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Encyclopedias Academic Databases Magazine Databases Newspaper Databases

Encyclopedias ** See library staff for passwords & web addresses for home use **

Grolier Online THREE encyclopedias, The New Book of Popular Science AND Lands and Peoples!

Encyclopedia Britannica Britannica Online School Edition

Academic Databases ** See library staff for passwords & web addresses for home use **

Student Resource Center Junior Includes 82,000 biographies, 15,000 maps and photos, 16,000 timeline event descriptions, 41,000 source documents, including diary entries & letters, and much more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

NOVEL databases All of the available state provided databases in one list -- search many of the databases together using the dialogue box provided, or click on the titles and search the databases individually.

The Twayne Authors Series Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

Teen Health & Wellness Real Life, Real Answers, a new research database and teen self-help resource created by Rosen Publishing.

Health Reference Center Academic Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module Trusted medical reference materials: includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Business and Company Resource Center Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

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Magazine Databases ** See library staff for passwords & web addresses for home use **

Junior Edition K-12 Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

EBSCO Databases MasterFile Select = full text magazine articles Science Reference Center = full text journal articles TOPICsearch = search by topic and type of document EBSCOhost Espanol = articles in Spanish Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia

First Search Wilson's Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature full-text database. To access the Reader's Guide: in the "Search a database" box, under "Select a database," choose "WilsonSelectPlus" then type in keywords for your search. World Almanac and indexes to a number of other databases are also at this site.

Informe Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

from NOVEL: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library a project of The New York State Library

Newspaper Databases ** See library staff for passwords & web addresses for home use **

Newsbank Syracuse Herald American, Herald Journal and Post Standard (1986-Present) Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (1999-Present) Utica Observer-Dispatch (2002-Present) The Albany Times Union (1986-Present) Local and regional newspaper articles -- full-text, excluding paid advertisements.

New York State Newspapers Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

Custom Newspapers Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

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