EBSCOHost
MASTERFILE SELECT includes full text for 700 magazines and journals dating from 1984 to the present, and includes reference books and an image collection.
TOPIC SEARCH is a current events database in full text.
GENERAL SCIENCE COLLECTION includes 60 of the most popular science publications in full text.
SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER is a research database that includes many science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
FUNK AND WAGNALL’S ENCYCLOPEDIA and EBSCO ANIMALS, an animal database, can also be searched.
ELECTRIC LIBRARY
All full text magazine, newspaper, newswire and reference book articles, television and radio interviews and news broadcasts, pictures and maps searchable by keywords, title or author. Newspaper titles include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and USA Today.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER – Provides up-to-date and authoritative health and medical information from a variety of trusted sources including journals, encyclopedias, medical reference books and websites.
HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC – A medical database from the New York State Library for those in the health professions and for advanced students. Emphasis on nursing and health journals.
INFORME – Spanish language magazine database.
NEWSPAPER SEARCH – New York State, National and International newspapers. Various starting dates to current date.
BUSINESS AND COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER – For Company and Industry news and information.
BUSINESS AND COMPANY ASAP – Periodical articles about business and economics.
TWAYNE AUTHOR SERIES – World, English and U.S. Authors biographies and literary commentary from the Twayne book series.
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY –A selection of reference books available online.
OXFORD ART ONLINE
Oxford Art online provides web access to The Dictionary of Art (1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001). It includes 45,000 articles, over 1500 art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles and links to searchable image databases.
Through ProQuest: Reproduction of The New York Times in full page digital images from 1851-2004. Searchable by topic, keyword, author and timeline.
HUMANITIES EBOOK
A digital and searchable collection of over 1500 full-text titles of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
NOVELIST
NoveList is a fiction database that guides readers to books similar to those they liked.
LITFINDER for SCHOOLS
Includes over 100,000 full-text poems and short stories, brief biographies, a glossary of literary terms, and essays with overviews of poetry by topic.
PROQUEST ONLINE
Magazine and newspaper database over 3200 titles with 2200 in full text.. Able to narrow search by full text, date range, subject, company name and other criteria. Includes access to Occupational Outlook Handbook under Reference sources. Topic search helps to find subject terms.
SIRS
SIRS RESEARCHER - SIRS Researcher provides access to full-text articles exploring political, social and global issues as well as overviews of controversial issues.
SIRS GOVERNMENT REPORTER- SIRS Government Reporter consists of information by and about the U.S. Government including government documents, Supreme Court decisions, elected leaders and federal agencies.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
Includes pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles, magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, statistics and multimedia. Also includes a translation feature into Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, simplified Chinese, and Korean.
VOCATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES
A career information database that describes over 1000 careers as seen through interviews of people currently working, includes educational requirements and current salaries.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
An interactive encyclopedia, includes a video collection, timelines, dictionary and world atlas, country statistics, quotations and links to current news and blogs.
Inter- library- loan through an online catalog with your Mid Hudson Library System library card. Search for and order books to be delivered to the local library of your choice. You need the barcode from your library card and your pin number which is the last four digits of your telephone number. Click on Mid Hudson Library System Catalog for this option.
To use online databases from the public libraries, click on Public Library Databases, choose your library and then click on "home access." You need the barcode from your library card to do this.
