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RAPID RESEARCH - Want to Search several resources at once?
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Ebscohost Integrated Search: Use your library card number to log in. |
| Search here for comprehensive results, including peer reviewed journals | Search here for a quick search of magazines and newspapers |
| Search this "Just for Kids" material (K-8), Just the thing for Homework - magazines, encyclopedia |
Search here for a broad range of topics and homework help, for Middle School and up |
| For MORE resources or to search an individual database try these: |
The Alabama Virtual Library's Online Research Tools articles, encyclopedia, dictionaries, health info, literature analysis, auto repair info, leagal info, full text poems and plays much, much more! |
 Novelist Plus and Novelist K-8 
African American History and Culture Online  Mobile Register Online 1993-Present  Business and Residential Phone Info  Great People Info!   |
 Learning Express Online Test Practice and Skills Improvement 
World Book Online  OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat |
Novelist Plus -
With information on
over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles included, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books,
Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more, NoveList Plus is a complete readers' resource.
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to log in.
African American History and Culture --
Many of Facts On File's highly-acclaimed print titles have been combined with an extensive array of stunning multimedia
content to form this incredible resource. This collection covers
the breadth of African-American history. Use your library card number
to log in.
Salem Press History
- Includes Milestone Documents - A new, primary source series,
The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series,
Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource,
Great Events from History - The complete resource for worldwide events. Use your library card number
to log in.
Salem Press Health Guide
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covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures,
specialties, anatomy, biology, mental health and issues in an A-Z format,
with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine
and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. Use your library card number
to log in.
Mobile Register on Newsbank - Full text for Mobile news
from 1993 to the present, including obituaries! (News obits only, no paid funeral
notices.) Use your Library Card number to log in.
Biography Resource Center
- a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than
one million people from throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than
242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group. The database
also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
THE LOGIN is gulfcoast.
ReferenceUSA -
A searchable database of information for over 12 million U.S. companies.
Includes company name, address, phone number, yellow page heading, executive names, and line of
business, number of employees, SIC code etc. Residential info includes name, address and phone
number.
Learning Express Library Practice Tests Online
- Learning Express Library provides completely interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses
designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring,
complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Tests and courses included:
World Book Online -
Now you can have your favorite encyclopedia at your fingertips anytime! Includes World Book Kids, Student and
Advanced editions as well and Spanish and French editions.
, Clinical Pharmacology, Professional Development
for Educators, Health Resource, and Communication & Mass Media databases
. Daily news feeds from the
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service are also
available.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution
of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million
words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5
million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world,
from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand
to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis
and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using
the International Phonetic Alphabet. - Oxford Reference Online brings
together language and subject reference works from one of the world's
biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It
contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference
works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed,
cross-searchable database of these books with added functionality
and more detailed information across a broad subject range
from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.The following research resources represent a yearly
expenditure of over $50,000 to provide access to customers at
all Mobile Public Library locations.
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