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Academic Search Premier
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The worlds largest academic database, this provides full text for more than 4,500 publications. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals.
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African-American Experience in Ohio
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Digital collection of manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets. Gives an overview of Ohio's African-Americans' experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them.
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African-American History and Culture
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This covers topics such as affirmative action, civil rights, emancipation, free blacks, migrations, racial violence and hate crimes, slavery, social work and philanthropy, sports, and visual arts. It includes, biographies, primary sources, timelines, subject entries and images.
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ALLDATA
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American & English LIterature Collection
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Antiques Reference
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This gives prices antiques are bringing at various auctions. There are pictures and descriptions of many types of antiques and documents.
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Art and Architecture
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This resource contains more than 54,000 digital images, from the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO).
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Associations Unlimited
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Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields
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Authors4Teens
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This consists of complete, up-to-date information about contemporary authors who write for teens. Included are interviews, images, biographies and reviews.
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index
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Index to biographies of people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor.
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Biography Reference Bank
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This expanded version of Biographies Plus contains biographies, obituaries, and images of well-known people. Biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity and dates.
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BookFlix
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Business Source Premier
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Accesses scholarly business journals and other sources . This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
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Contemporary Authors
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Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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CultureGrams
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This collection of 68 country reports teaches upper elementary-aged children more about the world around them. Each report includes up-to-date, engaging cultural information, complete with images, historical timeline, fun facts, and sections on history, population, “life as a kid”, and more.
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Dayton Daily News Archive
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Full text articles from the Dayton Daily News dating as far back as 1990. Articles written by Dayton Daily News staff and other selected articles are available approximately 24 hours after publication. This does not contain obituaries or classified advertising.
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Dayton Metro Library Catalog
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Dayton Metro Library Local Newspaper Index
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Newspaper Index Contains information on local news stories appearing in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton Journal Herald, Dayton City Paper, Dayton Magazine, Downtowner and Impact Weekly between 1985-2003.
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Dayton Obituary Index
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Index to obituaries and death notices appearing in Dayton newspapers between 1850-1890, portions of the 1950's, and 1985 to the present. Full-text obituaries are not available online.
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Dayton Remembers: Digital Image Collection
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
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This provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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EBSCOHost
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All EBSCOHost databases.
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Ebscohost MasterFILE Premier
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Full text articles from nearly 2,000 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science. It is updated daily.
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Elibrary
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Full text articles from a wide range publications, including popular magazines and scholarly journals, newspapers and news wires, TV and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
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Explore Ohio (was Discover Ohio)
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Look up information about Ohio.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database, featuring detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries. A searchable archive of articles from current and past issues of Career Opportunities News, a 16-page, bi-monthly newsletter provides timely information about colleges and the job market.
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Foundation Directory Online Professional
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Information about grant makers and their giving interests
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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
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Database of more than 6,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers
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Generations Online
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GPO Access
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This is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government.
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Grove Dictionary of Art
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Authoritative articles on art and culture with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites.
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Grove Music Online
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This is the full text of the premier authority on all aspects of music online with links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
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Kids Search
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Learning ExpressLibrary
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LearningExpress Library provides interactive online practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help people succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
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This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select library-related publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information.
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Literature Resource Center
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Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world
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Morningstar
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Data reports for investors cover more than 20,000 stocks and mutual funds.
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Netwellness
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A non-profit consumer health web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty from Ohio.
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Newsbank Ohio Newspapers
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America's Newspapers from NewsBank provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers.
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Newspaper Source
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Full text articles from national (U.S.) and international newspapers as well as television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
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NoveList K-8 Plus
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NoveList K-8 Plus, a fiction and nonfiction books database, is designed with a bright, appealing layout, designed especially for elementary and middle schools. The “Working with Kids” section of the Browse panel on the homepage provides a single location to access all of the curricular materials such as our Grab and Go Book Lists, BookTalks, Picture Book Extenders and more!
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Novelist Plus
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Like to read books? Browse book lists, fiction or nonfiction based on books you've read or topics in which you are interested. Book award lists are included.
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Ohio Death Certificate Index
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From the Ohio Historical Society, this provides death certificate information for Ohio residents spanning the years 1913-1937.
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Ohio Memory
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From the Ohio Historical Society, this contains over 26,000 digitized historical documents from Ohio libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
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ohio.gov Government Information and Services
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State of Ohio web page for access to information about state services.
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Ohioline (from OSU Ext. service)
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Ohio State University Extension Service information about home and garden, food, family activities, small business, farming, and home economics.
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OhioLINK Literature Online
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Electronic texts of American and English literature - poetry, drama, fiction, and the Bible - originally published in print.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues, a great tool for homework assignments.
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Oxford English Dictionary
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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Oxford Reference Online
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This resource contains over 120 dictionaries and reference titles (many are the Oxford Companion of ...) covering the complete subject spectrum.
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Photofact Online
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Readers Guide Retrospective
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This is an index to magazine articles covering 1890 - 1982. Many of these are available as print copies in the Dayton Metro Library's Magazine and Special Collection Room at the Main Library.
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Reference USA Business
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This contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, compiled from Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC reports.
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Reference USA Residential
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This contains detailed directory information on more than 102 million U.S. residents, compiled from White Page telephone directories.
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Salud en Espanol
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Health information in Spanish.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
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Contains historical maps of Ohio towns and cities. Originally used for fire insurance records, these detailed maps identify individual buildings on each block.
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Science Online
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This homework helper offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences that are especially helpful for science fair projects.
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Searchasaurus
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Complete with erupting volcanoes, dinosaur guide and compass, Searchasaurus is an easy way for kids to look up topics for homework.
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Student Research Center
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One-stop shopping for high school research. Includes photos, maps, country and state reports, biographies, encyclopedia articles, and more.
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World Book Online
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The classic homework tool is for searching on a variety of topics, including articles, audio clips, video clips, images,timelines.
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WorldCat
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This is a giant catalog of books, recordings and more held by libraries all over the world. It's a good place to go to verify the existence of a title or to look up the output of an author.
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