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Access Science *
Contains full text and illustrations of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, including 8,500 articles by leading researchers, including Nobel Prize winners. Also includes more than 100,000 terms from the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and 2,000 biographies from Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) - available only within the library
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. Search everything from census data to ship registers.
Associations Unlimited
The premier source for associations includes approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets.
Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes:
- full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals
- search based on birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender
- combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search
- the complete Marquis Who's Who(R)
- quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people
Bookflix
Ebook resource: Kids Ebooks you can watch and read online. This subscription pairs fiction and non-fiction titles to enhance learning and fun!
Booklist Online
Search this database to find reviews of books for both children and adults. Booklist is a 100-year old journal, published by the American Library Association that offers reviews and content to assist librarians in selecting materials. The database contains over 100,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992. Users have the ability to create a personalized log on that will allow for saving lists of reviews and building alerts based on favorite authors and subject areas of interest.
Business and Company Resource Center
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. It includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
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California Mission Books from Follett
Ebook resource: full text books for reports on California missions.
CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly Researcher)
"Great research on today's issues starts right here." CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage. It contains single-themed reports researched and written by a season journalist on issues in the news. Topics include:
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health
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international affairs
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education
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the environment
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technology
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the economy
Curriculum Resources
For middle school, high school, and junior college teachers and students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas, including:
- U.S. and world history
- science and geography
- curriculum-related handouts
- maps
- science diagrams
- science experiments
- historical images
- historical time-lines
- save and email handouts for worksheets, overheads & testing
- links to the web's best educational sites
Curriculum Resources: Junior Edition
For elementary teachers and students seeking material to supplement their lessons, this electronic library of curriculum-related handouts contains an expansive collection of visual content-including:
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people and events in history
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maps and time-lines
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timelines
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science diagrams
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science projects
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career ideas
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save and email handouts for worksheets, overheads & testing
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links to the web's best educational sites
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Digital Books & Music
Ebook resource: access digital books and music via the Overdrive site. Download bestsellers, biographies, reference books and more to your personal PC, laptop or PDA using your Palo Alto City Library card. Print out the tip sheet to answer frequently asked questions about using this service.
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Ebsco Car Repair Manuals *
Auto Repair Reference Center includes information for approximately 25,000 vehicles, from 1945 to present. There are over 100,000 factory drawings, 65,000 technical service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, specifications and maintenance schedules.
Educators 200
Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set includes over 250 titles covering the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs.
eLibrary
eLibrary is an easy-to-use database that contains more than 1500 full-text sources, including articles from magazines and newspapers, as well as TV, radio, and government transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs, images, audio clips and maps. Includes full text of the New York Times. Elibrary offers a fun and easy-to-use search interface.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica Online provides in-depth research and formatted citations, time-lines, timelines and subject searching. This resource is suitable for middle or high school students and adult audiences. Use Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids for younger audiences.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids
Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids is a simple way to do research, with tips on writing papers, book reviews and science reports. This resource includes ways to search by subject or key word. Contains Compton's Encyclopedia, Elementary Encyclopedia and a dictionary. Excellent for elementary or middle school students.
Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers - with full text and images. This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines, including:
- arts and the humanities
- social sciences
- science and technology
- access to scholarly journals
- many full-text magazines and newspapers with images
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Ebook resource: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
General Business File
A database on business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well analyst's investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. General Business File provides:
- company analysis, performance and activity
- industry events and trends
- the latest in management, economics and politics
- broker research reports
- access to trade publications, newspapers, and journals
- company directory listings with full text and images available
General Reference Center - Gold
This is a general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center to find:
- millions of articles from thousands of magazines
- full-text and abstracts
- information from reference books
- newspapers in full-text, including images
- current events
- popular culture
- consumer information
- the arts and sciences
- sports
- hobbies
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Health and Wellness
Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers. Use this database to find:
- magazines, newspapers, journals & directories
- definitions
- information on:
- Fitness
- Pregnancy
- Medicine
- Nutrition
- Diseases
- Public Health
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Alcohol and Drug abuse
- Prescription Drugs
- links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites
- links to government databases
The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference - Academic
A database of articles on topics such as fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, alcohol and drug abuse, public health, occupational health & safety, HMOs, prescription drugs and more.
Heritage Quest
The company is best known for its collection of the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930, along with more than 25,000 fully searchable family and local history books, Freedman's records and more. View the original records and book pages as high-quality images.
History Resource Center: U.S.
Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
History Resource Center: World
A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronological research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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Informe!(Revistas en Español)
Investiga las noticias y eventos ms corrientes, la informacin de negocios del momento, los artculos de salud ms importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispnicas ms populares. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos:
- Abarca negocios
- salud
- tecnología
- cultura
- temas de actualidad
- otras materias
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Kid's Edition
Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history and sports.
Kid's InfoBits
For elementary school students, easy access to full articles with pictures in magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on animals, plants people. geography, science and math, history, sports and more. Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features:
- a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface
- a subject-based topic tree search
- full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related resources
- magazines and newspapers
- reference content for information
- current events & the arts
- science & health
- people
- government
- history
- sports and more!
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Learning Express
Learning Express Library provides a way to prepare for academic or professional exams on-line, including SAT, ACT, GED, GRE, GMAT, PRAZIS, ASVAB, Cosmetology, Civil Service, Postal Worker, Law Enforcement, Fire, and more. California specific exams including 4th grade, 8th grade, CBEST, and California Highway Patrol. Online courses include Reading Comprehension, Grammar Skills for Writing, Math, Vocabulary and Spelling, as well as courses in Spanish.
- register and choose your user name and password
- save your tests (finished or unfinished) and scores
- review answers and finish any incomplete tests later
Legal E-Books from NetLibrary
Ebook resource: over 200 popular full text self-help law e-books including titles published by Nolo Press such as:
- 101 Law Forms for Personal Use
- How to Form Your Own Corporation
- How to Get a Green Card
- How to Do Your Own Divorce in California
- Grandparents' Rights
- and many more!
Library PressDisplay
A rich resource of foreign language newspapers from around the world.
- 650 newspapers
- covering 76 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe
- in 38 languages
- same-day coverage
- photos, ads, everything!
Literature Resource Center
A comprehensive database that provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes:
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over 20,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and writers
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in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors
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author and title searches
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The Encyclopedia of Literature
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National & International Newspapers
Full text access to over 350 newspapers, including over 60 English-language papers published abroad, plus the Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business NewsWire.
National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
Net Library eAudio and Ebook Collection
Ebook resource: contains over 3,000 audio titles to download, including:
- Pimsleur Language series
- Science fiction
- Popular fiction
- Young adult titles
- Romance
- Westerns
- Christian fiction
Also contains an ebook collection of classics, legal self help books including Nolo Press titles, and more.
New York Times (1851-2004) *
A unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times since 1851, delivering every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in PDF format. This fully searchable database provides multiple search options including keyword, article type, date ranges, specific dates, authors and articles in quick results and full page images for context browsing.
- quick access to every issue cover to cover
- conduct long-term thematic research in a single search
- ads, comics and cartoons that span 100 years
- photos, maps and graphics
- editorials and commentaries
Novelist
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
Novelist K-8
NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students.
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OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical and newspaper articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, hobbies, law, literature and art, politics, science, sports, technology and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Opposing Viewpoints *
Current event topics through a variety of resources -- periodicals, newspapers, statistical charts, and images. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide:
Provides online access to an extensive historical photograph collection that will eventually include over 9,000 photographs of Palo Alto dating from 1870 to the present.
- search by keyword, place, subject or theme
- save images in your own "Favorites" folder
- learn more about the history of Palo Alto
PAHA (Palo Alto Historical Association) Obituary Database
This database is an index to the obituaries that have appeared in local newspapers since as far back as the 1890's. Entries predominately include Palo Altans and some residents of neighboring cities who worked in Palo Alto. Copies of the obituaries themselves are available at the Main Library. To retrieve a copy of an obituary, email the reference desk or phone the reference desk at: (650) 329-2436.
Palo Alto Newspaper Index
The Palo Alto Newspaper Index provides access to news reported about Palo Alto and provides:
- coverage for the year 1992 forward
- Subject and keyword information
- some abstracts and web links to actual articles as they appeared in the paper
The manual index for earlier years (dating back to January 1963) is housed behind the Reference desk at the Main Library.
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Rand Statistics
An extensive database on California, ranging from the economy to crime rates to school test scores. This database also provides an online index of public policy reports and research publications. Rand California is an online source produced by the Rand Corporation, a leading think-tank organization that focuses on California and U.S. public policy and economics with an emphasis on statistics. Rand gathers these statistics from hundreds of different resources.
ReferenceUSA
This extensive database of more than 12 million U.S. businesses, offers the current information you need to locate companies, create marketing lists and to customize your search based on criteria that include:
- company names
- major industry
- geographic location
- size of workforce
- SIC and NAIC codes
Rosetta Stone PLEASE NOTE: Rosetta Stone access expired May, 2008.
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Safari Tech Books Online
Ebook resource: over 1100 computer and information technology titles.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Investment tool that covers stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Search many of S&P's print resources including:
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Register of Private and Public Companies
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Student Resource Center
Provides a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analysis, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Tell Me More
Tell Me More is a completely interactive online program for learning a second language.
- Languages currently offered: English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian
- Use of voice recording to ensure correct pronunciation
- Grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, games and more!
Tumblebook Library
Ebook resource: an online collection of animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources. Requires Flash player.
World Book Online (or for Kids)
An on-line version of the World Book Encyclopedia that provides many full text articles with links to Web sites. World Book offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them, from grades 4 through 12 and adults.
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