FOR TEENS

Biography In Context
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Combines biographies from reference books with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. 

Britannica Online Public Library Edition
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Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains comprehensive content for everyone from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors. Whether it’s frogs or physics, gardening or geography, Britannica Online Public Library Edition covers it all. Extensive and thorough yet intuitive and fast, this powerful collection delivers trustworthy information. Includes four complete encyclopedias, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations, a World Atlas, as well as The New York Times, BBC News, and SBS World News headlines from around the world. 

Gale Courses
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Discover hundreds of engaging, instructor-led online courses to help with your professional development, technology skills, and personal enrichment. Course offerings include business, computer, health and wellness, parenting, the arts and more. Six-week courses are taught by college instructors and experts in the field.

Global Issues In Context
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Research international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Includes articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Also features multimedia results such as podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.  

InfoTrac Student Edition
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Designed for students, this database provides access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. Find audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Literature Resource Center
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This current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource includes critical, biographical and contextual materials on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.  Includes biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, more than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 scholarly journals and literary magazines, and more than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews.  

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues. The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, as well as links to Websites.

PowerSearch
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Select multiple databases from a  list and then search across all of the databases you have chosen.

Pronunciator
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Learn a foreign language the fun, easy way! Choose from sixty languages. Each language includes quick start lessons for travelers so you can learn essential words and phrases for your next trip. Continue your lessons when you’re on the go with downloadable MP3s and an app for your iPod, iPhone or iPad. You’ll be speaking another language in no time!

RBdigital Magazines
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Choose from over 140 free downloadable magazines. Get digital access to popular magazines with your OCLN Library Card and enjoy unlimited access to magazines with unrestricted viewing 24/7. View them on your computer, tablet, smartphone or eReader.  Funded by the Old Colony Library Network.

Research in Context
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Research In Context is a cross-disciplinary search  designed for students in grades 6 to 8.  It spans literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history to support middle school assignments and coursework.

Salem History
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Includes full text of the following reference books:
The 1990s in America 
Great Events from History: Modern Scandals 
Provided by Salem Press.

Salem Science
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Earth Science  — This eight-volume set is comprised of four parts: Earth Materials and Resources; Earth’s Weather, Water, and Atmosphere; Earth’s Surface and History; and Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.  Together they provide an introduction to our latest understanding of the Earth’s physical features and dynamic processes , as well as those of the solar system in which it resides. Provided by Salem Press.

Science In Context
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Find information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics from full-text magazines and academic journals.  Also includes , news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.  

U.S. History In Context
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Easily find information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. 

World History in Context
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Easily find information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.