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Custom Newspapers (Gale ID & Password required)
Search a collection of over 150 full-text national and international newspapers, including 7 New York State newspapers and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for the full current year.

CQ Researcher (CQ Researcher Username & Password required)
Excellent resource that compliments the Issues & Controversies database.
Independent & comprehensive reports on current issues with a database that goes back to 1991. The CQ Researcher covers a wide range of social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. Sections include Abstract, Overview, Background, Outlook, Chronology, Next Step, and others.

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EBSCO Animals (EBSCO ID & Password required)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

ERIC (EBSCO ID & Password required)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale ID & Password required)
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

General Science Collection (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Providing information on all aspects of the scientific world, the General Science Collection offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.
Some publications included are Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. The database also includes Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century, a multi-volume encyclopedia. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

Grolier (Grolier Username & Password required)
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Dictionaries, Atlases, & daily news items.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Medicine Module (Gale ID & Password required)
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Source—Consumer Edition (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale ID & Password required)
A single search gives users access to hundreds of journals, over 500 pamphlets and many reference services including the current PDR Index and The Medical and Health Information Directory. 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.

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Informe (Gale ID & Password required)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
contains over 40 full text Spanish-language and bilingual magazine articles, reports and maps; a total of over 75,000 articles and updated daily.

Issues & Controversies (Facts.com ID & Password required)
This fantastic resource provides more than 650 in-depth articles on controversial topics in the news from1995 to the present. The opening page is updated weekly; new articles are added biweekly; highlights the Pros and Cons for each issue; statistical overviews of key issues; and contact information for public, private, and governmental organizations.

Issues & Controversies in American History (Facts.com ID & Password required)
Step back into history and explore the contentious issues of the past as they were argued. Quickly gather information on the debates that shaped America — from revolution and slavery to atomic weapons and Vietnam. Clear and balanced information is provided using primary documents and other supplemental resources such as timelines and biographies.

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Junior Edition—K12 (Gale ID & Password required)
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

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Magill On Literature Plus (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

MasterFILE Select (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 800 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 20 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

MAS Ultra—School Edition (EBSCO ID & Password required)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 339 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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National Newspaper Index (Gale ID & Password required)
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. (Note: Citation only - not full text.)

New York State Newspapers (Gale ID & Password required)
This database includes the following seven full-text newspapers from around New York State: Buffalo News, New York Times (from 2000 on), New York Post, New York Observer, Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, and Post-Standard (Syracuse).

Newspaper Source (EBSCO ID & Password required)
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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Primary Search (EBSCO ID & Password required)
Primary Search provides full text for more than 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. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO ID & Password required)
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

ProQuest DIRECT (Proquest ID & Password required)

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Science Reference Center (EBSCO ID & Password required)

TOPIC Search (EBSCO ID & Password required)
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

The Twayne Authors Series—Twayne World, English, and US Authors (Gale ID & Password required)
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. This series is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion for readers ranging from high school students through college and above.

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WorldandISchool (World and I School ID & Password required)

World Book Online (World Book ID & Password required)
The World Book Encyclopedia in online format.

World News Digest (Facts.com ID & Password required)
Covers U.S. & World News from 1940 to the present day. Updated every week, it includes an hourly updated Reuters® newsfeed. Special "Top Stories" timelines deliver, decade by decade, listings linked to original coverage of top news stories back to October, 1940. Original feature essays created for the online version include Country Profiles, Key People, Key Events, and Key Issues.

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Trial Databases
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