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Databases & Indexes: K-12 Resources
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| Academic Search Premier |
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
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| African-American History Online |
Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. |
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| American History Online |
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. |
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| American Indian History Online |
Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage. |
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| American Women's History Online |
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. |
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| Ancient and Medieval History Online |
Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia. |
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| ARTstor |
“The ARTstor Digital Library makes available more than 1.4 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from outstanding museums, photo archives, photographers, scholars, and artists.” |
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| Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids |
Resource for children and teachers/parents on the United States Government. |
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| 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. |
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| Bloom's Literary Reference Online |
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to 600+ encyclopedias, handbooks, guides and dictionaries. These reference works cover a wide swath of topics including, science and medicine, history and cultural studies, business, education, and much more. |
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| EBSCO Databases |
A complete list of the EBSCO databases available to the Rider community, from Academic Search Premier to TOPICsearch. Search them one at a time or in combination. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
A collection of encyclopedias and other reference sources which covers a variety of topics including history, literature, gender and sexuality, religion, the arts, and sciences. |
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| Modern World History Online |
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history - from mid-15th Century to the present. |
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| OmniFile Full Text Mega |
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition™ contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research in a single, easily-searched database. With the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, this database provides invaluable support for research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work. |
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| Science Online |
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. |
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| World Geography & Culture Online |
Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information. |
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