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Business and Company Resource Center: Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
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Business Source Elite: Available from EBSCOWeb, this business database provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collections of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select: presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. 
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Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867 - 1970: povides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn fire insurance maps are a valuable tool for genealogists, urban planners, social historians, architects, and anyone interested in the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
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EBSCO on the Web: Your one-stop reference center for the following: Masterfile Premier-a listing of full text articles in over 1800 magazines, with indexing and abstracts for articles in 2800 magazines. Newspaper Source-indexing and abstracts to articles from 7 major U.S. newspapers
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Elibrary: Elibrary is a research tool including magazines and newspaper articles, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps, and a variety of reference sources.
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Expanded Academic ASAP: 1980 - Oct 2002 From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
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Foundation Directory Online Platinum: This Foundation Center database provides information from over 70,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities. Detailed application guidelines and company information also included. Due to licensing restrictions, this resource is available only within the library.

Foundation Directory Online Professional: This Foundation Center database provides details on more than 80,000 grantmakers and half a million grants, application information, 990s, news, RFPs, grans, charts and more.  Due to licensing restrictions, this resources is available only at the Central Library.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online:   This Foundation Center database provides details on more than 6,000 grantmaker programs for research and education, arts and sciences and even for personal, living and medical expenses.  Due to licensing restrictions, this resource is available only at the Central Library.

General Reference Center Gold: A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
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Grant Select: Grants Select is a grants database from Oryx Press containing over 10,000 funding opportunities provided by more than 4,000 sponsoring organizations.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center: Use this Resource Center 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. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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Heritage Quest: Genealogy resource developed specifically for libraries includes census name indexing, full-page images of all available U. S. census records, primary source materials from UMI Genealogy & Local History database and resources from HeritageQuest.
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Info Trac OneFile: A one stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
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Infotrac Religion & Philosophy: Articles focusing on religion and philosophy.
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Junior Edition K-12: Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Kid's Edition: Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Learn A Test: A complete resource for test preparation in law enforcement, EMS, and the military, Learn A Test provides online and printed test preparation for both basic and advanced skill development. Career guidance information is provided, too. The site offers over 150 practice exams for professional licensing and certification such as EMT and Praxis, civil service such as ASVAB and Police Officer and academic exams such as ACT and SAT.
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LegalTrac: Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practices, and Taxation. Also included are British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.
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LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: A bibliographic database providing information on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Provided by EBSCOhost, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
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Literature Resource Center: Available through GaleNet, the center is a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user.
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LitFinder: provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more. Fast. As a stand-alone resource, or as a fantastic complement to Gale's Literature Resource Center, LitFinder puts complete works — and additional information sources such as biographies, essays and explanations — into the hands and minds of students and researchers for further study, evaluation and enjoyment.
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MasterFile Premiere: From EBSCOhost Web, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. For some titles, full text archives are available back to 1975. The database also contains full text for nearly 200 reference and travel books; 88,000 biographies; 60,000 primary source documents; and 91,000 photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated daily.
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Mergent: Mergent.com is a provider of critical business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. The databases span global equity fundamentals, equity pricing, corporate actions, and fixed income, each closely monitored to ensure the highest accuracy. These databases contain detailed financial information on over 35,000 U.S. public companies and non-U.S. public companies from over 100 countries, 20,000 U.S. municipal bond issuers, and extensive data on corporate bonds, dividends, corporate actions and unit investment trusts.
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Military and Intelligence Database: Military and intelligence information.
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Morningstar: Morningstar Investment Research Center is an investment database that provides data on nearly 6,000 stocks, 16,000 funds and analyst reports for 1,500 stock and 2,000 funds
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Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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The New York Times Online (includes The Book Review and Magazine) (NY): Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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NoveList: From EBSCOhost Web, this Online readers' advisory service helps users find new, fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested from a database of over 100,000 tiles, 75,000 full-text reviews, and 1,200 pre-constructed booklists on a wide range of topics and genres.
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Opposing Viewpoints: Opposing Viewpoints provides access to articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. It is a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
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Professional Collection: More than 250 full-text educational periodicals and journals covering arts, psychology, adolescent issues, curriculum, sports, law, technology and more.
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Read the Books: ReadtheBooks.com is an online resource to help children find the right books for their school or pleasure reading needs. Book information is presented in audio format. The resources features 3D animated book reviews in both English and Spanish, links from the library's catalog, and videos.
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ReferenceUSA: ReferenceUSA database contains, in modular format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses and 102 million U.S. residents.
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Regional Business News: Available from EBSCOWeb, this database 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. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Student Edition: Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more
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TumbleBooks:  Listen and read along to Tumble Books!  TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
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Tumble Talking Books: Try Tumble Talking Books.  It's an online audio library delivered to you where ever you are...at home, school or on the go.  Check it out!  You'll find classics, great fiction, non-fiction ranging from humor to politics, books in Spanish and more.  It's easy!  Follow the link below, select the books and start listening!
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Valueline: Due to licensing restrictions, this resource is only available within the library. Available at Central, Bayside, Great Neck, Kempsville, Oceanfront, Princess Anne, and Windsor Woods.

Virginian-Pilot: Available through Newsbank, full text Virginian-Pilot articles from 1990 to the current date.
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What Do I Read Next?: What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 60,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long remembered favorites and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series and more. A monthly hightlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
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World Book Encyclopedia: Provided by the Friends of the Virginia Beach Public Library, World Book Encyclopedia is the premier online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, and more!

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WorldCat - Locate any one of 1.3 billion books, music, videos and magazine articles in more that 10,000 libraries worldwide. Enter a geographic location to receive a list of nearby libraries that own the item and link directly to the library’s online catalog record.
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