|
Database
|
Description
|
|
ProQuest
Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor
Christian
Science Monitor website
|
A major daily
newspaper covering national and international news. (ProQuest)
|
|
Custom
Newspapers
|
"...a collection
of 150 newspapers, both national and international." (Infotrac/Gale
Group) (Novel)
|
|
Discovery
|
"...a broad range of
subject areas including arts, business, children, education, general
interest, health , humanities, international, law, military, multicultural,
psychological, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests…"
Coverage dates 1971 - the present. (ProQuest)
|
|
Espanol
Check out all the other languages you
can pick from the upper right corner!
|
Enables searching across
multiple databases simultaneously. Includes Spanish translation within the
following EBSCO databases: MasterFILE Select; Primary Search; Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; EBSCO Animals; etc. (EBSCOhost)
|
|
Funk
&Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
|
Online encyclopedia. (EBSCOhost)
|
|
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
|
"Gale Virtual
Reference Library offers more than 85 reference sources including encyclopedias,
almanacs, series and more. " (Infotrac/Gale Group)(NOVEL)
|
|
Global
Newsbank
(1996-Current)
Select this database from the list.
|
"News articles covering
politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the
environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific
Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East ." (NewsBank,
Inc.)
|
|
Informe
|
"Una coleccion de
revistas hispanicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud,
tecnologica, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias." (Infrotrac/
Gale Group) (NOVEL)
|
|
InfoTrac
Junior Edition
|
K12: ""…designed
for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers
and reference books…" (Infrotrac/Gale Group) (NOVEL)
|
|
Kids
Search
|
Easy interface for
searching information. (EBSCOhost)
|
|
KidQuest
Magazines
|
KidQuest includes
approximated 80 magazine titles including images with 91% of the collection
in full-text. (ProQuest)
|
|
MAS
Ultra Online
|
"Provides full text
for over 190 general interest and current events magazines. " (EBSCOhost)
|
|
MasterFILE
Select
|
"Provides full text
for over 780 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general
reference, business, health, and much more." (EBSCOhost)
|
|
National Newspaper Abstracts
|
"Abstracts and
indexing for New York Times,
USA Today,
and Wall Street Journal…" (ProQuest)
|
|
National
Newspaper Index
|
The NNI provides indexing
of America's
top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian
Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post." Dates
covered are 1977 to present. (Infrotrac/Gale Group) (NOVEL)
|
|
Newspaper
Source
|
"Provides full text
for 159 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six
newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and
The Los Angeles Times (for a total of 194 full text newspapers and other
sources)." (EBSCOHost)
|
|
New York State Newspapers
|
"Search this database
of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the . . .." (Infrotrac/Gale
Group) (NOVEL)
|
|
New York Times
From home or school:
|
Custom Newspapers list includes full text coverage (Infotrac/Gale
Group)(NOVEL).
New York Times – website Access full text of news for previous week
(free) and archive to past 365 days (pay for articles).
|
|
Newsbank
Select this database from the list.
|
It contains “news articles covering
social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people,
health and science issues and events. (NewsBank, Inc.)
|
|
Newsday
From school only:
- eLibrary:
Click on Browse Publications and select Newsday.
From home or school:
|
Full text of archived
articles.
|
|
NoodleTools
Create a folder on any OHS computer and use
it from anywhere, home, etc.
|
"NoodleTools is a
suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with
their online research.
|
|
Primary
Search
|
"Provides full text
for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All
full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as
1990..." (EBSCO Database from the NYS Library through LSTA funds) (NOVEL)
|
|
ProQuest
Newspapers
|
From this index page, you
can select Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and USA Today. (ProQuest)
|
|
Reference
|
"A full-text
collection of Reference Books including The Ethnic Cultures of America,
Occupational Outlook Handbook, and the World Factbook."
(Proquest)
|
|
SIRS
Discoverer
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page,
and click on SIRS Discoverer.
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
SIRS Discoverer® . . . students to the research process. ESL
students will also find Discoverer an appropriate learning tool. Discoverer
includes the World Almanac for Kids." (NBSLS) (SKS)
|
|
SIRS Government Reporter
Username and password can be obtained in
the OHS Library.
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page, select SIRS
Knowledge Source and click on SIRS Government Reporter.
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
"SIRS Government Reporter® is the one
source for current and historic government documents; landmark and recent
U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments and
agencies; and facts about U.S. congressional members and Supreme Court
justices " (SKS)
|
|
SIRS
Leading Issues
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page, select SIRS
Knowledge Source and click on SIRS Researcher
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
"SIRS Leading
Issues provides easy access to materials on over 100 current and
enduring issues, drawn from more than 1,500 diverse sources. . ." (SKS)
|
|
SIRS
Renaissance
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page, select SIRS
Knowledge Source and click on SIRS Renaissance.
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
"SIRS Renaissance® - . . . these
full-text articles selected from more than 700 sources explore current and
dynamic perspectives and people in Arts & Humanities." (SKS)
|
|
SIRS
Researcher
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page, select SIRS
Knowledge Source and click on SIRS Researcher.
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
"SIRS Researcher® is a general
reference database with thousands of full-text articles exploring social,
scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global
issues. (SKS)
|
|
SIRS
WebSelect
From home:
ProQuest
Products Page, select SIRS
Knowledge Source and click on SIRS WebSelect.
Students enter XG57 before their ID.
|
An added bonus is the
integration of WebSelect that links users to sites on the web
that support their subject searches. (SKS)
|
|
Student Research Center
|
This is graphic
interface to information available from EBSCO.
|
|
TOPICsearch
|
"This current events
database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic
issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics (EBSCO)
|
|
UNConnections
Log on through Provider link and
select this database from the list.
|
"consists of the
full text of selected United Nations documents and publications. An ideal
source for information about critical international issues including human
rights, nation building, national security, and terrorism." (NewsBank,
Inc.)
|
|
USA Today
From school or home:
|
"Daily national
newspaper known for its concise stories, sports, and weather coverage.
covers regional, national and world news." (ProQuest)
|
