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Online Reference Materials - the Hidden Internet
Your library offers databases and reference material that is subscription-only and often very costly. A typical user never sees this reservoir of information, and most of it is not available via a Google search.
Here's a list of some of this "hidden" internet available to most library patrons.
- Academic ASAP (Expanded)
- Academic Search Elite
- Alt-Health Watch
- America the Beautiful
- American Decades - 20th Century
- American Heritage Dictionary
- American Revolution Library
- American Women Writers: Colonial Times to Present
- America 's Obituaries and Death Notices
- Auto Repair Reference Center
- Biography Resource Center
- Books In Print
- Building Blocks of Matter
- Business & Company Profiles
- Business and Company Resource Center
- Business Plans Handbook
- Business Source Elite
- Child Development
- CIA World Fact Book
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- Clinical Pharmacology
- College Source
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Commentary
- Computer Databases
- Computer Sciences
- Consulta
- Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors New Revision
- Contemporary Hispanic Biography
- Crossword Puzzle Solver
- Culture Grams
- Curriculum Resource Center Grades 6-12
- Curriculum Resource Center Junior Edition
- Dictionary of Art
- Dictionary of Music
- Discovering Collection
- eLibrary Elementary
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Encyclopedia of Aging
- Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
- Encyclopedia of American Studies
- Encyclopedia of Animals
- Encyclopedia of Business & Finance
- Encyclopedia of Clothing
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
- Encyclopedia of Nations
- Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
- Encyclopedia of Psychology
- Encyclopedia of the States
- ERIC
- Facts for Learning
- Facts On File
- Forms on File - Personal & Business
- Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
- Gale Federated Search
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- General Reference Center Gold
- General Science Collection
- Grolier Online
- Grolier Online Kids
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition
- Heritage Quest
- Historical Newspapers
- History Resource Center : Modern World
- History Resource Center : US
- Info Trac OneFile
- Info Trac Student Edition
- Informe!
- InfoTrac - Junior Edition
- Junior Reference Collection
- Kids Infobits
- Lands and People
- Learn a Test
- Legal Trac
- Literature Resource Center
- Litfinder
- Live Homework Help
- Los Angeles Times 1881-1985
- MAS Ultra - Student Edition
- Master File Premier
- Mathematics
- Mergent Online
- Merriam Webster Dictionary
- Middle Search Plus
- Military & Intelligence
- Morning Star Trial
- Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Nation Digital Archive
- Nevada Career Information System
- New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia
- New Book of Popular Science
- New York Times 1851-2001
- Newsbank
- Newspaper Source
- Noticias (Newsbank)
- NoveList
- Novelist K-8 Online
- Nueva Enciclopedia
- Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Online
- Pre-CINAHL
- Presione La Exhibición
- PressDisplay
- Primary Search
- Print On Demand Newspapers
- Professional Development (EBSCO)
- Professional Development Collection (Gale)
- Psychiatry Online
- ReferenceUSA
- Regional Business News
- Religion & Philosophy
- Rosetta Stone
- Safari Technical Books
- Salud Para Todos
- Sanborn Historical Maps
- Science Experiments
- Science Resource Center
- earch all EBSCO Host databases
- Searchasaurus
- Something About The Author
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Student Edition
- Student Resource Center
- Telephone Directories (ReferenceUSA)
- Today's Science
- Topic Search
- Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- What Do I Read Next?
- Witchcraft in America
- World of Microbiology
- WorldBook Online
- WorldCat
- XreferPlus
