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America the Beautiful Online

Authoritative information on U. S. states and territories. Contains over 1,000 articles, 2,500 photos, fact boxes, timelines, 400 maps, educational games, and 500 profiles of important people, including biographies of all U. S. Presidents. For students in grade 4 and up.

Ancestry Library Edition

Comprehensive online source of information for genealogical and local history research. Search by name, locality, or record type. Record types include census records, vital and church records, military records, and court, land, and probate records.

* This database is only available in the library.

Auto Repair Reference Center

Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. Includes 25,000 vehicles, 65,000 technical service bulletins & recalls, wiring diagrams, and more.

Biography Resource Center

More than 300,000 biographies covering more than 220,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Business and Company Resource Center

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Source Elite

Business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 450 peer-reviewed business publications. Articles dating from 1985 to present. Database is updated daily.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Our mission is to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children. Each month Children's Literature features interviews with children's book authors and illustrators. Also each month Children's Literature features several sets of themed reviews and these are archived for continued reference.

Cumbre en linea

The only full-length online encyclopedia conceived and developed with the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus. Contains over 17,000 articles. Suitable for students of Spanish as well as native speakers. Users must search the database in Spanish, but an English-Spanish dictionary is included.

EBSCO Animals

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Ebsco Eldercare

EBSCO Publishing, through a recent partnership with CareScout, is pleased to offer EBSCO Eldercare. This resource serves as a reliable source of eldercare-related information that can be used to empower consumers to make intelligent, informed eldercare decisions. CareScout's national senior care database is the underlying foundation of EBSCO Eldercare.

EBSCO Primary Search [grades 4-6]

Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

Encyclopedia Americana Online

Based on the long-standing print product and geared to the research needs of more advanced students. Contains over 45,000 articles.

ERIC

ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. This database also contains full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information. EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Services) offers E*Subscribe users a link for EBSCOhost subscribers of ERIC. E*Subscribe offers unlimited access for approximately 92% of ERIC documents electronically in PDF format.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [grades 5-8]

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

This virtual reference library includes the titles "Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law," "Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior," and "Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations."

GPO Gateway

Gateway to databases published by the Government Printing Office, provided by Sailor.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online

A fact-filled reference resource, rich in multimedia content. Designed for the young researcher. Contains over 38,000 articles.

Health Source - Consumer Edition

With Health Source you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Heritage Quest Online

A unique and growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes more than 25,000 family and local histories.

History Reference Center

The History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive history database for today's libraries, with full text for more than 270,000 entries from a myriad of historical sources.

Kent County News

Online archives from November 30, 2006 to the present.

KidsSearch

A collection of databases provided by Ebsco useful for kids in Kindergarten through 5th grade.

Lands and People Online

A highly interactive and cnntinually updated encyclopedia of geography, countries, cultures, and current events for students in elementry and middle school.

Legal Forms, Thomson-Gale

Downloadable legal forms available from all 50 United States

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts

Information on all subjects related to librarianship, including classification, cataloging, and information management.

Literature Resource Center

The Literature Resource Center is a literature reference database. It features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Literature Resource Center contains Contemporary Authors Online; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Live Homework Help

An online tutoring service for students in forth through twelfth grades. Availabe from 2 P.M. until 12 A.M. Subject areas include: Math, English, and Science. Tutor works one-on-one with the student using a chata/white board environment. Sessions last approximately twenty minutes.

Maryland Share

Lists hundreds of organizations within the state of Maryland, organized by counties. Includes local govenment, private non-profit, Service/Support Groups, Cultural Arts Groups, Sports and Recreation Groups. Descriptions include lists of programs and services, contact information, web sites. Searchable by keyword, agency, and subject.

MasterFile Premier

Provides full text for over 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

Middle Search Plus

Provides full text for nearly 150 popular magazines for middle/junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles) and full text information dates from 1990 to present.

Mitchell's Ondemand5

Long recognized by name as an authority for automotive repair information, Mitchell's OnDemand5 provides repair, estimator, technical service bulletins and recall information, and maintenance schedule for vehicles from 1983-2002.

New Book of Knowledge Online

Based on the print encyclopedia with over 9,000 articles. Contains NBK News, a current events site for use in classrooms and libraries. Suitable for grades 3 and up.

Newsbank Newspapers

Access articles from past issues of the Kent County News and the Star Democrat.

Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. Updated daily.

Novelist

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles.

Novelist K-8

NoveList K-8 contains subject heading access, reviews, annotations and more for materials at all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.

OCLC First Search

Lists bibliographic information on resources from around the world.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.

Points of View

Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

Popular Science Online

Provides easy-to-understand science, medicine, and technology articles for the young audience. Five main sections: the SciClopedia, an online encyclopedia; NewsBytes, a science-news update; Sky Watch, a weekly guide to the night sky; Ask PopSci, an online question and answer section; and SciZone for fun and games.

ProQuest Direct

Access to more than 2,050 current Periodicals including coverage of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Baltimore Sun. Updated daily and contain full-text articles from 1986. Offers "image page" which includes graphics and tables.

Reuters On-Line News Service

Reuters, the international news service, provides frequent updates of international headlines news for FACTS.com. Clicking on the home page button "Today's News from Reuters" displays a new screen. In the white text area is a summary of 10 current major news stories. This summary is updated throughout the day. The headlines of these summaries are hyperlinks to longer stories from Reuters. At the bottom of the summary are links to each day's news summary from the last week, with links to the full stories.

Sanborn Maps

1867-1970. Produced for over a century, more than 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. They are large-scale plans drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch.

Science Resource Center

With Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.

Searchasaurus

Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children, Ebsco Animals, and the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.

Star Democrat

Online archives from November 16, 2005 to the present.

Student Resource Center

A collection of databases provided by Ebsco useful for kids in 6th through 12th grades.

Testing and Education Reference Center

Online practice tests, entrance exams, and test prep ebooks, including SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, and more. Also college and career searches.

TumbleBooks E-Library

E-books for kids.

World Book

The Online version of the popular World Book Encyclopedia.