Databases by Title
(Databases by Subject)

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	Business & Company Resource Center		National Newspaper Index
	Chilton Library (auto repair information)**		New York State Newspapers
	Custom Newspapers		NewsBank*
	EBSCO Animals		Novelist**
	Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia		OCLC FirstSearch*
	Grolier Online		Primary Search (via Searchasaurus)
	Health & Wellness Resource Center		Proquest Platinum
	Literature Resource Center*		Twayne's Authors Series

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Business & Company Resource Center	Contains detailed company and industry news and information, including company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. fact sheet  title list
Chilton Library	Provides detailed repair information on thousands of car, truck, van and SUV make and model combinations. Includes: detailed step-by-step service instructions as well as photographs and illustrations.   fact sheet
Custom Newspapers	Full-text newspaper database that lets you search newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. fact sheet  title list
EBSCO Animals	Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia	This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Grolier Online	Includes two learning environments (Grolier Online Kids and Grolier Online Passport) and three curriculum-aligned databases: New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Americana.
Health & 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. fact sheet  title List
Literature Resource Center	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. fact sheet  title list
National Newspaper Index	Gives quick access to indexed articles from America's top five newspapers: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. fact sheet  title list
New York State Newspapers	New York State Newspaper database contains: Buffalo News; Herald American (Syracuse); Herald-Journal (Syracuse); New York Observer; New York Post; New York Times and Post-Standard (Syracuse)
News Bank	Database of regional and national newspapers. Sources: Binghamton Press & Sun Journal, Buffalo News, Elmira Star Gazette, Ithaca Journal, New York Post, Poughkeepsie Journal, Syracuse Post Standard, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Westchester Journal-News. National papers: Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune.
Novelist	A reader's advisory service that provides more than 135,000 fiction titles that include: book reviews, first chapters, and book discussion guides.
OCLC FirstSearch	FirstSearch is an online reference search tool that delivers quality content from WorldCat and dozens of quality, respected databases of bibliographic and full-text content.
Primary Search (via Searchasaurus)	Designed for the elementary school student, provides full text from over 50 children's magazines and over 100 pamphlets.  A general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia of animals are also available.  Also available via Ebscohost and Kid's Search interfaces. title list
Proquest Platinum	A comprehensive publication collection of over 2,000 titles that meets a wide range of research demands, from general reference to advanced subject matter.
Twayne's Authors 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”. fact sheet