EBSCO Full Text Finder
Don’t know which database to search? This product will help you to discover which online databases provide access to specific journal publications. Search by journal title, publisher, or subject.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
You can search through more than 1,000 full-text magazines and newspapers; photographs; maps; and TV, radio, and government transcripts.
The database also includes reference works such as Monarch Notes; the World Almanac; the Britannica Elementary, Intermediate, and Spanish encyclopedias; the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia; the Encyclopedia of Australia; the Mosby Medical Encyclopedia; Countries of the World; and others.
For literary criticism, click on the “topics” tab when you get to the eLibrary search screen. Then click on “Literature” under the “Arts” heading.
If you are not in the Library, click here for remote access to this database.
Explora – Public Libraries
Explora is EBSCO’s search interface for Public Libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with the following features:
- Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results.
- Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic.
- Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research.
- Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students.
- Reading-level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content.
- Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English.
- Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content to Common Core, and state-curriculum standards.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Created for middle-school students, this database combines the best of Gale’s reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, and primary sources. Students will find material for assignments in literature, science, social studies, and history.
Available via NOVEL, a project of the NY State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
Gale in Context: High School
When you have a paper, project, or presentation to complete, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. While an Internet search can serve up unreliable or incomplete results, this database lets you explore vetted primary sources, biographies, critical essays, and other materials in many formats, giving you deeper context to high-interest topics. In addition to full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary-source documents, images, videos, and audio files, there are links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Gale General OneFile
Part of Gale’s Infotrac stable, this is a general-interest database with an easy search interface for articles from newspapers, reference books, and magazines. Most content is full-text. Find the latest on current events, popular culture, business and industry, the arts, science, sports, and hobbies. Audio content complements the resource’s robust collection of periodicals.
Available via NOVEL, a project of the NY State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Now part of EBSCO, this is the electronic version of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature used by generations of students to research magazine articles. It contains indexing and abstracting of more than 3 million articles from 375 leading magazines published in the US and Canada from 1890 to 1982.
PowerSearch
Gale PowerSearch is a search interface providing library users with a means of exploring a wealth of magazines, journals, books, news outlets, and media using simple, powerful search methods.
Available via NOVEL, a project of the NY State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
Readers’ Guide
Now part of EBSCO, this is the electronic version of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature used by generations of students to research magazine articles. It contains indexing and abstracting of more than 3 million articles from 375 leading magazines published in the US and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals since 1994. The database consists of two parts:
- Readers’ Guide Full Text (1983 – Present)
- Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890 – 1982)