	General Reference Database	Database containing thousands of articles from professional journals in a variety of subject matters


	Multiple Databases	Database containing thousands of articles from newspapers, magazines, and professional journals in a variety of subject matters

Gale Group	Student Resource Center - Bronze	Database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage from magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Junior Edition - K12	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

	Searchasaurus	Encyclopedic/Periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school.

High School Hub

http://www.highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

A free online interactive learning center for high school students

*NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Encyclopedias Online

World Book Encyclopedia Online

World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is designed to help students and teachers find accurate, up-to-date, and reliable answers quickly. The information is updated regularly by World Book editors. World Book Online features thousands of articles, maps, pictures, sounds, and videos that are delivered over the web. World Book's reference resources are supported by Behind the Headlines articles, Calendar-based features, and the Learning Zone of extra teacher- and student-related resources.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Include: Encyclopædia Britannica

Britannica Internet Guide

Video & Media

Activities to increase your knowledge of classroom subjects:
· Language Arts
· Mathematics
· Science
· Social Studies

Video Browse
See the world in new ways as you browse the video library.

Britannica Spotlights
Explore in-depth, multimedia-rich tours through selected topics.

Year in Review
Learn about notable people and events of recent years

History

Database Publisher	Subject	Details

Gale Group	U.S. History Resource Center	Primary documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

	Annals of American History	American history presented through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.

	CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)	American politics, federal and state government, American institutions, campaigns and elections, current events, and world affairs.

	CQ Supreme Court Collection	Supreme Court decisions accompanied by historical analyses, timely updates, and expert commentary; biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

	Social Studies Websites	Include: World History and Geography – Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. American History and Geography American Government.

Gale Group	Modern World History Resource Center	History of the 20th Century: it integrates reference sources from the Gale Group, Macmillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons, along with full-text articles from more than 100 academic journals, maps and images. This collection also includes Full-text and facsimile images for over 1,400 primary source documents from Primary Source Microfilm.

Gale Group	Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Selected Links to History-Related Website

Publisher	Subject	Details
Library of Congress	Global Gateway	Nations of the World: A comprehensive look at all aspects of life in each country (such as history, culture, and current affairs), with links to each country’s authentic websites.

CIA	The World Factbook	Countries of the World: This site supplies vital information about geographical characteristics and populations of all countries of the world. It also Includes a directory of chief of states and cabinet members of all foreign governments in the world (updates weekly).

U.S Department of State	Background Notes	Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of world states.

U.S. Government	U.S. Government Manual	As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees. The Manual begins with reprints of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. Government Official Web Portal	FirstGov.gov	FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. This portal transcends the traditional boundaries of government and its global vision–connecting the world to all U.S. government information and services. Among the site’s features are links to all 50 states’ homepages, to all government agencies, and to the three branches of government (Judicial, Executive, and Legislative).

Primary Sources: Selected Websites

Publisher	Subject	Details
University of Rochester	Primary Documents	This site provides Primary documents in world and U.S. history arranged by historical period or by country name. Also included are descriptions, analyses, and commentary of events and people in those historical periods and places.

Hanover College, Ohio	Hanover Historical Texts Project	World and U.S. primary documents arranged by historical time periods. The Project's principal aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses.

Fordham University, New York	Internet History Sourcebooks Project	Primary documents from around the World from ancient to modern times. *The Internet History Sourcebooks* are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.**

University of Oklahoma Law School	U.S. Historical Documents	U.S. Historical documents from Pre-Colonial Era until the present arranged by time periods

NARA : National Archives and Records Administration	Digital Classroom	This site Contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States.

New York Public Library	Pictures Collection Online	Historical pictures from American history

Yale University Law School	Avalon Project	U.S. Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy from pre-18^th to 21^st century

University of Minnesota	Human Rights Library	Links to Centers for Human Rights Research and Training, presenting Primary Human Rights Documents

Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)	http://www.loc.gov/	A rich resource for history-related topics, historical photos, and documents.

Social Studies

Database Publisher	Subject	Details
Gale Group	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	This resource center Provides information on social issues, viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Business & Company Resource Center	This Business & company resource center provides companies profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, companies histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Gale Group	Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

* NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Career Databases

Database Publisher	Subject	Details

	Career Programs, College Search & Tests Preparations	1. Career Program Search 2. College Search 3. Practice for college/graduate school admissions and exams for college, civil service/licensing exams, and military entrance exams, plus the G.E.D

U.S Department of Labor	Occupation Outlook Handbook	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. Revised every two years, 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.

U.S. Federal Government	USA Jobs	USAJOBS is the official job site of the United States Federal Government. It's your one-stop source for Federal jobs and employment information.

New York State Government	State Jobs NY	This is the official job site of the New York State Government. It provides information about career opportunities, vacancies, and required exams.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Business & Company Resource Center	This Business & company resource center provides companies profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, companies histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Science and Health

Database Publisher	Subject	Details

	General Science Collection	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

	PsycArticles	*PsycARTICLES* is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Health Reference Center Academic	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. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

* NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Selected Links to Health-Related Websites

Publisher	URL	Details
United States Department of Health and Human Services	http://dhhs.gov	This official government site provides many health related services. Among them it provides information on diseases and wellness, food and drugs, and reference collections.

Medline Plus: Health Information	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/	This site provides authoritative and up to date health information on diseases and conditions, prescription and nonprescription drugs. It also provides lists of hospitals, physicians, and extensive information and links to thousands of clinical trials. MEDLINEplus is updated daily.

Healthfinder	http://www.healthfinder.gov	healthfinder® is a Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations

New York Online Access to Health	http://www.noah-health.org	NOAH’s mission statement: “NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased”

American Medical Association	http://www.ama-assn.org	This official website of the American Medical Association provides information for patients and doctors on medical issues. It also supplies information about the accreditation and affiliations of medical doctors in the U.S.

National Cancer Institute	http://cancer.gov	This Web site provides valuable cancer-related health information and the exciting work being conducted by NCI-supported scientists throughout the country. It also offers comprehensive descriptions of their scientists’ research programs.

English and World Literature

Database Publisher	Subject	Details

Gale Group	Literature Resource Center	Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Roth Publishing	Poem/Story/Essay Finder	*Poem Finder* contains over 125,000 full-text poems, explanations, study guides, a glossary, pictures and more. *Story Finder* Provides thousands of full-text short stories, explanations and biographies. *Essay/Speech/Play Finder* is a unique database of full-text essays, speeches and plays.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	The Twayne Authors Series - World, English, and U.S. Authors	Twayne’s 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. It Contains full text discussions of authors’ works and the chronology of the authors’ lives.

Gale Group	Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

* NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Education

Database Publisher	Subject	Details

	Education Periodicals & Teacher Journals	In the drop-down database window select “Education Periodicals” or “Teacher Journals” for articles on educational issues.

	General Reference Database	Database containing thousands of articles from professional journals in a variety of subject matters, including education and psychology.

	Test Preparation & College Search	1. Practice for college/graduate school admissions and exams for college, civil service/licensing exams, and military entrance exams, plus the G.E.D 2. College Search 3. Career Program Search

	Turnitin	Plagiarism Prevention A system that makes it easy to identify students who submit unoriginal work, and also acts as a powerful deterrent to stop plagiarism before it starts. It ensures originality of student work, and saves instructors' time.

Newspapers

Database Publisher	Subject	Details
	News – ProQuest Newspapers	The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current national and international periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986 to current times.

	News – The Historical New York Times	*This resource of New York Times* contains deep backfiles of archival material from the 1800s up to the year 1986.**

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	New York State Newspapers	This database contains ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	National Newspaper Index	1977 - Dec 2003 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.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Custom Newspapers	A collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	¡Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)	Spanish newspapers database: 1994 - Ene. 2004 Una colecciףn de revistas hispבnicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologםa, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

* NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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Created by Dina Jalowski

Last revised: February 1, 2005

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