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Annals of American History Online - Explore the varied history of the United States with Encyclopedia Britannica's Annals of American History Online.  Provides a year-by-year documentary of American history.  Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems and interviews.

Britannica Spanish Reference Center - This site offers resources en español for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Moderna for high school ages and up and Britannica Escolar Online for ages 6-12.

Britannica Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged: the largest, most comprehensive dictionary.

Britannica: School Edition - This resource gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias and other resources that are age-appropriate. Designed for all levels of learning from elementary school through high school. Includes teachers’ resources with links to curriculum standards.

Britannica: Spanish Edition - An online encyclopedia en español for high school or college students, plus adults.

Britannica: World Data Analyst Online - Contains current and historical statistics on the countries of the world. This tool allows subscribers to create tables, charts, and export information to spreadsheets. Users can also link to country articles from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.

Britannica: Academic - High School and College Students: The combination of the insightful Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research.

Britannica: High School - High School Students: This resource gives teachers and students instant access to high-quality online learning materials that are age-appropriate. Includes teachers’ resources with links to curriculum standards.

Culinary Arts Collection - The Culinary Arts collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Discovering Collection - Research texts, criticism and authors’ biographies. Special focus on five core groups: history, literature, biography, science and social studies. Plus direct links to current issues and curriculum standards.

eBook Collection (Ebsco) - Search and view the full text of eBooks. Titles covering career information, computers, health, small business and writing. Public domain texts are also available, including Project Gutenberg titles.

EBSCOhost Español - EBSCOhost's full range of magazine and journal products, en español. A powerful research tool for students, educators, general use, research and professionals in the medical, business, legal and information industries.

EBSCOhost Web - Link to entire list of EBSCO databases in the Traveler subscription: EBSCOhost’s full range of magazine and journal products. A powerful research tool for students, educators, general use, research and professionals in the medical, business, legal and information industries. EBSCOhost offers a free mobile app.

Encyclopedia of Arkansas - The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture Project strives to offer a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of the twenty-fifth state. The online version of the Encyclopedia is the first component of the Project.

Expanded Academic ASAP - This database offers coverage of every academic concentration. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, Expanded Academic ASAP delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher.

Facts on File - Login Required Offsite. Explore all three Facts on File resources: World News Digest, Issues and Controversies and Today’s Science. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers generic and brand name drug patient education sheets.

Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Issues & Controversies - Login Required Offsite. In-depth investigations of today’s top issues, this resource provides an Encyclopedia, Almanac and quick links to Research Topics. Plus, easy access to issues citing pros and cons. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

Job & Career Accelerator - Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username. Job & Career Accelerator combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. Explore your career or learn how to break into a new field, apply for jobs, practice interviewing and much more! To begin using Job & Career Accelerator, set up a profile using your library barcode as a user name. Your profile will allow you to track your success and access Learning Express Library.

Learning Express Library - Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username. Perfect for high school and college students and adults! Includes practice exams for GED, ACT, SAT, GRE plus CDL, ASVAB, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, Firefighter, EMS and US Citizenship. Plus, math, science, reading and other subjects for younger students. To begin using Learning Express, set up a profile using your library barcode as a user name. Your profile will allow you to track your success and access Job & Career Accelerator.

Literary Reference Center - Login Required Offsite. Literary Reference Center contains full text for plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticisms, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, classic texts and much more.

MAS Ultra - School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text periodicals with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing.

Newspaper Source - Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 US and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional US newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Novels for Students: Volume 01 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 02 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 03 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 04 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 05 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 06 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 07 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 08 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 09 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 10 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 11 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 12 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 13 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 14 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 15 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 16 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 17 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 18 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 19 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 20 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 21 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 22 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Novels for Students: Volume 23 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Covers all aspects of the Nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. This collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

OCLC: CAMIO - Art history at your fingertips. OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms. Art images and descriptions include paintings, photographs, prints and sculpture, plus architecture and more.

OCLC: First Search - FirstSearch combines three compreshensive resouces: ArticleFirst is an index of journals' content pages; ECO (Electronic CollectionOnline) is a collection of scholarly journals; and WorldCat is a catalog of materials available worldwide. Additional OCLC Databases include: ClasePeriodica, eBooks, ERIC, GPO, Medline, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldAlmanac and WorldCatDissertations.

Political Theories for Students - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Pop Culture Collection - 100 subject-appropriate periodicals, which cover social science, history, art, liberal arts and current events. This database is predominantly full text.

Popular Magazines - 1000 of the most searched magazines across InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text.

Power Search - Central location to search all or individual Gale databases.

Student Research Center - Grades 6-12: Includes primary documents, articles and other reference tools for various school subjects: arts & media, English & language arts, business, careers, current issues, health, history, math, science, social studies, sports and technology. Also includes teacher resources.

Today’s Science - Login Required Offsite. Science news for today’s students includes a Science Encyclopedia, Glossary and quick links to Images and Research Topics. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

TOPICsearch - TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets and government information.

Universal Class - Registration Required. From professional development to personal growth to continuing education, learn something new today! Universal Class offers hundreds of online classes facilitated by real instructors teaching courses on almost every imaginable subject, such as: accounting, business management, interview skills, medical courses, legal training, computer classes, project management, wedding planning, grant writing, nutrition and wellness information, plus more.

US History Collection - Coverage from 40+ journals of the current thinking and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Virtual Reference Library (Gale: Bentonville Library) - Login Required Offsite. More than 90 reference eBooks on various subjects including arts, biographies, history, literature, medicine, religion, science, social issues and more.

Vocational & Career Collection (Ebsco) - Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Vocations and Careers Collection (Gale) - 300+ largely full text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

World History Collection (Ebsco) - World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

World History Collection (Gale) - 40 predominantly full text journals provides balanced coverage of events in World History for both the novice historian and the advanced academic researcher.