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1. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection - ABC-CLIO Over 500 fully searchable, full-text ebooks in all subject areas. Includes many reference books. Create an individual user profile to create user-specific bookmarks, capture and store user notes, and create bibliographic citations. 2. Academic OneFile - Gale Cengage Learning Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 7400 primarily peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities, social sciences, and more. Full text is available for 3300 of the journals. Also includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full text for The New York Times.  - Tutorial 3. African American Music Reference - Alexander Street Press Offers essays and images covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. 4. Alexander Street Literature (formerly World Literature Online) - Alexander Street Press Collection of databases containing literature and primary texts in postcolonial, black, gender, and regional literatures. It contains more than 5,500 plays and more than 250,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and essays from Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions. 5. America's News Magazines - NewsBank Covers U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines. Teacher resources available. More info 6. America: History and Life - EBSCOhost Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Some full-text linking available. 7. American Civil War: Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press Contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a battles database, and more in a 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images. 8. American Film Scripts Online - Alexander Street Press Provides accurate and authorized versions of 1008 copyrighted screenplays. Titles include Bringing Up Baby, Network, In the Company of Men, Drugstore Cowboy, Marty, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Thomas Crown Affair, Suspicion, The Shawshank Redemption, Fort Apache, Notorious, and The Last Detail. More info 9. American Mosaic - Greenwood Publishing Provides access to two multicultural resources, The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience, with ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines. Teacher resources available. More info 10. ArchiveGrid - FirstSearch (OCLC) . Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.  - Tutorial 11. ArticleFirst - FirstSearch (OCLC) Citations only for items listed in table of contents of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. More info  - Tutorial 12. Asian American Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More info 13. Biography Resource Center - Gale Cengage Learning Full-text database provides biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Teacher resources available. More info 14. Black Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More info 15. Black Short Fiction and Folklore - Alexander Street Press Black Short Fiction is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. More info 16. Black Thought & Culture - Alexander Street Press Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. More info 17. Black Women Writers - Alexander Street Press Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time. More info 18. Books in Print - Bowker Now called Global Books in Print. Details on book titles (in all formats) that are in print, forthcoming, or out-of-print since 1979. Includes full-text book reviews and index of publishers. Fiction Connection offers reading suggestions based on books, authors or topics of interest. Intended for librarians. Non-professionals may prefer Patron Books in Print. More info  - Tutorial 19. Business Plan eBooks - Gale Cengage Learning Updated annually, this collection contains complete business plans for hundreds of different types of businesses. A master index is available online from Gale. 20. CAMIO - FirstSearch (OCLC) High-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Includes: photographs, prints, sculptures, paintings, decorative arts, posters, costumes, utilitarian objects, and jewelry. 21. Caribbean Literature - Alexander Street Press Presents fiction and poetry of hundreds of authors in their original language. Also includes manuscripts, archival materials, interviews, photographs, and audio files. More info 22. Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - CLCD Company Provides an extensive array of information about children's books. Teacher's guides and information about video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media are also included. Teacher resources available. More info 23. Clase and Periódica - FirstSearch (OCLC) Index of Latin American and Caribbean journals in the social sciences, humanities, science, and technology. More info  - Tutorial 24. Classical Music Library - Alexander Street Press 50,000-plus tracks from leading labels. Recordings include music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. 25. Classical Music Reference Library - Alexander Street Press Contains reference materials spanning the entire history of Western classical music, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. 26. Classical Scores Library - Alexander Street Press Contains classical music scores and manuscripts from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Includes full scores for piano and vocal and piano reductions. 27. Computer Database - Gale Cengage Learning Provides information on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries. Includes new and reviews of hardware, software, the internet, consumer electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Selected full-text.  - Tutorial 28. Computers and Applied Sciences Complete - EBSCOhost Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for literature on research and development in computing and applied science disciplines, including engineering, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. More info 29. Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works - Alexander Street Press Contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. More info 30. Counseling and Therapy in Video - Alexander Street Press Collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Themes include aging, family, gender, race, sex and sexual abuse, and substance abuse. 31. Credo Reference - Credo Reference Full text for over 250 reference books covering art, biography, business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, food, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, quotations, religion, science, social sciences, and technology. More info 32. Daily Life Online - Greenwood Publishing Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available. 33. Dance in Video - Alexander Street Press Dance productions and documentaries cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. This release includes 109 videos, equalling 165 hours. 34. Demographics Now - Gale Cengage Learning Presents preformatted and customizable data reports on demographic data including age, income, housing, employment, consumer expenditures, and race. Includes census data and projects data for the future. More info 35. Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online - Gale Cengage Learning Over 16,000 biographical and critical essays on predominantly American and British authors from all eras and genres. 36. Dissertations and Theses - ProQuest This is now known as ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. More info  - Tutorial 37. E-Access [encyclopedias] - IDG Full-text encyclopedias and handbooks on information science and technology including communication, databases, knowledge management, education, distance education, digital government, networking, electronic surveys, technology literacy and more. More info 38. Ebooks Catalog - FirstSearch (OCLC) A subset of WorldCat, this catalog links to full text electronic books available on the Web. Includes books, government documents, and more. Note: users will only be able to access full text for ebooks to which the library subscribes, as well as those that are free to all. More info  - Tutorial 39. Education Full Text (Broward) - WilsonWeb Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles on education-related topics from periodicals and yearbooks from 1983 to the present. Remote access is available to only one concurrent user at a time by clicking here. More info  - Tutorial 40. Emerald Management eJournals - Emerald Group Full-text articles from over 200 journals covering human resources, library science, marketing, management, operations, and other related topics. Provides detailed reviews (no full-text) for articles in an additional 300 management journals. Coverage back to Volume 1 Issue 1 for over 120 journals. Formerly called Emerald Management Xtra. More info 41. Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - World Book Inc. General Spanish language encyclopedia with brief entries on all subjects. Enciclopedia general en Español con breves definiciones ó explicaciones en diversos temas. 42. Encyclopedia Americana - Scholastic Full text encyclopedia entries on full range of topics. Also includes news briefs, dictionary, thesaurus, and links to web sites. Teacher resources available. More info This product will be no longer be available after December 31, 2009. 43. ERIC (FS) - FirstSearch (OCLC) Citations and abstracts for education literature, including articles, books, papers, proceedings and other documents from 1966 to present. Includes links to full-text for most ERIC documents (ED) from 1993 to present. More info  - Tutorial NOTE: Adobe Reader version 6 or 7 required to view full-text 44. Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCOhost) - EBSCOhost Citations and abstracts for literature on research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development, and social welfare. More info 45. Fiction Connection - Bowker Search for reading suggestions based on books you have enjoyed, authors you like, or topics of interest. Or explore books based on topic, genre, setting, character, location, or timeframe. Includes summaries, full-text excerpts and reviews. 46. FirstSearch databases - FirstSearch (OCLC) Search across up to three FirstSearch databases.  - Tutorial 47. FloridaCat - FirstSearch (OCLC) A subset of WorldCat, FloridaCat serves as a combined library catalog for books and other materials in libraries in Florida. Includes records on all subjects. Useful for locating libraries in Florida with a particular resource. Note: This catalog does not include all Florida libraries, only those that belong to OCLC. More info  - Tutorial 48. Gale Directory Library - Gale Cengage Learning Contains Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, 46th and on Editions (2003-present); Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations; Business Rankings Annual; and Market Share Reporter 49. Gale PowerSearch - Gale Cengage Learning PowerSearch interface allows you to search several Gale databases at one time.  - Tutorial 50. Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Cengage Learning Online reference library of over 500 full text reference books. Includes business plan handbooks, specialized encyclopedias, directories, and other books. Covers topics related to business, education, social sciences, sciences, humanities, and more. More info  - Tutorial 51. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - Alexander Street Press Presents essays, images, and recordings on music research of all the world's peoples. 52. General Business File ASAP - Gale Cengage Learning Linked databases provide full-text articles from business, economic, management, trade, and industry publications; profiles of public and private companies; SIC industry descriptions; and investment reports and forecasts. More info  - Tutorial 53. General OneFile - Gale Cengage Learning Comprehensive database includes a portion (but not all) of the content from other Gale Cengage databases, as well as additional news and magazine articles on all subjects. Includes full-text for many articles.  - Tutorial 54. General Reference Center Gold - Gale Cengage Learning General interest database integrates newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Includes full-text articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.  - Tutorial 55. Global Books in Print - Bowker Details on book titles (in all formats) that are in print, forthcoming, or out-of-print since 1979. Includes full-text book reviews and index of publishers. Fiction Connection offers reading suggestions based on books, authors or topics of interest. Intended for librarians. Non-professionals may prefer Patron Books in Print. More info  - Tutorial 56. GLOBUS & NTDB - StatUSA GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) provides current and historical trade-related releases, leads and procurement activity. NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides international market research reports, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the international trade library. More info 57. GovSearchSuite - Carroll Publishing Contains directory information on people, programs, and places in federal, state, and municipal governments and civilian programs. Very strong in military and Department of Defense contracting communities. More info 58. GPO Monthly Catalog - FirstSearch (OCLC) Citations only for documents printed by the U.S. government including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments; etc. More info  - Tutorial 59. Greenwood eBooks - Greenwood Publishing 500 fully searchable, full-text ebooks in all subject areas. Includes many reference books. Create an individual user profile to create user-specific bookmarks, capture and store user notes, and create bibliographic citations. 60. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Scholastic Full text encyclopedia entries on full range of topics with links to maps, flags, photos, sound files and related web sites. Includes English dictionary, English > Spanish dictionary, atlas and timelines. Teacher resources available. More info This product will be no longer be available after December 31, 2009. 61. Grolier Online Passport - Scholastic Search Encyclopedia Americana and/or Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Plus extra features including Dictionary; Atlas; Feature Showcase with video stories; NewsNow with daily news, feature stories, pro and con editorials, and more. Younger children can access Grolier Online Kids, with similar features in a kid-friendly interface. Teacher resources available. This product will be no longer be available after December 31, 2009. NOTE: Broadband connection recommended. 62. Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module - Gale Cengage Learning Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text to magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on health-related topics. Also includes videos on various health topics. More info 63. Health Reference Center Academic - EBSCOhost Full-text articles from health and related periodicals, plus excerpts from health-related reference books including medical dictionary, directories, reference books, and pamphlets. More info  - Tutorial 64. Historical Abstracts - EBSCOhost Comprehensive reference guide to the history of the world from 1450-present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the America: History and Life database). 65. History Reference Online - ABC-CLIO Name changed to ABC-CLIO eBook Collection 66. History Study Center - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) Comprehensive source for study of history includes full text of primary and secondary documents, articles, maps, images, videos, reference works, study guides, web sites, and more. Get started with this demo. Teacher resources available. More info 67. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library - IEEE Full-text of articles on computer and information science from IEEE magazines, transactions and conference proceedings. Full-text available for articles since 1995. More info 68. Index to Current Urban Documents - Greenwood Publishing Provides full text reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. More info 69. Informe Revistas en Español - Gale Cengage Learning Full-text Spanish-language Hispanic journals, magazines, newspapers and pamphlets covering academic, news, and general interest topics. With more than half its titles peer-reviewed, it is called Informe Academico in Latin America. More info  - Tutorial 70. InfoSci Journals - IGI Global Provides access to 30 peer reviewed journals covering information technology (IT) research, including databases, distance learning, global IT, healthcare systems, e-commerce, and IT engineering. More info 71. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - Alexander Street Press Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. More info 72. Issues & Controversies - Facts on File News Services Provides more than 650 articles on today's controversial social issues. This is an excellent source for middle- and high-school social studies projects, current events papers, and debate preparation. Teacher resources available. More info 73. Junior Reference Collection - Gale Cengage Learning Full text entries from encyclopedias and other reference books covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, people and places. Teacher resources available. More info 74. Key Business Ratios - D&B Provides key business ratios arranged by Standard Industrial Classification(SIC). Access is limited to five simultaneous users. Quick Reference Guide More info 75. Latin American Woman Writers - Alexander Street Press Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region. More info 76. Latino Literature - Alexander Street Press The largest collection available of Latino literature, with over 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 400 plays, written by authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent living in the United States. In Spanish and English. More info 77. LegalTrac - Gale Cengage Learning We have cancelled our Gale LegalTrac subscription. The last day of access was September 30, 2009. Please check our other law databases. 78. Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (Broward) - WilsonWeb Citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles and other sources covering library science, and related subjects. Remote access is available to only one concurrent user at a time by clicking here. More info  - Tutorial 79. Literature Criticism Online - Gale Cengage Learning Presents a wide range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes criticism of drama, short stories, Shakespeare, classics, children's literature, and Western literature from the 1400's to the present. More info 80. Literature Resources from Gale (formerly Literature Resource Center) - Gale Cengage Learning Full-text database provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every time period and literary discipline. Also includes overviews of major literary works, Web links, timelines, MLA International Bibliography, Twayne's Authors, and Scribner Writers. Teacher resources available. More info  - Tutorial 81. Live Homework Help ® - Tutor.com We ended our Live Homework Help subscription on September 14, 2009. It is available from Broward County Library (called Broward e-tutor ) with a Broward County Library card or a Broward zip code. 82. Livedgar - Westlaw Provides information on publicly traded companies, domestic and international, with filing requirements in either the US or Canada. Includes all SEC filings from 1967, SEDAR filings from 1997, M&A info, agreements, annual reports, documents, and other materials regarding companies and the individuals involved with them. Try the Livedgar online demo. 83. MEDLINE (FS) - FirstSearch (OCLC) Citations and abstracts to medical literature including clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, health care services and administration, biological and physical sciences, etc. Coverage: 1965 to present. More info  - Tutorial 84. Military and Intelligence Database - Gale Cengage Learning Information from over 500 journals related to military and intelligence. Also includes The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. About 80% of articles are available in full text.  - Tutorial 85. MLA International Bibliography - Gale Cengage Learning Citations and indexing for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, since 1926. Provides links to selected full text.  - Tutorial 86. Music Online - Alexander Street Press Browse or search across all our Alexander Street Press music collections More info 87. MyiLibrary - MyiLibrary Contains over 10,000 ebooks concentrating in science, technology, and medicine. More info 88. NBER Technical Working Papers - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research discuss computational aspects of economic research. Includes all technical working papers since 1999. 89. NBER Working Papers - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research focus on four areas of economic research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Includes all working papers since 1975. More info 90. NetLibrary - OCLC Full-text electronic books in all subject areas. Current collection includes over 50,000 copyright-protected eBooks along with an additional 3400 public-domain texts. More info  - Tutorial 91. NewsBank KidsPage - NewsBank Full-text news stories and facts about plants, animals, fossils, science, math, the earth, health, sports, people, arts, geography, and important problems. Geared toward elementary school students. Teacher resources available. More info 92. NewsBank Middle School Edition - NewsBank Full-text news articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events. Geared towards middle school students. Teacher resources available. More info 93. NewsBank NewsFile Collection with Periodicals - NewsBank Full-text news articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events. Teacher resources available. More info 94. NewsBank ScienceSource Collection - NewsBank Full-text article digests on life, earth, physical, medical, health and applied sciences. Scientist biographies included. Teacher resources available. More info 95. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - Alexander Street Press Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included. More info 96. North American Indian Drama - Alexander Street Press This first release of North American Indian Drama contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays. 97. North American Theatre Online - Alexander Street Press Provides in-depth detail records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors; more than 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera; and 40,000-plus pages of in-copyright reference texts. 98. North American Women's Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More info 99. North American Women's Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years - approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database. More info 100. OAIster - FirstSearch (OCLC) Catalogs more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations including digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. 101. Opera in Video - Alexander Street Press Video of staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. 102. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Gale Cengage Learning Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides information on today's social issues. It's an excellent source for social studies projects, current events papers, and debate preparation. 103. Oxford English Dictionary Online - Oxford University Press Comprehensive English dictionary provides etymology, pronounciation, variant spellings, and definition of words. Also provides history of usage and sense of meaning by way of numerous quotations over time for each word entry. 104. Oxford Reference Online - Oxford University Press Full text of numerous Oxford reference works provides information across 25 subjects. Includes full text dictionaries, Oxford Companions, quotations, bilinqual dictionaries, as well as maps, timelines, illustrations, etc. Access is limited to single user; please log out when you are done. 105. Oxford Scholarship Online - Oxford University Press Full text of over 2700 Oxford books in Political Science, Economics and Finance, Philosophy, and Religion. Provides keywords, abstracts and full text at both book and chapter level, as well as relevant journal abstracts. Tutorial. More info 106. PapersFirst - FirstSearch (OCLC) Index of papers on a wide variety of subjects presented at conferences worldwide, including every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993. More info  - Tutorial 107. Patron Books In Print - Bowker A more user-friendly version of Books in Print, provides details on books that are in print, forthcoming, or out-of-print since 1979. Browse by subject, genre, award-winners, author, and more. Fiction Connection offers reading suggestions based on books, authors or topics of interest. Includes full-text excerpts and reviews. Users can also create a list of favorites and set up alert service. 108. PEP Archive - EBSCOhost Offers full text to 20 peer reviewed psychoanalytic journals and more than 50 classic books dating from 1921. Find full text of Freud's correspondence with Abraham, Fleiss, Jones and Jung, and all works by Bion. More info 109. Periodicals Archive Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) Full-text articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Extensive backfile of early issues. Coverage: 1802-1995.  - Tutorial 110. Periodicals Index Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) Comprehensive database with nearly 16 million citations for journal articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Provides links to selected full-text in other databases. Coverage: 1665-1995.  - Tutorial 111. Pop Culture Universe - Greenwood Publishing Covers popular culture in America from the 1920s through present days. Teaching aids and student study guides are available. More info 112. Praeger Security International - Greenwood Publishing Provides material on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism. More info 113. ProceedingsFirst - FirstSearch (OCLC) Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from 1993 to the present. More info  - Tutorial 114. Project Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including arts, history, literature, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. More info  - Tutorial 115. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - ProQuest Bibliographic database of information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Citations for dissertations beginning in 1861, abstracts for dissertations published from 1980 forward, and full-text from 1997 forward. To find NSU dissertations/theses, limit your search by selecting the "School name/code" field. Click on "Browse schools" to locate the school name and click on "Add to Search." Or enter the school name in square brackets. For example: [Nova Southeastern University]. Click here to learn more about locating dissertations. More info  - Tutorial 116. RCLweb - Bowker A collaboration between ACRL's Choice and Bowker, this database contains resources for collection development, bibliographic instruction, and reference. 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects were selected by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers. Records link to NovaCat. More info 117. Reference Universe - Paratext Provides citations to articles in reference materials, many of which can be found in the NSU Libraries' collections and whose holdings can be checked directly from the database. Also provides direct links to online reference works in Oxford Reference Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library, NetLibrary, Credo Reference, and others. More info 118. Religion and Philosophy Database - Gale Cengage Learning Provides indexing and abstracts to 250 journals on religion and philosophy. Includes selected full text.  - Tutorial 119. Safari Books Online - ProQuest (Safari) Provides over 1,300 ebooks covering computer hardware and software technologies. Frequently updated with the latest titles and editions. More info 120. Science Online - Facts on File, Inc. Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. Subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, earth science, environmental science, forensic science, mathematics, physics, astronomy, and weather. Teacher resources available. More info 121. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - Alexander Street Press In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project. More info 122. Social Theory - Alexander Street Press Offers documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. The current release features more than 122,000 pages of content by major theorists. Highlights include 33 volumes of the Complete Works of Marx & Engels. 123. SourceOECD - Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development Full-text publications of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, including country studies, reports, ebooks, periodicals, working papers, and statistics databases. They cover economics, business, and social issues in the 30 member countries and 70 other countries. More info  - Tutorial 124. South and Southeast Asian Literature - Alexander Street Press South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region. More info 125. SpringerLink - Springer Citations and abstracts to journals, books, and reference works in many subjects, but primarily science, technology, and medicine. Includes limited full text for approximately 40 subscribed journals. Also includes full text to Lecture Notes in Computer Science since 1997. 126. State of the Nation - StatUSA Provides various U.S. financial and economic data from throughout the federal government and other related entities. More info 127. Student Resource Center - Gold - Gale Cengage Learning Contains curriculum-targeted full-text primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, magazines and newspapers articles, graphics, audio and video clips. Aimed at middle school and high school students. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module. Teacher resources available. More info 128. Student Resource Center - Health Module - Gale Cengage Learning Full-text, curriculum-oriented health database aimed at high school students. Subjects include: body systems, diseases, drugs, first aid, current issues in health, physical and emotional well-being, and more. Teacher resources available. More info 129. Student Resource Center - Junior - Gale Cengage Learning Contains curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background info, critical analyses, full-text articles from magazines, newspapers; photographs and illustrations; audio and video clips. Aimed at middle school students. Teacher resources available. More info 130. TableBase - Gale Cengage Learning Specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics.  - Tutorial 131. Teacher Reference Center - EBSCOhost Index of over 260 education trade journals, periodicals, and books, providing coverage of key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science & mathematics, and more. 132. Testing & Education Reference Center - Gale Cengage Learning Provides detailed information on colleges, universities, private secondary schools, specialty programs, and scholarships. Test preparation section provides practice tests and test preparation materials for numerous academic, civil service, and licensing tests. More than seventy complete ebooks are included. Individual registration required for test prep and scholarship search. A resume builder and a career assessment tool are also included.  - Tutorial 133. Theater in Video - Alexander Street Press Contains performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries. 134. Today's Science - Facts on File News Services Offers science news coverage for secondary students, illustrated generously, updated weekly, and fully linked to background information. Teacher resources available. More info 135. Twentieth Century North American Drama - Alexander Street Press This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,386 plays by 209 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More info 136. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Bowker Details on periodical titles including journals, magazines, newspapers, and other types of serial publications on all subjects. Includes full-text reviews. More info  - Tutorial 137. Value Line - Value Line Publishing Inc. Provides access to full-text of Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Detailed investment information on companies and industries. Video guide available 138. What Do I Read Next? - Gale Cengage Learning Search by title, author, subject, keyword, time period, geographic location, character and reading level to find recommended titles for your reading pleasure. More info 139. World Almanacs - FirstSearch (OCLC) Full-text of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs provide biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. More info  - Tutorial 140. World Book Advanced - World Book Inc. Full-text of the World Book Encyclopedia, Dictionary and Atlas. Includes text entries, maps, tables, sound clips, images, videos, and special reports. Recommended for grades 7-14. Teacher resources available. More info 141. World Book Discover - World Book Inc. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of reluctant readers, ELL, ESL, and adult literacy students. It includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research and translation tools, multimedia, and interactive video to draw students into curriculum-related topics and subjects relevant to older students. Teacher resources available. More info 142. World Book Kids - World Book Inc. Based on the World Book's Student Discovery Encyclopedia, the content is chosen and written for younger readers. Thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps enhance learning. Teacher resources available. More info 143. World Book Online - World Book Inc. Entry for all World Book products: Kids, Student, Advanced, Discover... all from one launch pad! 144. World Book Student - World Book Inc. For grades 3-12, this includes an atlas, timelines, articles, multimedia, and special topic reports. Teacher resources available. More info 145. World News Digest - Facts on File News Services Full-text news articles from 1940 to the present with photographs, maps, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and other special reports. Updated weekly.Teacher resources available. More info 146. WorldCat - FirstSearch (OCLC) Serves as combined library catalog for books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Includes records on all subjects. Useful for locating libraries with a particular resource. Note: WorldCat includes many - but not all - academic and public libraries. It does include NSU Libraries. More info  - Tutorial 147. WorldCat Dissertations and Theses - FirstSearch (OCLC) A subset of WorldCat, this database includes all dissertations and theses cataloged in WorldCat. Many dissertations are available electronically, sometimes at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. To locate electronic documents, limit your search by checking the boxes for Internet Resources and Computer Files.

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