GENERAL REFERENCE

Biography Resource Center
Contains Biographies from over 80 sources.  Searchable by Occupation, Nationality, Ethnicity, Birth/Death Year, Birth/Death Place, Gender and last name.
 

Electric Library

Magazine and newspaper articles, books (including World Book Encyclopedia, World Almanac, Plays, Poetry, and more), maps, and pictures.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia that offers more than 25,000 articles on a wide variety of topics. This source provides full text for all articles. Content is updated annually.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Grolier Encyclopedias
Including Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, and   Lands and Peoples. 

Informe
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text in Spanish.  A NOVEL -funded program

InfoTrac Junior Edition
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.*A NOVEL -funded program

Master FileSelect

Full text for nearly 800 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 37 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.*A NOVEL -funded  program

Primary Search

Primary Search provides full text for 60 popular, magazines for young readers. 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. This database is updated daily.*A NOVEL -funded program

 

Topic Search
Current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including nearly 1,600 full text periodicals.*A NOVEL -funded program

National Newspaper Index  1977 - Sep 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.   *A NOVEL -funded program

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. *A NOVEL -funded program

ART

Grove Art Online

A comprehensive reference source for all aspects of the visual arts.  Includes articles, images,  timelines and lesson plans for worldwide arts from prehistory to present day.

BUSINESS
 

Business and Company Resource Center
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. *A NOVEL -funded program

ENGLISH

LitFinder
This database provides access to more than 135,000 full-text short stories, poems, speeches and essays. A perfect source for full text full stories.

Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Short Stories for Students
Presents analysis, context and criticism on hundreds of short stories.   Be sure to use this database for any short story criticism!
 

Twayne's Author Series

Contains the full text of 200 Twayne Literary Masters books on U.S., English, and world authors. *A NOVEL -funded program

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module  1980 - Sep 2005

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. *A NOVEL -funded program

Ebsco Animals 
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 animal

Science Reference Center
Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Culture Grams
Provides access to 190 countries and territories with maps, statistics, and in-depth information in over 25 catagories.  Includes recipes, photographs and short biographies from each country's best-known individuals.

ABC-CLIO American History
From the explorers of America to today's healines, this database investigates the people, events and themes of our nationls history.

ABC-CLIO World History, Ancient and Medieval Eras
Covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance

ABC-CLIO  World History, The Modern Era
Provides key historical developments from 1500 to the present day.

ABC-CLIO Issues, Understanding Controversy and Society
A useful database for exploring current issues for social studies and English research papers, as well as for selecting and preparing for debate topics.

Opposing Viewpoints

Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

 

Point of View Reference Center
Provides a balanced series of articles representing multiple viewpoints on a wide range of controversial subjects.  Great for debates, position research papers and developing arguments.

 

ProQuest-Education

Articles of interest to educators from education journals

SIRS Researcher
Features thousands of relevant full-text articles and analysis on today’s hottest and most controversial social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.

MISCELLANEOUS

ClipArt
Images, fonts, and sounds!

Noodletools
The site to use when creating a bibliography or works cited page in MLA or APA format.  Also can be used to create online notecards.

NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library.  You will need to enter remote passwords to access the Novel databases outside of school. See Ms. Rossi for the list of passwords.