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Magazine and On-line Databases
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ACADEMIC ONEFILE
Academic OneFile is the premiere
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. Mostly full text.
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ALLDATA
A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.
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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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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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BIOGRAPHY &
GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes
current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important
retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from
every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Bibliographic
citations only -- no full-text.
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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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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 
Business and Company Resource Center is 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.
Mostly full text.
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CAMIO® - CATALOG OF ART MUSEUM IMAGES ONLINE
CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—is
a premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and
described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative
art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and
enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in
CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description.
Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.
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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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CHILTONLIBRARY.COM
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative
automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of
year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the
past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually
any system on your vehicle. Full text.
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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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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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CQ RESEARCHER
The CQ Researcher is your #1 source for original,
comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. CQ
Researcher is used by students, teachers, librarians, journalists, and
more, who need to complete an assignment, prepare for a debate, or become a
quick expert on a topic. Each 12,000-word report is a unique work,
investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.
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EDUCATOR'S REFERENCE
COMPLETE
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than
450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many
premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational
principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in
education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the
ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from
school or home. All full text.
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ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS ONLINE
Recommended for colleges and universities. A collection of
scholarly journals in the sciences and social sciences. Includes agriculture,
library science, anthropology, literature, business, medicine, economics,
philosophy, education, political science, fine arts, psychology, geography,
religion, history, science, language, social science, law, technology. Some
full text.
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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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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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GALE POWERSEARCH
This link allows users to search in one convenient step all of the Gale
databases provided by the Michigan ELibrary (MeL).
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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
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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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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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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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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HERITAGE OF THE PRINTED
BOOK
Recommended for: Colleges and
Universities. The Hand Press Book Database is a unique and growing catalog of
European printing in the early modern era or “hand-press period”
(15th century to the 1830s). This resource integrates descriptive records for
major European national, university and research library holdings. It is
especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history and
transmission of thought—as well as the history of printing and the
history of the book.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS RESOURCE
CENTER
Recommended for: Students, Patients, 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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HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER
ACADEMIC
Recommended for: Students, Patients and Health
Professionals. Provides access to professional and personal health magazines,
journals and reference sources. Mostly full text.
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HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE
Recommended for: Genealogy, local history and biography researchers. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images and
extensive indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more
than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local
histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents
such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and more. It also
includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and
Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, and
the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions. Some full
text.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & MEDICINE
(HSTM)
Recommended for: Colleges and universities. HSTM
integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of
Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della
Scienza and citations from the Wellcome
Library) to create an international bibliography for the history of science,
technology and medicine. It reflects the influence of these fields on society
and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for
interdisciplinary research. Database records describe journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all
scientific disciplines and related fields. Citations reflect the contents of
nearly 9,500 journals.
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INFORME!
Recommended for: Spanish Language Resources. Full text. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
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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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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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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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LEGAL FORMS
Provides a wide selection of
state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas.
Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy,
divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included are a comprehensive
attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in
laymen's language.
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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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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
Recommended for: General user. Michigan's unique heritage is represented
through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials
and much more from local history collections around the state. No login
required. Some full text.
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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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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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MeLCAT
Recommended for: General user. A catalog of materials
available through Michigan
libraries. Patrons of participating libraries can order items from other
statewide participating libraries and have them delivered to their local
library branch.
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MICHIGAN
AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS
Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A searcheable
database of Michigan
authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information.
Indicates whether person will do library presentations. No log-in required
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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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NEW YORK TIMES
Recommended
for: General user. The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present. All full
text.
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NEWSBANK MICHIGAN NEWSPAPERS
Recommended for: General user. Full text of the Detroit News
(1/1/1999-Current), Grand Rapids Press (2002-Current), and Lansing State
Journal (1/1/1999-Current).
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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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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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OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center
draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven
Press as well as content from other Gale sources. The database is a
dynamic online library of current event topics – the facts and
arguments of each topic’s proponents and detractors.
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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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SCIPIO: ART & RARE BOOK
SALES CATALOGS
Recommended for: General user and Colleges and
universities. Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union
catalog of auction catalog records in existence. This database provides
bibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American
and European auction houses as well as private sales—valuable sources
of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history
of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends.
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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, teacher's help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more. All full text.
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SIRS RENAISSANCE
Recommended for: High school, College and University.
Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and
design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy
and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from more than
1,200 domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied
by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and
illustrations. Full text.
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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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TURFGRASS INFORMATION FILE (TGIF)
Recommended for: General user. In the 1960s, the Michigan
State University (MSU) Library began to collect printed turfgrass
materials. In 1968, the personal collection of the late O.J. Noer, pioneer turf agronomist, was added to the library
holdings through the O.J. Noer Foundation. Today,
the combined collection is recognized as the most extensive public collection
of turfgrass material in existence.
Between 1983 and 1992, the United States Golf Association (USGA) Turfgrass Research Program supported the development of
the USGA Turfgrass Information File (TGIF). Using
the Noer Collection as a foundation, TGIF was
designed to systematically inventory published turf research and make the
bibliographic information available via a computerized database. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only. Some full
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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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WILSON
SELECTPLUS
Recommended for: High School, College. All full text articles in science,
humanities, education and business.
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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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