Online Databases

Facts.com

Issues and Controversies @ Facts.com gives up-to-date, in-depth, and objective information on the issues of the day. This full-text database includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies, and contact information.

Facts on File

This package includes three databases.

• American History Online includes events, images, primary sources, biographies and timeline. 
• Modern World History Online covers people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history from the middle of the 15th century to the present.
• Science Online includes experiments, biographies, diagrams, and essays.

NOVEL-EBSCO

This database package is available from the New York State Library's Empirelink Project.

• MasterFILE Select includes articles from 750 periodicals
• Primary Search includes articles from 50 children's magazines as well as pamphlets.
• EBSCO Animals offers information on the nature and habitats of animals.
• Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia is also part of this database.
• General Science contains full-text articles from 60 scientific publications.

NOVEL - Gale

This set of databases is offered through the New York State Library. It includes:

• The Health Reference Database includes articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
• Junior Edition, K-12 is a periodical database  for students in junior high and middle school, with 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.
• Twayne Authors includes biographical and critical information on national and international authors.
• Custom Newspapers is a collection of 150 national and international newspapers.
• New York State newspapers is a database of 10 major newspapers published in New York State, including the New York Times and and New York Post.

Proquest

• Proquest is a database of general magazine, newspaper, and journal articles
• Electric Library offers information from books, magazines, and newspapers as well as pictures, maps, and television and radio scripts. Information is rated for relevance to the subject being searched.
• Proquest Professional is a database of articles for educators.

SIRS Discoverer

This database provides articles on a wide variety of topics as well as the Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and the 2000 World Almanac for Kids.

Teaching Books

This database, provided to school libraries in the area by the Capital Region BOCES, includes information on authors and books.

Thomson Gale

• Gale Student Resource Center Junior contains curriculum-targeted background information, primary documents, biographies, and essays. The database offers full-text coverage of 100 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
• Gale Biography Resource Center offers thumbnail sketches, narrative biographies and periodical articles on notable people.