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list of databases.
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here.
ART
Oxford Art Online - Online
reference resource including access to not only Grove Art
resources but also Oxford art reference as well. Includes
Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion To Western Art,
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary
of Art Terms.
Users can choose to view
biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing.
This functionality allows users greater access to the more than
23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic
citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within
Grove Art Online.

BIOGRAPHY
Biography
Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who
(Galenet) -
This database combines biographies from Gale reference sources. Biography Resource Center also includes
full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database
page to find the link to access this database.

BUSINESS
&
FINANCE
ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest) - Search a unique resource
focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage
of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups,
executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides
access to business information not typically found in national news
sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets,
and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily
newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business
publications. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database
from the drop down menu.
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) - Most scholarly and
comprehensive way to explore and understand business research
topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for
in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management
techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising,
marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers,
and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to
information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive
profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.
NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database from the drop down
menu.
ABI/INFORM Select (ProQuest) - Search for essential
information from 515 core business periodicals. Provides information
on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing,
computers, and more. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this
database from the drop down menu.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest) - Search more than
1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides
users with the latest industry news, product and competitive
information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics.
Contains publications on every major industry, including finance,
insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.
NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database from the drop down
menu.
Business
& Company Resource Center
(NOVEL) - This database
provides company profiles,
brand information, rankings, investment reports, company
histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to
find detailed company and industry news and information.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the NOVEL
database page to find the link to access this database.
Business Source Elite
(EBSCOhost Web) -
This business
database provides full text for 1,000+ scholarly business
journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed
business publications; some articles date back to 1985.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
General
Business File ASAP (Galenet) -
Provides access to a combination of
broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals
and company directory listings with full text and images
available. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the
Gale database page to find the link to access this database.
Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) - Find up to date
proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and
non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely
recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in
depth industry analyses, information on a company's location,
summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database from the drop down
menu.
Investext
Plus (Galenet) -
This financial database, with a backfile
to 1982, provides access
to investment, company
and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe,
Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company
and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database
page to find the link to access this database.
Newsletters
ASAP
(Galenet) -
Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized
business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various
news services and industry watchers.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
PROMT
(Galenet) -
Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Includes
summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade
journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research
studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm
reports.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database
page to find the link to access this database.
Reference
USA
-
Reference USA contains US Business Data
and US Residential directory information. Business Data
contains detailed directory information for 14 million+ U.S. Public
and Private businesses. Residential Data contains names,
addresses, and phone numbers for 200 million+ U.S. households. NOTE:
If you are having difficulty accessing this database from home,
please refer to the extensive
Reference USA help page for suggestions on how to correct the
problem.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost Web) -
This database provides full text coverage for regional business
publications and incorporates coverage of 75
business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan
and rural areas within the United States.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.

CAREERS
Career
Cruising - This database
offers resources for those looking for career information. You
can learn about colleges and universities and the programs they
offer, explore different careers that you are interested in, or take
an interactive survey to help find careers that match your
interests. You can even set up a portfolio allowing you to
save any information that you are working on so you can return to it
at another time.

CHILDREN
& YOUNG ADULTS
EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost Web) -
Provides in-depth information on a
variety of topics relating to animals. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Kids InfoBits
(Galenet) -
This database is designed for students in K-5. It
features a developmentally appropriate graphic interface,
a subject-based topic tree search and full-text age appropriate
curriculum-related magazine and reference content. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database
page to find the link to access this database.
Lands &
Peoples
-
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events for
middle and high school students.
Each of the 400 articles includes
article and web links, photos, maps, flags, and facts and figures.
This database also provides an atlas, an almanac, and a cultures
comparison module.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost Web)
-
provides full text for 150+ popular magazines for middle and junior
high school research. All full text articles included in the
database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full
text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 82,000+
biographies, 90,000+ primary source documents, and an Image
Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
NoveList K-8
(EBSCOhost Web)
-
This database contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and
includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult
titles.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Primary Search (EBSCOhost Web) - Provides full text for 60+ popular, magazines for
elementary school research. All full text articles included in the
database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full
text information dates as far back as 1990. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Searchasaurus
(EBSCOhost Web)
-
This database provides access to full-text articles for
children and young adults. It includes a general
encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of animals, and EBSCO's Primary
Search.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Student
Resource Center - Bronze (Galenet) -
This database contains
thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies,
topical essays, background information, critical analyses,
full-text coverage of 680+ magazines, newspapers, 20,000+
photographs and illustrations, and hours of audio and
video clips.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
TumbleBooks -
TumbleBooks are created by
taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music
and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you
can read, or have read to you. You can access TumbleBooks
from the library or from home.
All you need is the Flash plug-in for your browser and a
computer set up for sound and speakers. If you find that you are
unable to view the TumbleBooks at home, you may need to download
the FREE plug-in for Flash animations at
www.macromedia.com/downloads.

CURRENT
EVENTS & ISSUES
Community Resource
Database
-
This computerized directory profiles more than 11,000
community services and resources available in the Long Island area.
It provides individuals and organizations with easy access to
current information about health, human service and education
agencies and programs.
CountryWatch
-
Provides country specific geopolitical intelligence on
each of the 192 countries of the world. A great source for
thematic or physical maps.
Greenwood - Pop
Culture Experience - Combines the best traditional
scholarship with the convenience of web technology to enhance the
study of American and world pop culture and pop history.
Issues And Controversies (Facts On File) -
This database offers
up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent
and hotly debated issues of the day.
Opposing Viewpoints (Galenet) - Brings together all the
information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con
viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context,
full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary
source documents, government and organizational statistics,
multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to
hand-selected web sites. NOTE: To access
this database, click on the link provided and scroll down the Galenet database page.
SIRS
Researcher® -
A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social,
scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are selected from newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S.
government publications.

EDUCATION
Career
Cruising - This database
offers resources for those looking for career information. You
can learn about colleges and universities and the programs they
offer, explore different careers that you are interested in, or take
an interactive survey to help find careers that match your
interests. You can even set up a portfolio allowing you to
save any information that you are working on so you can return to it
at another time.
ProQuest Education Periodicals - Search professional
magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and
education-related issues. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose
this database from the drop down menu.
Educator's Reference Desk -
provides access to resources including links to 3,000+ resources on
educational issues as well as 2,000+ lesson plans. This
database also includes a collection of 200+ responses to questions
on education and links to the ERIC database.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia Americana -
Provides access to 45,000+
encyclopedia articles, full-color maps, flags,
1,000+ tables and fact boxes, 4,500+ images, and 100,000+ periodical
articles.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Annals of American History Online -
Covers U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary
documents including speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, video and
audio clips and pictures.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Global Reference Center
- Offers access to Britannica Encyclopedias in Spanish, Japanese,
Korean, Chinese, and French.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Online Reference Center
- Offers
online access to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica including
timelines, videos, quotations, and atlases. Also included is
the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus and the Merriam-Webster's
Spanish-English Dictionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Webster's Dictionary Online
-
Offers access to the entire 470,000 entries in the Merriam-Webster's
Third New International Dictionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica - World Data Analyst
- Offers
Country Snapshots (statistics
on demography, vital statistics, national economy, transportation
and communication, education and health, and military for individual
countries), Country Comparisons, and Ranked Statistics (compile
information for all countries and allow you to view the countries
with the highest or lowest totals, rates, or percentages in
statistical categories ranging from population to vegetable
production to cellular phones as well as information about major
natural and man-made features of the world).
Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost Web) -
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a
variety of subject areas.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia -
This general encyclopedia for students in middle
and high school includes 39,000+ articles, photos and graphics, maps,
and multimedia in the form of video, audio, panoramic photos, and map
essays.

GENEALOGY
HeritageQuest
- This database provides genealogical information.
Includes available U.S. federal census, banking and military
records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials,
and genealogical and local history serials.

HEALTH
Health and Wellness Resource Center and
Alternative Health Module
(NOVEL) -
This database
provides access to over 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. Material contained in this
Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the NOVEL
database page to find the link to access this database.
Medline
Plus -
MEDLINE Plus offers current and accurate health
care information from the
National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
New York
Online Access to Health (NOAH) -
This database is a
bi-lingual source of health and consumer information including
references to regional community resources and support groups.
ProQuest Health Management - Find complete, full-text
information from leading publications covering all aspects of health
administration, including public health and safety, hospitals,
finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor
relations and law. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this
database from the drop down menu.
Salem Health
- Offers access to the full text of the reference works Magill's
Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer. Magill's
Medical Guide is a reference source helping to bridge the gap
between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular
self-help guides. Salem Health: Cancer is a four-volume
set covering more than 800 topics of crucial interest to students,
patients, caregivers, and others who have received a diagnosis or
are associated with those who have cancer.

HISTORY
Greenwood - The
African American Experience -
A full-text digital resource
exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as
the greater Black Diaspora.
Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the
guidance of leading librarians of color, this database gives voice
to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
Greenwood - Daily
Life America - Provides
content from reference works, primary documents, and lesson plans as
well as a state-by-state resource center. Reference titles
include
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures,
The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United
States, and Famous American Crimes and Trials.
Greenwood - Daily
Life Online -
Provides content from reference works, monographs, and primary documents.
Titles include The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life,
Daily Life America, World Folklore and Folklife and Daily Life Through
History.
Greenwood - The
Latino American Experience
- A full-text digital
resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.
Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous
civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican
settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs
and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.
Greenwood - Pop
Culture Experience - Combines the best traditional
scholarship with the convenience of web technology to enhance the
study of American and world pop culture and pop history.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times
(1851-2001) - This database offers full page and article
images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes
digital reproductions providing access to every page from every
available issue.
Salem History -
Offers access to the following Salem reference sets:
Milestone Documents - A
new, primary source series
featuring 134 full-text primary source documents with expert
analysis and commentary,
The Decades - Salem's history series covering the 50s, 60s,
70s and 80s, and Great Lives from History -
a
far-reaching view of history, offering worldwide coverage of
important men and women in all areas of achievement.

LAW
Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Directory
-
Provides access to 900,000+ lawyer and law firm listings.

LITERATURE
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography
(Galenet) -
these three literary databases
combine to provide biographical information on 120,000+ US and
International authors and 20,000+ biographical and critical essays on authors,
works, eras, and genres.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English
& Twayne
World Authors) (Galenet) -
Access biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses of 130,000+ authors
from every age and literary discipline. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
LitFinder
- Offers access to more than 150,000
full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories,
speeches, and plays. Includes:
EssayFinder - full-text
essays focused on the humanities and social sciences, and include
biographies and literary criticism based on books published in the
20th century
PlayFinder -
1,000+ complete plays. Although
international in scope, all are in English or English translations,
can be searched by subject, title, or playwright
PoemFinder - 85,000+ full-text poems, 800,000+
poem citations and excerpts, a subject navigator, listings for the
year's best poetry (New Poems), Kids' Korner section as well as
explanations, biographies and pictures, international in scope, and
covers poetry from antiquity to the present
SpeechFinder - best-known speeches of the
past 2,500 years and categorizes them into searchable
genres
StoryFinder -
thousands of full-text
short stories plus explanations, biographies, and pictures
NetLibrary
-
This database is a collection of online
books (e-books) and resource materials. Using
NetLibrary, you can access a wide range of scholarly and
reference materials entirely online. You must create an account on a
computer in the library before the collection can be
accessed from home.
NoveList
(EBSCOhost Web) -
This readers' advisor database directs adults, teens and
children to books they may enjoy based on authors, titles,
or subjects they have already read and liked. It also
provides full-text reviews and annotations for 20,000+ titles.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
NoveList K-8
(EBSCOhost Web)
-
This database contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and
includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult
titles.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Scribner
Writers Series (Galenet) -
Includes the full text of scholarly articles on writers and
literary genres representing the complete contents of thirteen
volumes in the Scribner writers series.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
Shakespeare
Collection (Galenet) - This database provides an
extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary,
textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the
most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as
well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works
published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse
Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
Student
Resource Center - Bronze (Galenet) -
This database contains
thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies,
topical essays, background information, critical analyses,
full-text coverage of 680+ magazines, newspapers, 20,000+
photographs and illustrations, and hours of audio and
video clips.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale
database page to find the link to access this database.
Twayne
Authors Series (NOVEL)
- Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary
Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English
Authors.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down
the NOVEL database page to find the link to access this database.

MUSIC
Oxford Music
Online - Online reference resource
including access to not only Grove Music resources but also
Oxford music reference as well. Includes The Oxford
Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The
Oxford Companion to Music. Also features the
Encyclopedia of Popular Music, online for the first time.
Search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their
results by source, and specific era or subject category. Users
can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images
when searching or browsing. Advanced search capabilities,
including biography and bibliography searching, provide users
with powerful tools for content navigation.

NEWSPAPERS
& PERIODICALS
Custom
Newspapers (NOVEL) -
Search a collection of 650 newspapers, both
national and international. Includes The New York Times,
The New York Post, The Christian Science Monitor
and others.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the NOVEL
database page to find the link to access this database.
EBSCO
A-to-Z
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Provides library staff and patrons with a single, comprehensive
list of journals or magazines offered in our databases Enter
the publication title and this database will link to the appropriate
database with full-text, if it is available.
General
Reference Center Gold (Galenet) -
A general interest database
that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface.
Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from
newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text
and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture,
business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports,
hobbies, and more.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database
page to find the link to access this database.
InfoTrac General OneFile
(Galenet) -
A one-stop
source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:
business, computers, current events, economics, education,
environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law,
literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text
articles, many with images. Updated daily.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the
Gale database page to find the link to access this database.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost Web) -
Offers full-text access to periodicals covering general reference,
business, health, education, science and more.
Also includes 2,350+ full text reference books, 84,000+ biographies, 86,000+ primary source
documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and
flags. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
Middle Search Plus
(EBSCOhost Web)
-
provides full text for 150+ popular magazines for middle and junior
high school research. All full text articles included in the
database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full
text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 82,000+
biographies, 90,000+ primary source documents, and an Image
Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
National
Newspaper Index (NOVEL) -
National Newspaper Index
provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five
newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times
and The Washington Post.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the NOVEL
database page to find the link to access this database.
New
York State Newspapers
(NOVEL) - A database of
28 major
newspapers published in the state of New York, including The New
York Times and The New York Post.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the NOVEL
database page to find the link to access this database.
Newsday
-
The Newsday database is now part of
ProQuest.
You can still search for Newsday articles and headlines
back to 1985. Most articles are full text. Updated daily.
NOTE: To access this database, you must log in to ProQuest using
your barcode, click on "More Search Options", and input Newsday
as the publication title.
Newspaper Source
(EBSCOhost Web) -
Newspaper Source
provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international
newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio
news transcripts, and selected full text for 200+ regional
(U.S.) newspapers.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
ProQuest
-
Offers access to 1,800+ newspapers, periodicals, and
academic journals. Includes coverage of many
national newspapers, such as The Washington Post, Newsday,
The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Barron's, USA Today,
The New York Times (full-text 90 days), and The Wall
Street Journal (full-text back to 1989).
ProQuest Black Newspapers - A collection of significant
Black newspapers from the United States. NOTE: While in
ProQuest, choose this database from the drop down menu.
ProQuest Computing - Search top computing journals in full
text for research on subjects such as database design, software
development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database from the drop down
menu.
ProQuest Education Periodicals - Search professional
magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and
education-related issues. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose
this database from the drop down menu.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times
(1851-2001) - This database offers full page and article
images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes
digital reproductions providing access to every page from every
available issue.
ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - Includes a balance of
national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic
excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in
full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post
along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the
South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S.
papers. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database from
the drop down menu.
ProQuest Research Library - Search for coverage of a broad
range of subjects including arts, business, children, education,
general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military,
multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's
interests. NOTE: While in ProQuest, choose this database
from the drop down menu.

READER'S
ADVISORY
NoveList
(EBSCOhost Web) - This readers' advisor database directs adults, teens and
children to books they may enjoy based on authors, titles,
or subjects they have already read and liked. It also
provides full-text reviews and annotations for 20,000+ titles.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
NoveList K-8
(EBSCOhost Web)
-
This database contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and
includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult
titles.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.

SCHOLARLY
JOURNALS
EBSCO
A-to-Z
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Provides library staff and patrons with a single, comprehensive
list of journals or magazines offered in our databases Enter
the publication title and this database will link to the appropriate
database with full-text, if it is available.
InfoTrac General OneFile
(Galenet) -
A one-stop
source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:
business, computers, current events, economics, education,
environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law,
literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text
articles, many with images. Updated daily.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the
Gale database page to find the link to access this database.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost Web) -
Offers full-text access to periodicals covering general reference,
business, health, education, science and more.
Also includes 2,350+ full text reference books, 84,000+ biographies, 86,000+ primary source
documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and
flags. NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.
ProQuest
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Offers access to 1,800+ newspapers, periodicals, and
academic journals. Includes coverage of many
national newspapers, such as The Washington Post, Newsday,
The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Barron's, USA Today,
The New York Times (full-text 90 days), and The Wall
Street Journal (full-text back to 1989).

SCIENCE
New
Book of Popular Science
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This science encyclopedia is divided into searchable or browsable
sections: SciClopedia, Newsbytes, Projects, Biographies, SciZone,
SciFiles, SkyWatch, and Ask PopSci.
Science Reference Center (EBSCOhost Web) - Provides
easy access to a multitude of science-oriented content including
full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books,
periodicals, science experiments and other sources. Topics
covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science,
environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life
science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists,
technology and wildlife.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.

SPANISH
LANGUAGE DATABASES
EBSCOhost Espanol -
Offers popular EBSCOhost databases including MasterFILE select,
Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO
Animals, TOPICsearch, Business Source Elite, MasterFILE Premier,
General Science Collection, Health Source - Consumer Edition,
Newspaper Source, and Regional Business News in Spanish.
Salud
En Espanol (EBSCOhost Health Database en Espanol)
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This database provides
full-text Spanish-language information from 300 publications for a
wide variety of medical and health-related topics and is designed to
make useful health information more readily accessible for
Spanish-speaking consumers and patients.
NOTE: After clicking on the link, scroll down the EBSCOhost
Web
database page to find the link to access this database.

TEST
PREPARATION
Learning
Express Library (Test Preparation) -
A source for test preparation materials and interactive
practice exams based on official tests. To gain access to
the LearningExpressLibrary.com's test preparation materials you will
need to register. (Click on "NEW
USER" if you are a first time visitor.) When
accessed from home, your
username must be your 14-digit library card number.

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