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MAS Ultra - School Edition  
Full-text articles from magazines & newspapers, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and images. (Pre-college

MasterFILE Premier   Help
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Including biographies,  primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Middle Search Plus
Database provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Student Research Center 
Materials and interface designed for students in grades 6-12 and their teachers. (Pre-college).

The World & I School
Analysis of world politics, history, and culture with special focus on curriculum areas: social studies, language arts, science, more.

Academic Search Complete  Help  Video Demonstration
Articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers on a variety of subjects. 

CountryWatch
CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data including news, geographical, political, and cultural information on each of the 192 countries of the world. 

ProQuest Databases  Help  Video demonstration
National newspapers plus a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Visual Thesaurus
An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

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