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  School Preparation (Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, etc.)

The leading source for test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based on official tests. When creating your "Learning Express" user account, enter your DCLS library card barcode number as your username. Creating an account with your library card number will allow access to your selections from any location with an Internet connection and a web browser. Go to Learning Express Library

  Research

	Student Research Center 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. Go to Student Research Center
	SIRS Discoverer is an excellent database designed for children. Young researchers can search through magazine articles, maps, videos, World Almanac for Kids, Compton’s Encyclopedia, websites, and more. All of the articles and graphics are carefully selected according to readability level, educational content, and interest. Go to SIRS Discoverer

  Biography

	A comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. Go to the Biography Reference Center

  Literature

	Guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Author biographies are included. Produced by Thompson Gale. Go to Contemporary Authors
	Contains full text for plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary texts, poems, and short stories, and much more. Go to Literary Reference Center
	Contains author and title readalikes, lists, reviews, feature articles, and more. Search by authors, plot lines, series, reading level, etc., and find other books you are sure to enjoy. Go to NoveList Plus

  Science

	Authoritative and comprehensive, AccessScience provides students with an up-to-date, easy-to-use gateway to scientific knowledge, from basic introductory material to extended article entries and live journal citations in key scientific areas including biology, Earth and environmental sciences, chemistry, physics, and beyond. Go to Access Science
	Science Full Text Select Edition is a 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, of a core selection of science periodicals from the following Wilson periodical databases: Applied Science & Technology Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index; and General Science Full Text. Go to Science Full Text Select
	Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Includes biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, medicine, life science, physics, technology, more. Provides articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. Go to Science Reference Center
	Online full text of Salem Health titles, including illustrations, sidebars, indexes, and appendixes. Cross-references are linked to appropriate articles and key terms are linked to a complete glossary. Go to Health, Salem Press

  Math

	Interactive, engaging math practice for children in grades K-8. Adapts to each child’s skill level. Struggling students can practice problem areas, while others can choose more challenging concepts. SmartMath Practice covers 189 topics with 40,000 questions, and is correlated to common core and state standards. Go to SmartMath

  History

	More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily. Go to the AP Images Website
	Online full text of Salem History titles: The Decades, Great Events from History, Great Lives from History, and Milestone Documents. Includes indexes, illustrations, maps, and primary documents. Go to History, Salem Press
	Features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Includes full text for leading history periodicals, historical documents, biographies, historical photos, maps, and video. Go to the History Reference Center

  Magazine & News Articles (Easily search thousands of newspaper articles)

	Provides full-text access to the Harrisburg Patriot-News from 8/1/1986 to the present, as well as full-text access to some of America’s news magazines, such as Popular Science and Newsweek. Go to NewsBank
	EBSCO's News Harvester provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. The collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics. Go to WebNews
	Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company. Go to OmniFile Mega
	Readers' Guide Full Text, Select Edition is a 100% full-text database containing comprehensive indexing, abstracting, and full text of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Go to Readers' Guide Select

  Environmental Information (GO GREEN with GreenFile)

Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provided by POWER Library, produced by EBSCO. Go to GreenFILE Database