Databases

Gale Databases - This service includes the following databases:

• InfoTrac Junior Edition - K12 - this version of InfoTrac is designed for middle school students
• Gale Biography in Context: contains biographies from respected Gale reference sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. You can search for people using personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
• Student Resources In Context:contains primary documents, biographies, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines and newspapers.
• General Reference Center: contains full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, reference books, and images.
• Gale U.S. History in Context:contains over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context - articles from the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources provide a complete source for information on social issues.
• Literature Resource Center LRC: covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors..

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SIRS Knowledge Source (ProQuest K-12)

• SIRS Researcher - contains full-text magazine and newspaper articles on general reference topics, social issues, health, science, and business.
• SIRS Government Researcher - contains historic government documents, directories and almanacs.
• SIRS Renaissance - contains full-text articles on current perspectives on the arts and humanities
• SIRS Discoverer - this general reference database was designed for middle school students

  *From home you can access the SIRs databases by going to the ProQuest Information K-12 site.

• ProQuest Newspapers (you can access the New York Times and Newsday from here)

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NewsBank - contains the full-text of over 70,000 articles, going back to 1991, from more than 500 newspapers and other news sources around the world.

• America's Historical Newspapers (1690 - 1922)Provides both a timeline and topic search covering issues and events, discoveries, inventions, literature and more from daily life in the colonies and westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, World War I and other eras.

• Access World News - Student Edition
  Search state, regional, national and international news sources with a user-friendly U.S. and global map interface. Provides diverse viewpoints of local and world issues for Current Events, Debate, Economics, Research Papers, Social Studies and Speech.

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Teaching Books.net- (Engaging author programs and k-12 book resources. Nassau BOCES School Library System is providing us with free access to this site for this year. You can find the password on our secure password page from the Middle School Library homepage)

BrainPop - The Jericho Middle School Library now subscribes during school hours and after hours for teachers. Usernames and passwords are required.

Nassau Library System's Online Databases - are accessible from Nassau Library System's Web site.
These databases are searchable for Nassau County residents who have a public library card. 

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Provided by the New York State Library, NOVEL is an online virtual library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information via local libraries statewide. NOVEL is currently supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds. You can access the databases below by clicking on the links and using the NOVEL password located on the Jericho Middle School Library password page.

Thank you New York State for providing us with access to the following databases:
(Questions? Ask your librarian Mrs. Minikel)

Grolier Online is provided to Jericho Middle School library by NOVEL

*Gale Databases The Jericho Middle School Library is registered for the following Gale Databases through NOVEL:

• Academic OneFile - peer-reviewed full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.Includes the full-text New York Times back to 1995.
• Agriculture Collection
• Health Reference Center - includes articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription drugs, etc.
• Business and Company ASAP - search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
• Business Economics and Theory
• Communications and Mass Media Collection
• Computer Database
• Criminal Justice Collection
• Culinary Arts Collection
• Custom Newspapers - the full text of articles from 150 newspapers, national and international. Includes The New York Times from 2000 - present.
• National Newspaper Index - indexesThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post from 1977 - present
• National Newspaper Index - indexes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post from 1977 - present.
• New York State Newspapers - the full text of ten major newspapers in New York State. Includes The New York Post, and The New York Times (2000 - present).s
• Diversity Studies Collection
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
• Expanded Academic ASAP - 1980-
• Fine Arts and Music Collection
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
• Gender Studies Collection
• General Business File ASAP 1980 -
• General OneFile 1980-
• General Science Collection
• Health Reference Center Academic 1980-
• Home Improvement Collection
• Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
• Information Science and Library Issues Collection
• InfoTrac Newsstand
• Insurance and Liability Collection
• Military and Intelligence Database
• Nursing and Allied health Collection
• Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
• Pop Culture Collection
• Popular Magazines
• Psychology Collection
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Small Business Collection
• U.S. History Collection
• Vocation and Careers Collection
• War and Terrorism Collection
• World History Collection
• The Twane Authors Online- Twayne World, English, and US Authors -contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual authors.
• Business and Company Resource Center
• Junior Edition K-12

*Click on EBSCO to access the following EBSCO databases provided to us from NOVEL:

• Primary Search via Searchasaurus
• EBSCOhost Espanol -Spanish Interface
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Kids Search
• Primary Search via EBSCOhost Web

Features of Follett Shelf used to access ebook s on your ipad or home computer Jericho Middle School students and staff ask Mrs. Minikel for your ID to log in to access our new ebooks!

Other E-Books available from the Jericho Middle School Library

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