2010 Subscription Databases / Information Sources Minimize

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Here are our three newest databases!  Our standard  2010 list follows.

  Information by state or city, maps, flags, photos, facts for 50 states and 5 territories!
   Ultimate guide to the world. Everything from "Do I need a visa for Russia?" to "Can I use my cell phone in Thailand?" and more.
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                             2010 Subscription Databases


Ancestry
AVAILABLE ONLY IN LIBRARY to search census records, birth, marriage, and death indexes as well as newspapers.
Link to Auto Repair Reference Center
Auto Repair
Access to Repair Procedures, Service Bulletins & Recalls.

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Britannica Online School Edition:
Search Level-Appropriate Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content. 


Business Source Premier
provides comprehensive coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

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Consumer Health Complete
provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. 

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Contemporary Authors and Contemproary Literary Criticism Select

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

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Heritage Quest
U.S. federal census information, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical and local history serials, and more.

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Kids Search is a search interface for elementary and middle school and includes general topics as well as history and science.

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Learning Express offers practice tests, exercises, skill-bulding courses and information needed to achieve results at aschool, at work, or in life.  The Computer Skills Learning Center includes interactive courses on Microsoft Access, Excell, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.  Looking to land a job?  An entire Learning Center is dedicated to  help job seekers.  Practice tests include SAT and ACT.

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LitFinder has primary literature content including citations and full text of hundreds of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.

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Literary Reference Center contains full text of plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles and essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews and much more.

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Magazines, Journals and Newspapers
images and reference resources covering education, health, business, science, history and general areas of interest.  Student resources found in Kids Search and Student Resource Center.


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Magazines, journals, newspapers provide
images and reference resources covering education, health, business, science, history and general areas of interest.  Student resources found in Kids Search and Student Resource Center.

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Mango Languages

Mango Languages is an online language learning system that can  help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.  Also has English language courses.

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Morningstar

Morningstar Investment Research Center  Use to find stocks or mutual funds, research current or prospective holdings.

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Link to Net Library

NetLibrary allows you to access electronic books and audio books.  Youcan access this content 24/7.  To get started, you must create an account from a Waukesha County public library computer.  After your account is created, you can use NetLibrary from any computer, anywhere.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  provides access to newspapers from January 22, 1990 to current.

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Newspaper Archives provides millions of searchable historical newspaper pages from the 1700s. PDF format of original content.

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Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts. 

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NoveList K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 60,000 fiction titles aimed at those in K-8 group.


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NoveList Plus includes over 200,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more. 

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Overdrive  requires software download (from the Overdrive site) and a current library card to create an account from your home PC. Downloadable Audiobooks, movies and music are available.

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ReferenceUSA information on U.S. companies and residential listings
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Small Engine Repair  provides instructional information about maintenance and repair of small engines including motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, lawn mowers, tractors, snow mobiles and more.

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TeachingBooks.Net has In-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of book readings, guides to thousands of titles and multimedia resources on children’s and young adult literature.

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Wiscat

WISCAT is Wisconsin's statewide database of the holdings of nearly 1200 state libraries. Look for books, videos, music, Wisconsin stat publications and more--all in libraries throughout Wisconsin.

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