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Reference

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    NC Live Logo Academic Search Premier

    through EbscoHost Academic Search Premier , designed specifically for academic institutions, claims to be the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. It contains full text articles from nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals covering nearly every area of academic study from the sciences to the humanities journals, including 380 journals dating back to 1990.     		All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    Biography Resource Center

    This comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people around the world and of many disciplines contains full text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. It is simple to search using personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.     		All library locations and Remote Access from Home

    Credo

    Credo is a collection of 284 reference books, all of them in electronic format. They are cross indexed and available to you either from the library or from your home. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, atlases, and books of quotations. Coverage includes most subjects.     		All library locations and Remote Access from Home

    Foundation Center

    The Foundation Center's database is an excellent resource for grant seekers and grantmakers. The database can be searched by "Field of Interest," "Geographic location," "grantmaker's name," or can simply be browsed.     		Main library only - Ask at the Reference desk to logon

    NC Live LogoFunk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

    through EbscoHost. This encyclopedia includes the full text of over 25,000 subject entries.    		 All library locations  and Remote Access  (get more info and password)

    Literature Resource Center

    Includes biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world    		 All library locations and Remote Access from Home

    NC Live LogoMAS Full Text Ultra: School Edition

    through EbscoHost MAS Full Text Ultra is a general reference database designed for high school and junior college students.  It includes reports from over 460 K-12 magazines, Essential Documents in American History (database of over 1,000 original historical documents), over 3000 charts, tables and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, Magill's Book Reviews, and searchable full text for 145 Macmillan Books.  Total coverage includes over 1 million articles.     		All library locations  and Remote Access  (get more info and password)

    NC Live LogoMasterFile Premier

    through EbscoHost MasterFile Premier covers a wide variety of topics from about 3100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present. It includes complete articles from more than 1500 periodicals from 1990 to present.     		All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    NC Live LogoMiddle Search Plus

    through EbscoHost Middle Search Plus is designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents in American History, and coverage of the CIA World Factbook. The total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles.     		All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    Mitchell's OnDemand5 Auto Repair Database

    Often found in professional automotive service centers, this database provides repair information back to 1983 for most domestic and imported cars and light trucks. From airbags to air conditioning, wheel alignment to wiring diagrams, both the do-it-yourselfer and the professional mechanic will likely find the technical help they need to keep on.     		Available only from within the Durham County Main Library

    NC Live LogoNCLIVE Collection

    Collection of periodical and journal indices as well as full text articles.  NC LIVE currently offers online access to complete articles from over 5,500 newspapers, journals, and magazines; two encyclopedias; and indexing for over 10,000 periodical titles.     		All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    NC Live LogonetLibrary

    netLibrary provides searchable access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.     		All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    NC Live LogoReference USA

    Reference USA profiles over 13 million businesses and 120 million residential households across the U.S. Updated daily, it can be viewed as a nationwide telephone book, including both white and yellow pages.    		 All library locations and Remote Access (get more info and password)

    Rosetta Stone

    Rosetta Stone is an online language learning resource which provides hours of instruction in reading and listening comprehension, voice-record/speech recognition, and dictation/spelling exercises.  The languages include English (US), English (UK), French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish (Latin America), and Spanish (Spain).  The content is ideal for the casual learner, traveler, or ESL student.  The content includes instruction in categories such as: times, dates, weather and numbers; currency, shopping, food and hotels; modes of transportation; practical questions and answers; and social interactions.

    		 All library locations with patron barcode number and remote access using patron barcode number

    Statistical Warehouse

    This new database, continuously updated, is trying hard to become "the" resource that people turn to for statistical data. Drawing upon the vast stores of data already collected by federal, state, local and private agencies, and even generating some of their own, Statistical Warehouse makes significant headway in achieving the holy grail of allowing non-technical users to ask demanding questions, and get useful information in return.     		All library locations and Remote Access from Home

    World Cultures Today

    This database provides coverage of history, geography, social customs, family life, leisure, arts, food, clothing, religion, holidays of over seventy countries from around the world.     		Main library and Branches

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    Columbia World of Quotations

    The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more than 5000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6500 subjects.    		 Available anywhere with Internet access

    Information Please Almanac

    Online version of the popular almanac (the print version is now The Time Almanac), which you can browse by topic or search. Also includes the Random House Websters College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.

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    		 Available anywhere with Internet access

    Last update: Sept. 5, 2007