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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. Mostly full-text.
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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, teacher's help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more. All full text.
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WILSON
SELECT PLUS
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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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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Business & Economics
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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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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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COLLEGE SOURCE
Complete college catalogs from institutions throughout the United States.
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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, 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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People
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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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BOOKS IN PRINT
An online resource showing books that are currently in print.
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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
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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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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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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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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Social Sciences
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