Swanton Public Library

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Resources

Free Access To Online Information For All Vermonters

Through the Vermont Online Library (VOL), the State of Vermont Department of Libraries and Swanton Public Library provide electronic information databases free to all Vermonters. Because Swanton Public Library is a member of VOL, these resources are available to you 24-hours-a-day from not only our library, but your home, your office- or anywhere Internet access is available.

To access, call the library or come in for the password. Then follow this link: www.VTonlinelib.org and scroll down to “Swanton Public Library”.

Magazines, Journals & Newspapers

InfoTrac OneFile Audience:

Middle School and up

Content: 3,100 full-text and 6,000 indexed periodical
titles, 1980 to present; general interest magazines;
refereed academic journals; business publications;
technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law,
health care and computers; full indexing of The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science
Monitor; and 89 wire services.

InfoTrac Kids Edition

Audience: Elementary School

Contents: More than 75 full-text magazines, 300+
full-color Rand McNally maps; Information Please
Almanac (Atlas and Yearbook); Information Please
Sports Almanac; Information Please Environmental
Almanac; Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary,
The Columbia Encyclopedia; The Reader’s Companion
to American History; and news articles, all selected
specifically for K-6 students.

InfoTrac Junior Edition

Audience: Middle School

Contents: 100+ indexed and 90 full-text general interest
magazines; Information Please Almanac (Atlas
and Yearbook); Information Please Sports Almanac;
Information Please Environmental Almanac; Merriam-
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary; The Columbia
Encyclopedia; The Reader’s Companion to
American History; and much more selected specifically
for junior high and middle school students.

InfoTrac Student Edition

Audience: High School

Contents: 330+ indexed and 270 full-text magazines;
more than 40,000 full-text newspapers articles; 14
full-text reference books; 500 historical images;
300+ full-color maps; Asimov’s Chronology of Science
& Discovery; Information Please Almanac (Atlas and Yearbook); Information Please Sports Almanac;
Information Please Environmental Almanac;
Merriam-Webster’s Biographical Dictionary; Merriam-
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary; Merriam-
Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations; The Columbia
Encyclopedia; The Reader’s Companion to American
History; and much more selected specifically for secondary
school students.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Audience: Adult

Contents: 1,000 full-text and 2,000 indexed periodical
titles in the social sciences, humanities, science and
technology, national news, general interest subject areas;
periodicals covering all academic concentrations.

Newspapers

Audience: Middle School and up

Contents: full-text coverage of The New York Times
(last 12 months to the present); and The Los Angeles
Times.

Professional Collection

Audience: Adult

Contents: 300+ full-text journals for teachers and administrators,
updated daily, in the following areas: arts
and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and
development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/
fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science
and technology, social sciences and sports/athletic
training.

General Resources

General Reference Center Gold

Audience: Middle School and up

Contents: 1,200 full-text titles in general interest magazines,
business & industry journals, and reference
books.

Specific Resources by Topic

Business & Company Resource Center

Audience: High School and up

Contents: Accurate, up-to-date company and industry
intelligence of more than 300,000 companies
with company profiles, including corporate parent/
sibling relationships, industry rankings, products
and brands, company performance ratings, investment
reports, industry statistics, current investment
ratings, comprehensive financial overviews, pricing
momentum and key ratio measures, financial ratios,
coverage of major business events and trends from
1983 to the present, industry newsletter and analysis.

Computer Database

Audience: High School and up

Contents: 600+ indexed and 300+ full-text magazines,product reviews, industry status reports, and
company profiles. Competitive analysis of high
tech companies and their products; research on industry
trends in telecommunications, electronics,
robotics and more, Research on software and hardware,
research on the Internet and the World Wide
Web; research into LAN and WAN technology, research
into multimedia, virtual reality, and interactive
TV; reviews of the latest consumer products.

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Audience: Elementary and up

Contents: nearly 400 health/medical journals; more
than 800 pamphlets; 2,100 general interest publications; alternative health module; encyclopedias of
medicine, childhood & adolescence, and alternative
medicine; access to key health Web sites; access to
Medical and Health Information Directory, PDR
Family Guide to Health and Nutrition; health information
from leading newspapers; Medical and
Health Information Directory; Statistical Record of
Health & Medicine.

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