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Offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests preparing them for several types of exams, including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. All practice tests include instant diagnostic score reports that help patrons target those skill areas needing the most attention. To help students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well they performed in each of five writing skill areas. To take a test at Learning Express Library, first set up your own individual account. Note: You must set up your account while at an authenticating site (on campus or at an Ohio public library or school). Thereafter, the account is accessible from anywhere. (LearningExpress)

tags: tests, testing, edu, juvenile

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Provides over 1,000 drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. Includes Spanish translations. Conforms to Dept. of Health and Human Services and FDA guidelines for provision of consumer information. Updated monthly. Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. (EBSCOhost)

tags: nursing, medicine

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Contains full text for more than 130 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines, and regional newspapers. Also contains 200+ abstracted and indexed journals; 170+ full-text monographs/books; and 360+ abstracted and indexed books and reference works. Includes all relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1970s-present (plus some older coverage)

tags: gay, lesbian, LGBT, sexuality, minorities

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Provides users with broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals as well as original content. Contains full text for all of the following: 35,000+ plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; 253,000+ author biographies; 460+ literary journals; 693,000+ book reviews; nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems; 19,600+ classic and contemporary short stories; 6,500+ author interviews; 8,200+ classic texts; and much more. (EBSCOhost)

Dates covered: 1970s-present

tags: literature, English, reference

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