Research: Online Databases

ABCMouse.com

From Age of Learning, Inc., the award-winning ABCmouse.com curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-6+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse.com is 100% educational, with 3,500+ learning activities across all major subject areas—reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music.

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Academic OneFile

Agriculture

Ancestry.com Library Edition

Includes information about over two billion names. Thousands of vital records as well as Census, military, court, land, probate, and church records are included.

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BookBrowse

Book descriptions organized by title, author and genre. Excerpts of recommended books from various genre, both fiction and nonfiction. Includes lists of read-alikes and recommendations.

Books and Authors

Answer the age-old question, ‘What do I read next?’ Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics. 

Brainfuse

Live Tutors are Available from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM daily.  Live Tutoring, Homework help, Test Preparation, Writing Lab, and Adult Learning Center are just some of the great features available! 

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Britannica Academic Edition

An accurate, current, and comprehensive resource for college-level learners, researchers, and faculty. Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools that make research easier and more productive.

Britannica Schools (Elementary, Middle, and High School levels)

Thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended web sites, and three separate databases for elementary, middle, or high school students. There is Read-aloud, a font size adjuster, and built-in translation tools support students with special needs and English Language Learners.

Britannica Escolar (Spanish, Primaria & Secundaria levels)

Encyclopedia that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Two levels, Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school, offer unique content that is of interest to every student. Search easily across levels by topic or subject area.

Business Insights

Provides access to accurate and up-to-date business, company and industry information and a wide variety of global business information in a single place. Efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, company histories and financial reports and career and investment opportunities. This resource replaces the Gale Business & Company Resource Center. 

Computer Science

Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Culinary Arts

Includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Diversity Studies

Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. Includes 150 full-text journals. Coverage begins in 1980.

Driver’s Ed

Practice exams and handbooks for car, motorcycle & commercial NY driver’s licenses. Frequently asked questions and answers are included.

Educator’s Reference Complete

Resource for educators and education students.  Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties.  Also contains federal and international reports and publications, including full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather

Over 330 entries, the Encyclopedia covers essential topics that include the processes that produce weather, the world’s climates, classification of climates, important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists, as well as the history atmospheric sciences, biographies of noteworthy contributors to the field, and significant weather events from extreme tropical cyclones to tornadoes to hurricanes.

Entrepreneurship

Find over 280 subject-appropriate full-text magazines and professional journals. Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs. Provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.

Fine Arts

More than 100 full-text magazines and journals including the Wilson Art Index and Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). Supports research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Gale in Context Elementary

Look here for trusted information on topics in social studies, science, language arts, and more. Access videos, magazine and news articles, images, and books in an age-appropriate resource with tools designed to develop research skills. Gale in Context Elementary supports literacy, enhances learning, and encourages exploration.

Gale in Context Middle School

For students in grades 6 to 8.  Offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos and more on a variety of topics.  Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies and science.

Gale OneFile High School Edition

Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students. 

Gardening and Horticulture

Focus specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. Includes content from 50 journals relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

Gender Studies

Balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. Coverage from 30 full-text journals begins in 1980.

General OneFile

Over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.

The Great Courses on hoopla

Science, history, wellness, travel – no matter your interest, learn more about it with The Great Courses BingePass…new on hoopla! Watch an entire course, or multiple courses using just one hoopla borrow!  Download and install the hoopla digital app from The App Store® (iOS/Apple) or Google Play™ (Android). Also available on Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, and many other devices.

Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

This online encyclopedia includes American painting, architecture, sculpture, and photography from the Pre-Columbian sources to the colonial period to the twenty-first century devoting coverage to many previously underrepresented areas of inquiry, including African American artists, Asian American artists, and Native American art, both historical and contemporary. Artists, major movements, institutions, critics, and the architecture found in major cities of the United States are covered, as are new media and methodologies, including digital art, performance art, and installation art.

Health and Medicine

Over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines.

Health and Wellness

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Heritage Hub

Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 to today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid-1900s, and original obituary images.

Information Science

Nearly 100 leading industry journals covering topics such as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. Coverage begins in 1980.

Informe Academico

Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America

Legal Forms

New York State Legal forms for bankruptcy, wills, divorce, landlord/tenant agreements, name changes, power of attorney and more.  This resource also links to DMV forms, absentee voting ballots, and NYS Department of Health forms. It has a Legal Q & A, an attorney directory and tax forms for all U.S. states.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is an extensive collection of award-winning online courses and video tutorials to help you learn business, technical and creative skills. Achieve your personal and professional goals. Courses are taught by recognized industry experts. Learn what you want, when you want, from our entire library. Build custom playlists to organize courses you want to watch.  Watch courses on your computer, tablet, or mobile device. Switch back and forth without ever losing your place.

Mango Languages

Courses from native language speakers in over 70 languages, including English. Create a login to track your progress. Available on library computers, home computers, Apple/iOS phones, Android phones, iPads, and many tablets.

Military and Intelligence

Over 500 titles and more than 7 million articles are included from reference books, magazines, and news articles. Links to related sources are included.

News

Access full text articles from more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Search articles by title, headline, date, author or newspaper section.

NewsBank: America’s News

A comprehensive news collection ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, national and international levels. Titles include over 3,650 American newspapers, blogs, newswires, news magazines, journals, international special reports and videos. Jump to suggested trending topics or special collections such as the Onondaga County Newspapers and the Post-Standard.   All titles are in full text or are fully searchable digital images. Customized email alerts can be set up to follow a particular topic or event.

Collections

USA Today

Buffalo News

Observer-Dispatch

Watertown Daily Times

Times Union

Syracuse Herald-Journal

Onondaga County Newspapers

Syracuse Post-Standard

Newspaper Archive: Syracuse Post-Standard

A searchable collection of full text and digital images of the Syracuse Post-Standard from 1875 to the current year provided by Newspaperarchive.com.

NewspaperArchive.com

A searchable collection of full text and digital images of newspapers from the following states:

• Connecticut

• Delaware

• District of Columbia

• Maine

• New Hampshire

• New Jersey

• New York

• Rhode Island

• Vermont

Included in the collection are Syracuse newspapers from 1875 to the current year.

The New York Times

Full coverage is provided from 1/1/1985 to the present. The paper is published 7 days a week.
The International Edition has full coverage from 11/2/2013 to the present.
This edition is published 6 days a week.

Includes:

• The New York Times Book Review

• The New York Times for Kids

• The New York Times Magazine

• Sports Blogs

• Wordplay: The Crossword Blog of The New York Times and more

NoveList K-8 Plus

NoveList K-8 Plus is a database for finding book recommendations for students in kindergarten through 8th grade. It helps young readers, as well as parents, teachers, and librarians, find new fiction and nonfiction books by searching through criteria such as reading level, subject, author, and award winners.

NoveList Plus

Information about more than 120,000 adult, teen and children’s fiction and non-fiction titles. Provides reviews, annotations, hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers of all ages, award-winning and recommended titles, read-alikes, book reviews and much more.

Nursing and Allied Health

Covers all aspects of the nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration – with content from more than 380 journals.

Opposing Viewpoints

Provides overviews, pro/con essays, articles from reference books, newspapers, and magazines, and links to websites, podcasts and videos on over 5,000 topics. Supports NYS Common Core.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

Over 2,500 entries from 180 international scholars including biographical sketches of important personalities associated with the development of the Jewish religion over the centuries and an index with alternate spellings of Hebrew terms.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

This online encyclopedia examines all aspects of warfare and military technology in medieval times. Encyclopedia articles provide an exhaustive and accurate view of how and why wars were waged throughout Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States from 500 CE to 1500.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible

Contains almost 120 in-depth encyclopedia entries, ranging in length from 500 to 10,000 words, on each of the canonical books of the Bible, major apocryphal books of the New and Old Testaments, important noncanonical texts, and thematic essays on topics such as canonicity, textual criticism, and translation.

Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers. 

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Articles from more than 60 journal titles in the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Topics include proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and much more. Coverage begins in 1980.

Pop Culture Studies

Useful information for researchers in social science, history, or art. Includes 100 subject-appropriate magazines and journals, which are predominantly full-text.

Psychology

Access to 200 psychology-related full-text magazines and journals.

Reference Solutions

A business and consumer research tool to use for quick lookups or creating customized lists. Includes listings for more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 4 million new businesses, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, more than 800,000 U.S. physicians and dentists and 210 million U.S. residences.  Advanced search allows users to do reverse phone number lookups, search by yellow page heading, business Standard Industrial Classification code, zip code, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and more.

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Science

Provides coverage of all scientific endeavor, including particle physics, quantum theory, advanced mathematics, and biotechnology from more than 275 academic journals and general science-focused magazines.

Syracuse Post-Standard by Newsbank

The Post-Standard from 12/2/1986 to the current issue is included. All papers are full text or fully searchable digital images. Customized email alerts can be set up to follow a particular topic or event.

U.S. History Collection

A collection of journals providing balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

Vocations and Careers

Provides content from over 300 largely full-text publications from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

War and Terrorism

Gain insight into conflicts: their causes, their impact, and how they are perceived on a global scale. Almost 100 full-text periodicals are included. Coverage begins in 1980.

WorldCat

Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
[This is not the Salina Library or Onondaga County Public Library catalog.]

World History

Balanced coverage of events in World History. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher. Contains nearly 40 predominantly full-text journals.