Articles and Databases

A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.

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Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

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Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians.

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Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library.

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Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

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Timeline of changes in silhouettes, accessories, lingerie and hairstyles from 18th to 20th century for men, women and children on Kent State University Museum site. Uses detailed photos of original garments.

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This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.

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Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology.

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Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.

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A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.

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This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.

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Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.

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Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international.

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Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.

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Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. The content of EBSCO Animals is also included.

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La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
 

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The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database.

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Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.

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This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.

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Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy.

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Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. 

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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia.

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An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. The content from EBSCO Animals is included. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this database features content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents.

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Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.

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Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 38 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.

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Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. 

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Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.

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An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students.

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A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers.

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Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos.

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Information on hundreds of different types of jobs and training or education needed.

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Opposing Viewpoints contains nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.

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Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.

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Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.

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Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. Also includes the content from EBSCO Animals.

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Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists. 

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TrueFlix is an online resource that helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.  

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Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.  *Twayne's Authors Series  is now available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.

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Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.

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Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read.

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Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.

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Covers the following for countries around the world: maps, current issues, history, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

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From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.

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