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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask Link to UC Berkeley site with helpful tips on how to evaluate the quality of a web page.

Britannica Academic Edition (Encylopedia Britannica, Inc.) An online encyclopedia, biographies, quotations, atlas and more.
Ebook Collection (EBSCO) Search and view the full text of eBooks.
Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
PrepSTEP (EBSCO) PrepSTEP for Colleges and Universities is packed with tutorials, practice tests, e-books and high-stakes test preparation for self-guided skill building, career preparation and workforce readiness. Improve your core English, math, science and computer skills. Score higher on college placement tests. Take practice tests for graduate school entrance exams or occupational exams for careers in nursing, teaching, law enforcement and more! Database includes TOEFL practice tests. Users must register for a free account to fully utilize this resource which includes interactive practice tests, tutorial courses with scoring, complete answer explanations, and analysis of results.

Ancestry Library Edition (Ancestry.com Operations Inc.) Find information about your family history. This database can only be accessed in the library.
Careers Internet Database (Institute for Career Research) Vocational guidance including career testing, career listings, educational planner, resume creator and more. When prompted key in UserName:752w Password:future (Mobile device users will not have access to this database)
Novelist (EBSCO) NoveList is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList answers the question: What should I read next?
WorldCat (OCLC) WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.