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The largest academic database with over 4000 full text peer-reviewed scholarly journals covering all academic disciplines.

Credo Academic Core

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Start your research here instead of Wikipedia. This reference eBook collection contains over 650 titles including subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks.

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)

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Multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subject matter.

Opposing Viewpoints In Context

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Provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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UNESCO allows users to compare important data sets among various nations and regions. Users can choose an important issue, such as comparing literacy rates between wealthy and developing nations, and instantly compile charts and graphs with this data. UNESCO has collected data on each nation, detailing the availability their populations have to education, science, and culture. Data addresses gender issues and sustainability. UNESCO also provides downloadable PDFs of official reports on these important issues.

W3Schools

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It’s the 21st century and technology is impacting every vocational and career sector. Computer coding and web design are important skills in today’s workplace. W3Schools is a collection of web-coding language tutorials. This database provides thousands of examples of coding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, jQuery, and other languages. For instance, tutorials demonstrate how to create a table in HTML or pad text in CSS. Those who currently edit websites or who want to learn how to code should have this database bookmarked.