SLEEPY HOLLOW LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG (OPAC)
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ACCESS SCIENCE
Full text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology with yearbook updates, additional news articles and biographies of scientists.

AMERICAN HISTORY
A survey of American history from 1350 to the present.
Covers politics, historical events, literature, philosophy, science, art and economics. Contains feature stories, maps, photos, timelines, news analysis, biographies and more, organized chronologically and thematically.  Includes a teacher component with suggested classroom activities and curricular tie-ins.

AP PHOTO  ARCHIVE 
Contains AP's current photos from their 50 million image print and negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps for the AP's graphic's portfolio. 

CAREER GUIDANCE CENTER  
Explore jobs, industries and career pathways.  Learn the skills of getting and keeping a job. Read more than 51,000 resource entries to help achieve your career goals.

COUNTRY WATCH
Covers the demographic, historical, political, economic, business, environmental background and contemporary issues for each of 191 countries.  Also provides country-specific, comprehensive daily news from 12 international news services with a 12 month archive in a searchable database containing 180,000 stories.  Includes <CountryWatch@School> which provides lesson plans and course outlines for using Country Watch in geography and Social Studies courses.

DAILY LIFE ONLINE
Explore daily life across cultures, countries and regions from the dawn of recorded history to the present day. Includes domestic life, religious customs, economic and political life, intellectual life, recreational activities and such details as clothing, diet and holiday celebrations.

EBSCO

• MagillOnLiterature definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia a general encyclopedia

• GreenFILE information on the human impact on the environment including global warming, sustainability, recycling, renewable energy, pollution, going green. 

• Teacher Reference Center indexing and abstracts for popular periodicals for educators. 

• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts Selective journals and research reports on many aspects of information literacy.

GALE DATABASES

• Biography Resource Center  Use this database to research biographies of famous people.
• Business & Company Resource Center  Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information - includes co. profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, co. histories, and periodicals.
• Twayne Author Series  Contains the full-text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on World, US, or English authors.  Includes biography and literary criticism.

• Custom Newspapers Over 300 national and international newspapers

• New York State Newspapers covers 10 major New York newspapers

• Business and Company ASAP Companies, markets and industries with access to trade journals and company directory profiles, full text and images

• Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module medical journals, health videos, general interest publications and reference works

• National Newspaper Index Quick access to indexing of nation’s top five newspapers

• Literature Resource Center Literary criticism and biographical information on 130,000 writers from around the world.

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center A comprehensive source of information on contemporary social issues

GROLIER ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
Includes Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea , The New Book of Popular Science,  and Lands and Peoples.

HISPANICA SABER (WORLD BOOK)
Articles, images, maps, videos, links to websites, designed for research needs of native Spanish speakers in ESL programs.  Content written from a Latin American perspective.

HOOVERS PRO
Business and Industry Information.

JSTOR
Full-text academic journals for scholarly research. Collections in Arts & Sciences, Business, Life Sciences, Language and Literature, Math & Statistics, Music, Ecology

PROQUEST
Provides indexing and some full-text of over 700 newspapers, magazines and journals including full indexing and daily editions of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal

SCIENCE DIRECT  A collection of scientific journals for students pursuing advanced scientific research.  Access available via assigned password and is limited to students enrolled in the Advanced Science Research Class

SCIENCE ONLINE
Essays, images, news items, videos, animations, diagrams, experiments, biographies and more, searchable by subject area and type of resource.  For teachers: content tied to New York State Standards.

SIRS DISCOVERER
Appropriate for grades K - 8 reading levels. Provides full-text articles and graphics from newspapers and  magazines related to a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, global and general interest issues.

SILVERPLATTER
Includes: 

• MEDLINE citations from the National Library of Medicine

• GPOCatalog monthly catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office

• ERIC journal articles for the professional educator

• PETERSON’S GRADLINE directory of graduate programs at colleges and universities

• PETERSON’S COLLEGES guide to 3200 U.S. colleges, updated yearly

• PSYCHINFO psychology research provided by the American Psychological Association

WORLD HISTORY:  ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ERAS
World history from prehistory through the Renaissance with primary sources and timelines covering ancient cultures and providing a worldwide perspective beyond Western civilization.

WORLD HISTORY: THE MODERN ERA
World history beginning with the emergence of Europe in 1500 and covering African, Asian and Middle Eastern empires, the Enlightenment, revolutions, imperialism, the rise of nationalism, industrialization, the World Wars, the Cold War and the Global World of today