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Magazine and On-line Databases
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MAGAZINE & NEWSPAPER INDEXES
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Magazine & Newspaper Indexes
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ACADEMIC ONEFILE
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed,
full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine,
social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic
OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
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ARTICLEFIRST
Recommended for: Colleges and Universities. Index only. OCLC's ArticleFirst
contains articles and other items listed on the table of contents pages of
journals.
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DETROIT NEWS
Full text of this local newspaper from 1999. Updated daily.
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eLIBRARY ELEMENTARY
Recommended for: K-12. Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps,
newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows. All full text.
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GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER
GOLD 
General Reference
Center Gold on InfoTrac Web provides
one-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals,
reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles. Records are
available with a combination of indexing, abstracts, image, or full text
formats. Mostly full text.
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INFOTRAC CUSTOM
NEWSPAPERS
A collection of approximately 900 full text newspapers from around the
country and the world.
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NEW YORK
TIMES
Recommended
for: General user. The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present. All full
text.
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SIRS DISCOVERER DELUXE
Recommended for: K-9. A children's database of articles, books, video, audio
on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children and includes reading
levels; teachers help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more. All full text.
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WILSON
SELECTPLUS
Recommended for: High School, College. All full text articles in science,
humanities, education and business.
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Arts & Humanities
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LITERARY REFERENCE ONLINE
Literary Reference Online examines the lives and works of great writers
throughout history. This database contains information on thousands of
authors and their major and minor works, including an archive of 35,000
characters, as well as extensive glossary and subject entries featuring
historical events and their impact on literature. Includes hyperlinked
entries on world writers, literary criticism, minor and major characters, and
literary genres and movements.
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MICHIGAN
AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS
Michigan Authors and Illustrators (MIAI) is a database of information on
authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have
written books about or set in Michigan. Each entry includes biographical
information, lists of works by the person and lists of works about the
person. Click on the link labeled "Search MIAI Database Only"
to begin searching.
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NOVELIST
Recommended for: Readers of fiction (all ages), librarians, and teachers.
Helps to find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author, title,
series, plots, or even books like the one you just finished. Browse lists of
award winners, lists of genres, and lists based on age. Create and save lists
of your own favorites. Find book discussion guides and more. This has
something for children, young adults, and adults, plus specific information
for teachers, and librarians.
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Business & Economics
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BUSINESS
& COMPANY ASAP
Recommended for: General user, Professionals. 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. Michigan
residents or Michigan
library access only.
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BUSINESS & COMPANY
RESOURCE CENTER
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand
information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies,
and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry
news and information.
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GALE SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER
Search this database
to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources
include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
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GENERAL
BUSINESSFILE ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as
well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a
combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers,
journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
All full text.
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REFERENCE
USA
Search for information on over 12 million U.S. businesses.
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Conference & Proceedings
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Education
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ARCHIVEGRID
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have
contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers
can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives
to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
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CAREER CRUISING
Career Cruising has been designed with one goal in mind: to help students
plan their future. With exceptional assessment tools, detailed occupation
profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information, students
move seamlessly through the career exploration and planning process.
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ERIC
Contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly
Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly
Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Mostly full text.
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EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP
Recommended for: Junior and Community Colleges. Magazine, newspaper and
journal articles appropriate to college and university-level research. All
topics. Mostly full text.
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LEARNINGEXPRESS LIBRARY
Recommended for: General user. LearningExpress Library provides a completely
interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course
series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the
academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring,
complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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OAISTER
This catalog of digitized materials includes books,
articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more
than 1,000 contributors worldwide
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Government & Law
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GPO
MONTHLY CATALOG
The GPO Monthly Catalog through OCLC includes thousands of U.S. government documents,
including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary
materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State,
Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Includes a bibliographic citation in
each record. This is not full-text. Index only.
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LEGALTRAC
Recommended for: General user, professional. Some full text. Students, law
school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications
they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly
regarded legal publications; LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400
titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association
journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac®
is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee
of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains
law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest
titles.
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Health & Medical
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CINAHL BASIC
CINAHL provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000
records dating back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health
disciplines. In addition, this database offers indexing to health care books,
nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of
practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable
cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Limited full
text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
RESOURCE CENTER
Recommended for: Students, Patients, and Health Professionals. Provides
instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.
Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700
health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200
general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson
Gale reference titles. Includes video. Mostly full text.
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MEDLINE
Recommended for: Patients and health professionals. Covers all areas of
medicine, including dentistry and nursing. From the National Library of
Medicine. Some full text.
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Internet & Computers
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COMPUTER DATABASE
Computer Database has over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines
and popular computing magazines. Some full text.
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OVERDRIVE
Overdrive is a downloadable media shared collection, which includes audiobooks,
video and music. Now you can browse and download titles from the comfort of
your home- 24/7! Check out, download, and enjoy!
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People
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BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER
This is a comprehensive online biographical reference database that combines
approximately 50 of the most frequently consulted Gale biographical databases
with more than 250 full-text periodicals.
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LITERATURE
RESOURCE CENTER
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of
authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
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Reference
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ANCESTRY
LIBRARY EDITION
This database offers full-text information on genealogy resources.
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CONSUMER REPORTS.ORG
CU publishes Consumer Reports, one of the top-ten-circulation
magazines in the country, and ConsumerReports.org, which has the most
subscribers of any Web site of its kind, in addition to two newsletters, Consumer
Reports on Health and Consumer Reports Money Adviser.
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GALE POWERSEARCH
PLUS
PowerSearch Plus provides easy access to virtually
your entire electronic database collection and the open web from one starting
point.
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GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE
LIBRARY
This link will take you to a list of reference books available
electronically. Titles range from subjects as broad as alternative
energy, business and finance, American history, and religion.
*ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
*AMERICAN DECADES
*ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY
*BEACHAM'S
GUIDE TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICA
*BIOLOGY
*CAREER INFORMATION CENTER, 9TH ED.
*CHEMICAL ELEMENTS: FROM CARBON TO KRYPTON
*COLONIAL AMERICA REFERENCE LIBRARY
*COUNTRIES
AND THEIR CULTURES
*DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL U.S.
REFERENCE LIBRARY
*DICTIONARY OF WOMEN WORLDWIDE: 25,000 WOMEN
THROUGH THE AGES
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE AND
HISTORY, 2ND ED.
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE, 2ND
ED.
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLOTHING AND FASHION
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND ADDICTIVE
BEHAVIOR
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND
PARAPSYCHOLOGY
*ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
*ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SMALL BUSINESS
*THE
GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
*THE
GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CANCER
*GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EVERDAY LAW, 2ND ED.
*THE
GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENETIC DISORDERS
*THE
GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
*GALE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
*GALE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S. ECONOMIC HISTORY
*GROWING AND KNOWING: A SELECTION GUIDE FOR
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
*GRZIMEK'S ANIMAL LIFE ENCYCLOPEDIA
*ST.
JAMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE
*UXL GRAPHIC NOVELISTS
*WEST'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LAW, 2ND ED.
*WITCHCRAFT IN AMERICA
*WORLD
OF EARTH SCIENCE
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GENERAL ONEFILE
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:
business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental
issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics,
science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest
topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
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INFOTRAC JUNIOR
EDITION
Recommended for: Middle and Junior High School. Over 330 titles, cross
searchable with E-Books, this database is designed for students in junior
high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text
magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events,
the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history,
sports and more. Full text.
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INFOTRAC STUDENT
EDITION
Recommended for: High School. Over 1100 titles, cross searchable with
E-Books, this database gives access to a variety of indexed and full-text
magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on
current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people,
government, history, sports and more. Mostly full text.
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KIDS INFOBITS
Recommended for: K-6. Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for
beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a
developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular
search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the
subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text
content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This
database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people,
government, history, sports and more. All full text.
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LITERATURE
RESOURCE CENTER
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of
authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
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THE MAKING OF MODERN
MICHIGAN
This database is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It
includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique
heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories,
genealogical materials, and much more.
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MAKING THE
RIGHT CONNECTION
A user-friendly directory for Macomb
County school personnel
to help link students and their families with community services.
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NETLIBRARY
Recommended for: General user. Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only. All full
text.
NOTE: You must first register at your library
before you can access this resource.
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SLC DIGITAL MEDIA
ARCHIVE
This resource gives users access to historical and genealogical materials in
digital form. View old pictures, maps, and documents from Macomb County,
Troy, and Harper Woods.
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STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER -
JUNIOR
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted
primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information,
critical analyses, full-text coverage of 100 magazines, over 10,000
photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
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WHAT DO I READ NEXT?
Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A database to help you decide
what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre,
title, author and series. Will also make recommendations based upon likes and
dislikes.
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WORLD
ALMANAC
Recommended for: General user. Contains full text of Funk & Wagnalls New
Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for
Kids, The World Almanac of the U. S. A., The World Almanac of U.
S. Politics.
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WORLDCAT
Recommended for: General user. The world's largest online catalog of books
and magazines. Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the
item.
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Science & Technology
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ALLDATA
A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.
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COMPUTER DATABASE
Computer Database has over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines
and popular computing magazines. Some full text.
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SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
REFERENCE CENTER
Small Engine Repair Reference
Center (SERRC) is a full
text database accessible for public library patrons, as well as public school
teachers and students, seeking reference and instructional information about
small engine machinery maintenance and repair. These
manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step
maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and
their supporting components.
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Social Sciences
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CULTUREGRAMS
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date information on the
cultures of the world, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the
world's people. CultureGrams Online has photo and recipe collections,
biographies of famous people, maps, and more.
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