Magazines
 

  ProQuest
1970s-Present (Full Text & Indexing & Abstracts)
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EBSCO
1984-Present (Indexing & Abstracts)
1990-Present (Full Text)
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Newspapers
  NewsBank NewsFile
1991-Present (Full Text)
Over 500 U.S.
regional and national newspapers, wire services and broadcasts
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Buffalo News
1989-Present (Full Text)
 Remote Access via library card number
New York State Papers
1996-Present (Full Text)
10 major NYS newspapers, including: 

NY Times
NY Post

Buffalo News

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National Newspaper Index
1977-Present
 (Indexing & Abstracts)
Christian Sci Monitor
L.A. Times
NY Times
Wall St. Jr.
Wash. Post
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Custom Newspapers
1996-Present (Full Text)
150 newspapers
national & international

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Phonebooks  

Internet Links 

  ReferenceUSA
Over 12 million US Businesses

Over 120 million US Households
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Why am I getting Username/Password when I click on ReferenceUSA remotely?

Swithboard.com
http://www.switchboard.com

Health

Start searching Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (HWRC-1)

Health Reference Center-Academic
1980-Present (Indexing & Abstracts)
Contains general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
This databases delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.
 

Business

Business & Company Resource Center
1980-Present (Full Text & Indexing & Abstracts)
Periodicals
Industry News & Information
Company Profiles
Brand Information
Rankings
Investment Reports
Company Histories

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Business and Company ASAP
1980-Present (Full Text & Indexing & Abstracts)
Business and Trade -
Journals & Newspapers

Company Directory Profiles

Use this database to track companies, industries, markets, mergers and more!
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Hoover's Online
Subsidiaries

Competitors
Company news
Stock price (full quote)
Quarterly Financials
Officers & Board Members
Headline News
No Remote Access, Only Free Website

Literature
 

NovelList

 

  Literature Resource Center
120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers
In-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors
Biographies
Bibliographies
Critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline
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Author Biographies
Literary Criticisms
Masterplots
Reviews
Reference Books
Periodicals
and more!

"- Find fiction titles based on a favorite author, title, or description.
- Access Author Read-alikes with suggested titles and authors that are similar to your favorites.
- Browse lists based on genre or awards (over 1000 pre-made lists).
- Search the database using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).
- Search by subject heading, reviews, publishers; basically every field in the title record."
 

 

Twayne's Authors Series
US, English & World Authors
600 Individual Full Text Titles
Literary Criticism & Background Information
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Reference Start searching Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL-0)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full Text ebooks
  American Civil War Reference Library , 5v, 2000
American Revolution Reference Library , 5v, 2000
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 5, 1998
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 6, 1999
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 7, 2000
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 8, 2001
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 9, 2002
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 10, 2004

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Encyclopedia of Small Business , 2nd Ed., 2v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer , 2v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce , 2v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders , 2v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine , 2nd Ed., 5v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health , 5v, 2002
History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 6v, 2001
Major Acts of Congress , 3v, 2004
Children Start searching Junior Edition - K12 (K12J) Primary
Search
TOPICsearch EBSCO
Animals

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Magazines (Full Text)
Newspapers (Full Text)
Encyclopedias
Maps
Reference Sources

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"Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 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. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
This 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 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

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"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."

Full text for over 50 popular elementary school magazines.
 
All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Over 1,100 full text historical documents

Encyclopedia of Animals
Over 11,000 images from Archive Photo 
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"Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-5."

"This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas."
Genealogy
  Ancestry Library Edition

"Welcome to Ancestry Library Edition™ – a new genealogy research tool created for the library market.  It provides patrons with instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research.  With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more!  These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day."
No Remote Access
 

HeritageQuest

For Remote Access:
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Over 25,000 family and local history books
Entire U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930)
Forthcoming:
ProQuest Newspaper Obituaries (150 newspapers)
Revolutionary War Pension &
Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
Freedman's Bank Records

Science
  General Science Collection  [from EBSCO]

General Science Collection provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications, including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. The database also includes Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century, a multi-volume encyclopedia from Salem Press.

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Spanish
  Informe
1994-Present
"Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias."
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Car Repair
  Auto Repair Reference Center
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Tax Forms

 

Federal Tax Forms New York State Tax Forms

Pennsylvania State Tax Forms

 

Bibliographic Citation Help
MLA & APA Style Guides [Hultquist Library, Jamestown Community College]
http://www.sunyjcc.edu/jamestown/library/ref/style.html
 

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