American Reference Books Annual Online (ARBA)
ARBAonline, the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works, was launched in response to popular demand from library professionals. Derived from the trusted reference standard American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline features nearly 14,000+ reviews of reference works published since 1997. Written by librarians for librarians, ARBAonline's reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas.
Accessible 24/7, ARBAonline lets you identify reference publications with confidence and ease, and enables you to keep library collections up-to-date, maintain quality standards, and ensure depth of coverage. ARBAonline is updated monthly. More than 500 reviewers-all experts in their fields-provide thorough content evaluations that cover strengths and weaknesses of each reference resource and in many cases compare reference publications to similar titles, giving you pertinent information about titles that best fit your requirements.
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Authors4Teens (A4Ts)
Authors 4 Teens is a one-of-a-kind web-based resource that explores the craft, insight, habits, hobbies, studies and passions of today's top young adult authors. Each author is showcased with in-depth interviews, bibliography, reviews, and apperances. Using Authors 4 Teens is like bringing today's top Young Adult authors right into your classroom or library.
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Daily Life America
A member of Greenwood flagship database Daily Life Online, Daily Life America spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. Award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, and audio clips come together to provide thousands of diverse resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level, with a fresh approach. Daily Life America covers everything from Food and Cooking, to Family Life, to Holidays and Festivals and much more.
Books contained in Daily Life America include one hundred recently published titles, such as The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures, The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States, and Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days.
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Daily Life through History (DLtH)
The first member of the Daily Life Online family of electronic social history products, Daily Life through History is a groundbreaking, dynamic resource that provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, it is supported by an active publishing program that ensures an ever-expanding and updated base of content.
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Daily Life through History and World Cultures Today Integrated Database
Daily Life Online is the site for users who subscribe to Daily Life through History and at least one other product in the Daily Life family, and who choose to access their products via one integrated site rather than as stand alone databases. The integrated site contains all the content from your individual subscriptions, accessible via one home page and entirely cross-searchable. The integrated site has been completely redesigned and re-indexed to provide even better search and browse functionality.
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Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD)
The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) is the only regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.
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Praeger Security International Online
Updated weekly with commentary by advisory board members, expert authors, and researchers from Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm drawing on senior faculty at Oxford and other major research institutions, Praeger Security International Online provides readers with in-depth analysis on security issues that threaten to destabilize our world.
With a news feed from the International Herald Tribune and an ever-growing range of content from our global network of institutional partners, PSIO offers varied international perspectives and reflections from psychologists, diplomats, first responders, economists, journalists, civil servants, warfighters, legal experts, and more. With the experience and insight that this vast community of scholars and practitioners brings and a sophisticated librarian-designed specialty index that allows quick and easy access, PSIO is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the complex issues that affect our future.
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The African American Experience (AAE)
The widest ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.
There are two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
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The American Indian Experience
Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Loriene Roy, the first Native American President of the American Library Association, and a team of American Indian librarians and scholars to meet the needs of teachers and their students, librarians and their patrons, researchers and the general public,
The American Indian Experience offers full-text access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From prehistory to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida,
AIE is an indispensable electronic library resource.
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The Latino/a American Experience (LAE)
Comprehensive, informative and easy to use, The Latino American Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos, the largest, fastest-growing minority group in the United States.
Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Latino librarians and library directors to meet the research and curriculum needs of students, teachers, librarians, and researchers, LAE offers unparalleled depth and content.
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The Reader's Advisor Online
Bringing books and readers together, The Reader’s Advisor Online is more than a database. It is an easy and effective tool for librarians who work with readers looking for something new to read. It helps librarians identify books their patrons will enjoy, and it gives users multiple ways to browse and access titles in a friendly, conversational tone.
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World Folklore and Folklife
The latest addition to the acclaimed Daily Life Online family, World Folklore and Folklife provides an exciting new gateway to social studies. Tracing the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world, World Folklore and Folklife bridges the gap between past and present and offers a fresh slant on such core curriculum topics as literature, social and religious practices, history, art, music and languages. It is the only electronic resource broad enough to provide both folk material and the textual content needed to understand it.
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