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DASH - Dallas After School Homework Help (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Connects you with free, one-to-one live tutor for kindergarten through adult education in the subjects of English, Math, Science and Social Studies. Adults can also access assistance in resume writing, GED tutoring and assistance with the U.S. Citizenship exam. DASH is available every day from 2pm–12am. (Los instructores hablan español.)

MAS Ultra: School Edition (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Middle Search Plus (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.

Primary Search (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary 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.

Student Research Center Interface (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Designed for High School students, lets you choose from Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video. Search by keyword or by topic. Results can be sorted by source type---magazines, reference books, photos, etc.

TOPICsearch (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    TOPICsearch contains full text for over 105,000 articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

World Book Online (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    All articles from the 22-volume print set of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus 3,200 more; 15,000 Web links; links to over 30,000 articles in 107 periodicals; over 8,500 pictures and maps; more than 800 videos, animations, and sounds; 129 3-D bubble views; and more.


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