America's Historical Newspapers: 1600-1922 (NewsBank).

Access World News (NewsBank)

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Business and Company ASAP (Gale ID & Password required)
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale ID & Password required)
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

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Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale ID & Password required)
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

Custom Newspapers (Gale ID & Password required)
Search a collection of over 150 full-text national and international newspapers, including 7 New York State newspapers and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for the full current year.

CQ Researcher (CQ Researcher Username & Password required)
Excellent resource that compliments the Issues & Controversies database.
Independent & comprehensive reports on current issues with a database that goes back to 1991. The CQ Researcher covers a wide range of social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. Sections include Abstract, Overview, Background, Outlook, Chronology, Next Step, and others.

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EBSCO Animals (EBSCO ID & Password required)(Click on EBSCOhost Web.)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO ID & Password required)(Click on EBSCOhost Web.)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Click on EBSCOhost Web.)

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Grolier (Grolier Username & Password required)
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Dictionaries, Atlases, & daily news items.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Medicine Module (Gale ID & Password required)
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

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Issues & Controversies (Facts.com ID & Password required)
This fantastic resource provides more than 650 in-depth articles on controversial topics in the news from1995 to the present. The opening page is updated weekly; new articles are added biweekly; highlights the Pros and Cons for each issue; statistical overviews of key issues; and contact information for public, private, and governmental organizations.

Issues & Controversies in American History (Facts.com ID & Password required)
Step back into history and explore the contentious issues of the past as they were argued. Quickly gather information on the debates that shaped America — from revolution and slavery to atomic weapons and Vietnam. Clear and balanced information is provided using primary documents and other supplemental resources such as timelines and biographies.

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 JSTOR ((access only from JHS)
Full-text searchable collection of over 1 million full text articles from over 1100 academic journals covering 14 different disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences (Access only from JHS)

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National Newspaper Index (Gale ID & Password required)
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. (Note: Citation only - not full text.)

New York State Newspapers (Gale ID & Password required)
This database includes the following seven full-text newspapers from around New York State: Buffalo News, New York Times (from 2000 on), New York Post, New York Observer, Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, and Post-Standard (Syracuse).

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ProQuest DIRECT (Proquest ID & Password required)

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The Twayne Authors Series—Twayne World, English, and US Authors (Gale ID & Password required)
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. This series is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion for readers ranging from high school students through college and above.

Today's Science (Facts.com ID & Password required)
Bridges the gap between the science that you learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

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World Book Online (World Book ID & Password required)
The World Book Encyclopedia in online format.

World Geography-ABC-CLIO (Password Required)
Informative and extensive information specifically aimed at social studies topics. Concentrates mostly on country information and analysis of world issues. Includes CLIOVIEW, an excellent country comparison resource.

World News Digest (Facts.com ID & Password required)
Covers U.S. & World News from 1940 to the present day. Updated every week, it includes an hourly updated Reuters® newsfeed. Special "Top Stories" timelines deliver, decade by decade, listings linked to original coverage of top news stories back to October, 1940. Original feature essays created for the online version include Country Profiles, Key People, Key Events, and Key Issues.

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