Some of these databases require user name and password to access. Please see the library staff or lists posted in the library for the appropriate passwords. If you are in the library you can also click on the small icon of a book in the Task Tray at the bottom of your screen to bring up a list of database passwords. Or click here to go to an online site to access database passwords.

Britannica Online - Online Encyclopedia
The Britannica Online database includes the full text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, the Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, a Britannica Internet Guide, and links to video & media files. Each of the encyclopedias may be searched independently or as a group. This is especially useful when a student is looking for shorter articles on a topic rather than a full treatise. The database is browsable by article title, subject, and timeline, as well as by the traditional index. There is also a year in review feature and a world atlas.
Columbia International Affairs Online - International affairs database
"Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly." CountryWatch - Geographical information database
CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. The management of CountryWatch.com has extensive international business and academic experience and, using this experience, has created, in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information, daily news and data for its clients in the form of Country Reviews, the Country Wire, CountryWatch Data and CountryWatch Business Services. Requires user name and password for full access.
The library's standard online subscription allows access to:  CountryReviews - for each of 191 countries comprise a 50-100 page report covering the demographic, historical, political, economic, business and environmental background and contemporary issues facing each country. Reviews are updated on a biannual schedule but are updated dynamically on the Web site whenever major events occur in a country (e.g. change in government); and CountryWire - accompanies each of the 191 CountryReviews and provides country-specific, comprehensive daily news from 12 international news services with a 2-month archive in a searchable database containing 180,000 stories. The CountryWire allows users to stay up-to-date on breaking news and to follow developing stories in each of the 191 countries.
EBSCOhost Ultra Online Package - Periodical database
Provides full text for nearly 460 general interest and current events magazines; 128 regional U.S. newspapers, fifteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, for a total of 160 full text newspapers and other sources; over 270 health periodicals, over 1,100 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books.
Professional Development Collection - Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 360 full text journals, designed for professional educators.
ERIC - ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
TOPICsearch - "Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms with TOPICsearch. This current events database includes: 40,000 full text documents carefully selected by our staff of librarians and teachers; selected full text articles [is] available for nearly 100 U.S. newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the Boston Globe, the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, the San Jose Mercury News; 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database four different search methods: topic, subject, natural language and keyword an online dictionary." This is a particularly useful database for the Social Issues classes because of the way that information is concentrated and listed by topic.
NoveLIST -  "is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom. For schools, NoveList has added a "Features for Teachers" button at the top of the homepage and the New Search page. If you are a library media specialist or a teacher, this page leads you to essential curriculum-related articles and teaching guides. These materials provide support for the increased use of literature in the classroom and across the curriculum. There are articles and guides for all grade levels from pre-school through high school.
Literature Online - MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, combines all the quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures. This database includes: Masterplots (12 volumes), Masterplots II (61 volumes), Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes), Magill's Literary Annual 1990-2004 (28 volumes), Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (4 volumes) and Magill Book Reviews. In addition, this database also includes Critical Surveys (53 volumes), Magill's Choice: Notable Poets (3 volumes), Magill's Choice: Shakespeare (1 volume), Magill's Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction (2 volumes) and World Philosophers and Their Works (3 volumes).

The following databases are available from the Marin County Free Library. Most can be accessed from any place in the county but a few are accessible only be users within the county library residence area and some are accessible only from the main library site at the Civic Center. They include: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, Baker & Taylor Consumer Law e-Books, Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Biography Resource Center, Books in Print, CQ Researcher in English, EBSCO Magazine Index, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Hoover's Online Pro, LearnATest, Literature Resource Center, NetLibrary, NoveList, NoveList K-8, Opposing Viewpoints, ProQuest Newsstand, RAND California, Reference USA, Safari Tech Books Online, Stat-USA Internet, USA Trade Online, and World Book Encyclopedia.

Opposing Viewpoints RC is an online extension of the very popular Opposing viewpoint series of books. It includes much of the text of books which cover a myriad of topics including: abortion, administration of criminal justice, adoption, affirmative action,    AIDS, acoholism, animal experimentation, animal rights, assisted suicide, athletes, bioethics, biological weapons, birth control, capital punishment, censorship, chemical weapons, child abuse, church and state, civil rights, cloning, crime, crime victims, death, divorce, domestic violence, drinking (alcoholic beverages), driving while intoxicated, drug abuse, drug traffic, drugs and athletes, eating disorders, education, elderly, emigration and immigration, employment, endangered species, environmental policy, environmentalism, ethnic relations, euthanasia, family, family relationships, feminism, gambling, gangs, genetic engineering, genocide, global warming, gun control, hate crimes, health insurance, health care reform, homelessness, homosexuality, human rights, illegal aliens, Internet, Iraq, Islamic fundamentalism, juvenile alcoholism, juvenile drug abuse, juvenile offenders, marijuana, media violence, medical care, medical ethics, mental disorders, mental health, narcotics control, narcotics legalization, national security, nuclear weapons, nutrition, political corruption, pollution, population growth, pornography, poverty, prisons, public assistance, race relations, racism, rape, religion, renewable energy, right of privacy, school violence, sex education, sexual behavior, smoking, stem cells, suicide, teenage pregnancy, teenage sexual behavior, terrorism, United States foreign relations, violence, war crimes, water pollution, welfare reform, women, women's rights, working women, and youth. Each topic has tabs for "Viewpoints," "Reference," "Statisitics," "Magazines & Newspapers," "Images," "Primary Documents," and "Web Sites." (Guided tour)

Oxford Reference Online Premuim - Oxford University Press e-books
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the award-winning Core Collection.. Topics include: art & architecture; bilingual dictionaries; biological sciences; classics; computing; earth & environmental sciences; economics & business; English dictionaries & thesauruses; English language reference; food & drink; history; law; literature; maps & illustrations; medicine; military history; mythology & folklore; names & places; performing arts; physical sciences & mathematics; political & social sciences; quotations; religion & philosophy; and, science. For an entire list of books available from this resource click here.

Questia School - Online library of e-books
Questia is an online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs. Our current subscription allows you to log in an set up a personal account. See library staff for log in procedure.

Trial Databases - Use this link to access databases which the Bessie Chin Library is trying out.