Online Databases available though Hawaii State Public Library System

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provides access to these Electronic Databases

HSPLS pays for and makes these online resources available to HSPLS customers through licensing agreements with the database providers. You will need your Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) library card number and PIN (personal identification number) in order to access these subscription databases from outside a HSPLS library.

For a document listing the Databases Available for Elementary and Young Adult Student Research.

WebFeat - a single search interface which can be used for virtually all owned online resources. The typical use would be a user typing a word or phrase that describes a topic, and WebFeat will return matching citations from the various resources available. From outside the library, your library card number and PIN are required.
A-to-Z - if you know the magazine's title and date of publication, this could be the fastest means to your information. A-to-Z is NOT a search engine, instead it provides access to full-text articles from the databases based on the title and date of publication of magazines and newspapers. If you are looking for a print title within HSPLS, see our Serials catalog

INFOTRAC CUSTOM 1000 JOURNALS Providing full text in general reference and academic publications, covering nearly every subject area of interest.

Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

Agricola - contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Now a full text database.
Alt HealthWatch It provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

American Indian History Online Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
Ancestry Library This collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names is essential to having a complete genealogy collection and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest Online (only in the library)

Auto Repair Reference Center contains complete automotive repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, former publisher of Chilton information. The database contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.

Biography Resource Center - combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. It also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Business Searching Interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.

Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 2,340 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,130 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
ChiltonLibrary.com There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
New resource available   Corporate Affiliations in the Library
Corporate Affiliations from Home
Corruption Perceptions Index The TI Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries in terms of experts' perception of corruption. (FREE database - not a HSPLS subscription)

CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CQ Researcher in Library
CQ Researcher from Home

CQ Weekly is a complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
CQ Weekly in Library
CQ Weekly from Home

CultureGrams in Library
CultureGrams from Home - concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 187 cultures of the world
Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
ERIC , the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Offers comprehensive career guidance through extensive job and industry profiles, career forecasting, and a monthly newsletter.
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, 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.

Global Books in Print - Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using this database of over 9 million book, audio book, and video titles. in Library

from home

Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2004). (free database, not a HSPLS subscription)
GreenFILE a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment
Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module - Use this to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc.
Health Source - Consumer Edition You can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

HeritageQuest is a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest, the largest genealogical data, products, supplies and equipment provider to consumers and institutions in the United States. (Outside the library, use the icon to the right for access.)
Honolulu Advertiser in Library    (Date range: 1/1/1999 - current)
Honolulu Advertiser from home Only articles by Honolulu Advertiser reporters.

History Resource Center - US

History Resource Center - World

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.
Available only inside Hawaii State Library, remote access coming
Kids Search (Gr. K-5) 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.
Legal Collection Containing full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

LegalForms Provides a wide selection of state-specific legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature Resource Center Information on literary figures from all time periods and genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and more.
MarciveWeb DOCS– a catalog of U.S. Government Publications from July 1976 to one month prior to the Present. (only in the library)

MAS Ultra - School Edition provides full text for over 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. It also provides full text pamphlets, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 125 periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINEprovides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Mergent Online (In library) is a suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research.
Mergent Online (From home)
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Military & Government Collection , designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.

Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly, the database integrates information from a variety of sources. NoveList contains full-text reviews for adult, young adult, children's and easy fiction titles from several journals. In addition to these reviews, there are annotations and summaries, and all of them are searchable!
NoveList K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Users can also browse hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers at all grade levels through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning and recommended titles in Best Fiction. Many title records have direct links to Web sites with information about the author or with teacher resource materials.
Professional Development Collection , designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Project MUSE in the Library
Project MUSE from Home
current online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

RDS - TableBase (TBL)  is a business database that specializes exclusively in providing tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. It features precise indexing, unambiguous table titles and links to full-text. in the library
RDS - TableBase (TBL) from home
ReferenceUSA International - Find in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information. In the library.
ReferenceUSA International from home
Regional Business News 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.

Religion and Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Science Online Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
Science Resource Center articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites -- thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations.

Searchasaurus provides a large graphical interface to Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, an image collection, and Fun Facts.
Student (Gr. 6-12) 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.

Teacher Reference Center This is an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.
Testing & Education Reference Center - Search for colleges, distance (online) learning opportunities, programs for international students, and nursing schools. Search thousands of graduate, law, M.B.A., nursing, and distance learning (online) opportunities. Search career colleges, vocational schools, Information Technology programs, Executive Education programs, and private secondary schools. Practice for college/graduate school admissions, exams to help you earn college credit, civil service/licensing exams, and military entrance exams, plus the G.E.D.

TOPICsearch This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. It contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,500 full text periodicals.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory this title directory is an extraordinary research tool for finding the journal, magazine, newspaper and newsletter titles that have the information you want to know. (Only one user at a time.)
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory In library
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory   From home

Vocational & Career Collection is designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and research needs. The collection provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

World Book Online offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them; 1,800 tables cover a huge range from facts about countries and other places, to important dates. World Book offers approximately 10,000 audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, word pronunciations, and much more. The 500 maps in the online atlas cover the whole globe interactively, linking to each other, and directly to articles on continents, countries, states, provinces, cities and other places shown on the maps.
World Book Online In library
World Book Online From home

Provided with Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding, which is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS).

Please note that effective January 1, 2005, EBSCOhost will have new minimum browser requirements:

Firefox 1.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Macintosh minimum requirements: Safari 1.1

WebFeat - a single search interface which can be used for virtually all owned online resources. The typical use would be a user typing a word or phrase that describes a topic, and WebFeat will return matching citations from the various resources available. From outside the library, your library card number and PIN are required.
A-to-Z - if you know the magazine's title and date of publication, this could be the fastest means to your information. A-to-Z is NOT a search engine, instead it provides access to full-text articles from the databases based on the title and date of publication of magazines and newspapers. If you are looking for a print title within HSPLS, see our Serials catalog
INFOTRAC CUSTOM 1000 JOURNALS Providing full text in general reference and academic publications, covering nearly every subject area of interest.
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.
Agricola - contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Now a full text database.
Alt HealthWatch It provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
American Indian History Online Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
Ancestry Library This collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names is essential to having a complete genealogy collection and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest Online (only in the library)
Auto Repair Reference Center contains complete automotive repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, former publisher of Chilton information. The database contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.
Biography Resource Center - combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. It also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Searching Interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 2,340 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,130 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
ChiltonLibrary.com There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Corporate Affiliations in the Library Corporate Affiliations from Home
Corruption Perceptions Index The TI Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries in terms of experts' perception of corruption. (FREE database - not a HSPLS subscription)
CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. CQ Researcher in Library CQ Researcher from Home
CQ Weekly is a complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. CQ Weekly in Library CQ Weekly from Home
CultureGrams in Library CultureGrams from Home - concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 187 cultures of the world
Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
ERIC , the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Offers comprehensive career guidance through extensive job and industry profiles, career forecasting, and a monthly newsletter.
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, 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.
Global Books in Print - Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using this database of over 9 million book, audio book, and video titles.	in Library from home
Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2004). (free database, not a HSPLS subscription)
GreenFILE a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment
Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module - Use this to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc.
Health Source - Consumer Edition You can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
HeritageQuest is a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest, the largest genealogical data, products, supplies and equipment provider to consumers and institutions in the United States. (Outside the library, use the icon to the right for access.)
Honolulu Advertiser in Library (Date range: 1/1/1999 - current) Honolulu Advertiser from home Only articles by Honolulu Advertiser reporters.
History Resource Center - US
History Resource Center - World
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. Available only inside Hawaii State Library, remote access coming
Kids Search (Gr. K-5) 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.
Legal Collection Containing full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
LegalForms Provides a wide selection of state-specific legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Resource Center Information on literary figures from all time periods and genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and more.
MarciveWeb DOCS– a catalog of U.S. Government Publications from July 1976 to one month prior to the Present. (only in the library)
MAS Ultra - School Edition provides full text for over 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. It also provides full text pamphlets, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 125 periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals.
MEDLINEprovides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Mergent Online (In library) is a suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research. Mergent Online (From home)
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Military & Government Collection , designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly, the database integrates information from a variety of sources. NoveList contains full-text reviews for adult, young adult, children's and easy fiction titles from several journals. In addition to these reviews, there are annotations and summaries, and all of them are searchable!
NoveList K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Users can also browse hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers at all grade levels through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning and recommended titles in Best Fiction. Many title records have direct links to Web sites with information about the author or with teacher resource materials.
Professional Development Collection , designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Project MUSE in the Library Project MUSE from Home current online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
RDS - TableBase (TBL) is a business database that specializes exclusively in providing tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. It features precise indexing, unambiguous table titles and links to full-text. in the library RDS - TableBase (TBL) from home
ReferenceUSA International - Find in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information. In the library. ReferenceUSA International from home
Regional Business News 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.
Religion and Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Science Online Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
Science Resource Center articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites -- thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations.
Searchasaurus provides a large graphical interface to Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, an image collection, and Fun Facts.
Student (Gr. 6-12) 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.
Teacher Reference Center This is an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.
Testing & Education Reference Center - Search for colleges, distance (online) learning opportunities, programs for international students, and nursing schools. Search thousands of graduate, law, M.B.A., nursing, and distance learning (online) opportunities. Search career colleges, vocational schools, Information Technology programs, Executive Education programs, and private secondary schools. Practice for college/graduate school admissions, exams to help you earn college credit, civil service/licensing exams, and military entrance exams, plus the G.E.D.
TOPICsearch This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. It contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,500 full text periodicals.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory this title directory is an extraordinary research tool for finding the journal, magazine, newspaper and newsletter titles that have the information you want to know. (Only one user at a time.) Ulrich's Periodicals Directory In library Ulrich's Periodicals Directory From home
Vocational & Career Collection is designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and research needs. The collection provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
World Book Online offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them; 1,800 tables cover a huge range from facts about countries and other places, to important dates. World Book offers approximately 10,000 audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, word pronunciations, and much more. The 500 maps in the online atlas cover the whole globe interactively, linking to each other, and directly to articles on continents, countries, states, provinces, cities and other places shown on the maps. World Book Online In library World Book Online From home