Readers' Guide Full Text, Select Edition dramatically expands our library's popular periodical resources with full text plus the trusted reliability of Readers' Guide indexing!  It is a 100% full-text database containing comprehensive indexing, abstracting, and full text of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.Subjects covered include Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Television.

Current Biography Illustrated ^(TM) contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from all of the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook, from 1940 to the present.The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.  This is an excellent resource for students who are searching for reliable biographical information.

Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus is a professionally created database that covers a wide variety of current issues relevant in today's world, including social, scientific, health, political, and global issues. The visual, infographic interface provides for a selection of topics, or researchers can choose from an alphabetical topic list. Topics are selected from key publications to suit the needs of school and university researchers, reflecting timely issues and controversies. Educators and librarians welcome the well-balanced coverage of topics included in the database, particularly for the support of curriculums in social studies, current events and sociology, and for the support of debate preparation (covering the annual U.S. National Debate topic).