Biography Collection Complete
Biography Collection Complete offers a comprehensive collection of full text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas. This database features more than 177,000 full text biographies from many different sources.

Inventions and Discoveries
A great place to find out about inventors, and inventions throughout history. Includes an examination of inventions and discoveries in the following fields: agriculture, architecture and engineering, the arts, astronomy, communication, economics, industry and manufacturing, mathematics, medicine, personal and household items, transportation, warfare.

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Student Research Center
Student Research Center is designed for high school students searching for full text articles on topics ranging from American history to zoology.

World Book Online
This online version of World Book Encyclopedia includes World Book Kids, World Book Student, World Book Discover, and World Book Advanced, which provides more than 1.3 million pages of primary source documents.

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