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NewsBank
NewsBank provides a searchable database of news articles. High school and adult users of NewsFile will find hundreds of newspapers, wire services and broadcasts. Schoolmate provides similar resources for middle age level and KidsPage includes news stories for the elementary age student.

Grolier's Online
Grolier Online Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and the New Book of Knowledge, as well as a full-featured dictionary and atlas.

EBSCO
EBSCO provides hundreds of journals, magazines, newspapers and government or education pamphlets, at the elementary, middle and high school levels. The Professional Development collection provides 440 full text professional journals, as well as ERIC.

SIRS Researcher
SIRS Researcher contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Discoverer is an award-winning general reference database for young researchers.

Ref Desk
Ref Desk is the single best free source for facts on the Net.

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