Do Your Research at Home

The school year is fast approaching with all of its assignments. You will be happy to know that you can research magazines, newspapers, and books from home. Go to the Library website and click on Online Resources to see the databases that are available. EbscoHost databases are a great start for many homework assignments, and they are available for all ages. For example:

MasterFILE Premier database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional.
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
MAS Ultra, designed for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides access to nearly 520 education journals, and more than 200 educational reports.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals.
GreenFILE provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling,.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core library journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.