Student Resource Center

Provides full text reference articles, journal and newspaper articles, and primary documents covering an extensive array of subjects and sources.

Opposing Viewpoints

Designed to aid students in researching both sides of a social issue, while making it simple, fast and rewarding, the Center includes over 60 topics from key reference sources, including full-text articles from over 30 major newspapers and newsmagazines.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search a single eBook or the entire collection. Online searchability makes often-requested titles available to multiple users. Results are delivered at the article level (not a page at a time) in an HTML-based text and graphics format that's designed for speedy display and easy readability. With single-click ease, articles can be printed, e-mailed or displayed as PDF page layouts.

Michigan eLibrary

Residents in Michigan are provided access to a number of electronic resources such as General Reference Center Gold, Health and Wellness Resource Center, LearnATest, and NetLibrary. FirstSearch research databases include Medline, ArticleFirst, ERIC, and WilsonSelectPlus; which provide access to full text articles and abstracts.

Biography in Context

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people throughout history, from around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Books and Authors

Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun!

Business & Co. Resource Center

Mostly full text. Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

College Source Online

A virutal library representing 34,692 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

CultureGrams

Provides a profile of the cultures of 182 countries around the world, with in-depth information on 25 categories. Also includes StateGrams for all the fifty state, and a Kids' Edition providing a kids'-eye view of 66 countries featuring cultural and geographical information, history, flags, maps and colorful images.

Greenwood Daily Life through History Online

Daily Life Online focuses on the men and woman history often forgets, but whose everyday lives created the world we know. Perfect for general readers, students of history, literature, drama, social studies, anthropology, religion, organized by time period, region, and topic for easy navigation.

Grolier Online

The main menu at Grolier.com offers direct access to six important online encyclopedic resources.

• America the Beautiful
• Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Lands & Peoples
• New Book of Knowledge
• New Book of Popular Science

Health & Wellness Resource Center

This Gale Group database allows users to search for consumer health information in many sources at once: 700 health/medical journals, 2,200 general interest publications, pamphlets, health Web sites, and reference sources such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and the PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. New and updated material is added quarterly; magazine and newspaper articles are added daily.

InfoTrac Custom Full Text Newspapers

An innovative Web-based full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section, or other assigned fields from 120 papers.

LearningExpress Library

LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

Literature Resource Center

An extremely useful source for book club participants as well as students. Allows you to search for author biographies, bibliographies, and full-text criticism of an author's works and literary career. You can search Title to find related critical essays and Authors by Type (which includes options such as Author Ethnicity, Author Nationality, Genre, Theme, and Literary Movement or Time Period.)

Litfinder

Lit Finder is a unique database of full-text poems, stories, essays, speeches, and plays focusing on the humanities and social sciences, and includes biographies and literary criticism. You can search by title or author, or use the subject navigator organized into a hierarchy of groupings, leading from the most general to the most specific

NoodleTools

At NoodleTools, we create innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process. Search intelligently. Assess the quality of results. Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards. Format your bibliography in MLA or APA style.