ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

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red dot AccuWeather: Radar, satellite maps, streaming video, forecasts, historical data.
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ACS Web: American Chemical Society journals, full text.
yellow dot AP News Multimedia Archive: 160 years of photographs, audio, graphics from the Associated Press. [Ignore "Select Grade; Location."] Text news from 1997 to present; economic indicators.
Britannica On-line: Online version of the scholarly encyclopedia with additional articles not found in the print edition. Accommodates query and browse searching and provides links to remote web sites.
green dot CQ Researcher: Congressional Quarterly Researcher reports cover political and social issues, topics in health, international affairs, education, environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Opposing views presented. 1991 to present.
red dot Dictionary of American History : E-Version of this multi-volume specialized encyclopedia for American History.
EBSCOhost: Citations and abstracts for articles in scholarly periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers, and monographs with full text for many of the entries.
E-Journal Portal: Search list of full-text electronic journals available via IRC Research Databases.
E-Library: A reference archive of full text periodicals and newspapers, international newswires, TV and radio transcripts, maps, photographs, and major works of literature, art, and reference.
Encyclopedia Americana: A comprehensive encyclopedia, but strongest in American data. Includes many biographical sketches and evaluations of classical books, operas, musical compositions, and works of art.
blue dot Expanded Academic ASAP: Covers all academic disciplines with access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Many with full text, graphics and images.
red dot FirstSearch: Multiple databases providing journal and book citations, and full text articles. Subjects include Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Engineering & Technology, General & Life Sciences, Medicine (Medline), Public Affairs & Social Sciences.
Gale Encyclopedia of Science: E-version of encyclopedia set covering major science topics.
green dot Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: An academic encyclopedia reflecting the curricula of American education. Makes extensive use of multimedia resources (photos, artwork, maps, and sound bytes) to enhance the text.
yellow dot Historical Abstracts / America History and Life:  Historical Abstracts covers prehistory to the present, international (except US/Canada); America History and Life covers 1450 to present for US/Canada.  Mostly article abstracts; some full-text links.
red dot History Behind the Headlines - The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide: In-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines.
  InfoTrac SearchBank. See individual databases: Expanded Academic ASAP, Literature Resource Center, Virtual Reference Library
yellow dot Journal Articles from JSTOR: Electronic archive of multidisciplinary scholarly journals.  Very good full text coverage of articles 1-5 years old and older; completely retrospective to journals' first issues.
Literature Resource Center: Author biographies and literary criticism for novels, short stories, poems, essays, etc.
blue dot LitFINDER: Web access to 100,000 full-text poems and thousands of short stories. Also includes criticism, essays, biographies, and glossary. 
orange dot MagillOnLiterature Plus: Good coverage of editorially reviewed critical analyses.  Authors component provides biographies of writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.
red dot NEWSBANK infoweb: A full text current awareness resource focusing on social, economic, political, and scientific issues. International in scope, including many Spanish language publications.
green dot NoveList: Descriptions of novels, some reviews, and links to biographies and similar titles.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Currently debated social, political, scientific issues covered by full text articles, primary documents, statistics, reviewed Web sites, etc.
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Oxford English Dictionary:  Online version of IRC's print subscription covers words from across the English-speaking world.
orange dot Project MUSE: Full text research articles, multidisciplinary with focus on literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

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ScienceDirect: Scholarly articles from journals published by Elsevier Science. Very good coverage of science, technology and medicine; also covers arts, humanities, social sciences.
SIRS: Full-text articles on social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues from newspapers, journals, and government publications. Includes charts, tables, maps, and graphs.
red dot Virtual Reference Library: Encylopedias and e-books covering science, history, world cultures, and the environment.
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