These are subscription databases which provide reliable information. They have been created, reviewed and selected by authoritative (expert) sources- unlike a search engine which retrieves any site with matching words. All of theses databases can be accessed in school or at home.

User names and passwords are needed. They can be found at the school library. Ask for the blue brochure titled "literature resource center." Or click here for the list. This file is password protected. Ask one of your librarians for the password to access this file.

Magazines and Newspapers

NOVEL InfoTrac - Log on for any of the following databases from the New York State Library.

• Health Reference Center Academic - Find articles on Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, HMOs, etc.
• Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
  
• The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors . A total of 600 individual full-text titles.
  
• Informe - Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
  
• Custom Newspapers - Search a collection of 150 newspapers both national and international.
  
• New York State Newspapers - Ten major newspapers published in the state of New York. Includes The New York Times and The New York Post.
  
• Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module - Find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and other information about Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Herbal Remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Includes links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
  
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content may vary in the databases of different libraries (i.e. - school, public library, office).
  
• Business and Company ASAP - Information on companies, markets and industries from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

InfoTrac from the Queens Public Library- a Queens Public Library card and PIN number are needed to log on.

• Biography Resource Center - Award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
  
• Literature Resource Center - Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases to cover more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
  
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
  
• Student Resource Center - Silver - Contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 650 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations.

EBSCO - MAS FullTEXT Ultra database contains full text for nearly 800 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. EBSCO also includes TOPICsearch (a current events database), EBSCO animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and General Science Collection.

Country Reports - more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics, including statistical data and cultural information.

Facts on File Databases

Modern World History Online - Covers the broad expanse of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. It contains thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images, maps and charts, primary source documents, and timelines.

Ancient and Medieval History Online - Provides the complete histories of six ancient centers of civilization: Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia as well as their respective places within the larger context of world history.

Science Online - Contains extensive information on a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Gale Resource Centers

History Resource Center U.S. - Integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Literature Resource Center - Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.