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Absolute Michigan - News and links about Michigan. It includes Michigan arts, businesses, communities, events, food, real estate, travel, technology, and recreation
Academic Onefile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources
America the Beautiful - Encylopedia of the 50 states
America's Newspapers - National, regional, and local papers from across the country
Ancestry Library - Family history - (In Library Use Only)
Antiques Reference - Auction sale prices for thousands of antiques and collectibles
Archive Grid - Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Biography Resource Center
Birmingham Eccentric - Web site
Booklist Online - Book reviews from the American Library Association
Business & Company Resource Center - Company and industry information
ChiltonLibrary.com - The most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Computer Database - Comprehensive information about the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Consumer Reports Online - Find product reviews and ratings from Consumer Reports
CultureGrams - 4-page reports on 175 countries and the 50 states
Custom Newspapers - from US and abroad
Detroit Free Press - Full text back to 1982
Detroit Jobs: Search jobs in the Detroit area
Detroit News - Full text back to 1999
Eccentric - Web site
Educator's Reference Complete - Searches 450 full-text education journals
Electric Library Elementary - Magazines, newspapers, pictures, and more for elementary students
Enciclopedia Esudiantil Hallargoz - (World Book: Student Discovery Encyclopedia: Spanish) Complete Spanish language encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Britannica
Eric - Journal articles and reports in education
Expanded Academic - Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers
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Famous Quotes and Authors - Famous Quotes and Authors.com is a collection of useful quotations. They provide a large collection of famous quotations for all occasions! Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors
Gale PowerSearch - Choose from a selection of databases and search them together
General Business File ASAP - Company, finance, and business research
General OneFile - "One-stop shopping" for thousands of magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of topics
General Reference Center Gold - Magazines, newspapers and reference books
Greenwood Daily Life Online - Includes articles, documents, drawings and photographs covering the Ancient World to the late 20th century
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Internet-based encyclopedia featuring atlases, pictures, photographs and more
Health and Wellness Resource Center - Magazines, reference books, etc.
Health Reference Center Academic - articles on fitness, nutrition, diseases, medicine, etc.
Heritage Quest Online - Primary source documents including family and local histories; census data
Historical New York Times - (1851 - 2003)
History Online from Facts on File
InfoTrac Junior Edition - Full-text magazine and newspaper articles for junior-high and middle-school students
InfoTrac Kid's Edition - Full-text magazine and newspaper articles for elementary school students
InfoTrac Student Edition - Full-text magazine and newspaper articles for high-school students
Kids InfoBits - Research collection for students in Kindergarten through grade 5
Lands and Peoples Online - The online version of Grolier's popular encyclopedia
Learning Express Library - Practice tests for school and career preparation
Legal Forms (Michigan) - The most popular Michigan legal forms: landlord tenant, wills, bankruptcy, and many more.
Legal Trac -Articles from major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers
Literature Resource Center - Critical essays and biographical info on authors and their works
LitFINDER - Over 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, essays and more
Mango Languages - This premier online software program currently offers 12 language courses - Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers - with many more on the way. Note: To create an account in Mango Languages, you need to be a cardholder in Birmingham, Beverly Hills, or Bingham Farms
Medline - National Library of Medicine database
Merck Manual Home Edition - Research diseases and syndromes in the online version of the popular medical text written in everyday language
Michigan Authors & Illustrators - Biographical database
Michigan Newspapers - Links to Michigan and national newspaper content
MORE: Michigan Online Resources for Educators - Includes both information about content expectations and vetted websites for research
Morningstar Investment Research Center - Financial and analyst reports, portfolio screening (stocks and funds)
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NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is the world's foremost provider of industry-leading research on companies, industries, stocks, bonds, funds and the economy.
New Book of Knowledge
New Book of Popular Science
Newspapers - from US and abroad
Novelist - Search for fiction books and browse lists of award winning titles
OAIster - This catalog of digitized materials includes books, articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors worldwide.
Oakland Press - Web site
OCLC FirstSearch - Fulltext articles from over 1200 periodicals in sources such as ERIC, MEDLINE, WilsonSelectPlus, etc.
OpenJurist.com - Free acces to published court opinions from the US Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd series of the Federal Reports
Opposing Viewpoints - Pros and cons of current social issues
Pearl's Picks - Nancy Pearl's selection of best sellers
Proquest National Newspapers - Find full-test articles from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, the LA Times, the Detroit Free Press, and the Washington Post
Reference USA - Directory information for US businesses and households
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Science Resource Center - Articles, biographies, topic overviews, experiments, and illustrations
Seeking Michigan - Gives access to the Library of Michigan the Archives of Michigan collections particularly of photos, audio, maps, and document. Great for learning about family histories or for engaging Michigan history with primary source documents
SIRS Discoverer - Full-text articles for grades 1-6
SIRS Researcher - Thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Perfect for term papers and reports.
Teen Health and Wellness - Teen Health and Wellness- Support and self-help tools for teens on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, and more
Tumblebooks - Read and listen to stories online with these e-books for e-kids
Value Line Investment Survey Lookup - Done your research? This link will give you the quickest access to Value Line reports by ticker, company name or industry.
Value Line Investment Survey Reports - Browse in-depth coverage of over 1,700 equity issues. Every week, about 135 stocks in seven or eight industries are covered.
Value Line Research Center - The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks
Virtual Reference Library - Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of Small Business; Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law; New Catholic Encyclopedia; Grzimek's Animal Encyclopedia; West's Encyclopedia of American Law; Chemistry: Foundations and Applications; Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion; Encyclopedia of Small Business; Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
What Do I Read Next - Search for fiction and non-fiction books and browse lists of award winning titles
What's Next - Search for adult fiction series titles
Wilson Select Plus - Fulltext articles from over 1200 periodicals
World Book Advanced - Integrates primary and secondary sources, websites, timeline builder, atlas and dictionary geared for high-school and college students and adults
World Book Discover - Uncluttered interface with text-to-speech feature and automated translations into 14 languages. Includes World Book Explains, a special video series
World Book Kids - Simple navigation and easy-to-read articles for elementary students
World Book Spanish - Complete Spanish language encyclopedia
World Book Student - Online searches and all articles from print encyclopedia, Biography Center, and study tools for middle and high school students
WorldCat - Library materials worldwide
World Geography and Culture - Find out about the US states and the countries of the world, and compare them (Facts on File).