South High's Research Paper Resources
A database is any collection of data, or information, that is specially
organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. South High
Library's collection includes databases of magazines, research journals,
newspapers, reference book excerpts, photographs, web sites, maps, and
poetry. Access from any computer in South High is free. To use
the databases from home see a librarian for a remote username and password or, visit the
Great Neck Public
Library's database collection (have your library card ready).
See also South High's eBook collection.
Online Databases
Encyclopedia Americana - the online version of the standard encyclopedia.
CQ Global Researcher - provides definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad."
CQ Researcher - in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist and contains an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher contains reports dating back to 1991.
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Grove Multimedia Encyclopedia - provided by the NYS Library through an LSTA grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Grolier ONline includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. It also contains the following features, GO Tutorial, GO Atlas, Feature Showcase, Today is..., NewsNow, For Educators.
Issues and Controversies on File - explores over 70 controversial topics each year. Includes statistical overviews of major issues, newspaper editorials, primary documents, a directory of contact organizations, and curriculum and study/aids.
New Book of Knowledgbe - contains a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Information is taken from periodicals, newspapers, book excerpts, biographies, raido and television news transcripts, primary source documents, images, and video.
Points of View Reference Center - contains a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Information is taken from periodicals, newspapers, book excerpts, biographies, raido and television news transcripts, primary source documents, images, and video.
Worldbook Online Reference Center - the online version of the standard encyclopedia.
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Grove Art Online - web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource.
JSTOR - include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work
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See also South High's
eBook collection.
Business & Company ASAP
- the periodicals portion of Business & Company Resource Center (business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images).
Business & Company Resource Center
- brings together a wide variety of global business information including company profiles, Thomson Financial Securities Data, and Investext reports as well as business magazines and newspapers. It contains 2850 full-text titles.
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 General OneFile - news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
Infotrac Custom Newspapers
- over 150 full-text newspapers that include 7 New York State newspapers including the last year of the New York Times.
National Newspaper Index: 1977- current - provides indexing (1977 to present) of America's top 5 newspapers; The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New York State Newspapers - provided by the NYS Library through an LSTA grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Includes New York Post, Daily News, New York Times Magazine, Albany Times, etc.
Proquest - full-text newspaper and periodical articles from 1986 to present. Included are
Newsday (full-text from 1985 to present) and the Proquest Professional Education Collection (more than 300 professional education magazines and journals).
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module: 1980 - current
- from the NYS Library through LSTA funds; an upgrade from the previous Health Reference Center-Academic. It Includes the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, links to websites, Healthology (health and medical video content and physician-authored articles), and the latest health news from Harvard Health Publications, a division of the Harvard Medical School.
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
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Bloom's Literary Reference Center
- examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. It contains an archive of 38,000 characters and extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, and genres. It also includes hundreds of Harold Bloom's essays and his Canon of Literature.
Film Literature Index - a free database containing approximately 700,000 citations (NOT FULL-TEXT) to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Requires use of interlibrary loan.
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Reference works include DISCovering Authors, EXPLORING Novels, EXPLORING Poetry, EXPLORING Shakespeare, EXPLORING Short Stories, and much more.
JSTOR - include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work
Literary Index by the Gale Group - index to 40 of the Gale Group's literary resources (mostly reference books), which contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
Twayne's Authors Online - an online series featuring the content of more than 600 books that comprise three series - United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
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See also "General Newspaper and Periodical Indexes" - Ebsco, Infotrac, and The Student Resource Center
Academic OneFile - peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive.
ERIC - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Also available is Search ERIC which holds more than 100,000 full-text documents that are freely available.
Free Medical Journals - provides access to many research journals including JAMA, NEJM, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, BMJ and many others. Some require a sign-in; many do not.
FindArticles.com - a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Google Scholar - contains scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Ingenta - 13,435,640 articles from 27,299 publications (5,400+ of which are full-text). Great for the upper-level researcher, Ingenta provides access to current research (mostly abstracts and citations) from numerous fields and disciplines. See Mr. Reader for interlibrary loan procedures.
JSTOR - include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work
PsycARTICLES - the APA Full-Text Article Database contains the full text of articles from APA journals and EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, the majority of them from volume 1, issue 1.
PubMed Central - a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine
(NLM).
Science AAAS - online access to Science, one the world's leading journals of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Access rights include: Science - 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles
(Note: research papers in Science Express become available under this
subscription after publication in the print version of the journal.)
Science Classic: 1880-1996 (full-text of the journal back to 1880), ScienceNOW (news), and all free content on the site (Science Signaling, SAGE KE Table of Contents of current issues and back issues, Science Technical Comments, and ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet).
ScienceDirect - over 1,800 journals from Elsevier including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.
Over 6.5 million articles and over 60 million abstracts from all fields of science
(free access to parts of the database).
Scirus -
searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, while filtering out non-scientific web sites; finds peer-reviewed articles and abstracts including 14.6 million MEDLINE citations, 5.5 million ScienceDirect full-text articles, 1.2 million patents from the USPTO, 261,000 e-prints on ArXiv.org, 5,352 BioMed Central full-text articles, 10,600 NASA technical reports, 14,878 full text articles from Project Euclid, 56,000 full-text articles on Crystallography Journals Online, and 230,000 full-text journal articles on Scitation.
SpringerLink - access to abstracts from journals, book series, books, reference works and an Online Archives Collection (free access to parts of the database).
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FishBase - a searchable database containing practically all fish species known to science.
Issues and Controversies on File - explores over 70 controversial topics each year. Includes statistical overviews of major issues, newspaper editorials, primary documents, a directory of contact organizations, and curriculum and study/aids.
JSTOR - include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Reference works include DISCovering Science and U*X*L Science, as well as the Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Science AAAS - online access to Science, one the world's leading journals of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Access rights include: Science - 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles
(Note: research papers in Science Express become available under this
subscription after publication in the print version of the journal.)
Science Classic: 1880-1996 (full-text of the journal back to 1880), ScienceNOW (news), and all free content on the site (Science Signaling, SAGE KE Table of Contents of current issues and back issues, Science Technical Comments, and ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet).
Science Online - a full spectrum
of scientific disciplines, including experiments and activities, more
than 1,300 science experiments and
activities, “Today’s Science Feature” (handpicked
articles from Today’s Science highlighting recent scientific events), videos, animations,
nearly 8,300 printable diagrams,
illustrations, and images and more than
500 videos and flash animations.
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American Government - provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.
American History - investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution, from the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines,.
CQ Global Researcher - provides definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad."
The CQ Researcher - in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist and contains an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher contains reports dating back to 1991.
Countrywatch - up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center)- a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Reference works include American Decades, American Eras, The American Journey Series, DISCovering Multicultural America, DISCovering U.S. History, Discovering World History, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, and much more.
Issues and Controversies on File - explores over 70 controversial topics each year. Includes statistical overviews of major issues, newspaper editorials, primary documents, a directory of contact organizations, and curriculum and study/aids.
JSTOR - include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work
Points of View Reference Center - contains a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Information is taken from periodicals, newspapers, book excerpts, biographies, raido and television news transcripts, primary source documents, images, and video.
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras - covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
World History: The Modern Era - covers history from the Renaissance to today.
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Last update: December 5, 2011
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