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NOVEL: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library
Thanks to the sponsorship of the New York State Library, students and staff now have access through the Internet to the following resources for use in school or at home:
EBSCO MasterFILE Select Gain access to information on a broad range of topics, including general interest, health and multicultural periodical and newspaper articles. --Full-text for over 800 journals dating as far back as 1990. --Abstracts and indexing for 2650 journals dating back to 1984. --Charts, tables and graphs. --Full-text for 5000 Magill's Book Reviews. --Essential Documents In American History-a database of over 1000 original historical documents. --Limited coverage of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. EBSCO TOPICSearch Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other current topics discussed in today's classroom. This current events database includes: --40,000 full-text articles from newspapers and magazines. --Biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. --An online dictionary. Health Reference Center --The full-text of articles from 185 newspapers and magazines about health-related topics. --The full-text of 8 health reference books. --The full-text of 700 health pamphlets. Business and Company Resource Center A database bringing together company profiles, brand information, investment reports, company histories and periodical articles from business and current events magazines. This is a useful resource for economics and introduction to careers classes. ReferenceLink Powered by the huge DIALOG database, this resource provides indexing and abstracts from an international array of newspapers and magazines on a wide range of topics: business, local and world news, science and technology, medicine, education, and more. The full-text of a small percentage of articles is included from a national grouping of newspapers (Boston Globe, etc.) The Twayne Author Series: Twayne World, English and U.S. Authors This database contains the full-text of 600 books of literary criticism on individual U.S., English or world authors. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ask your librarian for log-in codes and passwords. |
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