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Ancestry Library Edition (ALE) - available only within the library
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. Search everything from census data to ship registers.
AtoZdatabases
AtoZdatabases is the premier reference and marketing database marketed to Library, Academic, and Government institutions throughout the U.S. This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on almost every business and household within the U.S.
Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes:
- full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals
- search based on birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender
- combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search
- the complete Marquis Who's Who(R)
- quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people
Bookflix
Ebook resource: Kids Ebooks you can watch and read online. This subscription pairs fiction and non-fiction titles to enhance learning and fun!
Business and Company Resource Center
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. It includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
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California Mission Books from Follett
Ebook resource: full text books for reports on California missions.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Ebsco Car Repair Manuals
Auto Repair Reference Center includes information for approximately 25,000 vehicles, from 1945 to present. There are over 100,000 factory drawings, 65,000 technical service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, specifications and maintenance schedules.
EbscoHost
Begin your exploration here to see some of the specialized resources Ebsco offers for all ages - including Academic Search Complete, Television Index, Health Source: Nursing, Legal Collection and more!
Educators 200
Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set includes over 250 titles covering the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica Online provides in-depth research and formatted citations, time-lines, timelines and subject searching. This resource is suitable for middle or high school students and adult audiences. Use Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids for younger audiences.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids
Encyclopedia Britannica Online for Kids is a simple way to do research, with tips on writing papers, book reviews and science reports. This resource includes ways to search by subject or key word. Contains Compton's Encyclopedia, Elementary Encyclopedia and a dictionary. Excellent for elementary or middle school students.
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Gale Directory Library
Ebook resource: Gale Directory Library is a database that includes the 3-volume set of Encylopedia of Associations (including Regional, State & Local; National; and International Organizations) as well as the National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Ebook resource: Gale Virtual Reference Library is 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.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
This online version of the 17-volume print encyclopedia offers image-rich and dynamic content for educational needs or just fun fact-finding!
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Health and Wellness
Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Heritage Quest
The company is best known for its collection of the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930, along with more than 25,000 fully searchable family and local history books, Freedman's records and more. View the original records and book pages as high-quality images.
History Resource Center: U.S.
Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
History Resource Center: World
A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronological research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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Informe!(Revistas en Español)
Investiga las noticias y eventos ms corrientes, la informacin de negocios del momento, los artculos de salud ms importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispnicas ms populares. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos:
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Abarca negocios
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salud
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tecnología
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cultura
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temas de actualidad
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otras materias
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Kid's InfoBits
For elementary school students, easy access to full articles with pictures in magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on animals, plants people. geography, science and math, history, sports and more. Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features:
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a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface
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a subject-based topic tree search
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full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related resources
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magazines and newspapers
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reference content for information
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current events & the arts
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science & health
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people
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government
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history
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sports and more!
Kids Search
Simple graphic interface makes this homework site easy for elementary and middle school students to use. Homework help with visual searching, broad topics, encyclopedias and more.
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Learning Express
Learning Express Library provides a way to prepare for academic or professional exams on-line, including SAT, ACT, GED, GRE, GMAT, PRAZIS, ASVAB, Cosmetology, Civil Service, Postal Worker, Law Enforcement, Fire, and more. California specific exams including 4th grade, 8th grade, CBEST, and California Highway Patrol. Online courses include Reading Comprehension, Grammar Skills for Writing, Math, Vocabulary and Spelling, as well as courses in Spanish.
- register and choose your user name and password
- save your tests (finished or unfinished) and scores
- review answers and finish any incomplete tests later
Library PressDisplay
A rich resource of foreign language newspapers from around the world.
- 650 newspapers
- covering 76 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe
- in 38 languages
- same-day coverage
- photos, ads, everything!
Literature Resource Center
A comprehensive database that provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes:
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over 20,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and writers
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in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors
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author and title searches
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The Encyclopedia of Literature
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Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an online learning system that teaches 12 different languages by using real life situations and actual conversations to help you more effectively learn a new language. Language offered include Spanish, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai, Urdu, Brazilian Portuguese, ESL and more.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar is now available to customers 24/7, with your valid Palo Alto library card. Research more than 23,000 stocks and mutual funds; build and analyze an investment portfolio; learn about stocks, mutual funds and portfolios.
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National & International Newspapers
Full text access to over 350 newspapers, including over 60 English-language papers published abroad, plus the Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business NewsWire.
New York Times (1851-2007)
A unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times since 1851, delivering every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in PDF format. This fully searchable database provides multiple search options including keyword, article type, date ranges, specific dates, authors and articles in quick results and full page images for context browsing.
- quick access to every issue cover to cover
- conduct long-term thematic research in a single search
- ads, comics and cartoons that span 100 years
- photos, maps and graphics
- editorials and commentaries
Novelist
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
Novelist K-8
NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students.
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OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical and newspaper articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, hobbies, law, literature and art, politics, science, sports, technology and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Opposing Viewpoints
Current event topics through a variety of resources -- periodicals, newspapers, statistical charts, and images. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide:
- a complete one-stop source for information on social issues
- access viewpoint articles
- topic overviews
- statistics
- primary documents
- links to websites
- full-text magazine and newspaper articles
Overdrive's Northern California Digital Library
Ebook resource: access almost 3,000 digital books and music via the Overdrive site. Download bestsellers, biographies, reference books and more to your personal PC, laptop or PDA using your Palo Alto City Library card.
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PAHA (Palo Alto Historical Association) Photograph Collection
Provides online access to an extensive historical photograph collection that will eventually include over 9,000 photographs of Palo Alto dating from 1870 to the present.
- search by keyword, place, subject or theme
- save images in your own "Favorites" folder
- learn more about the history of Palo Alto
PAHA (Palo Alto Historical Association) Obituary Database
This database is an index to the obituaries that have appeared in local newspapers since as far back as the 1890's. Entries predominately include Palo Altans and some residents of neighboring cities who worked in Palo Alto. Copies of the obituaries themselves are available at the Main Library. To retrieve a copy of an obituary, email the reference desk or phone the reference desk at: (650) 329-2436.
Palo Alto Newspaper Index
The Palo Alto Newspaper Index provides access to news reported about Palo Alto and provides:
- coverage for the year 1992 forward
- Subject and keyword information
- some abstracts and web links to actual articles as they appeared in the paper
The manual index for earlier years (dating back to January 1963) is housed behind the Reference desk at the Main Library.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
Primary Search
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.
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Rand Statistics
An extensive database on California, ranging from the economy to crime rates to school test scores. This database also provides an online index of public policy reports and research publications. Rand California is an online source produced by the Rand Corporation, a leading think-tank organization that focuses on California and U.S. public policy and economics with an emphasis on statistics. Rand gathers these statistics from hundreds of different resources.
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Safari Tech Books Online
Ebook resource: over 4,300 computer and information technology titles.
Searchasaurus
Aimed at primary school students and those that teach them. Great resource for teaching hand-outs and how-to's.
Student Resource Center
Provides a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analysis, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Tumblebook Library
Ebook resource: an online collection of animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources. Requires Flash player.
World Book Online (or for Kids)
An on-line version of the World Book Encyclopedia that provides many full text articles with links to Web sites. World Book offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them, from grades 4 through 12 and adults.
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