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Access Science
A science and technology database containing the full text of the landmark McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The database also contains the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, late-breaking news articles from Science News, research updates, scientific biographies, and annotated Web resources.
Grzimek’s Animal Life
Animal Life: Animals: from aardvark to zorilla! This online resource, based on the acclaimed encyclopedia, covers more than 4,000 species, and includes information on evolution, habitat and behavior and includes thousands of photos, maps, videos and audio tracks. Also included is information on endangered species, biomes and prehistoric animals.
Lands and Peoples Online
A highly interactive and continually updated encyclopedia of geography, countries, cultures, and current events for students in elementary and middle school.
New Book of Popular Science Online
An online science encyclopedia for grade school and up. New Book of Popular Science includes science challenge games, science in the news, and much more.
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
World Book
World Book Online is a premier online reference source. With thousands of articles, state-of-the-art multimedia, editor-reviews websites, periodical content, and more!
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CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
ipl2: Information You Can Trust
From the Internet Public Library, hosted by Drexel University, comes a rich collection of websites, newspapers, and much more.
U.S. Department of State Background Notes
Background Notes include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of world countries.
Visual Dictionary Online
Merriam-Webster’s online visual dictionary is a resource of meticulously labeled images — combining dictionary-scale definitions with exceptional illustrations, making it the most complete dictionary.
