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- MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new windowHigh School students will find magazine articles, biographies, primary source documents, and reference books such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Includes photos, maps, and flags.
- Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new windowMiddle and junior high school students will find charts, tables, graphs, full-text reference books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, and book reviews from general readership magazines.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowSearch hundreds of scholarly, subject-specific reference titles in many topic areas, including the arts, business, education, history, the sciences, technology, literature, and the social sciences. Excellent for in-depth overviews of terms or concepts. Search individual e-books or whole collections.
- QuickSearch This link opens in a new windowQuickSearch combines results from many search tools for you to review in one list. Results come from the Wright State catalog and hundreds of library databases including all of our Ebscohost databases, JSTOR, the Web of Science, and others.
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