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Academic Search Elite
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Contains full-text articles from 2050 scholarly journals including 1500 peer-reviewed titles. Some PDF images date back to 1985.

Ancestry Library Edition
[Library Access Only]
Ancestry Library Edition allows users to search an index of United States Census records through to 1930, as well as a host of other databases pertinent to genealogical research, such as death, immigration, and naturalization records.

Annals of American History Online
[Library Access] | [Home Access]
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.

ArticleFirst (OCLC)
[Click Here to Access] OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

Auto Repair Reference Center
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The Automotive Repair Center contains complete automotive repair information from the publisher of Chilton information. It covers most major domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.

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Biography In Context
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Gale biography in context.

Booklist Online
[Library Access] [Home Access]
The online incarnation of the print literary review journal Booklist, containing over 100,000 fiction and non-fiction reviews and feature articles dating back to 1992. Users can search reviews using a wide array of content limiters, or the user can browse by audience and genre. Features include reading lists, columns, departments (including Read-alikes), and more.

Brainfuse - Help Now
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Get live online homework help, skills building and writing assistance from certified tutors, practice the ACT/SAT, or meet with your study group online.

Brainfuse - Job Now
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Chat online with a job coach, get help with your resume, or use the Adult Learning Center and career resources.

Business Source Elite
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Provides access to full-text articles from scholarly business journals, including 500 peer-reviewed business publications. Some titles date back to 1985.

Business Plan Handbooks
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Provides help writing a professional business plan with 12 volumes of examples.

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Community Resources Directory
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A web-based contact list maintained by library staff containing general and contact information about community organizations.

Consumer Health Complete
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Find drug and herb information, research diseases and conditions, injuries, and more. Pamphlets and factsheets from CDC, FDA, the Red Cross, and the National Cancer Institute are also available. The service complies completely with the Health On the Net standard for trustworthy health information.

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EBSCO Animals
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Has articles and pictures that explain animal behavior and describe where certain animals live and how they survive.

EBSCOhost Web
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Over two dozen databases cover general reference, business, education, health and law.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
[Library Access][Home Access]
The Britannica Online Library edition reference center includes content from Encyclopaedia Britannica and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia articles as well as media, Web sites, videos, and more.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online for Kids
[Library Access][Home Access]
Search results will include Compton's by Britannica, and Britannica Elementary articles as well as media, videos, Web sites, and learning materials.

Encyclopaedia Juvenil
[Library Access][Home Access]

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
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Maintained through the Central Arkansas Library system by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, this is a free website intended to collect and disseminate information on all aspects of the state’s history and culture and to provide a comprehensive reference work for historians, teachers, students, and individuals for the purpose of promoting the study, understanding, and appreciation of Arkansas’s heritage.

Encyclopedia Universal en Español
[Library Access][Home Access]

ERIC
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The Educational Resource Information Center database contains articles from over 2,200 educational digests as well as citations and abstracts from over 980 other educational and education-related journals.

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Factiva
[In House Click Here to Access] | [Home Users Click Here to Access]
Research the latest business and industry news, track global markets, or gather detailed company reports. Includes international and national sources like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Barron’s, as well as regional newspapers like the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and Northwest Arkansas Times. News and information sources from 159 countries, in 23 languages.

Fayetteville Public Library Genealogy Databases
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Search the contents of the Fayetteville Public Library's index to local obituaries, school records, and land records.

Fayetteville Public Library Vertical File Index
[Click Here to Access]
Browsable and searchable index to the contents of the Fayetteville Public Library vertical file cabinents, containing local newspaper and magazine clippings and miscellanea.

Foundation Directory Online Professional
[Library Access Only]
Includes nearly 80,000 foundations, corporate giving programs (with sponsoring company information), and grantmaking public charities, as well as a searchable database of 500,000 recently awarded grants.

Foundation Grants to Individuals
[Library Access Only]
Contains a complete listing of foundations that give grants to individuals, more than 6,200 entries in all. These records include detailed descriptions of approximately 2,000 programs which fund individual grantseekers.

Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia
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Contains over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.

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Gale Discovering Collection
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The Discovering Collection is an extensive database of electronic reference sources for literature, history, biography, science, and the social sciences.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Full-text access to a number of Gale reference titles.

GreenFILE
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GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

Grolier Encyclopedias
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Provides access to the Encyclopedia Americana and the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Has searchable full-text articles from nearly 300 journals covering topics in medical science, food science, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
[Click Here to Access]
Contains full-text articles from over 550 scholarly medical journals. Also has abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

Help Now - BrainFuse
[Click Here to Access]
Get live online homework help, skills building and writing assistance from certified tutors, practice the ACT/SAT, or meet with your study group online.

HeritageQuest
[Library Access] [Home Access]
HeritageQuest Online provides access to full Census records and thousands of online genealogy books.

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Job Now - BrainFuse
[Click Here to Access]
Chat online with a job coach, get help with your resume, or use the Adult Learning Center and career resources.

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Kids Search
[Click Here to Access]
Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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LearningExpressLibrary (Learn-a-Test)
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LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Legal Collection
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Provides access to full-text articles from over 250 scholarly law journals.

Library2Go Downloadable Books
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OverDrive® Download Services delivers best-selling digital audiobooks, and eBooks with streamlined checkout, download, and transfer to supported mobile device. Titles can be easily transferred to thousands of portable devices such as iPod®, Zune®, and Sony® Reader. Audiobooks and eBooks are available in virtually all subjects: best-selling fiction, business, children’s, career, current events, technology, travel, foreign language study, mystery, romance, thrillers, classic literature, science fiction, and much more. Audio books check out for 7 days. Ebooks check out for 14 days.

Literature Resource Center
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Gale literature resource center.

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Mango Languages
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Mango Languages is an online language-learning system. Choose from 37 difference languages to study at your own pace.

Mango Languages for Children
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Mango Little Pim is an online language-learning system for children. Choose from several difference languages to study at your own pace.

Mergent InvestorEdge
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Mergent InvestorEdge provides a powerful business research tool, access to important company documents and financial information information you need for each individual company. Look up all corporate documents including annual reports, industry reports as well as Corporate Bond Reports. Industry reports with sector level analysis covering current environment, industry profiles, performance, market trends outlook and more.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
[Click Here to Access in Library]
[Click Here to Access at Home]

Morningstar Investment Research Center offers accurate, up-to-date data on 35,000 stocks and funds, along with industry and market data.

MAS Ultra: School Edition
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Designed for high school libraries, this database has full-text articles from over 550 publications, dating back to 1975 for key magazines. It also contains over 500 full-text pamphlets, 339 full-text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Magazine Index by MasterFILE Premier
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Contains full-text information from over 2,000 reference publications, some dating back to 1975. This multidisciplinary database also includes information from nearly 450 full-text reference books, biographies and primary source documents, as well as photos, maps and flags.

Middle Search Plus
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Has full-text articles from over 100 popular magazines appropriate for middle school and high school students, with some full-text articles dating back to 1990. Articles have reading level indicators. This database also contains information from biographies, primary source documents and images of photos, maps and flags.
 

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Naxos Music Library
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Naxos Music Library offers classical, jazz, world, classic rock and folk music streamed through your computer. It contains than 48,350 CD-length recordings (695,000 tracks) and new CDs are added every month. The Naxos Music Library app (free through ITunes) allows you to stream playlists anywhere.

Naxos Music Library Jazz
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Naxos Music Library offers the mix selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz streamed through your computer. It contains more than 3000 CDs and new CDs are added every month. The Naxos Music Library Jazz app (free through ITunes) allows you to stream playlists from your IPhone, IPad, or ITouch.

Naxos Video Library
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Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand through your computer! It contains 500+ full-length performing arts videos and more are added every month.

Newspaper Source
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Has some full-text articles from 25 national, international and regional newspapers. Some television and radio news transcripts are also available.

Next Good Book
[Click Here to Access]
Allows a user to build an online virtual bookshelf which can be shared in whole in or in part with others, allowing community discussion. Next Good Book will also provide its own suggestions for your reading pleasure based upon the criteria supplied by the user.

NoveList Plus
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A readers advisory database provided through EBSCO, containing book reviews, guided genre fiction recommendations, series information, author read-alikes, and other services for inquisitive fiction readers.

NoveList K-8
[Click Here to Access]
A readers advisory database provided through EBSCO, containing book reviews, guided genre fiction recommendations, series information, author read-alikes, and other services for inquisitive fiction readers.

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Online Courses from Universal Class
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At Universal Class you can take over 500 online non-credit Continuing Education Courses. You are welcome to enroll in up to 5 courses at a time. You have up to 6 months to finish each course. You have access to your course 24/7 via the Internet. Attend class and do assignments on your schedule. Each course has a real instructor who you may communicate with using email. These are non-credit courses and are provided for your personal enrichment. These courses are not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

Opposing Viewpoints
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

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Philanthropy In/Sight
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Philanthropy In/Sight® is the most recent offering in our suite of premier resources. In response to broad audience demand, this interactive mapping tool was designed for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, academics—virtually anyone interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today.

Primary Search
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Contains full-text articles from ore than 60 popular magazines from elementary school research, some dating back to 1990. Articles have reading level indicators.

Professional Development Collection
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Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.

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ReferenceUSA
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Allows users to perform quick or highly customizable searches upon a national business and residential directory.

Regional Business News
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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Searchasaurus
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The kids' version of the Fayetteville Public Library catalog.

Student Research Center
[Click Here to Access]
EBSCO's Student Research Center (SRC) makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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TOPICsearch
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Is a current events database that contains over 78,000 full-text articles from over 3,000 diverse sources including more than 1550 full-text periodicals.

TumbleBookLibrary
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TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum.

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Webster's Third International Dictionary, Unabridged Online
[Library Access][Home Access]
The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary.

Westlaw
[Library Access Only]
Westlaw® is an online legal research service providing quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, and public records.

World Data Analyst Online
[Library Access][Home Access]
Combining detailed statistics with powerful tools for analysis and display, this resource features a unique collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world and allows you to create interesting and information comparative charts and tables.

WorldCat (OCLC)
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OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.