Online Databases

American History Online includes events, images, primary sources, biographies and timeline. 

Biography in Context offers thumbnail sketches, narrative biographies and periodical articles on notable people.

Issues and Controversies  gives up-to-date, in-depth, and objective information on the issues of the day. This full-text database includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies, and contact information.

Modern World History Online covers people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history from the middle of the 15th century to the present.

New York State Newspapers is a database of 10 major newspapers published in New York State, including the Albany Times Union, New York Times and New York Post.

Science Online includes experiments, biographies, diagrams, and essays.

SIRS Discoverer

This database provides articles on a wide variety of topics as well as the Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and the 2000 World Almanac for Kids.

Student Resource Center Junior contains curriculum-targeted background information, primary documents, biographies, and essays. The database offers full-text coverage of 100 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

Teaching Books

This database, provided to school libraries in the area by the Capital Region BOCES, includes information on authors and books.

Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers

This database provides students with information and self-help tools on topics such as disease, drugs and alcohol, health and fitness, and family life.