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Find information from major cooking and nutrition magazines, including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Search for resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
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Explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres, and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together.
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Information Science & Library Issues eCollection
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International Children’s Digital Library
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Tourism, Hospitality, & Leisure Collection
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Vocation, Careers, & Technical Education eCollection
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This database of professional journals provides current, full–text articles.
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Florida
Memory Project
Find original documents, photographs, and other materials
from the collection of the State Archives of Florida.
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Beacham’s
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Biology
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Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
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Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
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Garden, Landscape, & Horticulture eCollection
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Health & Wellness Resource Center & Alternative
Health Module
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Health Reference Center Academic
Gain access to nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. Material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration, are covered in this collection. The current and authoritative content found in this database will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
This database of professional journals provides current, full–text articles.
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History, Geography, & Biography
Communication & Mass Media eCollection
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Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
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Explore this comprehensive digital collection of Florida’s history, culture, and environment.
Florida
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State Archives of Florida.
Gender Studies eCollection This
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Heritage Quest
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Research your family history by using the complete U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790–1930. Search PERSI, an index with more than two million genealogy and local history articles, plus more. This resource includes Freedman’s Bank and Revolutionary War records.
Military & Intelligence Database
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Newsbank: America’s Newspapers
Find electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers—all in one easy–to–search database. This resource includes Florida newspapers and paid ads are excluded.
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Religion & Philosophy eCollection
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Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War
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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Search thousands of essays, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross–references to related essays.
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Home Improvement Reference Center
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