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www.questia.com, Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
, $3.50-$20 per student/year (free one-year adj. 1. completing its life cycle within a year.

Adj. 1. one-year - completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants"
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phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants
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This online academic library supports the majority of secondary school curriculum topics. Consisting of 50,000 full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine and newspaper articles, it features a comprehensive suite of digital research tools. Students can create a personal online research environment where they highlight text, take notes in the margin, bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future.  pages and create citations, quotations and bibliographies. One librarian (1) A person who works in the data library and keeps track of the tapes and disks that are stored and logged out for use. Also known as a "file librarian" or "media librarian." See data library.

(2) See CA-Librarian.
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