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Books & Literature

NoveList Plus: Includes information on both fiction and non-fiction titles, including recommended readi listngs, book discussion guides, and author read-alikes.
Twayne's Authors Series provided by NOVEL: Critical interpretation and discussion of the works of 600 authors. Searchable by author's name, genre, author nationality, and time period. Also provides a section for suggestions on research topics.

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Business & Finance

Business and Company ASAP: Providing researchers with information on companies, markets, and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.
Business and Company Resource Center provided by NOVEL: Search for company and industry information. Includes full-text news articles, investment reports, and financial information on companies.
Business Source Premier: Offers articles from academic journals and trade publications. Full-text coverage of Fortune, Forbes, Smart Money, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
Morningstar Mutual Funds (Central): Research a variety of mutual funds.
Reference USA: This business database contains 14 million U.S. businesses with verified, accurate data; it is updated monthly. Also, the residential database includes the phone numbers of 135 million U.S. households.
Regional Business News: Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. This incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Value Line (Central): Features Value Line Investment Survey, including small-and mid-cap companies, the Mutual Fund Survey, and more.

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Careers & Job Hunting

Learning Express: Includes practice tests for civil service jobs, firefighting, nursing careers, law enforcement, real estate, postal exams, and more.
ResuméMaker for the Web: Users can learn how to write effective resumes and cover letters; create and store resumes in their account; watch mock job interview videos; search for a new job; retrieve information on salaries, and more. (follow link on homepage)

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Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary (Remote) Oxford English Dictionary (Central): Online version of the OED.

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Education

Learning Express: Practice tests for GED, GRE, SAT, math skills improvement, middle school improvement, TOEFL preparation, U.S. citizenship, and more.
Teacher Reference Center provided by EBSCO: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

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Genealogy

Ancestry (Central): Birth, marriage, and death records, U.S. immigration collection, and more.
Heritage Quest (Central): Research your family tree using census images from 1790-1930; information on people and places described in more than 23,000 family and local histories; look through selected Revolutionary War records, and more.
The New York Times from 1851-2005 (Central): Includes full-text articles. The America's Newspapers database has full-text articles from The New York Times to the present day.

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Health Information

Health Reference Center Academic provided by NOVEL: Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.

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Newspapers & Periodicals

Academic OneFile provided by NOVEL: Features peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and more. The articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Updated daily.
America's Newspapers: This full-text newspaper database includes over 600 titles, including The Daily Gazette (August 15, 1997 to the present) and The Times Union (March 1986 to the present). Also includes The New York Times (magazine and book review, too) and newspapers from all 50 states. Magazines such as Baby Talk, Teen People, and Essence also featured.
Custom Newspapers provided by NOVEL: Search a collection of over 900 newspapers, both national and international.
EBSCO Databases: MasterFILE Premier as well as the EBSCO databases provided by NOVEL which include Primary Search (Searchasaurus), Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Animals.
EBSCO MasterFILE Premier, partially provided by NOVEL: Included in its over 2,700 periodical titles are Consumer Reports with charts, Business Week, Newsweek, and Smithsonian.
Gale PowerSearch: Users will be able to search multiple databases all at once. The databases include: Health Reference Center Academic, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Business and Company ASAP.
General OneFile provided by NOVEL: Contains full-text news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, and much more. Full-text articles, many with images, are available. Updated daily.
GreenFILE provided by EBSCO: Focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources.
InfoTrac Newsstand provided by NOVEL: Search a collection of over 900 newspapers, both national and international. (Formerly Custom Newspapers)
National Newspaper Index provided by NOVEL: Access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
New York State Newspapers provided by NOVEL: Search this database of 28 major New York state newspapers.
The New York Times from 1851-2006 (Central): Includes full-text articles. The America's Newspapers database has full-text articles from The New York Times to the present day.
Teacher Reference Center provided by EBSCO: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

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Reference

Grolier Online by NOVEL Grolier Online by NOVEL (Central): Includes Encyclopedia Americana (grade 8 and up), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (grade and up) and The New Book of Knowledge (grade 3 and up).
Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (Central): Online version of the OED.

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Repair Manuals

SAMS Photofact (Central): Repair manuals for television sets and radios (including CBs).