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EBSCOhost - EBSCO Animals* - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EBSCOhost - Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia* - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

EBSCOhost - Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century* - (General Science Collection) A multi-volume encyclopedia from Salem Press.

EBSCOhost - Science Reference Center* - Designed to support middle and high school curriculum. Biology, chemistry, earth, space, life, physical, and environmental sciences are covered as well as health and medicine, science in society, science as inquiry, history of science, technology, scientists, and wildlife. Provides 639 full text titles from reference books, encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, biographies and images.

EBSCOhost - Searchasaurus* - Provides easy access for elementary school children to information in dictionaries, encyclopedias, and magazine articles.

Gale Databases - Gale Virtual Reference Library* - A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Grolier Online - Encyclopedia Americana - 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines. Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can now be used either as a stand-alone source of current information on almost any topic or as a guide to the resources of the World Wide Web.

Grolier Online - Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinks, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is updated monthly.

Databases marked with an * are provided by the New York State Library. NOVEL is an online virtual library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information via local libraries statewide. NOVEL is currently supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds. New Century Libraries is an important statewide funding initiative currently before the Legislature that proposes permanent state funding for NOVEL.

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