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    GREENR database focuses on the physical,social, and economic aspects ofenvironmental issues. Topic, organization,and country portals form research centersaround issues covering energy systems,health care, agriculture, climate change,population, and economic development.

    Through GreenFILE information covering all aspectsof human impact to the environment is available.

    Topics covered include global climate change, greenbuilding, pollution, sustainable agriculture,renewable energy, recycling, and more. Thedatabase provides indexing and abstracts for morethan 612,000 records, as well as Open Access fulltext for more than 9,100 records.

    Gale Science in Context is an engagingonline experience for those seekingcontextual information on hundreds oftoday's most significant science topics.

    BookFlix is an interactive literacy resource gearedfor early readers, reluctant readers, and EnglishLanguage Learners. A collection of 95 fictional videostorybooks from Weston Woods with nonfictioneBooks from Scholastic is available through thisresource.

    Teacher Reference Center - an indexingresource for educators and librarians, acollection of over 260 titles from popular

    teacher and administrator trade journals,periodicals, and books. Records includetopics such as Assessment, ContinuingEducation, Curriculum Development,Instructional Media, and more.

    English Language Learner is multipurposeinformation resource designed for middle/highschool students and those that are new to theEnglish language.

    eJournal USA is IIP's magazine about issues thataffect the United States and the internationalcommunity.

    IIP Books is IIP's collection of publications aboutU.S. society, culture, and policies.

    Library, Information Science & TechnologyAbstracts indexes more than 560 core journals.Subject coverage includes librarianship,classification, cataloging, online informationretrieval, information management and more.

    American Corner is created to help increase mutual

    understanding between Serbia and USA. AC Belgrade

    was founded on May 16, 2003, as a result of

    cooperation between Belgrade City Library & US

    Embassy. On October 17, 2006, American Corner was

    reopened at its new location in Cultural Center Dom

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    What is the eLibraryUSA?

    A virtual library with 30 databases of

    authoritative and continually updated

    information available to you - free of charge

    at the American Information Resource

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    ebrary (includes e-Libro and e-Livro) Online, full-textcollection of over 20,000 books in English, and35,000 books in Spanish and Portuguese. Covers awide range of topics, including sociology,psychology, history, political science, medicine,language and literature, philosophy and religion,education, business, the hard sciences and more.

    Encyclopedia BritannicaBasic introduction to over 75,000different topics, includingencyclopedia articles, maps,news, definitions, and statistics.

    The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety ofdirectory products. Use it to search, sort and exportinformation from both current directory editions aswell as prior editions that are maintained assearchable backfiles.

    Academic OneFile database provides access to over

    42 million journal articles going back to 1980. Itfocuses on the subjects of physical sciences,technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts,theology, and literature.

    Gale Virtual Reference Library is adatabase of encyclopedias and specializedreference sources for multidisciplinaryresearch. These reference materials oncewere accessible only in the library, but nowyou can access them online from thelibrary or remotely 24/7.

    CQ Researcher Online contains Reportscovering current and controversial issuesin the United States, from 1923 to thepresent.

    Global Issues in Context offers internationalviewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues,topics, and current events.

    Business Source Premier is the industry's most usedbusiness research database, providing full text formore than 2,300 journals, including full text for morethan 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.

    Regional Business News database providescomprehensive full text coverage of more than 80regional business publications covering allmetropolitan and rural areas within the UnitedStates.

    Filmakers Library Online is a databaseof over 900 documentaries covering awide variety of subjects, such as raceand gender studies, human rights,

    international relations, the environment, arts,literature, and more.

    Literature Resource Center is a comprehensivedatabase on literary topics, authors, and their workswith full-text scholarly articles from more than 360academic journals and literary magazines, full text of

    thousands of poems and short stories.

    LitFinder is a repository of full-text literary works,including around 150,000 poems, short stories, playsand speeches.

    Encyclopedia Britannica for Kids is perfect forstudents 8 years and above, this resource includesthousands of images, videos, animated time linesand of course, encyclopedia articles. It also haslearning activities for English and language arts,mathematics, science and social studies.

    TrueFlix is an electronic version of theTrue Books line of nonfiction researchbooks from Scholastic. Targeted tostudents who are moving from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn, and theireducators. Subject areas included arepeople, places, history, science and nature.For educators, there are project ideas andlesson plans.

    Middle Search Plus provides full-text content to morethan 140 popular middle school magazines such asNational Geographic Kids, Ahora!, Chez Nouz and manymore. Also provides access to primary sourcedocuments, biographies, reference books, country factsheets and thousands of relevant photos, maps andflags designed for middle school students and theireducators.

    Grolier Online - collection of nonfictioncontent targeted for ages 7 and up. Thecollection includes over 120,000 articles fromgeneral reference encyclopedias like NewBook of Knowledge, science intensiveencyclopedias like New Book of PopularScience, social studies encyclopedias likeLands and Peoples.

    Black Studies In Video - Features award-winningdocumentaries, newsreels, interviews and archivalfootage surveying the evolution of black culture in the

    United States.

    College Navigator - Website from the U.S.Department of Education providing informationabout U.S. colleges and universities. Schoolscan be searched by location and by degreesoffered, and can be compared side by side withother schools.

    Power Knowledge -provides information on lifesciences, earth, space and physical sciance geared toscience learners in grades 3 to 6 and their teachers.

    Additional content includes videos, interactive gamesand quizzes, hands-on science experiments and lessonplans.

    Teen Health and Wellness - provides teenagers andpreteens with straightforward information about suchtopics as diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mentalhealth, personal finances and more.