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Title	Description
Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition	Includes: Enyclopedia Britannica, Compton's and Britannica Elementary
Biography Reference Bank	Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.
Culture Grams	Information on 187 countries and our 50 states. Includes information such as history, economics, culture, flags, famous people, recipes and much more.
EBSCO - Student Research Center	Articles from more than 6,000 magazines, newspapers, journals, TV, radio, speeches, primary sources, and other reference resources are indexed, most in full text, from children's magazines to professional research.
American National Biography	The format of articles in the American National Biography is based on chronology. A given article traces a person's life through the sequence of significant events as they occurred from birth to death
Fact Monster	Organized site, great for finding fast facts from a variety of topics.
Grolier Online Encyclopedias	Includes: Lands and People, and America the Beautiful
Merriam-Webster Online	Dictionary & Thesaurus
Reference Desk	A free and family-friendly site that indexes and reviews current reference resources.
Science Online	Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.
Search 22	General reference resources.
SIRS DISCOVERER	Database of full-text articles for the young researcher. You can read stories, learn about important people, find fun projects to do, and much more.
Student Research Center	Databases of information from magazines,newspapers, primary sources, books, encyclopedias, biographies, and many others.
Student Resource Center Junior	A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 300 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
World Book Online Reference Center	Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.