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Academic Search Elite

Ccontains full text for more than 2,100 journals, including more than 1,700 peer-reviewed titles. It is suitable for a college student and covers most academic subjects including the sciences, social sciences, and literature.
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E-Journals

E-Journals is a gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, all at one web site.
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EBSCOhost General Menu

Find a list of all available EBSCOhost databases.
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Encyclopedia Americana

A general encyclopedia with over 45,000 articles. Articles include links to further readings, a bibliography, selected full text articles, web page links, and links to related Encyclopedia Americana articles.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) access is sponsored by the New York State Library. If you do not have a Queens Library card, you may access this database by using your New York State Driver's License. Look here.

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GreenFILE

GreenFILE is a research database that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE includes A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present issue 1 to present – Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia includes encyclopedia articles, news, timelines, quizzes and games, and research starters. It also includes an atlas and dictionary.
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InfoTrac General Menu

Find a list of all available InfoTrac databases.
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Integrum World Wide

This database provides access to over 5,000 source materials concerning Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic States. It is updated daily. Full texts of national and regional newspapers and magazines. News archives. Official government documents. Statistical information. Business, industry, market, and government information and directories. Biographies. Full text of thousands of Russian classical and modern books.
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Kids Search

Find general information and do research for projects on animals, science and more.

New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) access is sponsored by the New York State Library. If you do not have a Queens Library card, you may access this database by using your New York State Driver's License. Look here.

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Lawchek Online

Designed for the layperson or attorney, you can choose from eleven areas of law. In each area you can access state-specific information from either the Help Guides section or the Forms section. It is user-friendly and offers simple answers to everyday legal questions. A glossary of common legal terms is also provided. The eleven areas (or disciplines) currently included are: Bankruptcy, Contracts, Corporations, Criminal Law, Domestic/Family Law, Education, Intellectual Properties (Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks), Landlord/Tenant, Real Estate, Trial/Litigation, and Wills/Estates. Also find links to web sites where you can get information and forms for both Federal and State Taxes.
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Literature Resources from Gale

Literature Resources from Gale provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. This database covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes, or combine criteria to create a custom search path. Literature Resources from Gale cross searches Literature Resource Center along with other Gale literature databases.
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New Book of Knowledge

This database is for middle grade students and includes literary selections, a timeline, projects and experiments, news, homework help and more.
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NOVEL General Menu

Find a list of all available NOVEL (Thompson Gale) databases.
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NOVEL-EBSCO General Menu

Find a list of all available NOVEL-EBSCO databases.
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ReferenceUSA

ReferenceUSA contains directory and census information on more than 13 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households.
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Searchasaurus

Find general information and do research for projects on animals, science and more.

New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) access is sponsored by the New York State Library. If you do not have a Queens Library card, you may access this database by using your New York State Driver's License. Look here.

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SIRS Discoverer

Geared to students in grades 1-9, SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for young researchers. The database includes carefully selected full-text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents.
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Student Resource Center-Silver

A fully integrated database containing 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, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
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