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  1. Zinio

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    yes

    Zinio provides a quick and easy way for Library patrons to read digital copies of some of their favorite magazines; access is available on any internet-enabled device -- just be sure to have your library card number ready. Zinio’s digital platform recreates a magazine page-for-page, including highly visual full-color pictures, while taking the reading experience even further through intuitive navigation, key word article search and interactive rich media elements such as audio and video.

     HELP with Zinio

    Zinio is extremely easy to use. You will need to login twice (technically, for 2 different accounts): the first is to access the magazine titles for which the Library has paid a subscription; the second is for the Zinio website which must be used to actually view the titles. You may find it easiest to use the same email and password for both logins (the Library portal and the Zinio.com website).

    Zinio User Guide
    APLguide to Zinio
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    Appleton Public Library
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    Zinio
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Downloads
    Magazine Articles (general or popular)

  2. Mango Languages

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    Mango Languages is an easy to use and effective language learning tool focusing on everyday conversation. This program provides step by step lesson plans for many different languages (including English). Mango is easy to use and can work on any operating system and with any web browser.

    Foreign Languages for English Speakers
    1. Arabic (Levantine)
    2. Chinese (Cantonese)
    3. Chinese (Mandarin)
    4. Croatian
    5. Czech
    6. Danish
    7. Dari
    8. Dutch
    9. Farsi (Persian)
    10. Finnish
    11. French
    12. French (Canadian)
    13. German
    14. Greek
    15. Greek (Ancient)
    16. Greek (Koine)
    17. Haitian Creole
    18. Hawaiian
    19. Hebrew
    20. Biblical Hebrew
    21. Hindi
    22. Icelandic
    23. Indonesian
    24. Irish
    25. Italian
    26. Japanese
    27. Korean
    28. Latin
    29. Norwegian
    30. Pashto
    31. Pirate
    32. Polish
    33. Portuguese (Brazil)
    34. Russian
    35. Slovak
    36. Spanish (Latin America)
    37. Spanish (Spain)
    38. Swedish
    39. Tagalog
    40. Tamil
    41. Thai
    42. Turkish
    43. Ukrainian
    44. Urdu
    45. Vietnamese
    English as a Second Language

    Mango currently has 15 ESL programs for learning English.

    1. English for Arabic (Egyptian) speakers
    2. English for Chinese (Cantonese) speakers
    3. English for Chinese (Mandarin) speakers
    4. English for French speakers
    5. English for German speakers
    6. English for Greek speakers
    7. English for Italian speakers
    8. English for Japanese speakers
    9. English for Korean speakers
    10. English for Polish speakers
    11. English for Portuguese (Brazil) speakers
    12. English for Russian speakers
    13. English for Spanish (Latin America) speakers
    14. English for Turkish speakers
    15. English for Vietnamese speakers
    Go to the funder's website: 
    Appleton Public Library
    Created by: 
    Mango Languages
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    APL Kids
    Languages
    Testing & Training

  3. Post-Crescent Online (Proquest Newspapers)

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    Full-text content (1999-current) of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

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    APL
    Created by: 
    Proquest
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Genealogy
    Local Information
    Newspapers

  4. Virtual Reference Library

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    Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

    Arts

    • Arts and Humanities Through the Eras 5v, 2005
    • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 2v, 2004
    • Contemporary Fashion 2nd ed., 2002
    • International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers 4th ed., 4v, 2001

    Biography

    • Business Leader Profiles for Students 2v, 2002
    • Encyclopedia of World Biography Vol. 24, 2nd ed., 2005
    • Encyclopedia of World Biography 2nd ed., 23v, 2004
    • Notable Sports Figures 4v, 2004
    • Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s 2v, 2003

    Education

    • Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans 24th ed., 2008

    Environment & Animals

    • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 2nd ed., 17v, 2004

    Literature

    • Contemporary Novelists 7th ed., 2001
    • Contemporary Poets 7th ed., 2001
    • Modern American Literature 5th ed., 3v, 1999
    • Nonfiction Classics for Students 5v, 2001
    • Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature 2002
    • Reference Guide to Short Fiction 2nd ed., 1999
    • Reference Guide to World Literature 3rd ed., 2v, 2003
    • Writers Directory 2005 ed., 2v, 2004

    Go to the funder's website: 
    APL
    Created by: 
    Gale Cengage
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Multidisciplinary
    Academic
    Animals
    Biography
    Book Excerpts
    Literature
    Reference

  5. Reference USA

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    "With over 14 Million U.S. Businesses and 89 Million U.S. Residents, ReferenceUSA provides you the power to find and study businesses, locate people, conduct market research, find addresses and phone numbers, search the hidden job market, and much more. ReferenceUSA is updated with millions of changes monthly, so you will get the most accurate information available."

    * If you are asked for a login and password rather than just a library card number, on that very same page please click on "Help" in the upper-right corner and look at the second-last topic in the Help screen regarding this issue. If adjusting the anti-virus settings still does not resolve the problem, please read the fourth-last topic "Why can't I log in to ReferenceUSA?" If you still cannot connect, Reference USA asks that you contact their 1-800 number for trouble-shooting
    assistance.

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    APL
    Created by: 
    InfoUSA
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Business

  6. Next Good Book & Chapter-a-Day (online book club)

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    src="http://www.emailbookclub.com/book/original.jpg" title="This week's selections"
    border="0" hspace="8" vspace="8" height="145" width="94" name="bannerad" align="right">     Discuss books with other people, build online book shelves, share your favorite books, see who's reading a specific book (and what else they've read), and get suggestions on what to read next with the book discovery tools.

    You can also join an online book club called Chapter-A-Day: every morning you will receive a portion of a book in your email. After you've read two or three chapters from a book, you will receive a new book. It's free and you can read at more than one club.  Learn
    More!

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    APL
    Created by: 
    Next Good Book
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Audiobooks
    Book Excerpts
    Literature

  7. Westlaw Legal Research

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    Legal research. Includes forms, case law, and much more. 

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    APL
    Created by: 
    Westlaw
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Government, Legal, & Military

  8. University of WI Digital Collections (images provided by APL)

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    Selected local history resources, including four historical Outagamie County plat maps, five city directories from the late 1800s, two historic building surveys and two compilations of early pioneer biographies. There are also two historical overviews, one from Appleton's 75th Anniversary celebration in 1932, and one marking the 100 year period of 1857 - 1957. Click here for a partial index of the plat maps.

    Go to the funder's website: 
    UW Digital Collections and APL
    Created by: 
    UW Digital Collections
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    $-UW Digital Collections
    Database Subjects: 
    History
    Images
    Local Information

  9. APS Physics

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    The journals of the American Physical Society embody the mission "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics." They strive to produce journals of the highest quality, and at the same time, to keep journals accessible to researchers and students at institutions of all types and sizes, everywhere in the world.

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    APL
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    American Physical Society
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    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Academic
    Science & Technology

  10. ALLDATA Car Repair

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    Comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.

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    APL
    Created by: 
    ALLDATA
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    Repair Manuals

  11. Opposing Viewpoints in Context

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    Covers social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered
    Species, and Terrorism. Consists of viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government
    and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government
    agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more
    than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.

    Go to the funder's website: 
    APL
    Created by: 
    Gale Cengage
    Database Funded by: 
    $-APL
    Database Subjects: 
    APL Kids
    Government, Legal, & Military
    Health & Medicine
    Multidisciplinary
    Reference
    Student's Research: Middle School
    Student's Research: Teens

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