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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
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Source for major trade and industry news. Includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics study and compare specific trades and industries such as telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
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Ancestry Library
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Access to Ancestry.com from the Library! Contains billions of names and includes census records, passenger immigration lists, vital records (birth/marriage/death), war and muster lists, court/land records, images, indexes, narratives and much more.
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Auto Repair Reference Center
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Car repair, wiring diagrams, maintenance schedules and labor/time estimation for about 23,000 domestic and imported vehicles from 1954 to the present. Uses information from Chilton manuals and includes factory drawings and step-by-step photographs.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
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An index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Covers more than 13 million citations.
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Biography In Context
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Virtually every course of study — from history to science to literature — is ultimately tied to the study of people. Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. It’s a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily.
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Bookflix
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BookFlix is a fun, interactive literacy resource that builds a love of reading and learning – online! Pairing classic fictional video storybooks and nonfiction eBooks, BookFlix reinforces reading skills and develops essential real-world knowledge and understanding. BookFlix is accessible to every child – early readers, reluctant readers, and English Language Learners.
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Business & Company Resource Center
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Contains detailed company and industry news and info with company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
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Career Transitions
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Make the most of your job search and career exploration with Career Transitions!
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Computer Database
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Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Coverage from 1980.
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Computer Skills Tutorials
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Instantly access self-paced, multimedia computer software tutorials from basic to advanced levels for the most commonly used applications and operating systems.
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Consumer Reports.org
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Access Consumer Reports online! Make better purchasing decisions by reading ratings, reviews, recommendations and buying advice.
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CultureGrams Online
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Need info on a country or U.S. State? Start here! Culture Grams has information on 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian Provinces.
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eLibrary®
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A general reference collection of periodical and digital media content designed to support every range of user - kids through professionals. Includes full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps (some are interactive!), pictures, weblinks, podcasts and audio/video files.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Coverage from 1980.
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Freegal Music
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Free Music! Download up to 3 free songs per week from the Sony Music Catalog.
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Gale Literary Databases
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Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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General Business File ASAP
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Brings together indexing to many business-related periodicals, including titles with full text of articles. Find general business, company and industry news and information. Broader periodicals coverage than in the companion Business and Company Resource Center database.
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General Reference Center
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A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. Coverage from 1980.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
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Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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HelpNow
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Live Homework Help, Skills Building and Writing Workshop for grades 3-12. One-to-one online tutors are available from 1-10 pm, seven days per week. Spanish-speaking tutors are also available.
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HeritageQuest
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Includes privately scanned images of the U.S. census records… Periodical Source Index (PERSI)…Freedman’s Bank Records… the U.S. Serial Set… Revolutionary War records… and over 27,000 digitized local and family history books from the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History microfilm collection and the American Antiquarian Society book collection.
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History Study Center
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Offers valuable historical reference material that spans from ancient times through today's current events -- quick and valuable facts for a variety of users from high school students to history scholars.
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Image Archives
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Over 40,000 photographs of Tacoma, Pierce County and the Pacific Northwest from as early as the late 1800’s are featured in this database. This is a wonderful resource for historians, researchers, students, genealogists and anyone curious about the region’s history. Additions are made often, and staff works hard to provide as much verifiable information as possible with each image to help with your research.
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InfoTrac General OneFile
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A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. A fabulous starting point for all sorts or research! Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
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InfoTrac Kids Edition - K12
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A database designed for elementary students with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Job & Career Accelerator
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Conduct a successful job search! Resume and cover letter builders, interview tips and expert advice, recommended occupations based on skills and interests and up-to-the-minute job postings. **Please Note that you will need to create a free account and login to access this resource.**
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JobNow
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Personal job coaching and assistance for patrons at all phases of their job search plus resume and cover letter review and live interview practice. Also offers resume/cover letter templates, interview tips, general sample interview questions, industry-specific sample interview questions, and a vast array of online resources and links.
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Learning Express Library
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Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.
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Legal Trac
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Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, Indexes more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
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Literature Resource Center
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Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. You'll find full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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Military and Intelligence Database
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The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts.
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Mountaineers Climbs 1912-1916
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Through the eyes of Mary Paschall, an avid Mountaineer, the group's 1912 summer challenge was to explore "the least known parks and glaciers" on the North side of Mount Rainier. This web site chronicles a series of adventures of the Mountaineers from 1912 to 1916 told in their own words and photographs.
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Murray's People
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A collection of essays about the facinating people who explored, settled and developed Tacoma and the Puget Sound region. The stories were selected by librarian Gary Fuller Reese from more than 30 years of newspaper & magazine articles, books, radio broadcasts and other writings by the distinguished historian, author and educator Murray Morgan.
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Northwest Facts
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Often people are curious about something in the area, or an event that has happened regionally—and would like to find out more. This database is a great place to start. Searchable by both keyword and topic, you can find citations about your subject and also many full text articles, accessible in the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library.
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Northwest People
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Looking for information on people who are or were prominent locally and regionally? We have identified articles that feature people in business, politicians, community activists, pioneers, athletes, artists, etc. that may help you find the information you need. There are also links to many full text articles that can be viewed in their entirety in the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library.
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Northwest Postcard Database
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The Tacoma Public Library has an extensive collection of postcards that have survived to become a significant visual record and important source of the history of this area. The postcards can be searched by keyword or category, and include the written messages where available. Well over 2,000 cards have been scanned into the database, with about 700 of these completely viewable currently—including cards from several local collectors.
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NoveList
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NoveList is great source for finding new books to read! Search for a favorite author or title as a way to discover other authors and titles of interest. Browse theme-oriented booklists, award lists, and fiction related websites. It's also good for finding the books in a particular series.
NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers.
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Opposing Viewpoints In Context
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All about today's hottest social issues, Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps you research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
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Overdrive eBooks & eAudiobooks
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Get eBooks and eAudiobooks on your smartphone, tablet, eReader, home computer and more! Simply install the device-appropriate free software, browse the collection, checkout using your library card and pin, download and enjoy!
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Powerspeak Languages
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Learn Spanish, French, Mandarin, German or ESL for Spanish speakers!
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Proquest Databases
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Get access to information in 17 Proquest databases with one search screen! Or, specify which subjects you'd like to search. A one-stop-shop for articles from thousands of magazines, journals and newspapers.
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ProQuest Entrepreneurship
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Designed to arm entrepreneurs with the resources they need to be successful! Includes a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats.
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ProQuest Learning: Literature
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Offers more than 180,000 searchable works of literature from medieval times to the present with author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources.
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ProQuest News & Newspapers
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A collection of the top national newspapers and other Independent and International news sources including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and more.
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ReferenceUSA - Canadian Businesses
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Find accurate phone-verified information on 1.5 million businesses in Canada.
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ReferenceUSA - U.S. Businesses
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Databases of 14 million U.S. Businesses -- all searchable by location, SIC, activity, number of employees, telephone number and address and updated monthly.
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ReferenceUSA - U.S. New Businesses
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A database of 4 million New Businesses updated with more than 50,000 new businesses added each week.
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ReferenceUSA - U.S. Standard White Pages
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Use this database of over 89 Million U.S. Residents to conduct market research, and locate friends and relatives. (Formerly called "U.S. Residential Database")
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Religion and Philosophy
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Features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and the related areas of philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.
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Science In Context
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Authoritative information for assignments and projects with detailed coverage of popular topics in science and mathematics. This revolutionary, curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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Ships & Shipping
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A guide to more than 13000 ships which passed through the Port of Tacoma, with details on the names (and former names) of vessels, their builders, careers, and history
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SIRS Discoverer®
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An award-winning, general reference resource to help students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language, and computer skills. The database includes carefully selected full-text articles and images from more than 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, government documents, and websites.
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Song Index at the Tacoma Public Library
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Index to songs in books and sheet music on file at the Tacoma Public Library's Main Library
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South Sound Photo Album
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Selected photographs from the extensive Library photo archives appear daily in the South Sound Photo Album feature in the News Tribune. This database brings together all the images that have appeared since 2001.
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Tacoma/Pierce County Buildings Index
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This comprehensive source indexes home construction news in Tacoma newspapers from 1883 through 1950. It also indexes over 200 books related to Tacoma architecture or history. Nearly 50,000 addresses are covered.
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Tacoma/Pierce County Obituary Index
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An index listing when the obituaries of some 370,000 individuals appeared in local newspapers (microfilm of the original obituaries can be accessed at the downtown Main Library). This file is complete from 1984 to the present day. An additional 110,000 names (from 1930 to 1983) are also included in this index, but those years are by no means complete.
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Testing and Education Reference Center (TERC)
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The best place for test prep for high school, college prep, grad school, career tools, citizenship, GED, computer skills, resume builder and more! Explore TERC!
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U.S. History In Context
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Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information combining documents from primary sources, periodicals and reference materials.
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Unsettling Events
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True-life tales which chillingly capture the dark side of our State's history.
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Washington Place Names
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Ever wonder how Sequim got its name, who named Spirit Lake, or why there's a town called Yelm? This unique resource, created and edited by Garry Fuller Reese, provides the who, what, when and why about thousands of place names throughout the state.
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Washington State Legal Forms
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A selection of Washington State-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas with real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions.
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Washington State Newsstand
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Offers several Washington State newspapers and publications in one cross-searchable platform. The collection includes publications like: Columbian, The Everett Herald, Spokane Journal of Business, The News Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Spokesman Review, Tri-City Herald, Yakima Herald Republic and much more!
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World History In Context
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A comprehensive online collection that uses an intuitive, Web-like interface to provide multicultural, global and research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research requirements.
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