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African American Experience
Covers African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day, in addition to a collection of over 500 searchable titles. more info
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African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. more info
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American Indian History Online
Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps & charts, images, and timelines. It also features searchable tribe and culture area indexes, as well as the ability to search for tribes by region.
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American Women's History
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
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Ancient & Medieval History Online
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.
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AP Multimedia Archive
Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library. more info
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Biography Resource Center
Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. more info
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BrainPOP
Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology. more info
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Business & Company Resource Center
Includes company profiles, executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols,news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, and more. more info
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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
Provides access to full text of 200 popular journals in Chinese language. more info
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms. more info
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Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors. more info
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Custom Newspapers
Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international. more info
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EBSCO Animals (grades 5-12)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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EBSCO Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
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EBSCOhost
Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications. more info
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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
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Encyclopedia Americana
The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database. more info
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ERIC (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
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Facts On File History Database Center
Comprised of the World History Online, Ancient History & Culture, American Women's History, African-American History & Culture and American Indian History & Culture, this interface allows us to search across all five history databases more info
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Offers detailed descriptions of more than 2,000 popular jobs in 94 industries, as well as over 23,000 resources to help people select, plan, and advance their careers. more info
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO[grades 5-8]
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. more info
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Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCO
Full text for journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. more info
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History Resource Center: US
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. more info
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Kids Search
An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. 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 magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
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Lands & Peoples
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared to student readers. more info
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Latino American Experience
Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present. more info
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LearningExpressLibrary
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
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Literature Resource Center
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. more info
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Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided. more info
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Contains full-text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. more info
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Middle Search Plus
Provides fulltext access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students. more info
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Modern World History Online
Covers the important civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timelines provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history.
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National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. more info
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New Book of Knowledge
An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students.
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New Book of Popular Science (for students)
A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers. more info
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New York State Newspapers
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text. more info
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New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present)
Full text of the New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present). more info
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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts. more info
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Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos. more info
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. more info
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Regents Exam Prep Center
Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant. more info
Religion and Philosophy Collection
A full-text database of journal articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. more info
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Science Online
Covers Animal Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, General Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, and more. more info
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Searchasaurus [grades 1-3]
Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. more info
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Twayne's Authors Series
Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. more info
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What Do I Read Next?
Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read. more info
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World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.
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World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.
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