Escolar is the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish.
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Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.
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Access issues of Consumer Reports from 2014 to the current issue through Flipster.
Tip: To see back issues, click on the current magazine cover, and then click on “All Issues” in the menu on the right. You can also search within one issue or all issues, and browse all the covers.
Availability: Not all libraries in Marin offer Consumer Reports. Access depends on your residence address. Learn more.
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Achieve personal and professional goals with online learning courses that cover business, software, photography, design, marketing, technology and creative skills in videos taught by experts. Classes available for beginners, intermediate and advanced users.
Note: You will need to access Lynda.com through the Library’s login link, opens a new window, not by directly visiting the lynda.com homepage.
Availability: Depending on your residence address, you may need to access Lynda.com using the link from a different library. Learn more.
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Online books and videos on technology, digital media, and business. Free access to 35K+ books, 30K+ hours of video, curated learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and O’Reilly conference videos!
Combination of several databases with over 20,000 publications that range from scholarly journals to popular magazines. Databases include the Coronavirus Research Database, eBook Central, eLibrary, Global Newsstream, LA Times, Publicly Available Content Database, SIRS Discoverer and SIRS Issues Researcher.
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General reference collection of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. Includes newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, books, videos and audios, dissertations and theses, reports, blogs, and much more. (Grades 6+)
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Search business listings and view detailed company profiles. Filter by business type, geography, sales volume and other criteria. Also includes US white pages and job postings. Limit: 25 downloads per search.
Availability: Not all libraries in Marin offer Reference USA. Access depends on your residence address. Learn more.
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Safari Tech Books has been replaced by O’Reilly Learning, opens a new window.
Collection of over 12,000 eBooks supporting multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology). (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)
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Selected content for beginning researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators. (Grades 3-9)
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Curriculum-aligned database of content organized by complex issues, ideally for middle and high school students and educators. (Grades 6+)
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