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Research & Test Preparation

Your library card gives you 24/7 access to a variety of extremely helpful databases. (You can also access these in the library even if you don't have a GPLD Card!) Below are a selection of tools specifically geared toward studying and test preparation, but you can see our complete list of resources here. Also included are a few resources to help first-time job seekers prepare resumes, get ready for interviews, and get help with planning their career path.

Research Databases
Access Science
Access Science
Access Science is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality educational material covering all major scientific disciplines. The site hosts thousands of articles, current news in the fields of science and technology, text biographies on notable scientific figures, a robust dictionary of scientific and technical terms, and a dynamic citation generator that can provide citations for all resources in popular style formats.

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Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform for multidisciplinary research.

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Gale Literature Criticism
Gale Literature Criticism
Gale Literature Criticism provides literary criticism representing various modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.

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Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. It offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies.

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Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies
In-depth investigations of business, politics, government, education, and popular culture issues.

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Today
Today's Science
Explains essential developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

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World News Digest
World News Digest
Presenting more than eight decades of authoritative news summaries and background articles, World News Digest contains a wealth of material and a dynamic interface that makes it easy to explore the events that shape our world. Provides over 350,000 original articles from 1940 to the present.

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College & Test Preparation
HelpNow!
HelpNow!
Live one-to-one homework help from 3-10 pm; practice tests and study aids.

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LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library is an easy-to-use online test prep resource that helps people improve their core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, change careers, become a U.S. citizen, and much more.

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Job Searching
Ferguson
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center provides job information, industry overviews, internships, and scholarships.

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JobNow!
JobNow!
Provides live job coaching, resume assistance, practice interviews, and more to job seekers.

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Driver's Education Online Program
Driving TestsFind manuals, practice tests for car, motorcycle, and commercial driver's license, and more

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