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Resources provided by Thayer Public Library: 

Great Events from History: Modern Scandals
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Modern Scandals covers 400 of the most important and publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the twentieth century.  

Great Events from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era
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Events covered in this database are arranged chronologically, forming a time line without regard to region. Also includes information on major changes in world economics and demographics. Funded by Thayer Public Library.

Learning Express Library 
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A comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series 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.  Includes test prep books, in ebook format, for college and graduate school entrance exams, civil service tests, the GED, citizenship, TOEFL and more.  

Modern World History Online
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Covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, videos, images, maps and charts, primary source documents, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. 

Nineties in America
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The Nineties in America examines the iconic personalities and moments of this important decade. Contains more than 600 articles about films, books, political leaders, events, fads and technology.  Funded by Thayer Public Library.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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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. Funded by Thayer Public Library.

Science Online
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Provides reliable information in a variety of useful formats including images, videos, and animations, experiments, biographies, definitions, news articles, and a searchable timeline that is updated monthly. 

Today's Science
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Designed to bridge the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly, it explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology. Information is provided in context, clearly explained and abundantly illustrated, so new advances are seen not as inexplicable wonders, but as resulting from the application of the same concepts and principles of investigation that are taught in school.  

World Book Online Reference Center
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Online reference source-containing every article from the 22-volume World Book Encyclopedia print set plus thousands more. Includes state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, as well as editor-reviewed Web sites. Special features include World Book Advanced for grades  8 and up that offers primary and secondary source content in one integrated search and World Book Kids, which is designed for younger students.   Funded by Thayer Public Library.


Resources provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the SouthEastern Massachusetts Regional Library System:

Biography Resource Center
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Combines biographies from reference books with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. F

Biography Resource Center: African Americans
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Narrative and thumbnail biographies about notable African Americans from the  sources  in the Biography Resource Center. Full-text periodical articles, websites, and recent update news briefs enhance the content. 

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
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An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study  

Ebsco Literary Reference Center 
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A comprehensive, full-text  database designed to provide a broad spectrum of literary reference information from antiquity to the present day.  It includes information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. 

eLibrary 
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A comprehensive general reference database which includes content from a wide variety of sources, including more than 150 full-text newspapers, hundreds of full-text magazines, national and international news wires, 2,000 complete works of literature, over 28,000 photos, images and maps, television, radio and government transcripts, plus a dictionary, thesaurus, almanac and more. Funded by the SouthEastern Massachusetts Regional Library System.

General Reference Center Gold  (1980 - present)
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Includes material from magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias and other reference material.  

InfoTrac Junior Edition
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This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with access to magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. 

InfoTrac Student Edition
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This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. 

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

   

 

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