provides
access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses
of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists
from every age and literary discipline.
Contains
Poem Finder which offers full-text poems,
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pictures and a glossary, Story Finder featuring
short stories, biographies, pictures and a genre navigator
and Essay Finder containing 20th century
essays and discursive writing which have been analyzed in
standard library indexes.
Short Story & Play Index A convenient digital guide to thousands of short stories and anthologies. The Play Index covers every important play ever written, from Aeschylus and Shakespeare to contemporary playwrights.
Twayne's Author Series
Features the content of nearly 600 books with an emphasis on literary and critical interpretation and discussion.
AccessScience AccessScience provides a fully searchable collection of the finest science reference materials.
Science Reference Center Science Reference Center contains more than 630 full text titles including leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals, as well as biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Facts-on-File SCIENCE ONLINE Offering Science On-line; a complete electronic reference for anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry, earth science and biology and Science Experiments On-line for science experiments and projects in Biology, Chemistry, Earth-Science.
Health and Wellness Resource Center Provides instant access to trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.
MEDLINEplus brings together consumer information from the National Library
of medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
and other government, non-profit and health-related organizations.
Search here for answers to all your health questions.
Health Reference Center offers nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines as well as reference books, newsletters, pamphlets and newspaper articles.
Use HEALTHSOURCE- Consumer Edition to search for information on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition includes Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
The
first full-text Spanish Language database. Designed
to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking users with full text
articles from the most popular Spanish language and bi-lingual
periodicals.
Salud para todos is a consumer health resource written entirely
in Spanish and designed specifically for those seeking information
about health and medicine.
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.
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,600
scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly
1,050 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes
virtually all subject areas related to business. This database
providesmany of the top scholarly journals dating as far back
as 1922 and is updated daily.
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and
trends. Access to a combination of broker research reports,
trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory
listings.
Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized
business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various
news services and industry watchers.
Investext Plus is the premier financial research database available
today. Search this database to find 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.
PROMT -- Predicast Overview
of Markets and Technology.
Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies
they produce, and the markets in which they compete. 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.
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.
The
Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source
of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance
to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.
The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working
conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and
expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
The EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information
describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Images
can be obtained by double-clicking any image graphic.
KIDS SEARCH Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Designed for elementary
school students providing full-text magazines, newspapers
and reference books for information on current events, art, science,
popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Designed for students
in middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference
books providing information on current events,
the arts, science, popular culture, health,
people, government, history, sports and more.
Intended for users in elementary or middle schools. Searchasaurus
uses an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages
students to develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus
offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students
to research only appropriate materials in math, science, social
studies and the arts.
What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? Greenwood Daily Life Online brings history up close by providing award-winning content in an authoritative and accessible database.
Seven different encyclopedias encompassing: the history of the United States and its wars, the history of fashion, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Biography
Resource Center enables searches for people based on one or
more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality,
ethnicity, occupation or gender, or a combination of
criteria. Includes the Complete Marquis Who's Who for quick
reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
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specifically
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public
libraries,
MasterFILE™
Premier
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full
text
for
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covering
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reference,
business,
health,
education,
general
science,
multicultural
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and
much
more.
This
database
also
contains
full
text
for
nearly
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reference
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91,600
biographies,
75,000
primary
source
documents,
and
an
Image
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of
107,135
photos,
maps
&
flags.
The InfoTrac Custom Newspapers database contains 150 full-text
national and international newspapers, including the previous
365 days of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and
the Washington Post. Newspapers can be searched by title,
headline, author, or subject.
Integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface.
Find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals
featuring current events, popular culture, business and industry
coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, and hobbies.
The State Newspapers database offers ten major newspapers
published in the state of New York, including the New
York Times and the New York Post. Newspapers
can be searched by title, headline,author, or subject.
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 180
regional U.S. newspapers including Long Island Newsday, international
newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources
as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.
This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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 over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000
diverse sources, including more than 1,500 periodicals.
The
Central Intelligence Agency's World FactBook contains information
about over250 different countries. Includes geography, People
Government Economy Communications Transportation Military
Transnational Issues Reference Maps Flags of the World International
Organizations and Groups, Selected International Environmental
Agreements, Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes, Hydrographic
Data Codes, Geographic Names.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online Public Library Edition delivers two sites in one, with separate home pages and resources for adults and children that allow libraries to tailor the site to their patrons’ needs. Accessible
only within the Library; the password is available at the Reference desk.
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