Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to more than 1,500 electronic reference books and their individual book chapters covering the arts, biography, business, education, health, history, law, literature, multicultural studies, the nation and the world, science, and social science. There is unlimited, simultaneous usage and no special readers or equipment are required to use this resource. Users can search for keywords in the chapter title or throughout the full-text of a chapter. Book chapters can be downloaded, emailed or printed, as well as translated into eight languages. No reader is required to use these electronic books.