Saint Andrew’s School Library Resources 2009-2010

1. Saint Andrew’s SchoolLibrary Resources2009-2010

2. List of Resources Country Watch Culture Gram Encyclopedia Britannica Facts-on-File Bloom’s Literary Reference Gale Online Suite Grolier Online Library Suite Hot Math Jstor Oxford University Press Suite Visual Theaurus World Book

3. Gale Online Suite Student Reference Center – Gold Student Reference Center – Junior Gale Virtual Reference Library Literature Resource Center Scribner Writers Series Twayne Authors Series Books & Authors Lit Finder K-12 ASCD Ebooks Testing & Education Reference Center All of these products are cross-searchable by selection.

4. Gale is a world Leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools, and businesses. The company maintains more than 600 databases that are published online and as eBooks. Some of Gale’s publishing imprints include Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Primary Source Media, U-X-L, Greenhaven Press, and Lucent Books.

5. Student Resource Center – Gold and Junior Editions Users are able to access a variety of resources that will help them conduct research, complete assignments, create presentations and more, with content and curriculum-focused tools that include: ■ Podcast feeds, starting with weekly presidential radio broadcasts, with more than 13,300 podcasts, including the weekly presidential radio address and podcasts from such premier NPR programs as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. Also included are podcasts from NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press and many more *Read Speaker auditory articles **Documents translated into eight languages ■ More than eight million full-text articles from one thousand periodicals and newspapers ■ More than 4,000 proprietary of primary documents ■ Hundreds of plays and poems ■ Multimedia content, which includes podcasts, video and audio clips, and thousands of flags, maps and seals and photographs ■ More than 63,000 topic overviews, biographies, and pieces of literary Criticism

6. Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to more than 1,500 (and growing) electronic reference titles and eBooks - in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, biography and many more. • Patrons and students will love • these features: • The ability to navigate a list of subjects and • titles from the home page • Viewing titles without performing a search • Citation export (EndNote, ProCite, Reference • Manager) • Citation generator (APA, MLA, • tagged format) • Download, e-mail or print entries • Bookmark generator - return to virtually any • spot in the research via a persistent URL • On-demand content translation — into • Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, • Korean, Italian and Portuguese • On-demand interface translation into English, • Spanish, French and Portuguese • In addition to titles from its own imprints • Gale Virtual Reference Library includes titles • from more than 40 partners including: • Cambridge University Press • Elsevier • Greenwood Press • John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • M.E. Sharpe and Sharpe Reference • Oxford University Press • SAGE Publications • Springer • And many others • Also included are a significant number of e- books relating to History and English

7. Literature Resource Center ■ Current and comprehensive online literature criticism, biographical information, reviews and reference ■ Fast, intuitive access to key materials on literature in all genres, from all time periods, from around the world

8. Literature Resource Center • Literature criticism: • More than 70,000 signed critical essays • from acclaimed Gale literature series • such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, • Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story • Criticism and other titles. • New content is added as new • volumes of our literature series • are published • Essays are editorially selected, • ensuring a balanced and • representative view of critical • responses • Includes book chapters, diaries, • lectures and other sources not • otherwise available online • More than 750,000 articles from more • than 325 full-text academic journals • and literary reviews • New content added daily • More than 50 new titles added since • September 2006

9. Literature Resource Center • ■ Biographical information: • More than 140,000 author biographies • from award-winning titles like • Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of • Literary Biography and Contemporary • Literary Criticism — providing • biographical and bibliographic • coverage of more than 130,000 writers • worldwide and across time • More than 5,000 interviews with • contemporary writers • More than 3,000 pictures of major • authors • ■ Historical context: • Sources such as the Dictionary of Literary • Biography and Literature and Its • Times illuminate the historical and • social contexts of literary works and • movements • ■ And more… • Thousands of work overviews, topic • overviews and explications • Half a million book, theater and film • reviews • More than 3,000 links to National • Public Radio interviews and reviews • Nearly 5,000 editorially selected links • to authoritative literary Web sites • Nearly 25,000 full-text contemporary • poems, short stories, and plays • Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of • Literature and Collegiate Dictionary

10. Literature Resource Center • ■ For Students Series • o Short Stories for Students • o Novels for Students • o Poetry for Students • o Drama for Students • o Non-Fiction Classics for Students • o Epics for Students • ■ Literature & Its Times, St. James Press • Reference Guides to Literature, and • other select sources • ■ Journals include: • o 220+ refereed journals, including • Studies in the Novel, Studies in Short • Fiction, Texas Studies in Literature • and Language, Shakespeare Studies, • Review of Contemporary Fiction • o Prominent literary magazines such • as Harpers, The Atlantic, and the • New Yorker • More than 325 periodical titles in all—and more to come. • Literature Reference series • represented in Literature • Resource Center • ■ Contemporary Authors/ • Contemporary Authors New • Revisions • ■ Dictionary of Literary Biography • ■ Selected materials from: • o Literary Criticism series • o Contemporary Literary Criticism • o Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism • o Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism • o Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 • o Classical & Medieval Literature • Criticism • o Shakespearean Criticism • o Poetry Criticism • o Short Story Criticism • o Drama Criticism • o Children’s Literature Review

11. Literature Resource Center • o Contemporary Authors entries and • revised entries routinely appear in • Literature Resource Center one to three • weeks before they appear in print • o “Fast-track” entries on emerging • authors appear in Literature Resource • Centermonths before their print • publication date • o Full-text periodical articles are added • daily, as soon as the publisher makes • them available—and Gale offers the • fewest and shortest periodical content • embargoes of any major literature • database • o Content from the Dictionary of Literary • Biography, the 10 Literature Criticism • Series and For Students titles is added • several times a month as new print • volumes are published • Covers World Literatures • o More than 7,000 entries on world • authors from Dictionary of Literary • Biography • o More than 19,000 non-U.S. authors • covered in Contemporary Authors Online • o More than 60 full-text periodicals • published outside the United States • Literature Resource Center is • continuously updated • o Gale’s Literature Publishing team ensures • that major literary news is reflected in • authors’ biographical coverage within 48 • hours

12. Scribner Writers Series • More than 2,000 original, scholar-signed biocritical entries average 15-20 pages each. They include a concise overview, hyperlinks for cross-referencing and information that places the author’s work in personal or historical context. • In this way, Scribner Writers Series supports literature coursework from secondary school through university as well as general or • specialized research. • Easy searches and reliable results with … • ■More than 2,000 original entries covering more than 1,400 important authors • ■ Multiple perspectives on the most-studied literary names • ■Easy and accurate search options, including by name, nationality, century, genre, gender and more • ■ Citation tools that generate citations in MLA or APA format and support bibliographic software like RefWorks, EndNote and others • ■Translation feature that translates documents into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese • ■Identifiable, accessible tools for printing, e-mail, downloading and bookmarking • A wealth of resources • Scribner Writers Series delivers online access to numerous Scribner publications: American Writers, African American Writers, Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome, British Writers, European Writers, Modern American Women Writers, Supernatural Fiction Writers, Writers for Young Adults and many others. • Coverage of literary topics includes African Americans, Writing and Nature; Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Poetry; The Bible as Sacred Literature; The Female Detective; The Gothic Novel; Renaissance; Short Fiction; Greek Lyric Poets and many more.

13. Twayne Authors Series • For more than half a century, Twayne’s Authors Series has provided • an ideal starting point for students, researchers, faculty and • general readers. • With in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers • from Aeschylus to Zora Neale Hurston, this online series features • the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print • series: Twayne’s United States Authors, Twayne’s English Authors • and Twayne’s World Authors. Each was carefully coordinated with • input from librarians and educators to include authors universally • studied in high schools and colleges. • Because coverage includes not only the authors themselves but • also the history and influence of literary movements and the • development of literary genres, users can quickly gain results • they need to prepare homework assignments, special projects • and presentations.

14. Books & Authors Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Gale’s industry-leading literature reference series provide background on the lives, influences and critical reception of current writers as well as noted authors from every age and literary discipline. Search paths include: ■ Browse and Discover Genres ■ Author and Title/Series Search and Browse ■ Read-a-Like Search ■ Award Winners and Bestsellers Search and Browse ■ Librarian’s Favorites and Expert Picks Search and Browse ■ Who, What, When, Where – Graphical Search ■ Advanced Search ■ And more! As often as readers yearn to move beyond the book they are currently reading, they will want to dig deeper into its ideas and origins – how it reflects the author’s life and times. Powered by Gale’s popular What Do I Read Next? series, Books & Authors combines both browseable menus and visual search technology to guide readers from every level of reading proficiency to books that match their interests.

15. Lit Finder K-12 This deep database guides students easily through the world of poetry, fiction, drama and much more. Poetry is at the heart of LitFinder, with more than 126,500 full-text poems plus your option of 850,000 more poem citations. Including thousands of essays, speeches, plays and stories. Successful searches every time LitFinder connects students quickly to the poem, story, speech, play or essay that best enhances their assignment. The unique search engine and fast-acting interface contain more than 10,000 subject headings in every conceivable topic. Searches are also made easy by keyword entries, drop-down menus and a host of limiters and refiners to pinpoint the best material for student needs. Don’t know the full poem title? LitFinderwill help you searchby individual words. Need to identify a Ming Dynasty author? LitFinderfinds 23 of them. Want to read the primary source and an explanation of the work? LitFinder includes hundreds of expert-written explanations, glossary entries and discussions.

16. Lit Finder K-12 • What will students find? • • 650 nationalities and ethnicities represented — great • writers from all eras • • 850 Spanish-language poems with English translations • • 865 explanations providing detailed analyses for poems • and short stories • • 3,500 poems and stories published in the current year • — an anthology of the best new work from established and • emerging authors • • 10,000 plays, stories, essays and speeches spanning • antiquity to the present day • LitFindertools • LitFinderhelps enhance student understanding with: • • Explanations: Scan a listing of more than 865 concise, expert-written essays on specific works of literature; or use a Basic Search to narrow your results. • • Glossary of Terms: More than 150 poetic terms, from allegory to allusion, receive fast definitions. • • Exploring Poetry: Discussions cover most 20th-century poetic schools and movements, including Asian-American, Harlem Renaissance, Beat Movement and Imagism. • • Author of the Month: Ideal for initiating a literature discussion or project topic, this home page feature spotlights an author of contemporary or historical interest. • • 27,000 women writers represented — an advantage for cross-curricular assignments in literature, history, gender studies and more • • 126,500 full-text poems, constantly updated • 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, easily searched

17. ASCD Ebooks Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) have partnered to offer a range of new and best-selling professional development titles in eBook format through Gale Virtual Reference Library. ASCD, an international nonprofit organization representing thousands of professional educators from around the world, has long been known for its superior products and services. These essential professional development titles cover a wide range of issues in education, from teaching methodology and practices to leadership and community initiatives. Now Gale and ASCD have selected 56 best-selling and new titles available to form an eBook special collection through Gale Virtual Reference Library.

18. Testing & Education Reference Center • Gale,® part of Cengage Learning, has partnered • with Peterson’s to deliver the most comprehensive • resource available to take users from the classroom • into the workplace. Testing & Education Reference • Center is a dynamically updated database that • connects users to the most current information • on colleges and universities — and adds a • career module that guides people of all ages and • experience to the career best for them. • Gain college know-how • Choosing a college or university is one of a • student’s first big decisions — will the school • fit their personality, meet their ambition and • offer the opportunity to grow? To help students • (and parents) screen potential schools, Testing • & Education Reference Center provides a vast • collection of information on two- and four-year • institutions across the United States and Canada. • Intuitive searches and quick results deliver data • that includes the school’s location, tuition, majors, • average G.P.A. of incoming students, religious • affiliations if any, and much more. • And when the selection comes down to a graduate • school, students can find nearly 40,000 accredited • programs representing a variety of disciplines. • Ace the tests • For many students, the key to testing success is • “practice, practice, practice” — • which is why Testing & Education Reference Center offers a deep selection of online and eBook test-prep materials. • Users will find high school test prep for GED, AP, • ISEE, COOP, SSAT and more. Those aiming toward • college can find tests geared to CLEP, FCAT, SAT, • ACT, PSAT, TAKS and more.Graduate school • preps include GRE, LSAT, MCAT and MAT. • There are even international tests covering TOEFL, • TOEIC and U.S. citizenship. • Step up to a career • Testing & Education Reference Center offers an • additional option — the Career Search module. • Users can search three key components: • n Career Assessment — Map a career path with • occupations most suitable • n Resume Builder — Build outstanding resumes and • includes tools specific to the user • n Virtual Careers Library — Provides resume, • cover-letter and interviewing tips for the first-time • jobseeker and the seasoned professional alike • Career-oriented test prep includes online practice tests • for information technology, law programs, nursing • programs, Air Force officer qualifying, military flight • aptitude, and civil service and licensure exams.

19. Country Watch and Country Watch Youth Edition • CountryWatch is an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.The management of CountryWatch has extensive international business experience and the members of the editorial department have strong academic backgrounds.  Using this combination of business and academic acumen, the CountryWatch team has created this entire suite of products covering demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental subject matter. Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviewsTM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWireTM ,which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers.Finally, a new addition to the CountryWatch suite of products is the CountryWatch Youth Edition, which combines background country information, current events coverage, and other global research resources tailored to young students.

20. Country Watch • Management: • Robert C. Kelly; Chairman and Founder; B.S., United States Military Academy; MPA and Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard; former CEO of multinational company subsidiaries; Tenured Professor at USMA; international business experience in 60 countries. • Robert Baldwin; Co-chairman; B.S., United States Military Academy; Ph.D. in Economics, M.I.T; Tenured Professor at USMA; former CEO of multinational company subsidiary; extensive international business experience in Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. • Denise Youngblood-Coleman; Executive Vice President and Editor-in-Chief - B.A., King's University; M.A., Ph.D. in Anthropology, Rice University; substantial experience in governmental and foreign policy analysis; strong background in ethnographic research, ethnology, nationalism, identity politics, global education and international development. • Vicki Sanditen; Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing - B.S., University of Texas, Austin ; J.D., South Texas College of Law; substantial sales and marketing experience working with Fortune 1000 companies and law firms. • Grant Panchacharam; Vice President of Business Development - B.S., M.S in Health Administration, MBA, Houston Baptist University; substantial experience in business development and marketing management in corporate sector and consulting, research and strategic planning with international healthcare systems.

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22. Encyclopedia Britannica More comprehensive than any other English-language encyclopedia. Enjoy unlimited access to full, updated content of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica, thousands of video and audio clips, hundreds of magazine and journal articles and more - all in an advertising-free environment. Trustworthy results. • Trusted by over 7 million students at top colleges and universities worldwide. • Expert contributors: More than 90 have won Nobel prizes. Most are authors, university professors, commentators, museum curators, scientists, and other experts chosen for their field expertise. • Cited in U.S Supreme Court cases. Spend less time searching and more time finding. Stop skipping between search results! Britannica organizes relevant results from a single, reliable source. The answers you need, the topics you care about. Learn more about the history of Iraq. Understand the weather systems. Watch a video about nutrition and health. Find accurate results on virtually any topic. • Main Categories • Arts & LiteratureTheEarth & GeographyHealth & MedicinePhilosophy & ReligionSports & RecreationScience & MathematicsLifeSocietyTechnologyHistory

23. Facts-on-File Bloom’s Literary Reference • Authoritative Literary Criticism from Harold Bloom • Bloom’s Literary Reference Online features hundreds of Harold • Bloom’s essays examining the lives and works of great writers • throughout history and the world, as well as thousands of • critical articles by noted scholars from the Bloom’s Literary • Criticism imprint.With an archive of more than 42,000 • characters and extensive entries on literary topics, themes, • movements, and genres, the database contains thousands of • entries and almost 170 video segments. • Helpful features for students abound. The “Bloom’s How to • Write about” section contains essays on how to write about • literature, including crafting strong thesis statements and • conclusions, writing outlines, properly citing sources, and • sample essay topics. Links for popularly assigned authors list • essays about the authors and their works. “How to Cite” • guidance includes full citations in MLA, Chicago, and APA • style, and the dictionary tool allows users to look up more • than 34,000 words without opening a new browser window. • Handy browse and search features include in-text links, • record links, and numerous options for further research. • Entries can be browsed by time period within American, • British, and world literature; by author type; by literary • genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for • images and videos. Author biographies link to a list of major • works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters

24. Features: Facts-on-File Bloom’s Literary Reference • Features: • • Authors: biographies of thousands of authors from around • the world, browsable by nationality, type of writing, or time • periods ranging from ancient to modern • • Works: overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism • of thousands of works—from novels to poetry to plays— • browsable by genre and time period or alphabetically • • Images and Videos: many images of authors as well as video • segments covering a range of topics—from biographies of • writers to critical analyses of plays to literary genres • • Topics and Themes: in-depth, full-text entries on literary • movements, literary groups, magazines and newspapers, • and historical events that help place literature in context, • as well as definitions of literary terms • • Timeline: more than 15,000 entries on births, deaths, publications, • and events in world literature from the ancient era • to the present day • • Dictionary: more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative • definitions, many with pronunciation, etymology, and • syllable breaks of the word • • Characters: information on more than 42,000 major and minor • literary characters, including where they first appeared, what • part they played in the plot, and how they are related to other • literary characters • • Bloom’s How to Write about: essays on how to write about literature, • including essays by Harold Bloom on popularly • assigned authors • • Harold Bloom’s Western Canon: Professor Bloom’s selections of • the major works of Western literature. • Bloom’s Literary Reference Online: ISBN 978-0-8160-4347-7.

25. Grolier Suite Encyclopedia Americana Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The New Book of Knowledge The New Book of Popular Science Lands and People America the Beautiful

26. Grolier Suite Grolier Online is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., a division of Scholastic Inc. Grolier has six sites to assist middle and upper school students. 37,000 articles are offered in the Multimedia Encyclopedia, 400+ articles in the New Book of Popular Science; 45,000 articles in Encyclopedia America. America the Beautiful covers all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. and territories of the U.S. in depth. Also included are international newspapers, lesson plans, editorials featuring pros and cons, and more.

27. Hot Math Hot Math Personnel Math teachers and professors who believe that immediate help with assigned homework improves math learning. Math is a gateway subject for success in school and careers. Their mission is to help every student succeed in math. Hot Math Corporation Hotmath, Inc. was founded in 2000 and today serves over a million students with instant explanations for odd-numbered homework problems for over 300 math textbooks. They have partnerships with Microsoft (Encarta), Texas Instruments, and leading math textbook publishers. Features: Step- by- step answers, live math help, math videos, practice tests, graphing calculators, games and activities, and workbooks . Math tutors standing by for 24/7 help.

28. JStor J stor is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Their overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost–effective ways. They operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. They collaborate with organizations that can help achieve their objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community. All information can be translated into Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, German, French, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean.

29. JStor JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives. It is recognized specifically for: • offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works • facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research • exemplary standards for digitization and completeness • interfaces and functionality that support academic use • highly reliable access • long-term preservation Today, academic journals comprise the majority of the content in the archive. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available. However, users can search this material and link to the publisher's site or other online source for access. Please read about the Moving Walland Links to Recent Contentfor more information. The archives are being expanded continuously with a current emphasis on international publications as well as collections of other content types such as pamphlets, images and manuscripts from libraries, societies, and museums. New initiatives to support innovations in scholarship, such as using the archives for text mining and enabling the pre-publication sharing of ideas among scholars, are also underway.

30. Oxford University Press Suite Oxford Biblical Studies Online Oxford English Dictionary Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Oxford Art Online Oxford Music Online

31. Oxford Biblical Studies Online This new resource provides access to six essential Oxford editions of the Bible alongside commentary and annotations from study Bibles, seamlessly combined with a multitude of reference material and primary texts.  Updated twice a year with new content, and featuring maps and illustrations, timelines, and more, Oxford Biblical Studies Onlinewill serve as a resource for students of the Bible at all levels.

32. Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionaryis the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry. In a complex entry with many strands, the development over time can be seen in a structure with several 'branches'.

33. Oxford Language Dictionaries Online The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. • What can you do with Oxford Language Dictionaries Online? • Search Oxford's authoritative bilingual dictionaries to get accurate, up-to-date translations you can rely on • Choose the right word or phrase using contextual clues and examples • Use quick search box on every page to find translations fast • Use advanced search options to search the full text of the dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech, subject area, or language register, and perform Boolean searches • Browse the dictionary using alphabetical entry lists • Find a list of other entries that have your search term somewhere in them • Click from any word in an entry to look up that word in the dictionary • Get click-through explanations of phonetic symbols and mouse-over explanations of parts of speech • Insert accented characters (or letters from a different alphabet) using a handy virtual keyboard

34. Oxford Language Dictionaries Online • Insert Chinese characters using a helpful pop-up Radical and Character Index • If you can't find an exact match, the "Did you mean" feature can help you find the entry you're looking for • Print, email, cite, or link all entries • PLUS • Find a multitude of language learning and usage tools and resources • Get access to hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, emails, and CVs and résumés to provide practical help with writing • And much more

35. ItalianRussianSpanish Oxford Language Dictionaries Online • Available language pairs • Chinese-English; English-ChineseCurrently featuring over 220,000 words, phrases, and translations from the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary (Third edition), plus tools and resources • French-English; English-FrenchCurrently featuring over 360,000 words and phrases and over 550,000 translations from the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (Fourth edition), plus tools and resources • German-English; English-GermanCurrently featuring over 320,000 words and phrases and over 520,000 translations from the Oxford German Dictionary (Third edition), plus tools and resources • Italian-English; English-ItalianCurrently featuring over 300,000 words and phrases and over 450,000 translations from the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (Second edition), plus tools and resources • Russian-English; English-RussianCurrently featuring over 500,000 words, phrases, and translations from the Oxford Russian Dictionary (Fourth edition), plus tools and resources • Spanish-English; English-SpanishCurrently featuring over 300,000 words and phrases and 500,000 translations from the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Fourth edition), plus tools and resources

36. Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Onlineand Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth. Oxford Art Online has been created with the latest in online technology to give users a robust and unique research experience. Precise search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source and subject categories. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows users greater access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Thematic timelines and learning resources also provide users with powerful tools for navigating the content, and context-sensitive help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality. Oxford Art Online is the most extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art resource available today.

37. Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Onlineis the new gateway offering users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres; The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006) will similarly supplement Grove's more extensive coverage with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Both of these sources are included in a subscription to Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online is also pleased to feature Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music— online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, EPM is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read. Oxford Music Online was created with the latest in online technology to give users a robust and unique research experience. There is a more sophisticated search that allows users to refine their search or browse results by source, and by specific era or subject category. Users can also choose to view biographies or subject entries when searching or browsing. Advanced search capabilities, including biography and bibliography searching, provide users with powerful tools for content navigation. Product-specific Timelines and topical guides provide users with pathways into the content. Context-sensitive Help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality. Oxford Music Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online music resource available, a virtual music library of unparalleled scope and depth.

38. Visual Thesaurus • The Center. The Visual Thesaurus displays words and meanings that are related to the item in the center of the display. • The Toolbar. Search for words, view word suggestions, see search history, and change preferences settings from the toolbar. Forward/Back buttons provide easy navigation. Help tips are always available. • Words. Click on a word to bring it to the center. Click on the speaker icon to hear the word spoken. Surrounding the word are words and meanings that are related to it. • Meanings. Roll your mouse over a meaning to learn more about it. Click on a meaning to bring it to the center. • Settings. Click on the Settings menu to personalize font size, types of relationships shown, content filtering, special keyboard shortcuts, and more. • Special Features. Printing, spell checking, Internet image and web page search are all available.

39. World Book Encyclopedia WORLD BOOK KIDS TODAY IN HISTORY August 17, 2009 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, was born on this date in 1786. World Book Advanced With content from the award winning World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, the site offers simpler navigation, thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps, and dozens of activities tied to national curriculum standards. More than 1.3 million pages of primary source documents–books, documents, selections–fully integrated with the encyclopedia content. Research and teaching tools include timelines, citation builder, and saved research.

40. World Book Encyclopedia WORLD BOOK DISCOVER SPANISH- AND FRENCH-LANGUAGE VERSIONS World Book's differentiated instruction site features read-aloud and translation capabilities, more video, and clear, easy-to-read articles. L 'EncyclopédieDécouverteand EnciclopediaEstudiantilHallazgosfor beginning French or Spanish students; Gran EnciclopediaHispánicafor more advanced Spanish speakers.

41. World Book Encyclopedia WORLD BOOK STUDENT The premier online reference source. With thousands of articles, state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, periodical content, and more!

42. Research Questions In which presidential election were popular vote totals first counted? – 1 source In the United States, a military draft law dates from the administration of which president? – 3 sources The number of Roman Catholics living in the United States was originally very small. What changed this after 1830? – 3 sources Which celebrated mathematician wrote a groundbreaking work entitled “The Elements?” – 3 sources Name the three visual artists credited with the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. – 3 sources What U.S. government agency is credited with the development of the Internet? – 4 sources The music of which classical composer is featured in the film Clockwork Orange? – 1 source In addition to Thurgood Marshall, what other prominent African American civil rights lawyer played a key role in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case? – 3 sources Which pope stated that famed mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei had suffered injustice at the hands of the Church? – 3 sources In Sanskrit, what is the meaning of the word “Buddha?” – 4 sources What is the origin of the term “Renaissance?” – 8 sources When and where was the Nike of Somathrace discovered? – 5 sources What are some of the main themes in Much Ado About Nothing? – 5 sources In which century did Protestantism make its most significant gains, spreading throughout the world? – 2 sources What references to slavery can be found in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park? – 1 source