offers a multi-year academic planner with drop-down course offerings; integrated, visible tracking of dual/articulated credits in partnership with technical or community colleges; crosswalks highlighting connections between high school subjects and/or college majors and occupations, and a comprehensive lifelong electronic portfolio (individual graduation portfolio), including ability to download personal history.
Skill Development – This component helps students to enhance their work-skills and knowledge through a series of tools. It includes journal prompts to promote analysis and growth of workplace skills; weekly quizzes to improve student achievement on SAT, ACT, GED, and state proficiency tests; daily history and vocabulary quizzes to reinforce content acquisition; student learning activities connecting job skills to curriculum topics; and a goal builder to identify important personal, career and academic goals.
Standards-Aligned Curriculum – This component offers Unit and Lesson plans providing career options in cross-curricular areas. It is designed to meet the objectives of No Child Left Behind and the ASCA National Model, and includes content aligned with most state and local curriculum standards.
Transition Tools – Career Guidance System provides a variety of tools to add to the user experience including audio prompts for all assessment questions, summary of performance module to record postsecondary transition plans, and various life skills activities.
Administrative Reports/Management – Career Guidance System provides many administrative options and reports for each user to customize and learn from his/her experience. It offers hundreds of real-time individual and aggregate reports on student usage, including assessment result reports by career cluster. Reports can be filtered by gender, ethnicity, and grade level. The system also offers the ability to upload course lists, graduation requirements, and certain student data. Additionally, checklists are provided for completion of career & college-related activities.
Career Library™
Career Library™ offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Five user-friendly components help users match their interests to occupations, education prospects, and more. Created for individual researchers and career/education technology professionals, Career Library is a valuable addition to libraries and career centers.
Career Library consists of five major components:
Exploration Center – This component lets users assess career interests and explore information pertaining to occupations and higher education. It contains interest and skills assessments, connecting results to career cluster and/or occupation list. It provides various search options and important information including: Occupation Search, College Search, Financial Aid Information, Apprenticeships, Military Occupations, College Majors, State-specific Data, Occupation Video Library (English and Spanish), and more.
Planning Center – This component lets users obtain printable resources and gather information that will assist with planning to enter the higher education community or the workforce. It includes resources such as a resume builder, as well as college and career planning checklists.
Resource Center – This segment lets users search for web resources related to colleges/universities, careers, curriculum, and much more. It provides information on items including: "Cool Jobs" (job profiles on up-and-coming or out-of-the-ordinary careers), Web Resources, Full Text Articles, Standards-aligned Curriculum, Occupation Video Library (English and Spanish), State-specific Data, and more.
Help Center – A dedicated technical support section, this component provides items such as documents to hand out to student and parent users, Help files, FAQs and more.
Activity Center – This component offers ways for users to test their knowledge on history, vocabulary, math, English, and occupations in an engaging environment. It includes items such as Interactive Quizzes on history and vocabulary, online polls, sample proficiency & standardized test questions, GED sample tests and more.
Consumer Health Complete™
Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Consumer Health Complete™ features full text for more than 200 health reference books and encyclopedias, including the American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide, American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, Columbia University Children’s Medical Guide, Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs 2008, Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Mayo Clinic Guide to Women’s Cancers, Oxford Handbook on Child Nutrition, Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, Royal Society for Medical Health Encyclopedia, and many more. Consumer Health Complete also contains thousands of full-text evidence-based, health reports; 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names from Lexi-PAL Drug Guide; hundreds of medical images and diagrams; more than 720 physician-generated videos (with audio narration); more than 560 full-text consumer health pamphlets and leaflets; more than 240 narrations (with audio narration); nearly 570 consumer health related periodicals; and much more.
Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cm-coverage.xls
English Language Learner (ELL) Reference Center™
This multi-purpose information resource is designed for middle/high school students and those that are new to the English language. ELL Reference Center will help ELLs to succeed academically and in everyday life by providing assistance as they conduct research, build their background knowledge and develop study skills.
ELL Reference Center includes 1,000 Foundation documents
- Created by ELL experts
- Foundation documents have been created to reflect age-appropriate interest levels
- Aligned to main U.S. Curriculum documents
ELL Reference Center provides users with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, as well as reference materials that are created specifically for ELL students and the educators that work with them. Customized content is designed to support ELLs' English-language proficiency and comprehension—including literacy, researching, note-taking and academic writing.
ELL Reference Center content covers a wide range of subject area topics—including Science, History, Civics, Life Skills and Literature—and is written in an age-appropriate interest level, using vocabulary and simplified structure helpful to non-native speakers.
Customized content includes:
- Nonfiction articles and reference texts
- Images
- Step-by-step guides
- Audio/Text-to-speech support enables students to highlight and listen to text
- Search tools and support features
- ELL reading levels
- Lexile reading scores
- Result list with intuitive Narrow Results by Options
- Related Inset Feature - Links to articles that lead students to further content to increase topic comprehension
History Reference Center®
History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, such as: Branden Publishing, Compass Point Books, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications, and more. The database also includes full text for 135 leading history periodicals including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, Beaver, British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives, Civil War Times, Foreign Affairs, German History, History, History Review, History Today (back to January 1975), History: Review of New Books, Kansas History, Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild West, World War II and more. Further, the database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 57,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/kh-coverage.xls
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™ provides comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 500 magazines and books, as well as access to 333 videos and 144 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast.
Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft. The database also features extensive information on over 140 topics.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter's World, and many more.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cf-coverage.xls
Home Improvement Reference Center™
Home Improvement Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. This comprehensive resource contains 26 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House). Remote access is available for library patrons for use from home.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/h4-coverage.xls
Literary Reference Center™
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for 31,098 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, nearly 140,000 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), more than 430 literary journals, more than 605,000 book reviews, more than 60,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 15,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,200 author interviews, more than 7,100 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/lf-coverage.xls
Literary Reference Center™ Plus
Literary Reference Center™ Plus is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research.
Literary Reference Center Plus contains everything in Literary Reference Center, plus the following:
- Over 1,000 Additional Full-Text Literary Reference Books/Works, including titles with a focus on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, children's literature, Hispanic literature, and other areas
- Over 100 Additional Full-Text Literary Journals & Magazines, including titles with a focus on multi-cultural studies, folklore, Latin American literature, and historical literature
- 35 Volumes of New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press relating to Fantasy/Science Fiction, Contemporary Literature, World Philosophy, Quotations In Context, Religious Literature, and Biographies of Nobel Literature Prize Winners
- 40 Full-Text Literary Study Guides, covering:
- American Literature - helping students explore novels and plays by
American authors
- English Literature - helping students with the study of novels, poems,
and plays
- Literary Genres - helping students understand the characteristics of
different forms of literature
- 74 Literary Videos pertaining to classic literary works and authors
In addition, Literary Reference Center Plus includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.
Content includes:
- More than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
- Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
- More than 159,000 author biographies
- More than 550 literary journals
- More than 632,000 book reviews
- More than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems
- More than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories
- More than 5,600 author interviews
- 40 full-text study guides
- 74 literary videos
- More than 8,200 classic texts
MagillOnLiterature Plus™
MagillOnLiterature Plus™, produced by Salem Press, combines all the quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.
NoveList® Plus
NoveList® Plus is an online readers’ advisory service. Currently, the database contains information on over 170,400 fiction and over 68,500 nonfiction titles for all ages, which can be searched using 77,300 subject headings. Users can find books in a variety of ways including searching by title, author, or plot. NoveList Plus helps libraries provide the best readers’ advisory service possible to their readers. Other features include: over 550 book discussion guides, over 570 award lists, over 930 booklists arranged by genre or topic, and much more.
NoveList Plus contains:
• More than 170,400 Fiction Titles
• More than 68,500 Nonfiction Titles
• 77,300 Subject Headings
• Over 550 Book Discussion Guides
• Over 570 different award lists
• Over 930 Booklists
Developed by librarians, for librarians, NoveList Plus is a comprehensive online readers’ advisory tool. Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more. All of this rich editorial content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field -- making NoveList Plus the premier readers’ advisory resource.
You’ll also find tools to help you progress in your RA practice, such as our popular Genre Outlines developed by RA experts Neal Wyatt and Joyce Saricks, or use our online training materials and re-familiarize your library staff with appeal factors, the RA interview, or any other aspect of readers’ advisory.
NoveList® K-8 Plus
NoveList® K-8 Plus is a reading resource for kids and the school media specialists who work with them. NoveList K-8 Plus has an easy to use, brightly-colored interface, and information on over 84,400 fiction and nonfiction titles chosen for kids in the K-8 age range. In addition, NoveList K-8 Plus has special features created to appeal to students and teachers, such as: over 200 vetted Grab and Go topical booklists, over 850 BookTalks, hundreds of feature articles by industry experts on relevant and timely topics, and much more.
NoveList K-8 Plus contains:
• More than 63,000 Fiction Titles
• More than 21,400 Nonfiction Titles
• 31,000 Subject Headings
• Over 240 different award lists
• Over 850 BookTalks
• Over 100 Picture Book Extenders
School media specialists, teachers and parents interested in helping kids locate age-appropriate books in the library will appreciate the features and depth of content contained within NoveList K-8 Plus. Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.
Developed by the librarians and school media specialists at NoveList, NoveList K-8 Plus is easy to use! Just type in an author, title or key words in the Find box, or browse our database by age group, and you’ll access our rich collection of titles, BookTalks, Recommended Reads book lists and more. Our book jacket images, annotations and first chapter excerpts, as well as tools like
Points of View Reference Center™
Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more. Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Points of View Reference Center provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. Critical Thinking Guides for every topic covered helps the student judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances the student's ability to read and think critically.
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Science Reference Center™
Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center also satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/sc-coverage.xls
Small Engine Repair Reference Center™
Small Engine Repair Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines. This comprehensive resource contains 410 reference books in full text with original photos and illustrations that guide the user through every job. The database often contains more than 25 years of an engine model, and offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs involving engine and transmission disassembly. Also, the database allows users to select a type of product, specific brand, specific model/engine type, and specific area of that model/engine type. Additionally, model numbers are also searchable.
For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/s9-coverage.xls
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