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Articles and Databases

Encyclopedias

  • NEW: World Book Online Reference Center: Provides every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more, along with photographs, maps, animations, audio/video clips and Special Reports that broaden coverage for selected topics.

Magazines

  • NEW: MasterFILE Premier: Provides full-text coverage of over 1,700 publications on a variety of subjects, including current events, pop culture, travel, technology, health and medicine, fashion, and entertainment.
  • NEW: Student Research Center: Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
  • NEW: Kids Search: Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
  • Electric Library: although especially designed for kids, these magazine articles are useful to all ages. Full text is often available.

Newspapers

  • NewsBank: full text of the Desert Sun, Christian Science Monitor, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • Proquest: full text of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Electric Library: full text of the Washington Post and more.

Business Information

  • Standard & Poors Net Advantage: comprehensive business tool including Stock Reports, Industrial Surveys, The Outlook and other key products by Standard & Poors.
  • InfoUSA: Research the business industry with this superior source, which includes information from business journals, company profiles, and country economic reports.
  • NEW: Business Source Premier: Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
  • NEW: Regional Business News: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Health

  • NEW: Consumer Health Complete: Search for health information that you can understand! Includes information from medical encyclopedias, magazine articles, and popular reference tools.

Science

  • Science Resource Center: Science related topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations, magazine and academic journal articles and links to websites.

Biography

  • Biography Resource Center: information about people from throughout history, around the world and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Authors, Criticism, and What to Read

  • NEW: Literary Reference Center: A plethora of information on your favorite authors and literary works, compiled from over 1,000 sources.
  • NoveList Plus: This online readers' advisory tool will help you find the perfect book to read, as well as provide information about books and authors.
  • NoveList K-8 Plus: Information about books, authors and what to read next.

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