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If you are unable to access to our online databases, please call the Reference Desk at (714) 647-5264 or email saplcomments@santa-ana.org
NEW! Look for Grzimek's Animal Life under Gale databases.
Newspaper and Magazines
Newsbank - America's Newspapers
Local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Almost 700 newspapers included in this database including the Orange County Register and the New York Times!
World Book Online
World Book Kids
This database includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources.
World Book Student
This database includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
World Book Advanced
Designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
World Book Discover
This database includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research tools, multimedia, and interactive video. <
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
This database offers World Book’s excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
Gran Enciclopedia Hispánica
A comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia that includes over 100,000 articles, more than 9,000 images and maps, and nearly 1,000 videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media.
Early World of Learning
A wealth of resources to help preschoolers and children in the early grades grasp critical early childhood themes while developing reading and oral language skills. This database uses narrated stories with word-by-word highlighting, interactive games, interactive reference material for beginners, and more to help young learners build vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and reading fluency.
H.W. Wilson
Biography Reference Bank Select
This database provides comprehensive coverage of people in the news and history-makers, along with images.
eBooks
Gale - American History
eBooks on American history.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A searchable database of ebook encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research on topics such as the Middle Ages, World War II, Colonial America, the Great Depression, Westward Expansion, Decades in American History, and much more.
Gale Databases
Grzimek's Animal Life
This database offers in-depth information on more than 4,000 species. A host of engaging, web-friendly features – photos, audio and video clips, illustrations and maps – complements expert-selected encyclopedia and periodical content.
Informe!
Searchable database with articles from popular Spanish language magazines and newspapers.
General Reference Center Gold
A database containing articles or summaries from general interest magazines and newspapers.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a searchable database of ebook encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research on topics such as the Middle Ages, World War II, Colonial America, the Great Depression, Westward Expansion, Decades in American History, and much more.
American History
eBooks on American History.
Greenwood Databases
Popular Culture Universe
Popular Culture Universe offers more than 300 full-text volumes covering the last 100 years of American pop culture.
American Mosaic - The Latino-American Experience
Information from many print and online sources on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States.
American Mosaic -The American Indian Experience
This database contains a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States.
American Mosaic - The African American Experience
This database contains a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans.
Daily Life through History
Provides details of what life was like for people in different cultures throughout history. Includes illustrations, maps, clothing patterns, song, recipes, games, and dances of the time period.
Daily Life America
A searchable database that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. Includes award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, and maps.
World Folklore and Folklife
Fully-indexed and cross searchable, this database provides resources related to the myths, legends, and folktales of people around the world as well as history, religions, beliefs, rituals, ceremonies, holidays, festivals, music, dance, food, arts, and crafts.
ABC-CLIO Databases
United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society
This user-friendly database provides comprehensive information on 14 conflict periods that have defined our nation from its earliest beginnings to today.
Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society
This database provides students with an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy.
Remote Access (click on Remote Access if you connect from home, school, or office)
You will need a Santa Ana Public Library card and Personal Identification Number (PIN). Contact Circulation Desk at (714) 647-5250 to obtain a PIN.
If you are unable to access to our online databases, please call the Reference Desk at (714) 647-5264 or email saplcomments@santa-ana.org