Library Databases

These databases will help you find  magazine and newspaper articles and other resources for your school assignments and your personal curiosity.

Access: 

To access the databases listed below please ask for the list of usernames and passwords from one of the high school library staff members.

ABC-CLIO Databases:

World History

Covers those historic events that shaped today's society form the 1500s to the present.

American History 

Covers the people, places, events, trends, statistics, news, attractions, politics, culture, environment, government, and history of all fifty states.

American Government

Provides comprehensive curriculum-based reference and research materials on the workings and history of the United States Government.

C.E.R.F

is a dynamic directory of tens of thousands of carefully selected, information-rich, safe K-12 websites.  Salaried teachers, consults and programmers organize and maintain evaluated sites in major subject areas: Arts, Biology, Chemistry, English, Geography, Health, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Sports, Technology, and Visual Arts.

Discovering Collection PLUS Contemporary Authors

Discovering Collection:  Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-dept reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

Contemporary Authors:  Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S.  and international authors (until March 2004).

EBSCO: Master File, Topic, and Primary Search

Masterfile:  Allows access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health, and multi-cultural.

          Topic Search: A current events/social issues database.

Primary Search via Searchasaurus: A database designed for elementary students with information on a wide range of general topics.

General Science Collection: this database offers full text coverage for more than sixty of the most popular science publications. 

 

E-Library

Offers more than 1500 full-text sources with a fun and easy-to-use search interface.  Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures and audio/visual clips.

Facts.com

Brings together complete content from the Facts on File World News Digest since 1980and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last twenty years.

Gale - Health Reference Center-Academic, Business and Company Resource Center, Junior Edition, Informe, Custom Newspapers,  New York Newspapers, and National Newspaper Index

Health Reference Center: A full-text, multi-source database providing single-search access to the wide variety of health information sources in HRC plus 40 full-text nursing and health journals.

Business and Company Resource Center: A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, ranking, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.

Junior Edition-Formely SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in middle school, with magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Infrome una coleccion de revistas hespanicas con textos completos.  Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologia, cultura, temas de actualidas y otras materias.

Custom Newspapers- Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

New York State Newspapers- Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

National Newspaper Index - National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of American's top five newspapers in one searcgL  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post

Twayne's Author: Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contain the full-text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters.

Grolier Online

Features Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and The New Book of Knowledge.  To access this at home you have to register, so please  click here.

MagillONLiterature Plus includes the following

MagillOnAuthors offers approximately 3,000 articles and offers 450 images and covers long and short fiction writers, poets, dramaitists, and philosophers.

MagillOnLiterature is the definitive, online source fro editorially reviewed critical analyses.

Novelist- looking for a good book to read, check out this database.

ProQuest Professional Collection

A comprehensive research collection of more than 300 magazines and journals for K-12 professional development and continuing education.

SIRS Researcher is a general reference database containing full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political and global issues.  Additional features include: Focus on Terrorism, Leading Issues, SIRS Newest, and Today's News

Last updated September 2006