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BOCES Database Links: Business and Company Resource Center A fully integrated resource bringing together over 3600 resources; Health Reference Center - Academic A full text, multi-source database from over 800 periodicals. There are other databases at this site that we have linked from our page also.
Discovering Collection: Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
Ebsco Host: Use this database to search 771 full-text periodicals. Also TopicSearch, a current events/social issues database and Primary Search with Searchasaurus, a search engine geared for elementary to middle school-age users. (see Mrs. Derwin for User Name and Password))
Electric Library: Use this comprehensive database to retrieve over 9,294,201 newspaper articles, 840,733 magazine articles, and 434,901 book chapters.
Gale Literary Databases (Contemporary Authors): Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Accessed via Discovering Collection link, select the Gale Group Databases.
LitFinder: Contains three databases in one. The World's Best Poetry contains 100,000 full-text poems; explanations, the Year's Best Poetry, Biographies and more. StoryFinder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. EssayFinder is a unique database of full-text essays based on books published in the 20th century. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism.
Noodle Bib: Noodle Bib is a tool that simplifies the process of creating and editing MLA and APA-style source lists (bibliographies). (see Mrs. Derwin for User Name and Password)
Opposing Viewpoints: Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published
by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and
Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for
information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and
newspaper articles.
(see Mrs.
Derwin for User Name and Password)
SIRS Knowledge Source: is a comprehensive database which is comprised of several reference databases. SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations. Special features include: Focus on Terrorism: in-depth information on global terrorism issues with background information, links to articles, government documents, maps, images, Web sites and more; and Up-to-the-minute coverage of breaking news events. Help, research strategy worksheets, citation guidelines and an interactive dictionary and thesaurus complete this reference package.
Twayne's Author 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. Accessed
via the Discovering Collection link,
select the Gale Group Databases.