• Start with a KEYWORD search. Once you get a list of results, you will be able to see the designated SUBJECTS or DESCRIPTORS that each of the databases uses and then search on those terms.

• Each database has a HELP link which will provide site-specific suggestions for searching each database.

• Use the PRINT or FORMAT TO PRINT link in each of the databases to print. This will format the document properly for your printer.

MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE DATABASES

The Public Library provides access to additional databases helpful to students.

Look for the link to Reference Databases along the right.

To log on to the public library's databases you will need your ID number, which is the 13-digit barcode number on the back of your library card.

Jersey Clicks—searches multiple databases and offers chat reference service.

Literary Reference Center—provides a "reference shelf" with a literary historical timeline, an encyclopedia of literature, a dictionary, citation help, and a research guide. There are also author biographies, literary criticism, and "book highlight," which examines various literary themes.

Literature Resource Center—biographies, bibliographies, journal articles and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors and their work.

Magill on Literature—Masterplots Complete; Magill's Literary Annual, 1990-1996; and Magill Book Reviews.

ASK THE LIBRARIAN FOR A LIST OF USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS, WHICH YOU WILL NEED TO LOG ON TO THE FOLLOWING.

History, geography, country overviews, news, biographies, primary sources, maps, quotations, time lines, photos, statistics, audio, & video.

Indexed & full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, television & radio news transcripts.

Bloom's Literary Reference, careers, science, health, history, World atlas

A multitude of full-text reference books in all subjects. Includes American Decades, American Decades Primary Sources, & World of Forensic Science.

E-book covering historical figures from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

Ebook-Milestone Documents of African American History, American History, American Leaders

Controversial topics: overviews, statistics, primary sources, Weblinks & full-text magazine & newspaper articles.

Images, articles, biographies including the full-text content of Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Oxford Companion to Western Ar, and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of English words.

Sound clips and articles including those from Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

ProQuest Newsstand provides full-text New York Times (6/1/80 - present) + 1,400 other publications.

American Post-Modernist Novels
American Short Fiction
Critical Insights

Includes Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos—the Spanish-language version of World Book.

*Made possible in part by the generosity of the Madison High School Educational Foundation