| Resource |
Age Range |
Description |
Academic OneFile
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly
research
Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the
majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology,
medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News
Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Updated daily |
Access Science
 |
For high school, college-level
and adult researchers |
Gateway to authoritative information in all major areas of
science and technology, featuring the online, fully illustrated version of
the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
More than 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of
Scientific & Technical Terms
Headline news from Science News Magazine
Biographies of prominent scientists
Links to evaluated related Web sites
Learning resources and study guides
Updated daily |
Biography
Resource Center
  |
For all age groups |
Comprehensive
source for biographical information
Over 300,000 biographies of people from around
the world and throughout history
Quick reference information on nearly one
million people from Whos Who sources
Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines
and links to selected biography Web sites |
Book Review Index Online Plus
  |
For librarians and readers of all
ages |
Comprehensive reference database for
locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and
electronic media
Contains the entire backfile of Book Review
Index print content (1965-)
More than 5 million review citations
More than 634,000 full-text reviews |
Business and
Company Resource Center
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Comprehensive
periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment
topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicasts PROMT databases
Articles from academic and general business, industry & management
periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles;
2900+ full-text)
Investment and broker research reports
Company & association directory listings from a number of sources
Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company
histories, associations, brands, market share, and more |
Custom Newspapers
(1996 - present)
  |
For all age groups |
Full-text
articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers
New York Times; Christian Science Monitor;
Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 40+ other
domestic papers
Times (London) and 60+ other international
papers
Updated 1-3 days after publication of the
print newspapers. A complete list of newspaper titles with beginning date of
coverage is available at:
www.gale.com/tlist/sb5100.html |
Educator's Reference Complete
  |
For professional educators and
undergraduate and graduate students in the field of education |
Database of education resources covering multiple levels from preschool to
college
More than 1,100 full-text periodicals covering a variety of disciplines
200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education
Resources on educational specialties and issues related to administration,
funding and policies
Updated daily |
Encyclopedia Americana
 |
For grades 8 and up
|
In-depth
information, current events and news archive for student researchers
Over 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all
subjects
Over 100,000 related full-text periodical
articles
Links to over 150,000 selected Web sites
Weekly news feature, teacher resources and
links to U.S. and international news sites
Interactive atlas, dictionary; 4,500 black and
white and color images
Instructional Page
|
Expanded Academic ASAP
(1980 - present)
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Comprehensive
periodical database covering all academic disciplines
Millions of full-text articles from thousands
of scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general
interest magazines
Indexing of additional professional and
general periodicals |
General Business File ASAP
(1980 - present)
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Comprehensive
resource for business, management and investment topics
Full-text periodical articles and indexing on
business and management topics
Newswire articles; newspaper indexing
Directory listings on 200,000+ companies
Investment and broker research reports
|
General OneFile
(1980 - present)
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Comprehensive
periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals
Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac
collections merged into a single database
Over 21 million full-text articles on all
subjects from over 5000 periodical titles
Articles from newswires and general,
professional, scholarly and childrens periodicals
Indexing of the New York Times, other major
newspapers and 8000+ periodicals |
General
Reference Center
(1980 - present)
  |
For high school
students through adults |
Magazine,
newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general interest
Millions of full-text articles from over 800
general magazine titles
Reference information from encyclopedias,
dictionaries and almanacs
Coverage of school subjects, current events
and consumer interest topics |
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
 |
For grades 5 and up |
Reference
information and news on all subjects with learning tools and multimedia
Over 40,000 encyclopedia articles with
associated pictures, flags, maps and media, including video, sound,
animations, panoramas and cutaways
Links to thousands of related periodical
articles and Web sites
Weekly news articles with news quiz and
related Web links
Monthly Brain Jam e-zine with teacher
resources and student activities |
Health &
Wellness Resource Center
(1980 - present)
  |
For advanced middle
school students through adults |
Portal to health
information from a variety of sources for general users
Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing,
allied health and medical journals
Health-related articles from 2,200 general
interest magazines
Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug
information and hospital directory
Access to health news and key health Web sites
|
Health Reference Center
(1980 - present)
  |
For college-level
and other adult researchers |
Health and
medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing,
allied health and medical journals
Health-related articles from 1,500 general
interest magazines
Articles from medical reference titles and
pamphlets |
History
Resource Center: U.S.
  |
For high school students
and above. |
Complete
overview of the most-studied events, issues and current information in
U.S. history that have been selected as relevant in the undergraduate
curriculum Original materials from Primary Source
Microfilms digital archives, including documents, monographs,
pamphlets, first-person accounts, and more
Encyclopedic and critical articles, essays and biographies
Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
Historical bibliography
Links to digitized special collections
Audio and video clips of historic speeches and events
Multimedia maps and images
Country and era overviews
Chronological timelines
|
History Resource Center: World.
  |
For high school
students through adults |
Collection of resources providing coverage of events, themes
and trends in world history from antiquity to the present, with a
multicultural and global view.
More than 1,500 primary sources from Primary Source Microfilm
Full-text articles from more than 110 academic journals
More than 1,600 historical maps and atlases
Annotated Web links to primary source special collection sites
Chronological timelines |
Junior
Edition
(Latest four years)
  |
For middle school
students, their teachers and parents |
Magazine,
newspaper and reference sources on all subjects
Full-text articles from 140+ magazines, with
full image of 70+ titles
Maps, articles from reference books and
newswire articles
Includes short stories, poems, quizzes,
experiments and activities
Toolbox to help students learn research and
writing skills |
Kids InfoBits
(1990s - present)
  |
For K-5 students,
their teachers and parents |
Articles,
pictures and reference information on all subjects
Full-text articles from 100+ childrens
magazines, reference sources and newspapers
2,500 searchable images and maps
Reading levels assigned to most articles
Includes activities, recipes, experiments,
poetry and stories by children
Teacher Toolbox to help teach research and
writing skills |
LegalTrac
(1980 - present)
  |
For college-level
and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
Index to law and
legal periodicals with selected full-text articles
Indexing of over 1400 titles; full-text
articles from 100+ titles
Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar
association journals and international titles
Law-related articles from over 1,000
additional business and general interest titles |
LitFinder
 |
For all age groups |
Collection of full-text literature, citations and excerpts,
and sources that provide context to authors and their works
Full-text content includes poems, stories,
essays, plays and speeches
850,000 poem citations and excerpts,
biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary
850 Spanish-language poems with English
translations
Works from writers of diverse nationalities
and ethnicities, dating from antiquity to the present |
Literature
Resource Center
  |
For high school students
and above. |
Comprehensive
periodical and reference resource for literature - featuring the online
versions of these Gale print series:
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Twayne's Authors Series
Scribner Writers Series
In Addition, LRC includes:
More than 415,000 full-text journal articles
from more than 250 literary journals
Nearly 44,000 critical essays
Nearly 5,000 work overviews, plot summaries
and explications
Nearly 6,000 links to authoritative related
Web sites
More than 122,000 author biographies
Nearly 3,000 author portraits
Merriam-Webstersฎ Encyclopedia of Literature,
featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms |
New
Book of Knowledge
 |
For grades 3 and up |
Reference
information on all subjects with current events and educational features
Over 9,000 encyclopedia articles on all
subjects, with pictures and maps
Related articles from childrens magazines;
related Web sites appropriate for children
Weekly news articles and pictures with lesson
plans
Links to student activities, educational games
and teacher resources
Instructional Page
|
Nursing Resource Center
  |
For nursing students
at vocational/technical high schools, colleges and universities |
Collection of core content from recognized reference,
textbook and journal publications in the nursing field
More than 20 full-text reference books
More than 200 animations from Blausen
Medicals Human Atlas, covering all major body systems
Search results returned in tabs that correlate
to the nursing process
Disease and drug overviews, sample care plans
and a Nursing Toolbox |
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  |
For middle school
students through adults |
Database of contemporary social issues with content
structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy
More than 400 reference book titles
More than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles
Periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables,
charts and graphs
Content levels may be selected for retrieving appropriate results
Includes Lexile reading levels for periodical content
Content correlated to social studies and science curriculum standards for
middle and high school |
Science Resource Center
  |
For high school,
college-level and adult researchers |
Comprehensive curriculum-oriented database of reference and
periodical content covering Life Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space
Science
More than 30 reference titles
More than 300 periodicals, both general and
scholarly
Multimedia content, Web site links and a
selection of newspaper science sections
Content correlated to national and state high
school curriculum standards |
Scribner Writers Series
  |
For high school
through college level |
Essays on the
lives and works of 1600+ important authors from around the world
In-depth coverage of noted novelists,
playwrights, poets, short story writers, essayists, journalists, critics,
philosophers and writers for children and young adults
Includes 40+ essays on special topics in
literature gothic novels, nature poetry, etc. |
SIRS
Discoverer
 |
For students in
grades 1-9, their teachers and parents |
Articles,
pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
Age appropriate, full-text articles and images
selected from 1,600+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers,
government publications and reference sources
Reading levels assigned to all articles
Maps, pictures, photo essays, activities,
biographies, country facts, current events
Links to age appropriate Web sites with
reading level indicators |
SIRS
Knowledge Source
 |
For advanced middle
school students through adults |
Articles,
images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and
international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference
sources
News, current events and organized links to
evaluated Web sites
Includes special features on - literature,
terrorism and other topics
Interactive textbook on citizenship with
teacher resources
Images, maps, country profiles, primary
sources and Supreme Court decisions |
Small Business Resource Center
  |
For adult researchers |
Resources for prospective and current entrepreneurs and business
students
Full-text periodicals, news sources, reference
books and Web site links
Updated continuously |
Student Edition
(1985 - present)
  |
For high school
students, their teachers and parents |
Articles and
reference information on topics most often researched in high schools
Over 3 million full-text articles from 400+
periodical titles
Newswire articles and articles from reference
sources
Selection of maps and historical images
|
What Do I
Read Next?
  |
For librarians and
teachers - For readers of all ages |
Readers
advisory resource for recommended fiction and nonfiction
Recommendations on 100,000+ book titles for
children, young adults and adults
Includes plot summaries, author information
and award lists
Find recommended books by series, subject,
reading level, genre, setting, etc |