Gale Net
Student Resource Center
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

ABC-CLIO Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society
Investigates controversial issues in our society in all subject areas.  Various types of sources are used to present the information.

EBSCO
An index of 1800 periodicals and 100 reference books in the areas of general reference, business, and health. Many of the articles are full text and the databases are updated daily. An animal database and a controversial topics database are valuable sources of information.

Grolier Online
Three general encyclopedias, Grolier Multimedia, New Book of Knowledge, and Americana, as well as Lands and People, and Popular Science Online. Articles often provide links to various websites.

Grove Art Online \ Grove Music Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.

Reference Suite
Facts on File World News Reference Desk. Day to day real time world news stories.

Issues and Controversies Online
Provides insights into various sides of controversial topics.

Today's Science
Provides up-to-date articles on important issues in science.

NoodleTools
Includes a tool to produce a Works Cited page after citations are located and a format for taking notes on the computer.

Social Studies Links:

ABC-CLIO: American History
ABC-CLIO: World Geography
ABC-CLIO: World History Ancient & Medieval Eras
 

World Geography

Country Watch:
CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.

African American Studies Center Provides authoritative information about African American culture and history found in various African American encyclopedias and reference books. Many primary sources are included.