Databases 

Academic Search Elite from EBSCOhost. From 1985 on - Full-text- Updated daily.
Covering academic study in social & general sciences, humanities, education this multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1, 500 peer-reviewed titles.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Databases - available with a valid Public Library card number.

Business and Company ASAP 1980 - Apr 2008
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Business and Company Resource Center from INFOTRAC - Current- Full-text. Detailed industry and company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Business Source Elite from EBSCOhost. Some journals date back to 1985 - Full-text - Updated daily.
Provides full text coverage for more than 1,100 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,800 journals.

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Critical Thinking from INFOTRAC
Contains up to date coverage on today's most controversial topics.

Custom Newspapers from INFOTRAC - Current - Some from 2000 on - Update varies - Full-text.
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international. An additional five-year backfile of full-text New York Times articles has been added to Thomson-Gale’s InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. The beginning date for New York Times articles is now January 1, 1995.

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E-Books from INFOTRAC

EBSCO Animals from EBSCOhost. Some full-text.
Database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

ERIC from EBSCOhost. From 1966 on - Full-text to about 1000 periodicals
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

EBSCOhost for Kids

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia from EBSCOhost - Updated annually - Full-text
This 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. This database is updated annually.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources  for multidisciplinary research. These reference        materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office

General Science Collection from EBSCOhost -  From 1992 on - current -  Full-text.  offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications, including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. The database also includes Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century, a multi-volume encyclopedia from Salem Press.

Health Reference Center Academic from INFOTRAC - Some updates from 1980 - Full-text.
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module from INFOTRAC1980 - Mar 2006
Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. Spanish-language videos are available. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition from EBSCOhost-- Updated  daily - Full-text.
Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition  from EBSCOhost - Updated  daily - Full text.
Provides nearly 600 full text scholarly journals; an additional abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 journals focusing on many medical disciplines. This database  is updated on a daily basis.

Informe in Spanish from INFOTRAC - From 1994 on - Update varies - Full-text.  
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios,salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materials.

Junior Edition - K12 from INFOTRAC - Current- Full-text.
For students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts from EBSCOhost
Library , Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. 
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. 
Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

MasterFILE Select from EBSCOhost - From 1985 on - Updated  daily - Full text.
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 800 general reference publications dating to 1984. It includes 38 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

MedlinePlus®  "....brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to the medical research literature."

MEDLINE from PubMed - 14 million citations from 1950 on - Links to 4312 full-text  journals as of June 03, 2004. MEDLINE from the National Library of Medicine contains citations for biomedical articles  covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. Although coverage is worldwide, most records are in English. 

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National Newspaper Index  from INFOTRAC  - From 1977 - Update varies - No full-text.
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America 's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Newspaper Source from EBSCOhost - Current - Full-text - Updated  daily. 
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national ( U.S. ) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional ( U.S. ) newspapers.

New York State Newspapers from INFOTRAC - Full text - Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York , including the New York Times and the New York Post.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center From INFOTRAC  
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Primary Search from EBSCOhost -  From 1990 - Full-text - Updated  daily.
Provides full text for more than 50 popular, magazines for elementary school research.

Project MUSE (currently available on-campus only. List of titles).  
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to 124 high quality humanities and social sciences journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection, from over 60 scholarly publishers.

Regional Business News from EBSCOhost Updated daily - Full text 
This database provides comprehensive  coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States . 

Science Reference Center - From EBSCOhost
Science Reference Center provides 639 full text titles from reference books, encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, biographies and images.

TOPICSearch from EBSCOhost on Current events - Full text for over 64,000 articles including nearly 1,600 full text periodicals.

Twayne Authors Series from INFOTRAC Update varies - Full-text.
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters, books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.Contents includes: Authors A-Z: View full text discussions of an author's works and a chronology of the author's life; In Depth Search: Design your own search, using words or phrases, or customize a search by genre, gender, nationality, and time period; Research Ideas: View topics with a highly selective, curriculum-related list of writers to use as research starting points.

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Updated April 17, 2008