Reading Public Library

64 Middlesex Avenue, Reading, MA 01867 ~ 781-944-0840

Language Art Biography Resource Center:The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Contemporary Lit. Criticism
Literary Reference Center: A comprehensive literary database. LRC contains detailed information on most studied authors and their works.
Literature Web Links: : A selection of useful websites from the Reading Public Library’s bookmark collection (Delicious)
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History NEW! Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, from the 1920s to the present, including the movies, TV shows, awards, stars, fads, buzzwords, fashions, and news items that defined each decade.
NEW! American Mosaic is a Wide-ranging and easy to use, full-text database focusing on the history and culture of African Americans, U.S.Latinos, and American Indians.
Grreenwood Daily Life Online: Providing a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history and social studies students, Daily Life Online gives life to history and context to current events.
Milestone Documents in Amerian History: This source covers more than 130 primary source documents from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as overviews, context, timelines, essential quotes, author and audience information. The library also offers this source in print format.
History Web Links: A selection of useful websites from the Reading Public Library’s bookmark collection (Delicious)
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Mathematics Access Science: provides a collection of math and science reference materials—online and fully searchable. Offering easy accessibility to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.

Below are a selection of useful websites from the Reading Public Library’s bookmark collection (Delicious)

Algebra
Calculus
Geometry
Trigonometry
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Science Access Science: provides a collection of math and science reference materials—online and fully searchable. Offering easy accessibility to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.

Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Physics
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Research bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.

Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
EBSCO Middlesearch Plus Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research.
Infotrac High School (Student Edition) Designed for high school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Infotrac Middle School (Junior Edition) Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Infotrac Kids Designed for K-6 students, includes 75 full-text magazines and reference books to introduce children to the research process.

Virtual Reference Library 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.
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