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Access My Library
Access My Library allows Thomson Gale's peer-reviewed content to be crawled and indexed by major Internet search engines. Access to millions of full-text articles.
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Biography Resource Center
A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes approximately 300,000 biographies from Gale sources as well as full-text articles from nearly 275 periodicals.
Bookletters
The core of the BookLetters content is our 4 million book database that generates book detail pages that include brief annotations and jacket covers. This core content is enhanced with a continual flow of exclusive BookPage reviews, author biographies, topical editorial clips, seasonal book promotions, book discussion guides, DVD streaming video previews, audiobook narration clips, sound clips, look inside feature and even podcasts. Much of this content is created in response to customer suggestions.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
Includes profiles of over 500,000 companies, both public and private,
industry and trade journals, business associations, brand and product
information, includes Predicasts reports, and Newsletters ASAP
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale)
Introduction to the Author—a discussion of the author's life, works, and critical importance;
Critical essays—essays and excerpts taken from books, literary reviews, magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals;
Suggestions for further reading—an annotated bibliography of sources for further study.
Computer Database
Offers product reviews, industry status reports, and
company profiles. 650 indexed titles (350 full-text) covering not just the
computer industry but also electronics and telecommunications as a whole.
E-Library (Big Chalk)
More than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books,
and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and top-quality multimedia (audio/video) files. Users can sort their results by relevance, date, file size, Lexile or reading level, publication, and source.
Encyclopedia of Daily Life Online
(Greenwood)
Based on the six volume Encyclopedia of Daily Life Online, Daily Life Online features articles and chapter-length discussion content, enhanced with context-specific related resources: chronologies, images, maps, vetted academic and cultural websites.
Material written and reviewed by established scholars. Regular updates and enhancements.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic ASAP combines numerous sources from every academic concentration: discipline-specific titles such as Journal of Communication; area- and issue specific journals such as the Journal of Southern History; all-inclusive, national news magazines like Newsweek, and The Atlantic; and late-breaking news from The New York Times.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Based on the 5 volume Ferguson's Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, this comprehensive career research database features detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries.
In addition to careers and career resources, Ferguson's Career Guidance Center offers career preparation information, including scholarships, academic and non-academic programs, and an employability checklist.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center The Foundation Center supports a network of more than 340 Cooperating Collections across the country. These funding information centers—available to grantseekers at no cost at public libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit resource centers—provide access to The Foundation Directory Online, the leading grantseeking database on the web, or the newest edition of FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM, along with a core collection of Foundation Center directories and publications. Cooperating Collections (CCs) also provide a wide selection of supplementary materials and services, which are most useful to grantseekers.
Foundation Grants for Individuals
An online database of more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers..
Gale Databases Includes these databases: Infotrac OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select, InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy, Computer Database, Kids InfoBits... nineteen in all.
Gale Power Search
Confederated search of ten Gale databases with a single query.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
More than 900 health/medical journals, newsletters and pamphlets (75% full text);
Health related articles from 2,200 general interest publications;
A broad collection of Gale reference titles, including The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders.
HeritageQuest Online
Includes U.S. Census images for 1790 through 1930, as well as indices for 1790 through 1920 and part of 1930. Also includes 7,922 family histories, 12,035 local histories and 258 primary sources.
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Online Tutorial
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InfoTrac OneFile
Our most powerful, far-reaching database. Includes more than 6,000 full-text articles with more than 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to the present. InfoTrac puts approximately 50 million databse records at your fingertips, whether you are in the library, at work, or at home.
InfoTrac Junior Edition
InfoTrac Junior Edition provides junior
high and middle-school students with a wide variety of sources that include the
leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that school librarians prefer,
curriculum demands and students enjoy.
Includes access to 196 fulltext general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles, maps, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, World Almanac and Book of Facts, and more.
InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy
InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy features a custom selection of more than 250 magazinesand academic journals covering religion and the related areas of philosophy, archaeology and anthropology. Use this
database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts and language. Coverage begins as early as 1980 for indexing and 1983 for full text of some periodicals.
InfoTrac Student Edition
More than 472 full-text titles, 3 million plus articles from periodicals that are updated daily, hundreds of maps, plus Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, and The Columbia Encyclopedia
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Kids InfoBits
Designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Kids InfoBits meets the needs of young students with simple, quick access to curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more. Licensed from Gale CENGAGE Learning.
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LearningExpressLibrary
An online resource for test preparation and skill-building practice. Practice tests, based on the official exams, for academic, basic skills, civil service, cosmetology, EMS, firefighter, GED, law enforcement, military, postal service, real estate, teaching, and U.S. citizenship are available. The skill-building practices for grammar, vocabulary, spelling and writing are also valuable tools for ESL learners. There are instructions in Spanish for some skill-building modules. Create your own account at any Jefferson County Public Library location. Once you have an account you may use Learn-A-Test from anywhere. Licensed from LearningExpress, LLC.
Library Card required for remote access
LegalTrac
(Gale)
Provides indexing for 1427 of the most highly regarded legal
publications, 123 of which are full-text. These include major law reviews, legal
newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.
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Military and Intelligence Database
On a daily basis, military and government personnel, their spouses and their children
come to you with questions about everything from home decorating to military history
to aerospace and engineering. Gale's Military and Intelligence Database points them to a resource that is updated daily and offers direct access to more than 600 military-related and general
interest periodicals, with more than 500 of them displayed in full text.
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netLibrary
Access to online books over 24,000 (eBooks) in a wide range of subjects, including Business, Economics, and Management, Medicine, Computers, Literature, Education, and Science. Create your own account to browse, search, read and annotate these books online. Once you have an account you may use this "eLibrary" from anywhere. Register at any library branch for remote access.
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Professional Collection
A custom selection of over three hundred journals for educators in the fields of Arts & Humanities, Child & Adolescent Psychology and Development, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Health, Nutrition and Fitness, Learning Disabilities, Literature, and more. Also features reviews from Hornbook, School Library Journal, Library Trends, and other publications of value to Librarians.
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Readers Advisory Online
The content in The Reader's Advisor Online is not available elsewhere. It includes all the volumes in Libraries Unlimited's well-known Genreflecting series, and contains selected essays from The Readers' Advisor's Companion and Nonfiction Readers' Advisory, and more.
This site also aids book groups. It refines your search to look for books recommended as suitable for book groups.
The Reader's Advisor Online provides guidance you can trust. It is based on the advice of top reader's advisory experts like Diane Herald, Nancy Pearl, and Gary Niebuhr.
Multiple points of access and selective coverage make this an extremely efficient tool for finding related titles, and ensures that the titles you find are most popular with readers and most likely to be in your collection.
Rosen's Teen Health and Wellness
Provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
Developed for teens, with their unique concerns and perspective in mind, Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers draws on Rosen's award-winning series, including Coping, Need to Know, and others. Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling. Real Life, Real Answers
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SeniorNavigator,
Virginia's Resource for health and aging.
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What Do I Read Next?
Most books included in What Do I Read Next?, are award-winners, bestsellers or have appeared on recommended reading lists. With this criteria for inclusion, What Do I Read Next? makes it easy and rewarding for book lovers everywhere to search for reading adventures. Learn which books will satisfy reading preferences based on subject, genre, time period, geographic location, character, reading level and more.
