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A-Z Magazine
and Newspaper Locator - Identify and locate the periodicals for which MCPL has full-text online.
Academic OneFile - Search scholarly journals of many academic disciplines. Abstracts or complete text of articles often display. Includes the complete contents of Expanded Academic ASAP.
Access
Science - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus research updates, biographies, and videos.
Africa:
An Encylopedia for Students - Full-text title from Gale Virtual Reference Library.
America
the Beautiful - A student encyclopedia of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Part of Grolier Online.
African American Song - As of June, 2009, this music collection has been fully incorporated into American Song.
American Song - Listen to music from America's past. Songs by and about American Indians, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests. As of June, 2009, fully incorporates the African American Music collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime and more.
Auto
Repair Reference Center - Illustrated repair and maintenance for vehicles from 1954 to the present.
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Baltimore
Sun - 1990 to current in full-text. Part of National Newspapers from ProQuest.
Biography
Resource Center - Biographical articles from reference books and periodicals.
BookFlix - An online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic.
Books & Authors - Book discovery and readers' advisory website, with read-alikes and suggestions, award lists, series lists, author information, reviews, and reader ratings.
Books
in Print - Directory of books, audiobooks, and videos, plus availability and publisher information.
Business
& Company Resource Center - Company and industry information, including profiles, rankings, histories, brands, and investment reports, plus articles from business and trade magazines.
Business
Plans Handbook Series - Contains almost 300 model business plans for various types of small business.
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Classical Music Library - Listen to over 50,000 tracks of streaming classical music, ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary chamber pieces. Offers one piece for free download several times a month.
Classical Scores Library - Scores for instrumental and vocal works of all types of classical music. Listen along when pieces are also in the Classical Music Library.
ConsumerReports.org - Product ratings and reviews from Consumer Reports. Plus news, blogs, forums and video content. The links that say "subscribers only" will work, because MCPL subscribes on behalf of our cardholders. However, the "subscribers only" links on the Health pages will not work at this time.
Contemporary World Music - Listen to music from around the world in genres such as reggae, worldbeat, swing and jazz, plus traditional music including Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, and zydeco.
CQ Global Researcher - In-depth reports on current world issues, with background, viewpoints, chronologies, maps, and international perspectives.
CQ Researcher - In-depth reports on current U.S. policy and social issues, with background, viewpoints, chronologies, and charts. 1991 to the present.
Custom Newspapers - Coverage includes more than 150 cover-to-cover titles, including U.S. national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
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Discovering Collection - Easy-to-use coverage of history, literature, science, social studies, with content almost entirely from reputable reference books, plus video, audio, and primary sources. Great for students in high school and middle school.
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Educator's Reference Complete - Over 1100 full-text periodicals and reports covering issues, research, and practical techniques in education. See also ERIC free online. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) indexes education journals, with a few in full-text, and provides full-text of many research and policy reports.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - Una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales.
Encyclopedia Americana -
General encyclopedia with enhanced content. Part of Grolier Online.
Encyclopedia of Associations - Information about national, international, and local nonprofit and membership organizations. Part of the Gale Directory Library.
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Facts.com World News Digest - Brief news articles from 1940 through today, plus longer overviews of key issues, events, and newsmakers.
Fiction Connection - Summaries, reviews, and recommendations for fiction and biography titles, searchable by topic, genre, setting, character.
Foundation Directory Online - Professional - Available only at the Rockville Library, which is Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. Comprehensive data on grantmakers and grants.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online - Available only at the Rockville Library, which is Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. Information about 8,300 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.
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Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media - Directory of newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, and cable. Part of Gale Directory Library.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Full-text reference books on topics including business, history, law, philosophy, psychology, religion, and science. Fully searchable and browsable.
General OneFile - Our largest periodical resource. Articles from 11,000 periodicals and newspapers. Indexing starts in 1980; later years have majority in full-text. National Public Radio transcripts and audio. Machine translation into 8 languages. Save your searches and post RSS feeds.
General OneFile subcollections - For focused searches, you can use these subject specialty subcollections of this resource:
Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia - An encyclopedia for students in middle school and high school, with multimedia content.
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Health
& Wellness Resource Center - Articles on health, medicine, and wellness from magazines, journals, and reference books. Also covers alternative medicine.
Health Reference Center Academic - Full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information.
HeritageQuest
Online - Rich resource for genealogists, including Census and U.S. military records and full-text family and local histories. Help with printing Census records.
Historical
Newspapers Extra Edition -
Search the Historical New York Times (1851-2005) and Washington
Post (1877-1992) both at once in a student-friendly interface. If you prefer, these can still be searched separately: New York Times Historical and Washington Post Historical. See National
Newspapers for current content from the Times and the Post.
History Resource Center U.S. - Reference articles, journal articles, primary sources, maps, and charts.
History Resource Center World - Reference articles, journal articles, primary sources, maps, and charts.
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¡Informe!
English
version - Articles from popular Hispanic magazines.
Spanish
version - Articulos de revistas hispánicas populares.
Issues
and Controversies - Articles about controversial issues facing today’s society.
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Jazz Music Library -
Listen to streaming music from thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
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Kids InfoBits - For students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Content from children's magazines and reference books.
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Lands and Peoples - Countries and cultures of the world, including details on geography, economy, and history, as well as maps. Part of Grolier Online.
Learning
Express Library - As of November 2009, this resource is no longer available through Montgomery County Public Libraries.
Legal Forms - General forms as well as forms specific to Maryland. From Thomson/Gale.
Literature
Resource Center - Literary criticism and biographies from journals and reference books.
LitFinder - Thousands of full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches, and plays, including works for children and in Spanish.
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Magill's Medical Guide - Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and current issues. Suitable for students or patients.
Mango Languages - Online language course, emphasizing conversational skills. Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, and English for Spanish, Portuguese and Polish speakers.
Marquis Who's Who - Brief biographical profiles.
Maryland's
Digital eLibrary Consortium (Overdrive) - Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks.
Mergent Online - Information on US and international companies, including financial data and filings, annual reports, and news.
Morningstar Investment Research Center - Investment reports on specific stocks and funds. Search for investments that meet your criteria.
Music Online - Search across all of our streaming music resources at once, with the exception of Smithsonian Global Sound, which is to be added in Fall 2009. Music Online includes all the contents of American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library.
MyLibraryDV - Video-on-demand, with classic and foreign movies and TV programs on cooking, travel, health, and more. Download and watch videos on your computer or your TV. System Requirements and FAQ's and Video List.
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National
Newspapers from ProQuest - Articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Sun from Baltimore, USA Today, and newspapers from 17 other cities.
NetLibrary - Audio eBooks for adults and children, including Pimsleur language courses. There are Cliff's Notes and open-access eBooks for reading as well. The first time you use this service, you must establish a user name and password.
New Book
of Knowledge - Student encyclopedia for early and middle grades, featuring project and educational games. Part of Grolier Online.
New Book
of Popular Science - Science encyclopedia for students, with news updates and science experiments. Part of Grolier Online.
New
York Times - 1980 to the present in full-text. Full-text coverage of the NYT Book Review and Sunday Magazine sections begins in 1997. Part of National Newspapers from ProQuest.
New York Times Historical - 1851-2006. Completely searchable images of every page.
NoveList - Find fiction by series, plot, setting, and read-alikes. Also book discussion guides, booklists and award winners, booktalks, and other articles. Covers fiction for all ages; also some nonfiction for kids and teens.
NoveList
K-8 - Find good books, fiction and nonfiction, for kids and teens. Kid-friendly, with recommended reading lists, read-alikes, award winners, series titles, and more.
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OCLC's WorldCat - Bibliographic information, catalog records, and library holdings from OCLC member libraries worldwide.
Opposing
Viewpoints - Articles, overviews, editorials, statistics, and primary sources on controversial social issues.
Oxford African American Studies Center - Covers African American history, including primary sources and biographies. Features the African American National Biography, Africana, and the Encyclopedia of African American History.
Oxford English Dictionary - Word entries include definitions, pronunciation, and history, with quotations that trace usage over time.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online - History, belief and practice, politics, and culture of the Islamic world, incorporating reference articles, primary sources, images, and timelines.
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Rapid - Rapid lists procurement opportunities from Montgomery County Government, Montgomery County Public Schools, and more than a dozen other agencies and municipalities. Most of the content, with the exception of construction solicitations, is freely accessible if you complete the free registration. Complete access for non-subscribers, including construction solicitations, is available only at the Rockville Library. Please request access at the Rockville Information Desk.
RealQuest - Available only at the Rockville Library, where you can request access at the Information Desk.. Real estate sales and property descriptions in Montgomery County.
Reference USA - Find businesses in the U.S. and Canada by name, address, and phone number, as well as by type, size, and location. Find U.S. residences by name, address, or phone number.
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Safari
Tech Books Online - eBooks on information technology, computing, and business from major publishers within the last 2 years. Complete content of over 1000 books, with charts, graphics, and cut-and-paste code segments. Please note: MCPL has a limited number of concurrent users on this product. If you can't get in, clear your browser's Temporary Internet Files, and try again after a while.
Science
Resource Center - Articles from science magazines, peer-reviewed journals, and reference books, including topic overviews, experiments, and biographies.
SimplyMap - Create custom maps and reports using up-to-date demographic, business, and marketing data. U.S. only. For best results, begin by watching the tutorial.
Small Business Resource Center - Reference and periodical content covering all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more.
Smithsonian Global Sound - Listen to traditional and world music, plus nature sounds, dramatic performances, poetry, political speeches, and war and protest songs.
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage - Investment reports on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, plus company profiles and the S&P Outlook.
Student Resource Center Bronze - For middle and high school students.
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Tell Me More - Basic-to-advanced online language lessons in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. You will be asked to create a user name and password. Technical requirements and help.
Testing and Education Resource Center - Practice SAT, ACT, AP, TOEFL, GRE, LSAT, GED, SSAT, NCLEX, civil service, career, military exams and many more, with both interactive and eBook formats. Search for colleges and graduate programs by your own criteria.
Theatre in Video - Over 250 performances of the world's leading plays, available in streaming video. Bookmark specific scenes or speeches and create your own playlists. Includes documentaries about theater. Flash Player 8 and a minimum of 400kbps of bandwidth are required.
Today's Science - Articles from science magazines, peer-reviewed journals, and reference books, including topic overviews, experiments, and biographies.
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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Directory of magazines and journals published worldwide, with bibliographic and publisher information. There is no article access in this directory.
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Value Line
- In-Library Access
Only. Information and investment advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles. Allows screening by various criteria to create prospect lists.
Vault Online Career Library - Career, industry, and company profiles, plus jobhunting advice and an internship database.
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Wall Street Journal - 1984 to the present in full-text. Part of National Newspapers from ProQuest.
Washington
Consumer Checkbook - In-Library Access
Only. Consumer reviews of local services.
Washington Information Directory - A guide to national organizations and government agencies in the Washington area.
Washington
Post - 1987 to the present in full-text. Part of National Newspapers from ProQuest.
Washington
Post Historical - 1887-1993. Completely searchable images of every page.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law - Comprehensive guide to U.S. law and jurisprudence. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
World
Book Online - Encyclopedia for students and adults, with multimedia content.
