Do you ever walk into a library and feel like the reference books can't be touched? Well, now you can touch reference books from home through the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). GVRL is an online database with access to over 450 full-text reference books. You can use it for homework or to satisfy your own curiosity. GVRL opens the door to a huge reference collection, maybe even bigger than the one in your local library.
You can search by subject or just browse.
Say you are doing a paper on the aardvark (a large ant eating animal with a pig nose living in Africa, in case you were wondering) and you can't find a book in the library. Type in aardvark in GVRL and whala, you get information from 4 different reference books about aardvarks adding up to 13 pages. Probably more than you ever wanted to know, but maybe not! GVRL tells you which reference book the information came from and how to cite it in your research paper.
One perk of using GVRL is being able to print the information out so there is no more pesky photocopying!
Some titles included in GVRL are History of the American Cinema (10 volumes), Business Plans Handbook (with sample business plans for businesses like a restaurant) (13 volumes), Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans (good for students looking for money for college), Grizmek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (17 volumes), Cambridge World History of Food, and Shakespeare for Students (3 volumes).
To find it go to the library homepage, click on DATABASES, under Search by Subject click on Homework Resources, and then click on Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Just remember, you can't break the database so just try it out. If you get stuck, please contact your local library.
One perk of using GVRL is being able to print the information out so there is no more pesky photocopying!
Some titles included in GVRL are History of the American Cinema (10 volumes), Business Plans Handbook (with sample business plans for businesses like a restaurant) (13 volumes), Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans (good for students looking for money for college), Grizmek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (17 volumes), Cambridge World History of Food, and Shakespeare for Students (3 volumes).
To find it go to the library homepage, click on DATABASES, under Search by Subject click on Homework Resources, and then click on Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Just remember, you can't break the database so just try it out. If you get stuck, please contact your local library.
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