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Journal Databases:
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
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Academic OneFile is the comprehensive premier source for authoritative, peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. - Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
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Academic Search Elite contains full-text for more than 2,100 journals, nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985. - Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
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This database contains journal articles in the fields of Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theater and Cultural Studies. - Buffalo News, The
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The Buffalo News is the largest paper in Buffalo and is updated daily with news focusing on Buffalo and the greater Western New York area. - Career & Technical Education Database (ProQuest)
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The definitive source for vocational information and career search resources. - Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
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The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. - Digital Public Library of America
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The DPLA is a discovery tool for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States’ archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. - Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Select from free, quality peer-reviewed full-text scholarly research journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. - Diversity Studies (Gale Onefile)
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Diversity Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. - EBSCOhost
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A large collection of scholarly and popular articles in a broad range of subjects.
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The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750”. - Europeana Collections
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A collection of over 50 million digitized items from archives, libraries, and museums across Europe. - Gale Learning
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Gale hosts a number of databases that cover a wide array of topics including both scholarly and popular articles.
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Global Breaking Newswires is a library news product which provides timely access to the best newswire content available globally as well as growing archive of news that may not be captured in any of the traditional print sources. - ImageQuest
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This resource from Encyclopedia Britannica provides access to thousands of free images that can be inserted into academic assignments. Note: for educational use only. - International Newsstream (ProQuest)
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International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. - MAS Ultra – School Edition (EBSCO)
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Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs, and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. - Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. - Military and Intelligence (Gale Onefile)
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Military and Intelligence provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more. - Military Database (ProQuest)
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The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. - New York Heritage
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New York Heritage is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State. The collections in New York Heritage represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. - New York State Newspapers (Gale)
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Search this database of newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post. - News (Gale Onefile)
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This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. News provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts, and transcripts. - Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
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Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full-text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers, selective full-text for 389 regional U.S. newspapers, and full-text television & radio news transcripts. - Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
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Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. - Political Science Database (ProQuest)
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Political Science Database gives access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals, thousands of recent dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources. - Pop Culture Studies (Gale Onefile)
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Pop Culture Studies analyzes and contributes to popular culture by offering useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, and liberal arts courses. - Popular Magazines (Gale Onefile)
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Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. - ProQuest Central
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A large collection of scholarly and popular articles on a broad range on subjects.
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Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full-text to publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports. - Research Library (ProQuest)
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ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. - SIRS Issues Researcher
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This database offers balanced content selections from more than 2,000 international sources on the analysis, opinions and the pros and cons of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, and political issues.
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law brings together every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, all federal statutes related to slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. The database also contains hundreds of books and pamphlets written about slavery. - U.S. History (Gale Onefile)
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U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field. - US Newsstream (ProQuest)
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US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. - War and Terrorism (Gale Onefile)
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War and Terrorism contains millions of articles to help researchers gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection is intended for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. - World History (Gale Onefile)
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World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
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eBook Databases
- eBooks from EBSCOhost
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Over 4,000 eBooks in science, medicine, technology and liberal arts. In addition to new books, this database contains NetLibrary titles. - Hathi Trust
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Hathi Trust is a digital library with over 15 million full-text searchable volumes, over 7 million of which are in the public domain and are fully accessible.
Reference Databases
- Credo Reference
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An excellent place to begin your research on an unfamiliar topic. - Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
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This is the online version of the respected Encyclopedia Britannica. - Historical Encyclopedia of American Business
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Comprehensive coverage of all major historical aspects of American business and finance. - ImageQuest
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This resource from Encyclopedia Britannica provides access to thousands of free images that can be inserted into academic assignments. Note: for educational use only. - Khan Academy
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Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include: art, history, math, biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, computer science and more.You can create an account to keep all your courses together and track your progress.
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Salem Press offers a number of great reference books online in Health, History, Science and Literary Criticism. - World Factbook from the CIA
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Facts and maps on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world. The collection includes people, society, economy, energy, and more.
Video Databases
- Films on Demand
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A database that hosts documentaries, educational and skill videos. Subjects include: Hospitality, Nursing, Imaging, Anatomy, Human Resources, Theban Plays (Sophocles)
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Subject Librarian
Michele Brancato, MLS
Contact info
Phone: (716) 827-2434
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