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Business & Company Resource Center
Detailed company and industry news and information, including company
profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company
histories, chronologies and periodicals. Click here for a title
list. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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The Chilton Library The Chilton Library is a vast collection of Auto
Repair Information from their well known print collection. Funded by Central Book Aid administered through the
Central Library of the Southern Tier Library System.
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Custom Newspapers
Full-text newspaper database that lets you
search newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author,
section or other assigned fields. Click here for a title
list. Click here for a fact
sheet with a detailed description of Custom Newspapers. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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| EBSCOhost
MasterFILE Select
Full-text from over 750 periodicals covering
nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health and
much more. Includes special resources for school-aged children. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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| Gale
Literature
Resource Center
A complete literature reference database from Gale Group, Inc.
designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student, as well as the
sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical
and critical content, the Literature Resource Center provides
information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such
genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and
more. Access provided through NY State
Library regional funding.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias,
almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research. Includes: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale
Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale
Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health,
American Revolution Reference Library (4 volumes plus index), American
Civil War Reference Library (4 volumes plus index), Major Acts of Congress
(1st Ed., 3 volumes) and History Behind the Headlines (vol. 1-6 set).
fact sheet A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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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.
fact sheet
title list A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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| Health
and Wellness Resource Center
A fully-integrated, ever-growing electronic resource center for all
levels of health research. Includes more than 700 health/medical
journals and health-related articles from 2200 general interest
publications.
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InfoTrak Junior Edition
This periodical database is designed for
students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers
and reference books for information on current events, the arts,
science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports
and more. title list
A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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| New
York State Newspapers
New York State Newspaper database contains:
Buffalo News; Herald American (Syracuse); Herald-Journal (Syracuse);
Journal News (Westchester); New York Observer; New York Post; New York
Times; Post-Standard (Syracuse); Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton);
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Click here for coverage
information. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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| NewsBank
Database of regional and national newspapers, including Buffalo News,
Elmira Star Gazette, Ithaca Journal, New York Post, Syracuse Post
Standard, Utica Observer-Dispatch and more. National papers include
Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning
News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and more. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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NoveList NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject
heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000
fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction
readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion
Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists
and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching
with Fiction. Funded by Central Book Aid administered through the
Central Library of the Southern Tier Library System.
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| OCLC
FirstSearch
Includes WorldCat, the world's foremost bibliographic
database with over 46 million records of electronic and traditional
materials in library collections around the world. Also find
full-text and full-image documents from well-known reference databases,
magazines and web resources. Access provided by NY State
Library regional funding.
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Searchasaurus
from EBSCOhost
Designed for the elementary school student, Searchasaurus provides
full text from over 50 children's magazines and over 100 pamphlets.
A general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia of animals are also
available. Click here for a title
list. A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
Library through LSTA funding.
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TOPICSearch
Explore social, political, economic, scientific and
other popular issues with full-text content from magazines and journals,
newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews and public opinion polls.
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| Twayne's
Author Series
Browse an alphabetical list of authors to view biographical
information or search by author’s name, genre, period, etc. To search
by title of work, enter title in “full text” box on the “In Depth
Search” page. Also includes “Research Ideas.” A NOVEL database provided by the NY State
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NOVEL
connects New Yorkers to 21st century information via local libraries
statewide. NOVEL is currently supported with temporary federal Library
Services and Technology Act funds. New Century Libraries is an important
statewide funding initiative currently before the Legislature that
proposes permanent state funding for NOVEL. Go to the
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