Gale Databases:
Opposing
Viewpoints:
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center includes such reference
series as Greenhaven Press's Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints
Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies
and Teen Decisions.
Gale and Macmillan Reference USA are also represented in this database with:
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Bioethics for Students (selections)
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Encyclopedia of Sociology; 2nd Edition (selections)
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Environmental Encyclopedia
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Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students
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Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: United Nations
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Activists, Rebels, and Reformers
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Macmillan Compendium: Social Issues (selections)
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Federal Agency Profiles for Students
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Special Interest Group Profiles for Students
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Great American Court Cases
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Macmillan Profiles: Humanitarians and Reformers
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Civil Rights in the United States
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Current Issues
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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
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Tsunamis
There are more than 140 major newspapers and newsmagazines — such as America,
Commentary, Current Events, The New American, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News &
World Report and The New York Times and many others
— delivering current coverage to Opposing Viewpoints Resource
Center
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Student
Resource Center Gold:
Users are able to access a variety of resources that will help them conduct
research, complete assignments, create presentations and more, with content
and curriculum-focused tools that include:
■ Read Speaker auditory articles
■ More than eight million full-text articles from one thousand periodicals and
newspapers
■ More than 4,000 proprietary of primary documents Hundreds of plays and poems
■ Multimedia content, which includes podcasts, video and audio clips, and
thousands of flags, maps and seals and photographs
■ More than 63,000 topic overviews, biographies, and pieces of literary
criticism
■ Content level recommendations for reference articles (Basic, Intermediate
and Advanced) to help readers choose appropriate content for their abilities
and teachers to assign differentiated articles on the same topic
■ Research Tools and Research Guide that tie information literacy skills to
use of the resource center
■ More than 1,700 study guide questions to promote understanding
Science
Resource Center:
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The vast resources of the Science Resource Center contain
full-text content from:
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd Edition (will be replaced with
the 4th edition in 2007)
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Macmillan Science Library (eight separate topic-based titles)
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U•X•L Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd Edition (will be
replaced with the 3rd Online edition in 2007)
There are also more than 40 proprietary references including:
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Astronomy and Space
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Body by Design
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Chemical Elements
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Dangerous Planet
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Experiment Central
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Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
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History of Modern Science and Mathematics
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Math and Mathematicians
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Notable Mathematicians
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Notable Black American Scientists
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Notable Women Scientists
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World of Genetics
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World of Invention
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World of Microbiology and Immunology
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World of Physics
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U•X•L Complete Life Science Resource
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U•X•L Encyclopedia of Biomes
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Researchers and students also will find:
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300 full-text periodicals ranging from general-audience magazines to scholarly
academic journals
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The New York Times and USA Today
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More than 14,000 multimedia images
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Audio and video clips
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Links to more than 500 authoritative Web sites
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Spotlight articles that are refreshed every two weeks, highlighting
interesting science news, biographies and more. The Spotlight Archive is a
great place for students to look as they develop topic ideas for projects and
assignments
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History
Resource Center U.S.
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History Resource Center: U.S. provides a complete
overview of U.S. history covering the most-
studied events, issues and current information. Selected by expert
history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate curriculum, the
content combines:
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Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including
documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc.
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Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan
Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Gale
original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews.
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Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
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A historical bibliography
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Links to digitized special collections
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Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events
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History
Resource Center World:
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History Resource Center: World offers potent resources designed
to aid in the study of world history within a flexible and convenient search
tool that supports undergraduate and high school research. Included in the
collection are:
References — well-respected for their level of scholarship and quality
of contributors. Users will unleash the power of titles from Gale, Macmillan
Library Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and St. James Press
Periodicals —provide critical analysis and scholarship on topics and
trends from 110 full-text titles and additional coverage from more than 180
world history titles
Primary Documents — more than 1,300 historic documents —chosen by 22
area specialists — supporting research on world history which is unrivaled in
the marketplace
Maps/Illustrations —500 maps and 900 illustrations bring the text to
life
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eScience
Library:(
eLibrary Science is a simple yet powerful online database that allows users to
quickly answer research questions using its vast collection of publications.
eLibrary Science focuses on providing the scientific researcher with
recognized national and international resources including: full-text
Magazines, Journals, Reference Books and Encyclopedias, TV & Radio
Transcripts, Pictures and Audio/Video sources).
SIRS
Renaissance: (Provides
dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture,
literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and
visual arts).
SIRS
Discover: (All full text. A children's database of articles,
books, video, audio on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children
and includes reading levels, teachers’ help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more).
Michigan
Electronic Library Databases:
(To access any of these from home, copy and paste
the following URL into a browser:
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http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_gulllakehs
After you enter the password gulllake, you will see
a one page list of all these databases on one page. Scroll to open the
database of your choice)
Scroll through the alphabetical list of databases to access those listed
below.
Learning
Express Library (Online test practice and more. Students
set up their own account)
Gale
Learning Computer Database (Database has over 2,687,481 articles
from journals, trade magazines and popular computing magazines).
Gale
Virtual Reference Library: (electronic books
searchable with an etable of contents, eindex and citation inclusion in print
formatting. Title avaialbe include those in the following
list):
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Business
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publications
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Encyclopedia
of Small Business 2nd ed., 2v, 2002
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Environment
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publications
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Beacham's
Guide to the Endangered Species of North America 6v, 2000
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History
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publications
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Gale
Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History 2v, 1999
St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 5v, 2000
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Medicine
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publications
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
Gale
Encyclopedia of Cancer 2nd ed., 2v, 2006
Gale
Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2nd ed., 2v, 2005
Gale
Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. 3rd ed., 5v, 2006
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Multicultural Studies
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publications
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Gale
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
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Nation and World
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Countries
and Their Cultures 4v, 2001
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Science
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publications
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Biology
4v, 2002
World
of Earth Science 2v, 2003
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General
Reference Center Gold:
(Mostly full text.
Provides instant access to magazines, newspapers, and reference material from
hundreds of periodicals).
Health
and
Wellness
Resource
Center:
(Mostly full text. Provides instant access to carefully compiled and
trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical
journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner
Healthology, Inc., articles from 2,200 general interest publications and links
to reputable health Web sites in addition to a broad collection of Thomson
Gale reference titles. Includes video).
InfoTrac
Custom Newspapers: (A collection of approximately 900 full
text newspapers from around the country and the world).
NetLibrary:
(All full text. Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. Consider using a
keyword search (in the drop-down menu) rather than the default full-text
search).
New
York Times: (Full text access).
NoveList:
(Helps to find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author,
title, series, plots, or even books like the one you just finished).
