Research Databases

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Local and Remote Access Databases
(To access these databases from home, click here)

Alt HealthWatch
An alternative health database providing full text alternative medicine articles and information.

America the Beautiful
Gives a state-by-state history and current events, browsable fast facts, geography, government and culture, etc.

EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.

EBSCOhost Web (Magazines)
Provides citations, abstracts and selected full text from general interest magazines, scholarly journals, health resources and encyclopedia entries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Biography Resource Center
Provides biographical research information

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia which includes full-text articles, pictures, videos, animations, web links, a dictionary and atlas.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
A collection of consumer health information on many health topics.
Lands and Peoples
Provides maps, flags, facts and figures, photographs, weblinks for countries all over the world.
Learn-a-Test
Offers online practice tests for many academic and career-based standardized tests.

Los Angeles Times via ProQuest
Provides full text articles from the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

MasterFILE Premier
A multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research.
The New Book of Popular Science
Search for science projects by keyword; browse biographies of scientists; find science encyclopedias and science in the news.
NewsBank (Newspapers)
Provides full text articles from the Los Angeles Times, Whittier Daily News, Orange County Register and other newspapers.
NoveList
Readers can find books to enjoy based upon titles or authors they've read or topics that interest them.
Nueva enciclopedia
Cumbre en lìnea

A Spanish encyclopedia which includes full-text articles, over 300 maps, 270 flags, plus 500 tables and fact boxes.
Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
Searchasaurus
Find photos, search the Encyclopedia of Animals, lookup words in a dictionary, and find articles and information through searching magazines and encyclopedias.
   
WISECat
Our NEW online catalog. Search for books, videos, recorded literature and more.

Local Access Databases
(Use these databases within the library)

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Reference USA
Comprehensive directory of business and residential telephone numbers and addresses.
     

 

 


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