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More than 450,000 full-text biographies.

Access regularly updated travel and professional information, high-resolution maps, and culture reports.  175 countries – from A to Z it’s all at your fingertips. Great reference for business travelers.

For older students and adults - searches four encyclopedias at once; the encyclopedia Americana, Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge and America the Beautiful.

Comprehensive, full text, history reference database designed for secondary schools and undergraduate research. Features full text for 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.

Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Contains 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flag of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview , point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Science Online presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Search databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit searches according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.