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Grolier Online: Search three online encyclopedias at one time: Encyclopdia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopdia, and New Book of Knowledge. Also includes the New Book of Popular Science, American the Beautiful, Lands & Peoples, and La Nueva Enciclopedia CUMBRE.
Biography Resource Center Gale Biography in Context: Biographies of hundreds of thousands of notable people, ancient to contemporary. Includes full-text magazine and newspaper articles and links to carefully selected websites. Search for people by name, birth or death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, and/or gender.
Gale Student Resources in Context: Great for middle and high school. Primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, magazine and newspaper articles, photographs and illustrations, and audio and video clips.
Opposing Viewpoints Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and web links on hot controversial topics. From the publishers of the Opposing Viewpoints book series.

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By Subject

Animals

 Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (an e-book, requires a library card)

Biographies

 Gale Biography in Context (requires a library card)
Biography.com
InfoPlease Biographies

California Missions

 Missions of California (e-books, require a library card)
California Missions
California Missions Photos
California Missions History
California Missions Online Project

Christian Saints

 Catholic Online
Patron Saints Index
James Kiefer's Christian Bios

Countries & Cultures

 The Librarian's Country Links

History

Gale U.S. History in Context
Gale World History in Context
Gale Biography in Context (requires a library card)
U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (an e-book, requires a library card)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Religion (an e-book, requires a library card)
Calisphere Primary Sources Collections (from the University of California)

Local
History

Daly City History Website (hosted by the Library)
Gateway to the Peninsula by Sam Chandler (an e-book)

Literature

Literature Resource Center (requires a library card)
Litfinder (requires a library card)
Literary Resources from Gale (requires a library card)
Books and Authors (requires a library card)
Cliffs Notes

Science

Gale Science in Context (requires a library card)
The New Book of Popular Science (part of Grolier Online - requires a library card)
American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed. (an e-book, requires a library card)
Health/Medical Resources (for human anatomy and disease topics)
IPL Science Fair Project Guide
Spike's Science Projects
Biology Online
Biology4Kids!
Chem4Kids!
Physics4Kids!

Social Studies

 Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context (requires a library card)
U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (an e-book, requires a library card)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (an e-book, requires a library card)
Encyclopedia of Religion (an e-book, requires a library card)
Justice Learning Civic Education

States

 The Librarian's State Links

 
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