Electronic Resources from the San Marino Public Library

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Magazine Index
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EBSCOhost Web™ offers MasterFile Elite, a collection from over 1200 magazines and journals ranging from People to the Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs that goes back to the early 1990s. Many entries contain the entire text of articles just as they appeared in print! Download or email them and you may never need to touch a photocopy machine again!
Grove Art Dictionary
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Find articles about artists and artistic movements as well as links to copies of their works posted around the Web. Based on the 34-volume print reference set.
Literature Resource Center
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The Gale Literature Resource Center offers articles from a variety of its print resources including Contemporary Authors. Use this site to find writer biographies, bibliographies, and analytical essays about writers' works.
Novelist
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Novelist is a terrific tool for fiction lovers. Search the database to see a list of an author's body of work, get book group discussion guides, and to find "read-alikes". Contains discussions for over 150 thousand novels.
Los Angeles Times
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Search the entire text of articles in the Los Angeles Times going back to 1985.
America's Newspapers
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Search the entire text of articles from newspapers from across the country including The Pasadena Star-News and The New York Times.
Facts on File
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Here are a variety of resources for the elementary and junior high school student. Find detailed science projects here, classified by grade level and branch of science. Also, get outline maps and diagrams of the insides of animals. Great for school projects!
American History Online
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Browse American history by topic or decade. Find biographies, pictures, maps and charts.
Current Biography
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Find biographical articles about more than 15 thousand people who have been famous since 1940.
Oxford English Dictionary
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The online version of the 20 volume unabridged dictionary that is famous for detailing the origins of words and especially showing the first time they appear in print.
CQ Researcher
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Hey kids with those reports to do about current social issues! Browse CQ Researcher to get clearly written views of both sides of such modern quandaries as the role of religion in politics and privatizing the military. Browse the "In the News" section to find a hot topic for your paper.
Opposing Viewpoints
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Search here to explore various arguments about today's hottest social issues from abortion to youth culture.

 
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Last updated: January 18, 2008