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REFERENCE AND MAGAZINE ARTICLE DATABASES |
| To find journals available in FULL TEXT, browse by subject or the periodical title A-to-Z list; or search by periodical title keyword(s): |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Includes the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica's Internet Guide, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. |
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| Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd Edition (2007) - The landmark Encyclopaedia Judaica, lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s, has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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| CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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| EBSCO Masterfile Premiere - Searchable full text for nearly 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week. Funded by RCLS and the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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| Biography Resource Center - A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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| ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) - Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Search prompts in English at this link. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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| Gale Expanded Academic ASAP - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System |
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| Books-in-Print - The first place to find currently available and forthcoming books, audios, and videos. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| ReferenceUSA - Contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| LearningExpress Library - Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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| Testing & Education Reference Center Basic - In-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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| ChiltonLibrary - ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| Classical.com - The world's first streaming classical music service for libraries that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| Smithsonian Global Sound - Includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| African American Song - The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| American Song - Includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| Contemporary World Music - Contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - Full-Text access to scholarly journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. |
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| ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). |
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| BEST ONLINE REFERENCE SITES - A web guide to 500 of the best free web sites for answering common questions. [Note: access to these sites may be restricted on PCs within a library dedicated to the library catalog.] Compiled by librarians in the Ramapo Catskill Library System |