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Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full-text database containing full text for more than 3,100 journals, including nearly 2,700 peer-reviewed titles. This scholarly collection offers information in almost every area of academic study including computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

America's News consolidates current and archived information from thousands of national newspaper titles and newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents, and other publications. It also includes digital access to the Springfield News-Sun.

Biographies, obituaries, and photographs of thousands of individuals – both living and deceased. This database provides the full text of the articles, page images, and abstracts (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries) from today's leading magazines and journals.

This center provides valuable resources that help college students strengthen their academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate, and school libraries.

Explora for Public Libraries provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories. Explora provides research collections on thousands of topics to help them find the information they need quickly and easily. You can search hundreds of professional journals, popular magazines, reference books, images, primary sources, and more by keyword or by topic.

Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive courses that you can take entirely online. You can enroll in courses with your library card. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.

Learn and improve skills across business, tech, design, personal development, and more. Includes 10,000+ on-demand video courses in multiple languages.

Literary Reference Source 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. This database has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research.

MasterFILE Premier provides full-text for almost 2,000 general reference publications and magazines, as well as thousands of biographies, photos, maps, and flags. Covers virtually every subject area of general interest dating back to 1975.

NoveList Plus is a trusted source of expert read-alike recommendations, available through libraries around the world. You can search NoveList by author, title, series, keyword, subject, or genre and find detailed title information, similar titles and authors and so much more.

Points of View Reference Source is a full-text database designed to provide students and schools with controversial essays presenting multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.

Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.

Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports, and more.