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    A to Z Databases

    Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.
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    ABC-Clio Search Platform

    ABC-CLIO is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. Available through the Arkansas Department of Education, ABC stands for the American Bibliographic Center and Clio is the ancient Greek muse of history.
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    ABI/INFORM Collection

    The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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    Accounting, Tax & Business Collection

    This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

    Subject coverage

    • Accounting
    • Tax
    • Banking
    • Business
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    African-American Heritage

    Search essential records for African-Americans, including federal census, marriage and cohabitation records, military draft and service records, registries of slaves, and more.
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    AGRICOLA

    This bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records.
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    Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection

    Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection offers full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It also includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources as well as the renowned AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases and content previously available in ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). Coverage: 1960 - current

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    • Agriculture
    • Animal sciences
    • Climate change and global warming
    • Conservation (soil, water, and wildlife)
    • Energy
    • Environmental education
    • Food and nutrition
    • Pollution (air, noise, soil, and water)
    • Water quality
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    America’s Genealogy Bank – Now Heritage Hub!

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    America's Genealogy bank and America's Obituaries are now Heritage Hub! Heritage Hub provides access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from thousands of newspapers across the United States. Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7.  
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    America’s Newspapers & Magazines

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    Find information related to business, careers, education, health, politics, science and technology, social studies, and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, newswires, blogs, videos, and web-only content featuring the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saline Courier, Hot Springs Village Voice, USA Today, and more. Please use links below for: Saline Courier:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253ABCBB%2521The%2BSaline%2BCourier%26year%3D2023

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    America’s Obituaries

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    Search for obituaries published across the nation by region, name, date, or obituary text.
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    American Government

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    American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.
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    American History

    From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution by time periods.
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  • The African American Experience: the American Mosaic

    American Mosaic The African American Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of African-Americans by time periods.
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    American Mosaic The American Indian Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the American Indian experience by time period.
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    American Mosaic: The Latino American experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of Latino Americans by time periods.
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    Ancestry Library

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    Find Census, birth, marriage, death records, and more. Available only inside the library.
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    Arkansas DMV Practice Test

    The Arkansas DMV Driving Tests website provides free permit practice tests, written by experts, that are available to anyone who wants to study. This website also provides online copies of official state guides.
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    Arkansas DMV Study Guide

    Provided by the Arkansas State Police, this website has PDF downloads of the Arkansas Driver Exam study guide.
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    Arkansas Legal Services Online

    Arkansas Legal Services Online, provided by the Center for Arkansas Legal Services and Legal Aid of Arkansas, assists every county in the state with priority subjects such as family law, consumer issues, bankruptcy or evictions.
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    Art & Humanities

    This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
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  • ProQuest Asian and European Business

    Asian and European Business Collection

    This database from ProQuest provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
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  • Australia and New Zealand

    Australia & New Zealand Database

    This database from ProQuest provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Biological Science Database

    This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
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    Brainfuse HelpNow

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    HelpNow provides live tutoring on a variety of subjects, offering a comprehensive suite of online academic services designed to support many learning needs and styles. To access ACT and SAT prep materials, click on "Skillsurfer" under "Expert Help." You will then be able to select "College Entrance Test Prep" and choose your preferred test and subject.
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    Brainfuse JobNow

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    JobNow provides you with practical tools to help you get a job. Get live interview coaching, expert resume analysis, and more.  
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    Brainfuse LearnNow

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    Brainfuse LearnNow offers resources for students from k-12 through college. Read lessons. Watch videos. Take tests. Know more.
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    Business Market Research Collection

    Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.
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    Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

    This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more.
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    Canadian Newsstream

    This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers. It provides full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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  • ProQuest Start Here. Career and Technical Education Database

    Career & Technical Education

    ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
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    Chilton Auto Library

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    Chilton Library provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use website. Since this library subscribes to Chilton Library, you are now equipped with decades of data to maintain your vehicle.
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  • Chronicling America

    Chronicling America is a Library of Congress website dedicated to the preservation of historic newspapers from all fifty states. Arkansas Heritage has contributed over 200,000 pages, including 64 newspaper tiles, representing 27 counties. This information, covering the years 1830 - 1923, was not previously digitized and is part of a national effort to help researchers and historians access local information from this time period. There are search and chat features to ask for live assistance from historians and archival librarians, experts in research!
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    Clinical Trials

    ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. This information should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.
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    Colorín Colorado

    Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade.
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  • ProQuest Computer Science Database

    Computer Science

    This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text. Subjects include:
    • Computer Science
    • Information Systems
    • Computer Security
    • Database Design
    • Software Development
    • Web Commerce
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a U.S. government agency that makes sure banks, lenders, and other financial companies treat you fairly.
    The CFPB is committed to providing consumers with up-to-date information and resources to protect and manage their finances.
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    Consumer Health

    This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry
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    Consumer Reports with Best Deals Plus

    The online version of Consumer Reports provides expert and independent reviews of items for buyers.  
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  • ProQuest Continental Europe Database

    Continental Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by educational institutions in many European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Coronavirus Resources (ProQuest)

    ProQuest has collected a number of resources and tools that will help users and researchers with COVID-19 related information and research.
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    Coursera

    Coursera offers over 2,000 courses--which can be taken for free or for a small fee to earn an official certificate--from leading institutions like Harvard and Stanford. Popular classes include: Machine Learning, Financial Markets, Programming, Philosophy and more.
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    CreativeBug

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    By signing up for Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Watch their classes anytime, anywhere. Since their classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace. No pressure, just possibilities!  
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    Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice Database is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime. It explores the causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. Coverage: 1981 - current
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  • ProQuest CultureGrams with a globe

    CultureGrams

    Experience the world through cultural information on more than 200 countries. You may choose the Kids Edition to get a kid's-eye view of daily life in countries around the world, the States Edition to explore all the U.S. states, or the Provinces Edition to tour all the Canadian provinces and territories.
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    Digital Learn

    If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, we have the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.
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    DMV Permit Practice Test

    Answer real DMV questions and get immediate feedback for free with no registration required. Take as many practice tests as you want, until you're ready to take the real DMV test! This website will increase your chances of passing the official DMV test.
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    Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Collection

    Dun's Reference Book collection has national coverage and includes "merchants, manufacturers, and traders" in a wide range of industries from the largest cities to the smallest towns across the United States and Canada. Researchers can use these directories to: Look up a particular company, see a list of businesses in a particular city or town, understand the biggest industries in a community, and/or provide more context for your family tree.
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    Early American Sources – Arkansas Archives

    Early American Sources has added a list of Arkansas archives and research libraries to their website. Link to them here! This site links to collections departments and historic documents at the Arkansas State Library, the State Archives, Crystal Bridges, and many other libraries and research centers throughout the Natural State. A great place to start your research on all things Arkansas!
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    East and South Asia

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Eastern and Central Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    eBook Central

    This collection from ProQuest provides access to authoritative eBooks from the world's top publishers on a range of subjects: arts, business management, education, general knowledge, health & medicine, history & political science, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology, and social science.
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  • ProQuest Education Database with four groups of students of all ages studying

    Education

    Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources. Coverage: 1988 - current
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    Education Resources: ProQuest K-12 Database Guide

    This research guide lists all Proquest databases by elementary, middle, or senior high school levels. It is a great place to start your research.
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    eLibrary Academic Platform

    A massive, multidisciplinary database, designed for students and educators at high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and obscure research topics. The content, which is all full text, includes books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos.
       
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  • ProQuest eLibrary Guided Research with a lighthouse

    eLibrary Guided Research Platform

    With eLibrary’s Research Platform, users can review the best (and most visually attractive) content, curated by editors, on more that 11,000 of the most popular search queries. A great starting point to learn the context behind the topic before exploring the article results.
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    Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

    A World Book for Kids resource for Spanish speakers, this dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn. Integrated with World Book Kids for parallel English-language content.
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  • ProQuest Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurship

    This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneurs in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
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    ERIC – Education Resources Information Center

    ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is the largest education database in the world, containing over one million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
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  • Ethinc Newswatch with people of various ethnicities in shades of blue, orange and purple

    Ethnic NewsWatch

    Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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    FamilySearch

    FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization whose website offering genealogical records and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is closely connected with the Family History Department of the church.  
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    Find-A-Grave Arkansas

    This website organizes cemeteries by county, then city/community, then specific cemetery. It offers search options by first and last name, Year born, and year died. Advanced search options include maiden names, nicknames, and like spellings, and in many cases offers GPS locations.
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    Fold3

    Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. The records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about these everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. On Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoeboxes to create an online memorial for someone who served. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.
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    Freegal

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    Freegal® is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number! Freegal offers access to about 7 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 80 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing libraries. You may download 3 songs a week and stream music 24 hours a day!
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    Gale eBooks

    Gale, a Cengage company, partners with librarians and educators around the world to connect learners to essential content through user-friendly technology that enhances experiences and improves learning outcomes. This central database uses subject indices to direct you to a large catalog of available eBook titles.
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    Gallaudet University ASL

    Gallaudet University is the premier institution of learning, teaching and research for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. For more than 150 years, Gallaudet has produced leaders and innovators who have influenced history. Jump into basic ASL Vocabulary with videos, categorized by theme or learn basic ASL with free online interactive lessons.
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    GenBank

    GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
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    Genetics Home Reference

    Genetics Home Reference provides information in high-school-level language about genetic conditions and the genes related to those conditions.
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    Global Breaking Newswires

    In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.
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    Health and Medical Collection

    This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. Subject coverage:
    • Anatomy
    • Physiology
    • Biochemistry
    • Pharmacology
    • Microbiology
    • Immunology
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    Health and Wellness Issues

    This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of a variety of health and wellness topics, providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important health and wellness issues. Categorized by themes, this database provides information on health related issues in an easy-to-read format.
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    Healthcare Administration

    This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.
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    Heritage Hub: Formerly America’s Genealogy Bank

    Heritage Hub provides access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from thousands of newspapers across the United States including the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and Saline Courier. This one-of-a-kind collection helps patrons and family historians uncover new family members and understand family relationships on a deeper level than ever before.
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    HeritageQuest

    Discover your family history with billions of census records dating back to the 1700s.
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  • History Hub

    Welcome to History Hub, a research support community for everyone, including genealogists, historians, and citizen archivists
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    History Study Center

    This targeted collection of full-text journals and popular magazines provides expansive coverage of a wide range of global historical topics and themes. Appropriate for use by researchers at all levels, this collection of authoritative current and archival secondary sources offers vital context and varied perspectives on thousands of topics from world history. Authoritative and engaging, the History Study Center provides a launching point for the study of history from ancient times through today.
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    Hoopla

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    Hoopla provides an enormous selection of digital video (movies and TV shows), music, audiobooks, ebooks and comics. Hoopla is available on the latest browser, phone, tablet, and TV products. Each Hoopla user can check out five items per month. To start using Hoopla, all you have to do is create an account with your library card. Click here and click on "get started today," on the homepage.
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    India

    ProQuest Indian Journals is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India. These scholarly sources support many academic fields of study, such as business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities. Providing a unique source of the very best scholarly periodical output from India, ProQuest Indian Journals is a current resource, with most coverage from the last five years and updated daily with new content.
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  • ProQuest Global Newsstream

    International NewsStream

    International NewsStream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades. NewsStream features newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International NewsStream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
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    Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. As of December 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 34 million books and texts, 7.4 million movies, videos and TV shows, 797,000 software programs, 13,991,923 audio files, 4.1 million images, and 640 billion web pages
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    Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

    This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy. It provides authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected sources on today's most important issues.
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    Kanopy

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    Kanopy allows you to stream movies, with several different genres of films to select from including Popular Movies, Documentaries, World Cinema, Classics and Oscar Winners. The Great Courses provide series of college-level lecture courses and give you the option to learn at your own pace and on the topics that interest you. Kanopy Kids shows popular tv shows, videos, short films and even storytimes. Each Kanopy user can view up to 10 films per month. Once a film has been played for 5 seconds, it counts a view. After a kids film has been viewed, you have unlimited access to Kanopy Kids for 30 days. The first kids film opened counts as one of the 10 views. For the Great Courses, you can have unlimited access to one series for 30 days. Each time a different Great Courses is opened, one of the 10 views are used. To start using Kanopy, all you have to do is create an account with your library card. Click here and click on "Don't have an account yet?" in the top right corner. Once you input your library card number, it will have you set up your own account that will be connected to that library card number.
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    Latin America & Iberia

    This database provides journals that are locally published in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Learning Express Library

    This page lists all the resources available through the LearningExpress library. LearningExpress provides a comprehensive selection of educational resources, including interactive tutorials, practice exams, flashcards, articles and e-books. Use LearningExpress for basic skills mastery, academic success, job preparation, and career advancement.
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    Legal Information Reference Center

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    Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms.
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    Libby and OverDrive

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Library Science

    Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals. Coverage: 1970 - current
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    Linguistics

    This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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    LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Login to view the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! So that means your log-in site will look a little different and you may be redirected to a new page. Don't worry! That is supposed to happen and can still access all the tutorials and helpful information quickly and easily. LOGGING IN- If you are directed to a page that has a "Get Started" button, click the button to be redirected to the log-in page. Then, enter your Saline County Library card number and four-digit PIN in the spaces provided and click "Continue" below. From there, you will be prompted to select at least 3 subjects you would like to see related videos of. After that, you will be all set with your personalized LinkedIn Learning account!  If you are using the LinkedIn Learning app, choose "sign in with your library card" instead of the default email option. Then put "Salinecountylibrary" as your library id and it should direct you to the correct login page where you enter your library card number and PIN.
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    LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts)

    Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 300 periodicals from around 40 countries and 20 languages, providing comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the scholarly literature related to library science. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.
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    Literature (From ProQuest Learning)

    ProQuest Learning: Literature (PQLL) is a rich literature solution for schools that offers multiple literary traditions and perspectives. PQLL supports key student use cases such as introducing high school literature students to authors from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Editorially created topic pages include hundreds of author biographies, literary work summaries and analyses, and genre and movement pages.  Journal, magazine, and other content types provide authoritative and current coverage of famous and lesser-known novelists, poets, and playwrights, as well as much-studied topics like the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and Transcendentalism.
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    Mango Languages

    Mango Languages provides language learning experiences with step-by-step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This includes ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. First time users must create a profile in order to use the resource.
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    Medical

    This database is a comprehensive collection of journals covering clinical and biomedical literature. Subjects include:
    • Anatomy
    • Physiology
    • Biochemistry
    • Pharmacology
    • Microbiology
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    MEDLINE

    MEDLINE® is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM controlled vocabulary. Extending back to 1946, annual input now exceeds 700,000 citations.
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    Middle East and Africa

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

    The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. These valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching a historical topic that interests you.
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  • National Archives and Records Administration 1950 Census

    The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and has been taken every ten years since.  Because of a 72-year restriction on access to the Census, the most recent year available is 1950.  The 1950 Census was released on April 1, 2022.  This database, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration, provides easy access to the rich data provided by this release, made available on April 1 of 2022.
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    National Library of Medicine (NLM) LocatorPlus

    The National Library of Medicine's online catalog, providing information about the Library's holding of books, journal titles, and audiovisuals.
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    National Library of Medicine Gateway

    The NLM Gateway is best understood as “first-stop shopping” for NLM's collections of resources. Its twenty separate systems are grouped visually into three collections appropriate for users from a wide variety of educational levels. Each database has a link to its own separate interface.
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    New York Times

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    You can access the NY Times for free while using the Saline County Library WiFi. Just log onto the library WiFi, then click the link to register your NY Times account. You can also access the NY Times without library WiFi for free for 24 hours here. To activate this subscription, you will need to log in or register first.
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    Niche Academy

    Niche Academy helps you create elegant online tutorial experiences, making things easier for both instructors and learners.
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    Nursing and Allied Health

    This database offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more. Subject coverage includes Nursing, Physical therapy, Nutrition, and more.
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    One Literature

    ProQuest One Literature brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
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    Overdrive and Libby

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Political Science

    Political Science Database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources. Coverage: 1985 - current
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    Pop Culture Universe

    Pop Culture Universe is a digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present. It is configured by decade to showcase the icons, idols, and ideas of the different eras in American history.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Psychology

    This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
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    Public Health

    This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.

    Subject coverage

    • Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Physical fitness and hygiene
    • Social services and welfare
    • Statistics
    • Drug abuse and alcoholism
    • Special education and rehabilitation
    • Environmental studies
    • Nurses and nursing
    • Pediatrics
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    PubMed

    PubMed®, from the National Library of Medicine, comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
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    Religion

    ProQuest's Religion Database provides a wide range of periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
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    Research Companion

    Research Companion supports educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" The viewing experience is also interactive, allowing educators to measure students’ learning and to identify gaps in their understanding.
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    Research Library

    ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
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    RootsTech

    Since 2011 RootsTech by FamilySearch has been a family gathering unlike any other. The annual conference, first held in Salt Lake City, Utah, has grown and changed since those early days. From in-person to the entirely virtual, world-wide conference held just last year, RootsTech has always been a celebration of connection—past, present and future

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    SalemPress

    The Salem Press database provides Saline County library's curated selection of books from Grey House Publishing, including Literature, Science, Health, and Career advice. To log-in, use login name: salinecountylibrary and password: 24766.
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    Saline County Cares

    Saline County Cares is a collaboration of social service institutions, nonprofits, and businesses who support and celebrate individuals and families. Our collaborative approach combines efficient business practices with a commitment to furthering the impact of the diverse work of our member organizations.
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    Saline County Obituary Index

    Index for Saline County obituaries from the Saline Courier. Years include 1930 to the present. These are sorted in two ways: by date of death notice and by last name.
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    Saline County Online Tax Payment

    Welcome to the Saline County Collector ePayment Service This site was created to give taxpayers the opportunity to pay their personal and real estate taxes online.
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    Saline County Real Estate Assessments

    ARCountyData.com is the fastest and easiest way to access Arkansas county property information. From the convenience of your office or home you can research property sales histories, commercial and residential building descriptions, and legal descriptions. Simply click the county of your choice on the map, or select it from the drop down, to access its records and assess your property.
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    Saline County Tax Collector’s Office

    Saline County uses ARCountyData.com as the fastest and easiest way to access Arkansas county property information. From the convenience of your office or home you can research property sales histories, commercial and residential building descriptions, and legal descriptions.   Simply click the county of your choice, or select it from the drop down, to access its records.
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    Sanborn Maps of Arkansas, 1867-1970

    Produced for over a century, Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
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    School Library Connection

    School Library Connection (SLC) is an extensive learning resource center for school library professionals. As the combined evolution of School Library Monthly and Library Media Connection magazines, SLC maintains their commitment to providing those in the school library field with practical insights and inspiration while also advancing the scope and mission of its predecessors. SLC is helmed by instructional leaders in school librarianship and features self-paced professional learning, curricular support resources, and related materials to support teaching and professional learning.
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    Science

    This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.

    Subject coverage

    • General science
    • Aerospace
    • Engineering
    • Computers
    • Physics
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    SIRS Discoverer

    SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators. It covers curriculum areas and content sets such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health, and technology. SIRS Discoverer provides editorially-selected, indexed, and curated materials from over 2,100 newspapers, magazines, and websites offering guided research for young researchers.
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    SIRS Issues Researcher

    Use SIRS Issues Researcher to locate articles about controversial issues selected from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. It features information about a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, and political issues from around the world. SIRS Researcher provides background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
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    Small Engine Repair

    The Small Engine Repair Reference Center is intended for public library patrons, as well as public school teachers and students. It provides reference and instructional information about small engine machinery maintenance and repair.  
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    Social Science

    Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
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    Sociology

    Sociology Database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies. It includes hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, as well as dissertations and other sources. Coverage: 1985 - current
     
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    STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

    The ProQuest STEM database is comprised of more than 500 scholarly journals and popular science magazines. These publications support research and instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math. All coverage is front-to-back full-text, with images and graphics reproduced exactly as they appear in the original editions. ProQuest's STEM database offers something for students and educators at multiple grade levels. Coverage: 1997 - current View title list

    Subject coverage

    • Earth sciences
    • Life sciences
    • Physical sciences
    • Medical sciences
    • Applied sciences
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    Telecommunications

    The telecommunications database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. Whether you’re looking for the latest news on WAP technology, following market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players in this field, ProQuest Telecommunications helps you stay one step ahead. The database includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text. Search more than 600,000 records, dating back to the early 1990's. Coverage: 1995 - current
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    • Telecommunications
    • Computer applications
    • Data communication
    • Data transmission systems
    • Electronic data processing
    • Information science
    • Information theory
    • Radio
    • Television
    • Wireless communications
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  • The Coffelt database of Vietnam Casualties

    The Coffelt Database of Vietnam War casualties has its roots in an effort begun by Richard Donham Coffelt. A Korean War era soldier and later an attorney in Hays, Kansas, Richard became aware that the government had not made public a central source of information regarding the servicemen and women who died as a result of service in Vietnam. In 1980 Richard set out to determine the unit of assignment for each Army soldier who died in Vietnam.
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    Today’s Science

    Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science taught in class and real-world discoveries. It gives in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. Thousands of original articles written by scientists and science journalists are presented in easy-to-understand language. With its featured articles, Conversations with Scientists, crossword puzzles, editorial cartoons with questions, an extensive backfile and more, this essential STEM resource shows how the scientific method can be applied to everyday life, helping users think like scientists—applied science in a nutshell.
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    Turkey

    ProQuest's Turkey database provides journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    UK and Ireland

    ProQuests's UK and Ireland database provides journals that are locally published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    United States Geography

    This interactive database helps students better understand the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States, as well as the complexities underlying the challenges facing the nation and individual states.
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    US NewsStream

    U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s. It features newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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    World Book Advanced

    World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.
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  • World Book Discover

    World Book Discover

    World Book Discover assists differentiated learners and older adults with a research database that offers a practical Life Skills section. A collection of unique videos, featuring expert answers to often asked questions, and a visual dictionary make content more accessible for readers of all levels.
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  • World Book Early Learning

    World Book Early Learning

    Welcome to Early Learning by World Book, the premier online resource for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades. Developed with experts on early childhood education and guided by evidence-based practices of reading instruction, Early Learning offers rich resources designed for easy integration into the classroom curriculum, public library programming, or learning at home.
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    World Book Kids

    World Book Kids is designed to encourage the young learner to be curious. This online encyclopedia includes eBooks, videos, activities, read-aloud, and translation features. With thousands of articles, multimedia content, and a collection of biographies, there is something for all levels of learners.
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  • World Book Student

    World Book Student

    World Book Student is aimed toward an audience of upper-elementary through middle school students. Special features include a timeline builder, individual research accounts, and a "How to Do Research" features that will help students develop information literacy skills.
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  • World Book Timelines

    World Book Timelines

    Dive in to history with this unique, interactive view! World Book Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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  • World Book Online

    World Book: All Products

    World Book’s mission focuses on developing a collaborative digital learning platform backed by editorial excellence, invaluable resources, and effective tools that support personalized teaching and learning. World Book serves over 100 million students across 65+ countries. This index includes all of World Book's resources in one database, a great place for all ages to begin their research.
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    World Geography

    World Geography provides authoritative content and online tools that develop students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world.
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    World History: The Ancient and Medieval Eras

    World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
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    World History: The Modern Era

    World History: The Modern Era covers human history around the globe—from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the present day.
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    ABC-Clio Search Platform

    ABC-CLIO is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. Available through the Arkansas Department of Education, ABC stands for the American Bibliographic Center and Clio is the ancient Greek muse of history.
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    Art & Humanities

    This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
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  • Australia and New Zealand

    Australia & New Zealand Database

    This database from ProQuest provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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  • ProQuest Continental Europe Database

    Continental Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by educational institutions in many European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    CreativeBug

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    By signing up for Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Watch their classes anytime, anywhere. Since their classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace. No pressure, just possibilities!  
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    Ethnic NewsWatch

    Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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    Freegal

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    Freegal® is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number! Freegal offers access to about 7 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 80 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing libraries. You may download 3 songs a week and stream music 24 hours a day!
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    Gale eBooks

    Gale, a Cengage company, partners with librarians and educators around the world to connect learners to essential content through user-friendly technology that enhances experiences and improves learning outcomes. This central database uses subject indices to direct you to a large catalog of available eBook titles.
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    Hoopla

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    Hoopla provides an enormous selection of digital video (movies and TV shows), music, audiobooks, ebooks and comics. Hoopla is available on the latest browser, phone, tablet, and TV products. Each Hoopla user can check out five items per month. To start using Hoopla, all you have to do is create an account with your library card. Click here and click on "get started today," on the homepage.
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    Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. As of December 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 34 million books and texts, 7.4 million movies, videos and TV shows, 797,000 software programs, 13,991,923 audio files, 4.1 million images, and 640 billion web pages
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    Kanopy

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    Kanopy allows you to stream movies, with several different genres of films to select from including Popular Movies, Documentaries, World Cinema, Classics and Oscar Winners. The Great Courses provide series of college-level lecture courses and give you the option to learn at your own pace and on the topics that interest you. Kanopy Kids shows popular tv shows, videos, short films and even storytimes. Each Kanopy user can view up to 10 films per month. Once a film has been played for 5 seconds, it counts a view. After a kids film has been viewed, you have unlimited access to Kanopy Kids for 30 days. The first kids film opened counts as one of the 10 views. For the Great Courses, you can have unlimited access to one series for 30 days. Each time a different Great Courses is opened, one of the 10 views are used. To start using Kanopy, all you have to do is create an account with your library card. Click here and click on "Don't have an account yet?" in the top right corner. Once you input your library card number, it will have you set up your own account that will be connected to that library card number.
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    Linguistics

    This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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    Literature (From ProQuest Learning)

    ProQuest Learning: Literature (PQLL) is a rich literature solution for schools that offers multiple literary traditions and perspectives. PQLL supports key student use cases such as introducing high school literature students to authors from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Editorially created topic pages include hundreds of author biographies, literary work summaries and analyses, and genre and movement pages.  Journal, magazine, and other content types provide authoritative and current coverage of famous and lesser-known novelists, poets, and playwrights, as well as much-studied topics like the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and Transcendentalism.
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    One Literature

    ProQuest One Literature brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
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    Overdrive and Libby

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Pop Culture Universe

    Pop Culture Universe is a digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present. It is configured by decade to showcase the icons, idols, and ideas of the different eras in American history.
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  • ProQuest Central

    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    SalemPress

    The Salem Press database provides Saline County library's curated selection of books from Grey House Publishing, including Literature, Science, Health, and Career advice. To log-in, use login name: salinecountylibrary and password: 24766.
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  • ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher with scales on a green square.

    SIRS Issues Researcher

    Use SIRS Issues Researcher to locate articles about controversial issues selected from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. It features information about a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, and political issues from around the world. SIRS Researcher provides background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
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Business and Economics

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    A to Z Databases

    Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.
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  • ABI Inform ProQuest

    ABI/INFORM Collection

    The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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    Accounting, Tax & Business Collection

    This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

    Subject coverage

    • Accounting
    • Tax
    • Banking
    • Business
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  • ProQuest Asian and European Business

    Asian and European Business Collection

    This database from ProQuest provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
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    Business Market Research Collection

    Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.
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    Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

    This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more.
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    Canadian Newsstream

    This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers. It provides full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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  • ProQuest Start Here. Career and Technical Education Database

    Career & Technical Education

    ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a U.S. government agency that makes sure banks, lenders, and other financial companies treat you fairly.
    The CFPB is committed to providing consumers with up-to-date information and resources to protect and manage their finances.
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    Consumer Reports with Best Deals Plus

    The online version of Consumer Reports provides expert and independent reviews of items for buyers.  
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  • ProQuest Continental Europe Database

    Continental Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by educational institutions in many European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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  • ProQuest Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurship

    This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneurs in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
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  • LinkedIn Learning

    Linkedin Learning

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    LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Login to view the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! So that means your log-in site will look a little different and you may be redirected to a new page. Don't worry! That is supposed to happen and can still access all the tutorials and helpful information quickly and easily. LOGGING IN- If you are directed to a page that has a "Get Started" button, click the button to be redirected to the log-in page. Then, enter your Saline County Library card number and four-digit PIN in the spaces provided and click "Continue" below. From there, you will be prompted to select at least 3 subjects you would like to see related videos of. After that, you will be all set with your personalized LinkedIn Learning account!  If you are using the LinkedIn Learning app, choose "sign in with your library card" instead of the default email option. Then put "Salinecountylibrary" as your library id and it should direct you to the correct login page where you enter your library card number and PIN.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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Careers

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    Brainfuse JobNow

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    JobNow provides you with practical tools to help you get a job. Get live interview coaching, expert resume analysis, and more.  
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    Entrepreneurship

    This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneurs in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
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  • LinkedIn Learning

    Linkedin Learning

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    LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Login to view the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! So that means your log-in site will look a little different and you may be redirected to a new page. Don't worry! That is supposed to happen and can still access all the tutorials and helpful information quickly and easily. LOGGING IN- If you are directed to a page that has a "Get Started" button, click the button to be redirected to the log-in page. Then, enter your Saline County Library card number and four-digit PIN in the spaces provided and click "Continue" below. From there, you will be prompted to select at least 3 subjects you would like to see related videos of. After that, you will be all set with your personalized LinkedIn Learning account!  If you are using the LinkedIn Learning app, choose "sign in with your library card" instead of the default email option. Then put "Salinecountylibrary" as your library id and it should direct you to the correct login page where you enter your library card number and PIN.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    School Library Connection

    School Library Connection (SLC) is an extensive learning resource center for school library professionals. As the combined evolution of School Library Monthly and Library Media Connection magazines, SLC maintains their commitment to providing those in the school library field with practical insights and inspiration while also advancing the scope and mission of its predecessors. SLC is helmed by instructional leaders in school librarianship and features self-paced professional learning, curricular support resources, and related materials to support teaching and professional learning.
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Computers and Technology

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    Computer Science

    This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text. Subjects include:
    • Computer Science
    • Information Systems
    • Computer Security
    • Database Design
    • Software Development
    • Web Commerce
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    Digital Learn

    If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, we have the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.
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  • LinkedIn Learning

    Linkedin Learning

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    LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Login to view the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! So that means your log-in site will look a little different and you may be redirected to a new page. Don't worry! That is supposed to happen and can still access all the tutorials and helpful information quickly and easily. LOGGING IN- If you are directed to a page that has a "Get Started" button, click the button to be redirected to the log-in page. Then, enter your Saline County Library card number and four-digit PIN in the spaces provided and click "Continue" below. From there, you will be prompted to select at least 3 subjects you would like to see related videos of. After that, you will be all set with your personalized LinkedIn Learning account!  If you are using the LinkedIn Learning app, choose "sign in with your library card" instead of the default email option. Then put "Salinecountylibrary" as your library id and it should direct you to the correct login page where you enter your library card number and PIN.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Telecommunications

    The telecommunications database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. Whether you’re looking for the latest news on WAP technology, following market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players in this field, ProQuest Telecommunications helps you stay one step ahead. The database includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text. Search more than 600,000 records, dating back to the early 1990's. Coverage: 1995 - current
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    • Telecommunications
    • Computer applications
    • Data communication
    • Data transmission systems
    • Electronic data processing
    • Information science
    • Information theory
    • Radio
    • Television
    • Wireless communications
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Current Events

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    America’s Newspapers & Magazines

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    Find information related to business, careers, education, health, politics, science and technology, social studies, and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, newswires, blogs, videos, and web-only content featuring the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saline Courier, Hot Springs Village Voice, USA Today, and more. Please use links below for: Saline Courier:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253ABCBB%2521The%2BSaline%2BCourier%26year%3D2023

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     Hot Springs Village Voice:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253AHSWB%2521Hot%2BSprings%2BVillage%2BVoice%26year%3D2023

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    Canadian Newsstream

    This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers. It provides full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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    Global Breaking Newswires

    In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.
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    International NewsStream

    International NewsStream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades. NewsStream features newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International NewsStream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
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    Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

    This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy. It provides authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected sources on today's most important issues.
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    Libby and OverDrive

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    New York Times

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    You can access the NY Times for free while using the Saline County Library WiFi. Just log onto the library WiFi, then click the link to register your NY Times account. You can also access the NY Times without library WiFi for free for 24 hours here. To activate this subscription, you will need to log in or register first.
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    Overdrive and Libby

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Political Science

    Political Science Database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources. Coverage: 1985 - current
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    Pop Culture Universe

    Pop Culture Universe is a digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present. It is configured by decade to showcase the icons, idols, and ideas of the different eras in American history.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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  • ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher with scales on a green square.

    SIRS Issues Researcher

    Use SIRS Issues Researcher to locate articles about controversial issues selected from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. It features information about a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, and political issues from around the world. SIRS Researcher provides background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
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    United States Geography

    This interactive database helps students better understand the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States, as well as the complexities underlying the challenges facing the nation and individual states.
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    US NewsStream

    U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s. It features newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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Genealogy

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    African-American Heritage

    Search essential records for African-Americans, including federal census, marriage and cohabitation records, military draft and service records, registries of slaves, and more.
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    America’s Genealogy Bank – Now Heritage Hub!

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    America's Genealogy bank and America's Obituaries are now Heritage Hub! Heritage Hub provides access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from thousands of newspapers across the United States. Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7.  
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    America’s Newspapers & Magazines

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    Find information related to business, careers, education, health, politics, science and technology, social studies, and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, newswires, blogs, videos, and web-only content featuring the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saline Courier, Hot Springs Village Voice, USA Today, and more. Please use links below for: Saline Courier:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253ABCBB%2521The%2BSaline%2BCourier%26year%3D2023

    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Collection:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-multi%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dfavorite%253AADGBLADG!Arkansas%2BDemocrat-Gazette%2BCollection

     Hot Springs Village Voice:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253AHSWB%2521Hot%2BSprings%2BVillage%2BVoice%26year%3D2023

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    America’s Obituaries

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    Search for obituaries published across the nation by region, name, date, or obituary text.
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  • The African American Experience: the American Mosaic

    American Mosaic The African American Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of African-Americans by time periods.
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    American Mosaic: The Latino American experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of Latino Americans by time periods.
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    Ancestry Library

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    Find Census, birth, marriage, death records, and more. Available only inside the library.
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  • Chronicling America

    Chronicling America is a Library of Congress website dedicated to the preservation of historic newspapers from all fifty states. Arkansas Heritage has contributed over 200,000 pages, including 64 newspaper tiles, representing 27 counties. This information, covering the years 1830 - 1923, was not previously digitized and is part of a national effort to help researchers and historians access local information from this time period. There are search and chat features to ask for live assistance from historians and archival librarians, experts in research!
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    Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Collection

    Dun's Reference Book collection has national coverage and includes "merchants, manufacturers, and traders" in a wide range of industries from the largest cities to the smallest towns across the United States and Canada. Researchers can use these directories to: Look up a particular company, see a list of businesses in a particular city or town, understand the biggest industries in a community, and/or provide more context for your family tree.
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    Early American Sources – Arkansas Archives

    Early American Sources has added a list of Arkansas archives and research libraries to their website. Link to them here! This site links to collections departments and historic documents at the Arkansas State Library, the State Archives, Crystal Bridges, and many other libraries and research centers throughout the Natural State. A great place to start your research on all things Arkansas!
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    FamilySearch

    FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization whose website offering genealogical records and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is closely connected with the Family History Department of the church.  
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    Find-A-Grave Arkansas

    This website organizes cemeteries by county, then city/community, then specific cemetery. It offers search options by first and last name, Year born, and year died. Advanced search options include maiden names, nicknames, and like spellings, and in many cases offers GPS locations.
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    Fold3

    Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. The records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about these everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. On Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoeboxes to create an online memorial for someone who served. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.
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    GenBank

    GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
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    HeritageQuest

    Discover your family history with billions of census records dating back to the 1700s.
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  • History Hub

    Welcome to History Hub, a research support community for everyone, including genealogists, historians, and citizen archivists
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    National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

    The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. These valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching a historical topic that interests you.
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  • National Archives and Records Administration 1950 Census

    The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and has been taken every ten years since.  Because of a 72-year restriction on access to the Census, the most recent year available is 1950.  The 1950 Census was released on April 1, 2022.  This database, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration, provides easy access to the rich data provided by this release, made available on April 1 of 2022.
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    RootsTech

    Since 2011 RootsTech by FamilySearch has been a family gathering unlike any other. The annual conference, first held in Salt Lake City, Utah, has grown and changed since those early days. From in-person to the entirely virtual, world-wide conference held just last year, RootsTech has always been a celebration of connection—past, present and future

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    Saline County Obituary Index

    Index for Saline County obituaries from the Saline Courier. Years include 1930 to the present. These are sorted in two ways: by date of death notice and by last name.
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    Sanborn Maps of Arkansas, 1867-1970

    Produced for over a century, Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
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  • The Coffelt database of Vietnam Casualties

    The Coffelt Database of Vietnam War casualties has its roots in an effort begun by Richard Donham Coffelt. A Korean War era soldier and later an attorney in Hays, Kansas, Richard became aware that the government had not made public a central source of information regarding the servicemen and women who died as a result of service in Vietnam. In 1980 Richard set out to determine the unit of assignment for each Army soldier who died in Vietnam.
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Health & Wellness

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    Biological Science Database

    This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
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    Clinical Trials

    ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. This information should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.
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    Consumer Health

    This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry
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    GenBank

    GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
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    Genetics Home Reference

    Genetics Home Reference provides information in high-school-level language about genetic conditions and the genes related to those conditions.
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    Health and Medical Collection

    This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. Subject coverage:
    • Anatomy
    • Physiology
    • Biochemistry
    • Pharmacology
    • Microbiology
    • Immunology
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    Health and Wellness Issues

    This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of a variety of health and wellness topics, providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important health and wellness issues. Categorized by themes, this database provides information on health related issues in an easy-to-read format.
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    Healthcare Administration

    This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.
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    Medical

    This database is a comprehensive collection of journals covering clinical and biomedical literature. Subjects include:
    • Anatomy
    • Physiology
    • Biochemistry
    • Pharmacology
    • Microbiology
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    MEDLINE

    MEDLINE® is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM controlled vocabulary. Extending back to 1946, annual input now exceeds 700,000 citations.
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    National Library of Medicine (NLM) LocatorPlus

    The National Library of Medicine's online catalog, providing information about the Library's holding of books, journal titles, and audiovisuals.
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    National Library of Medicine Gateway

    The NLM Gateway is best understood as “first-stop shopping” for NLM's collections of resources. Its twenty separate systems are grouped visually into three collections appropriate for users from a wide variety of educational levels. Each database has a link to its own separate interface.
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    Nursing and Allied Health

    This database offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more. Subject coverage includes Nursing, Physical therapy, Nutrition, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Psychology

    This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
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    Public Health

    This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.

    Subject coverage

    • Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Physical fitness and hygiene
    • Social services and welfare
    • Statistics
    • Drug abuse and alcoholism
    • Special education and rehabilitation
    • Environmental studies
    • Nurses and nursing
    • Pediatrics
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    PubMed

    PubMed®, from the National Library of Medicine, comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
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History

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    ABC-Clio Search Platform

    ABC-CLIO is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. Available through the Arkansas Department of Education, ABC stands for the American Bibliographic Center and Clio is the ancient Greek muse of history.
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    American Government

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    American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.
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    American History

    From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution by time periods.
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    American Mosaic The African American Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of African-Americans by time periods.
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    American Mosaic The American Indian Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the American Indian experience by time period.
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    American Mosaic: The Latino American experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of Latino Americans by time periods.
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    Australia & New Zealand Database

    This database from ProQuest provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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  • Chronicling America

    Chronicling America is a Library of Congress website dedicated to the preservation of historic newspapers from all fifty states. Arkansas Heritage has contributed over 200,000 pages, including 64 newspaper tiles, representing 27 counties. This information, covering the years 1830 - 1923, was not previously digitized and is part of a national effort to help researchers and historians access local information from this time period. There are search and chat features to ask for live assistance from historians and archival librarians, experts in research!
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    CultureGrams

    Experience the world through cultural information on more than 200 countries. You may choose the Kids Edition to get a kid's-eye view of daily life in countries around the world, the States Edition to explore all the U.S. states, or the Provinces Edition to tour all the Canadian provinces and territories.
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    Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Collection

    Dun's Reference Book collection has national coverage and includes "merchants, manufacturers, and traders" in a wide range of industries from the largest cities to the smallest towns across the United States and Canada. Researchers can use these directories to: Look up a particular company, see a list of businesses in a particular city or town, understand the biggest industries in a community, and/or provide more context for your family tree.
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    Early American Sources – Arkansas Archives

    Early American Sources has added a list of Arkansas archives and research libraries to their website. Link to them here! This site links to collections departments and historic documents at the Arkansas State Library, the State Archives, Crystal Bridges, and many other libraries and research centers throughout the Natural State. A great place to start your research on all things Arkansas!
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    Fold3

    Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. The records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about these everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. On Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoeboxes to create an online memorial for someone who served. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.
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  • History Study Center Database Spotlight featuring a samurai, the Colosseum and a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    History Study Center

    This targeted collection of full-text journals and popular magazines provides expansive coverage of a wide range of global historical topics and themes. Appropriate for use by researchers at all levels, this collection of authoritative current and archival secondary sources offers vital context and varied perspectives on thousands of topics from world history. Authoritative and engaging, the History Study Center provides a launching point for the study of history from ancient times through today.
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    Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. As of December 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 34 million books and texts, 7.4 million movies, videos and TV shows, 797,000 software programs, 13,991,923 audio files, 4.1 million images, and 640 billion web pages
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  • National Archives and Records Administration 1950 Census

    The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and has been taken every ten years since.  Because of a 72-year restriction on access to the Census, the most recent year available is 1950.  The 1950 Census was released on April 1, 2022.  This database, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration, provides easy access to the rich data provided by this release, made available on April 1 of 2022.
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    Pop Culture Universe

    Pop Culture Universe is a digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present. It is configured by decade to showcase the icons, idols, and ideas of the different eras in American history.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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  • Logo for Saline County Obituary Index

    Saline County Obituary Index

    Index for Saline County obituaries from the Saline Courier. Years include 1930 to the present. These are sorted in two ways: by date of death notice and by last name.
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    Sanborn Maps of Arkansas, 1867-1970

    Produced for over a century, Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
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  • The Coffelt database of Vietnam Casualties

    The Coffelt Database of Vietnam War casualties has its roots in an effort begun by Richard Donham Coffelt. A Korean War era soldier and later an attorney in Hays, Kansas, Richard became aware that the government had not made public a central source of information regarding the servicemen and women who died as a result of service in Vietnam. In 1980 Richard set out to determine the unit of assignment for each Army soldier who died in Vietnam.
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    World Book Timelines

    Dive in to history with this unique, interactive view! World Book Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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    World History: The Ancient and Medieval Eras

    World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
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    World History: The Modern Era

    World History: The Modern Era covers human history around the globe—from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the present day.
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Languages

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    Brainfuse LearnNow

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    Brainfuse LearnNow offers resources for students from k-12 through college. Read lessons. Watch videos. Take tests. Know more.
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    Colorín Colorado

    Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade.
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    Gallaudet University ASL

    Gallaudet University is the premier institution of learning, teaching and research for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. For more than 150 years, Gallaudet has produced leaders and innovators who have influenced history. Jump into basic ASL Vocabulary with videos, categorized by theme or learn basic ASL with free online interactive lessons.
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    Mango Languages

    Mango Languages provides language learning experiences with step-by-step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This includes ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. First time users must create a profile in order to use the resource.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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Law

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    Arkansas Legal Services Online

    Arkansas Legal Services Online, provided by the Center for Arkansas Legal Services and Legal Aid of Arkansas, assists every county in the state with priority subjects such as family law, consumer issues, bankruptcy or evictions.
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    Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice Database is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime. It explores the causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. Coverage: 1981 - current
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  • Legal Information Reference Center

    Legal Information Reference Center

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    Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms.
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Life Skills

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    Arkansas DMV Practice Test

    The Arkansas DMV Driving Tests website provides free permit practice tests, written by experts, that are available to anyone who wants to study. This website also provides online copies of official state guides.
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    Arkansas DMV Study Guide

    Provided by the Arkansas State Police, this website has PDF downloads of the Arkansas Driver Exam study guide.
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    Chilton Auto Library

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    Chilton Library provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use website. Since this library subscribes to Chilton Library, you are now equipped with decades of data to maintain your vehicle.
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    DMV Permit Practice Test

    Answer real DMV questions and get immediate feedback for free with no registration required. Take as many practice tests as you want, until you're ready to take the real DMV test! This website will increase your chances of passing the official DMV test.
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    Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. As of December 2021, the Internet Archive holds over 34 million books and texts, 7.4 million movies, videos and TV shows, 797,000 software programs, 13,991,923 audio files, 4.1 million images, and 640 billion web pages
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    Niche Academy

    Niche Academy helps you create elegant online tutorial experiences, making things easier for both instructors and learners.
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    Small Engine Repair

    The Small Engine Repair Reference Center is intended for public library patrons, as well as public school teachers and students. It provides reference and instructional information about small engine machinery maintenance and repair.  
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Local Resources

  • Arkansas State Police on a blue and red star on a black and blue flag

    Arkansas DMV Practice Test

    The Arkansas DMV Driving Tests website provides free permit practice tests, written by experts, that are available to anyone who wants to study. This website also provides online copies of official state guides.
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    Arkansas DMV Study Guide

    Provided by the Arkansas State Police, this website has PDF downloads of the Arkansas Driver Exam study guide.
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  • Center for Arkansas Legal Services, Equal Justice for All on the state of Arkansas with the scales of justice

    Arkansas Legal Services Online

    Arkansas Legal Services Online, provided by the Center for Arkansas Legal Services and Legal Aid of Arkansas, assists every county in the state with priority subjects such as family law, consumer issues, bankruptcy or evictions.
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  • Chronicling America

    Chronicling America is a Library of Congress website dedicated to the preservation of historic newspapers from all fifty states. Arkansas Heritage has contributed over 200,000 pages, including 64 newspaper tiles, representing 27 counties. This information, covering the years 1830 - 1923, was not previously digitized and is part of a national effort to help researchers and historians access local information from this time period. There are search and chat features to ask for live assistance from historians and archival librarians, experts in research!
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    Early American Sources – Arkansas Archives

    Early American Sources has added a list of Arkansas archives and research libraries to their website. Link to them here! This site links to collections departments and historic documents at the Arkansas State Library, the State Archives, Crystal Bridges, and many other libraries and research centers throughout the Natural State. A great place to start your research on all things Arkansas!
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    Saline County Cares

    Saline County Cares is a collaboration of social service institutions, nonprofits, and businesses who support and celebrate individuals and families. Our collaborative approach combines efficient business practices with a commitment to furthering the impact of the diverse work of our member organizations.
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    Saline County Obituary Index

    Index for Saline County obituaries from the Saline Courier. Years include 1930 to the present. These are sorted in two ways: by date of death notice and by last name.
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    Saline County Online Tax Payment

    Welcome to the Saline County Collector ePayment Service This site was created to give taxpayers the opportunity to pay their personal and real estate taxes online.
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    Saline County Real Estate Assessments

    ARCountyData.com is the fastest and easiest way to access Arkansas county property information. From the convenience of your office or home you can research property sales histories, commercial and residential building descriptions, and legal descriptions. Simply click the county of your choice on the map, or select it from the drop down, to access its records and assess your property.
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    Saline County Tax Collector’s Office

    Saline County uses ARCountyData.com as the fastest and easiest way to access Arkansas county property information. From the convenience of your office or home you can research property sales histories, commercial and residential building descriptions, and legal descriptions.   Simply click the county of your choice, or select it from the drop down, to access its records.
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Science

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    AGRICOLA

    This bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records.
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    Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection

    Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection offers full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It also includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources as well as the renowned AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases and content previously available in ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). Coverage: 1960 - current

    Subject coverage

    • Agriculture
    • Animal sciences
    • Climate change and global warming
    • Conservation (soil, water, and wildlife)
    • Energy
    • Environmental education
    • Food and nutrition
    • Pollution (air, noise, soil, and water)
    • Water quality
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    Biological Science Database

    This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
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    Library Science

    Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals. Coverage: 1970 - current
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    LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts)

    Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 300 periodicals from around 40 countries and 20 languages, providing comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the scholarly literature related to library science. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Science

    This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.

    Subject coverage

    • General science
    • Aerospace
    • Engineering
    • Computers
    • Physics
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    STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

    The ProQuest STEM database is comprised of more than 500 scholarly journals and popular science magazines. These publications support research and instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math. All coverage is front-to-back full-text, with images and graphics reproduced exactly as they appear in the original editions. ProQuest's STEM database offers something for students and educators at multiple grade levels. Coverage: 1997 - current View title list

    Subject coverage

    • Earth sciences
    • Life sciences
    • Physical sciences
    • Medical sciences
    • Applied sciences
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    Today’s Science

    Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science taught in class and real-world discoveries. It gives in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. Thousands of original articles written by scientists and science journalists are presented in easy-to-understand language. With its featured articles, Conversations with Scientists, crossword puzzles, editorial cartoons with questions, an extensive backfile and more, this essential STEM resource shows how the scientific method can be applied to everyday life, helping users think like scientists—applied science in a nutshell.
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Student Resources

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    ABC-Clio Search Platform

    ABC-CLIO is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings. Available through the Arkansas Department of Education, ABC stands for the American Bibliographic Center and Clio is the ancient Greek muse of history.
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    America’s Newspapers & Magazines

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    Find information related to business, careers, education, health, politics, science and technology, social studies, and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, newswires, blogs, videos, and web-only content featuring the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saline Courier, Hot Springs Village Voice, USA Today, and more. Please use links below for: Saline Courier:  https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard/SalineCountyPL?destination=browse-pub%3Fp%3DNewsBank%26t%3Dpubname%253ABCBB%2521The%2BSaline%2BCourier%26year%3D2023

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    American Government

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    American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.
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  • The African American Experience: the American Mosaic

    American Mosaic The African American Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of African-Americans by time periods.
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    American Mosaic The American Indian Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the American Indian experience by time period.
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    American Mosaic: The Latino American experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of Latino Americans by time periods.
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    Australia & New Zealand Database

    This database from ProQuest provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Brainfuse HelpNow

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    HelpNow provides live tutoring on a variety of subjects, offering a comprehensive suite of online academic services designed to support many learning needs and styles. To access ACT and SAT prep materials, click on "Skillsurfer" under "Expert Help." You will then be able to select "College Entrance Test Prep" and choose your preferred test and subject.
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    Brainfuse LearnNow

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    Brainfuse LearnNow offers resources for students from k-12 through college. Read lessons. Watch videos. Take tests. Know more.
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    Colorín Colorado

    Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade.
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    Coursera

    Coursera offers over 2,000 courses--which can be taken for free or for a small fee to earn an official certificate--from leading institutions like Harvard and Stanford. Popular classes include: Machine Learning, Financial Markets, Programming, Philosophy and more.
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    CultureGrams

    Experience the world through cultural information on more than 200 countries. You may choose the Kids Edition to get a kid's-eye view of daily life in countries around the world, the States Edition to explore all the U.S. states, or the Provinces Edition to tour all the Canadian provinces and territories.
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    Digital Learn

    If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, we have the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.
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    DMV Permit Practice Test

    Answer real DMV questions and get immediate feedback for free with no registration required. Take as many practice tests as you want, until you're ready to take the real DMV test! This website will increase your chances of passing the official DMV test.
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    East and South Asia

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    eBook Central

    This collection from ProQuest provides access to authoritative eBooks from the world's top publishers on a range of subjects: arts, business management, education, general knowledge, health & medicine, history & political science, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology, and social science.
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  • ProQuest Education Database with four groups of students of all ages studying

    Education

    Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources. Coverage: 1988 - current
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    Education Resources: ProQuest K-12 Database Guide

    This research guide lists all Proquest databases by elementary, middle, or senior high school levels. It is a great place to start your research.
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    eLibrary Academic Platform

    A massive, multidisciplinary database, designed for students and educators at high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and obscure research topics. The content, which is all full text, includes books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos.
       
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    eLibrary Guided Research Platform

    With eLibrary’s Research Platform, users can review the best (and most visually attractive) content, curated by editors, on more that 11,000 of the most popular search queries. A great starting point to learn the context behind the topic before exploring the article results.
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  • World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos and a globe with a magnifying glass on a red and orange background

    Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

    A World Book for Kids resource for Spanish speakers, this dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn. Integrated with World Book Kids for parallel English-language content.
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    ERIC – Education Resources Information Center

    ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is the largest education database in the world, containing over one million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
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    Gale eBooks

    Gale, a Cengage company, partners with librarians and educators around the world to connect learners to essential content through user-friendly technology that enhances experiences and improves learning outcomes. This central database uses subject indices to direct you to a large catalog of available eBook titles.
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  • ABC-CLIO Solutions Health and Wellness Issues with a line from an electrocardiogram

    Health and Wellness Issues

    This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of a variety of health and wellness topics, providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important health and wellness issues. Categorized by themes, this database provides information on health related issues in an easy-to-read format.
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  • ProQuest Healthcare Administration Database

    Healthcare Administration

    This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.
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    Latin America & Iberia

    This database provides journals that are locally published in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Learning Express Library

    This page lists all the resources available through the LearningExpress library. LearningExpress provides a comprehensive selection of educational resources, including interactive tutorials, practice exams, flashcards, articles and e-books. Use LearningExpress for basic skills mastery, academic success, job preparation, and career advancement.
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    Library Science

    Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals. Coverage: 1970 - current
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    Linguistics

    This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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    LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts)

    Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 300 periodicals from around 40 countries and 20 languages, providing comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the scholarly literature related to library science. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.
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    Literature (From ProQuest Learning)

    ProQuest Learning: Literature (PQLL) is a rich literature solution for schools that offers multiple literary traditions and perspectives. PQLL supports key student use cases such as introducing high school literature students to authors from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Editorially created topic pages include hundreds of author biographies, literary work summaries and analyses, and genre and movement pages.  Journal, magazine, and other content types provide authoritative and current coverage of famous and lesser-known novelists, poets, and playwrights, as well as much-studied topics like the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and Transcendentalism.
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    Middle East and Africa

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    One Literature

    ProQuest One Literature brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
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    Overdrive and Libby

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    We have a variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download from Overdrive and the Libby App. Just visit your app store to download either program to your phone or tablet. With the Overdrive App, click "sign-in" and then select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" from the drop-down list. Enter your library card number and PIN to sign in. Then you will be taken to the Overdrive home page where you can search through all of the eBooks and eAudiobooks. With the Libby App, open the app and select the Libby icon in the top right corner. Then select "Add A Library" and enter "Arkansas" in the search bar. Next, select "Saline County Library" and click "Sign In With My Library Card."  From here, you will follow steps similar to the Overdrive App. Click the drop-down arrow and select "Mid-Ark Regional Library System" and enter your library card number and PIN. Now click "Enter The Library" to begin searching through all of the eLibrary materials.  
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Psychology

    This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
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    Religion

    ProQuest's Religion Database provides a wide range of periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
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    Research Companion

    Research Companion supports educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" The viewing experience is also interactive, allowing educators to measure students’ learning and to identify gaps in their understanding.
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    Research Library

    ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
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    SalemPress

    The Salem Press database provides Saline County library's curated selection of books from Grey House Publishing, including Literature, Science, Health, and Career advice. To log-in, use login name: salinecountylibrary and password: 24766.
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    School Library Connection

    School Library Connection (SLC) is an extensive learning resource center for school library professionals. As the combined evolution of School Library Monthly and Library Media Connection magazines, SLC maintains their commitment to providing those in the school library field with practical insights and inspiration while also advancing the scope and mission of its predecessors. SLC is helmed by instructional leaders in school librarianship and features self-paced professional learning, curricular support resources, and related materials to support teaching and professional learning.
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    Science

    This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.

    Subject coverage

    • General science
    • Aerospace
    • Engineering
    • Computers
    • Physics
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    SIRS Discoverer

    SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators. It covers curriculum areas and content sets such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health, and technology. SIRS Discoverer provides editorially-selected, indexed, and curated materials from over 2,100 newspapers, magazines, and websites offering guided research for young researchers.
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    Social Science

    Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
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    Sociology

    Sociology Database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies. It includes hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, as well as dissertations and other sources. Coverage: 1985 - current
     
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    Today’s Science

    Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science taught in class and real-world discoveries. It gives in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. Thousands of original articles written by scientists and science journalists are presented in easy-to-understand language. With its featured articles, Conversations with Scientists, crossword puzzles, editorial cartoons with questions, an extensive backfile and more, this essential STEM resource shows how the scientific method can be applied to everyday life, helping users think like scientists—applied science in a nutshell.
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    United States Geography

    This interactive database helps students better understand the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States, as well as the complexities underlying the challenges facing the nation and individual states.
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  • World Book Advanced

    World Book Advanced

    World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.
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  • World Book Discover

    World Book Discover

    World Book Discover assists differentiated learners and older adults with a research database that offers a practical Life Skills section. A collection of unique videos, featuring expert answers to often asked questions, and a visual dictionary make content more accessible for readers of all levels.
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    World Book Early Learning

    Welcome to Early Learning by World Book, the premier online resource for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades. Developed with experts on early childhood education and guided by evidence-based practices of reading instruction, Early Learning offers rich resources designed for easy integration into the classroom curriculum, public library programming, or learning at home.
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    World Book Kids

    World Book Kids is designed to encourage the young learner to be curious. This online encyclopedia includes eBooks, videos, activities, read-aloud, and translation features. With thousands of articles, multimedia content, and a collection of biographies, there is something for all levels of learners.
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  • World Book Student

    World Book Student

    World Book Student is aimed toward an audience of upper-elementary through middle school students. Special features include a timeline builder, individual research accounts, and a "How to Do Research" features that will help students develop information literacy skills.
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    World Book Timelines

    Dive in to history with this unique, interactive view! World Book Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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  • World Book Online

    World Book: All Products

    World Book’s mission focuses on developing a collaborative digital learning platform backed by editorial excellence, invaluable resources, and effective tools that support personalized teaching and learning. World Book serves over 100 million students across 65+ countries. This index includes all of World Book's resources in one database, a great place for all ages to begin their research.
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    World Geography

    World Geography provides authoritative content and online tools that develop students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world.
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    World History: The Ancient and Medieval Eras

    World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
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    World History: The Modern Era

    World History: The Modern Era covers human history around the globe—from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the present day.
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    American Mosaic The American Indian Experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the American Indian experience by time period.
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    American Mosaic: The Latino American experience

    An imprint of ABC-Clio, this American Mosaic database explores the history of Latino Americans by time periods.
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    Asian and European Business Collection

    This database from ProQuest provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
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  • Australia and New Zealand

    Australia & New Zealand Database

    This database from ProQuest provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

    This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more.
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    Canadian Newsstream

    This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers. It provides full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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    Continental Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by educational institutions in many European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Eastern and Central Europe

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

    A World Book for Kids resource for Spanish speakers, this dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn. Integrated with World Book Kids for parallel English-language content.
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    Ethnic NewsWatch

    Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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    History Study Center

    This targeted collection of full-text journals and popular magazines provides expansive coverage of a wide range of global historical topics and themes. Appropriate for use by researchers at all levels, this collection of authoritative current and archival secondary sources offers vital context and varied perspectives on thousands of topics from world history. Authoritative and engaging, the History Study Center provides a launching point for the study of history from ancient times through today.
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    India

    ProQuest Indian Journals is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India. These scholarly sources support many academic fields of study, such as business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities. Providing a unique source of the very best scholarly periodical output from India, ProQuest Indian Journals is a current resource, with most coverage from the last five years and updated daily with new content.
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    International NewsStream

    International NewsStream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades. NewsStream features newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International NewsStream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
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    Latin America & Iberia

    This database provides journals that are locally published in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Middle East and Africa

    This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    Military

    The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches. Topics include international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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    Proquest Central

    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available. Like Google, ProQuest Central brings together numerous databases that can be searched together or individually. PQC encompasses complete databases across all major subject areas, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. It includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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    Religion

    ProQuest's Religion Database provides a wide range of periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
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    Turkey

    ProQuest's Turkey database provides journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    UK and Ireland

    ProQuests's UK and Ireland database provides journals that are locally published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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    World Book Advanced

    World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.
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  • World Book Discover

    World Book Discover

    World Book Discover assists differentiated learners and older adults with a research database that offers a practical Life Skills section. A collection of unique videos, featuring expert answers to often asked questions, and a visual dictionary make content more accessible for readers of all levels.
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    World Geography

    World Geography provides authoritative content and online tools that develop students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world.
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    World History: The Modern Era

    World History: The Modern Era covers human history around the globe—from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the present day.
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