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MOBILE APPS - Click here to find Apps for some of your favorite Library resources for Books, magazines, etc. - EbscoHost, Novelist Plus, Galenet, WorldCat, Britannica, Mango Languages, Tutor.com

From the State of Alabama:	From Mobile Public Library:	From the AL Public Lib. Svc.:
The Alabama Virtual Library's Online Research Tools Career Help, articles, encyclopedia, dictionaries, health info, literature analysis, auto repair info, leagal info, full text poems and plays much, much more!	Novelist Plus and Novelist K-8 African American History and Culture Online Mobile Press Register Online 1993-Present Access World News on Newsbank with Alabama and US Papers Business and Residential Phone Info Great People Info!	Learning Express Online Test Practice and Skills Improvement FREE Help with Homework, GED and Jobseeking OCLC WorldCat - search books etc. worldwide

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From Mobile Public Library:

Mango Languages - Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication including English as a Second Language (ESL). Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. Languages included: ESL Spanish, ESL Vietnamese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, and Hebrew.
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The Friends of the Library have provided funding for Novelist Select which brings Novelist content to our online catalog. You'll see Suggested Readings, Author Read-alikes, Book discussion guides and more when you view your searches.

Novelist Plus - With information on over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles included, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more, NoveList Plus is a complete readers' resource. Use your library card number to log in.

Novelist Plus K-8 - an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students including BookTalks, Recommended Reads book lists, annotations, first chapter excerpts, as well as tools like Lexile scores and popularity ratings.
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African American History and Culture -- Many of Facts On File's highly-acclaimed print titles have been combined with an extensive array of stunning multimedia content to form this incredible resource. This collection covers the breadth of African-American history. Use your library card number to log in.


Salem Press History - Includes Milestone Documents - A new, primary source series, The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series, Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource, Great Events from History - The complete resource for worldwide events. Use your library card number to log in.


Salem Press Health Guide - covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, mental health and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. Use your library card number to log in.

Mobile Press Register on Newsbank - Full text for stories originating in the Mobile Register from 1993 to the present, including obituaries! (News obits only, no paid funeral notices.)Use your Library Card number to log in. This newspaper database contains text only, no pictures or images. Photographs from articles can be purchased from the Mobile Register Photography Department (photographs only, no other graphics are available). Call them for more information: 251/219-5666.

The Mobile Register is ALSO available in microfilm at Local History and Geneaology. This format is an exact photo-duplication of the newspaper. This microfilm collection is an almost complete run from 1819 to the present.

Access World News on Newsbank - This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Use your Library Card number to log in.

Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface:.

• Alabama News Search
  
• US News Search
  
• World News Search

The New York Times - Read the paper online and get access to the articles archive with the login tsnews@mplonline.org and the password NYTdotcom. For alternative access to full-text articles, visit The Alabama Virtual Library. Microfilm backfiles for 1851-2010 are available at the Main Library.

Biography Resource Center - a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. THE LOGIN is gulfcoast.



ReferenceUSA - A searchable database of information for over 12 million U.S. companies. Search for job and industry info, business opportunities, executive info, news articles, neighborhood profiles, etc. Includes company name, address, phone number, yellow page heading, executive names, and line of business, number of employees, SIC code etc. Residential info includes name, address and phone number.

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From the Alabama Public Library Service:



The Alabama Public Library Service now provides to visitors at all MPL locations and now at your HOME OR OFFICE:

Learning Express Library Practice Tests Online - Learning Express Library provides completely interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

• YOU WILL NEED TO REGISTER AND SET UP YOUR TEST ACCOUNT BEFORE YOU BEGIN!

• USE YOUR LIBRARY CARD NUMBER AS THE USER NAME AND A PASSWORD OF YOUR CHOICE.

• IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LIBRARY CARD, CONTACT ANY REFERENCE DESK FOR INSTRUCTIONS.

Tests and courses included:

• Academic
• Advanced Placement
• Basic Skills Success
• Civil Service
• College Preparation
• Cosmetology
• EMS
• ESL (Spanish) Skills Improvement Courses
• Firefighter
• GED
• Graduate School Entrance
• Law Enforcement
• Military
• Nurse Aide
• Real Estate
• Skills Improvement Courses
• Teacher Certification
• Technical And Career College
• TOEFL Exam Preparation
• US Citizenship

OCLC WorldCat - search Libraries all over the world for books, articles, papers, Government Publications, etc.

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From the State of Alabama:

The following databases are available from the Alabama Virtual Library.

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• Alabama Libraries - Explore online catalogs of many Alabama libraries with a common search screen.
• Britannica Online Academic Edition
• Britannica Online School School Edition
• Britannica Global Reference Center - Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, and Spanish
• Britannica Annals of American History
• Britannica World Data Analyst - get detailed country info
• Britannica Spanish-Language Resources - Enciclopedia Juvenil & Enciclopedia Universal en Español
• 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.
• Career Library - an information resource for career and college research, a great resource to help people looking for jobs and for those who want to consider changing careers. Includes information on over 2,500 occupations including job profiles on up-and-coming and out-of-the-ordinary careers and information on almost 4,000 2-year and 4 year colleges and universities. Also has sections for assessing career interests and exploring information pertaining to occupations and higher education; searching web resources related to colleges/universities, careers, and curriculum; and test preparation materials.
• Career & Technical Education Collection - Magazines and journals relevant to vocational and technical programs; covers agriculture, building trades, auto mechanics, computer studies, health & nursing, sales, and more.
• Contemporary Authors - Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
• EBSCOhost WEB - Full text searches of magazines, journals, and trade publications. Also contains The Auto Repair Reference Center, Clinical Pharmacology, Professional Development for Educators, Health Resource, and Communication & Mass Media databases . Daily news feeds from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service are also available.
• Ethnic NewsWatch Complete - Rich collection of articles, editorials and reviews from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press. (via EBSCOhost Web interface)
• Expanded Academic ASAP - 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!
• 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.
• HealthSource Plus - Consumer health database with information on many health topics including medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health.
• InfoTrac Junior Edition - 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.
• InfoTrac Kid's Edition - 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.
• InfoTrac 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.
• InfoTrac Student Edition - 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.
• Informe - A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
• Literature Resource Center - Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Scribner Writer's Series, Twayne World Authors, Twayne US Authors, and Twayne English Authors
• 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 Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.
• LitFinder - Full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, biographies and images, stories, plays.
• Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Oxford Reference Online Premium - Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books with added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
• Scribner Writers Series - Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
• Searchasaurus - Graphical interface designed for elementary- to middle school-age researchers. Includes New World Encyclopedia, and the EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals.
• SIRS Discoverer - interactive reference tool, based on school curriculum, of full text articles, many with images, from 1,100 magazines for young readers. Resources include Spotlight of the Month topics, The World Almanac for Kids, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
• Serials Solution - want to know which AVL database has the magazine title you're looking for? They're all here and alphabetized! Click on the first letter of the title and off you go!
• The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contain the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
• Wilson's Reference Bank

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The following research resources represent a yearly expenditure of over $50,000 to provide access to customers at all Mobile Public Library locations.

• Ancestry Plus -- Instant access to over 240 million names and 1484 databases including Census Index, Periodical Source Index, American Genealogical-Biographical Index, UMI Obituaries and Marriage Records for 25 states. Lots of new content.
• Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals - available ONLY at the West Regional Branch
• Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who® - a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

• ReferenceUSA -- Formerly American Business Disc. Basic information for over 10,500,000 U.S. companies. Includes company name, address, phone number, yellow page heading, executive name, and line of business.
• Microsoft Encarta -- A great, easy to use encyclopedia.
• Microsoft Office -- Includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access.
• Trip Planner -- Get from point A to point B the best way, with maps, itinerary and points of interest.
• Microsoft Bookshelf -- Dictionary and other reference books at your fingertip.
• Streets -- Street maps from all over the USA.
• Microsoft Creative Writer -- Word processing for kids and fun stuff, too!
• Virtual Globe -- Don't just find the country on a map, take a virtual tour.

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