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Newspapers

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CountryWatch
CountryWatch provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and contains a significant news archive. It also contains the weekly Political Intelligence Briefing and the associated Intelligence wire, as well as special reports.

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Custom Newspaper Index
Full-text of more than 100 major newspapers including The New York Times, Financial Times, Dallas Morning News, The Times (London), Boston Herald, Korea Times, Irish Times, Denver Post, and more.
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Grolier Online (World Newspapers)
Grolier Online contains daily news from the Associated Press, an international news desk and world newspapers – you pick the country.
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HRVH Historical News

Provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. As a first step toward this vision, The Kingston Daily Freeman has been completely digitized for the years 1903 to 1912.

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Hudson River Valley Heritage

HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations from the following counties in New York State: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester.

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National Newspaper Index
Provides indexing of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post; 1997-present.
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New York State Newspapers
Full-text of 7 New York state newspapers: Buffalo News, Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, New York Observer, New York Post, and New York Times (2000-present).
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NewspaperArchive.com
Searchable access to full-page newspapers from across the U.S. (except New York State) from 1759-1977.
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ProQuest Historical New York Times
The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 all the way to 2003.
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Rockland County Messenger

Published Weekly from Haverstraw, 1847-1898

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Journal News Via Proquest

Full text of the Journal News 1999-present.

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Proquest Digital Microfilm

Cover-to-cover full-image microfilmed editions of the New York Times from the 2008 volume year forward.

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Science

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General Science Collection
The database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, International Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Check out the easy-to-use Visual Search.

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ProQuest Platinum
Periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.
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Science Reference Center

Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

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Informe! Revistas en Español
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

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Recursos En Español

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Students

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Academic OneFile
More than 13,000 titles, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals and more than 5,000 in full text with strong coverage of hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business.
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Biography Resource Center
This database contains comprehensive biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

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Bookflix

Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning.

 

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Britannica Kids

Britannica Elementary; Compton’s by Britannica; Merriam-Webster’s Student Dictionary; interactive timelines; Video and audio content; Interactive world atlas; Age-appropriate magazine articles.

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CountryWatch
CountryWatch contains comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world, including demographic, political, economic, environmental, social, and investment overviews. It also contains daily news coverage for every country in the world.

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EBSCO Kids Search
Designed specifically for elementary/middle school students, kids can search by topics such as Social Studies, Arts & Music, Language Arts, Math, Science, Sports. Or, kids can enter their topic.

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EBSCO Middle Search
Provides full text for over 100 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students.

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EBSCO Middle Search via Searchasaurus
The same database as above, presented through a colorful, easy-to-use interface.

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ERIC: Education Resources Information Center

ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.

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General OneFile

More than 7,100 general interest periodical full-text titles and 3,600 refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers. Also more than 500 travel guides, including Fodor's.

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General Science Collection
The database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, International Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others.

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Grolier Online
This site includes Grolier Multimedia, Encyclopedia Americana, and America the Beautiful. View atlases, read the daily news from the Associated Press, or read today’s world newspapers – you pick the country.

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Learning Express Library
Practice exams, based on official tests, will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Includes AP exams, SAT preparation, TOEFL, GED, EMS, Firefighter, law enforcement, nursing, teacher certification, real estate and many more. Also contains reading, grammar and writing skills improvement.

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NoveList K-8
A reader's advisory service. Find youth fiction titles similar to authors or titles you already enjoy.

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TOPICsearch
This current events database includes 40,000 full text documents carefully selected by a staff of librarians and teachers. For an easy approach to research, check out the Visual Search tool!

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21st Century Explorer

Online reference and learning tools for students who read below grade level, are dealing with specific learning problems, or are at risk of falling behind.

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Websites

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Best Online Reference Sites
A web guide to 500 of the best free web sites for answering common questions. (Note: access to these sites may be restricted on PCs within a library dedicated to the library catalog.)

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