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Online Databases
          
Search for full-text magazine,
newspaper, and reference articles, as well as primary sources, images, and
streamed video
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EBSCOHost
- Access PA POWER Library
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 | A comprehensive periodicals and reference database including: MasterFILE
Premier, Business Source Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus,
Primary Search, and ERIC.
 | Click on EBSCOHost when the POWER
Library menu appears. |
| This service can be accessed from home by
visiting the Ephrata Public Library's
Homepage. Use your library patron number on your public
library card as a password. See an EHS or Ephrata Public
librarian to sign up if you do not have a card. |
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| Selected full-text periodical articles, government documents, and almanacs from
SIRS Researcher and SIRS Government Reporter
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SIRS
Decades - Historical
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| A collection of more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and
secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people,
and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents,
letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites,
photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles |
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CultureGrams
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| Concise, reliable, and up-to-date
country reports on 187 countries of the World and the 50 United
States. Includes picture galleries, maps, cultural glossaries,
recipes, statistics and comparison data charts for the countries
| Available from home
with a password - see an EHS librarian. |
| World
Conflicts
 | Available from home
with a password - see an EHS librarian. |
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| Database covering social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic
Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles,
contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics,
court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest
groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more
than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites
| Click here
for home access . See an EHS librarian for the
password. |
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Issues and Controversies |
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| A reference database of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the
most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day
| Available from home
with a password - see an EHS librarian. |
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Facts.com-
World News Digest
| World News coverage from 1940 to the
present. Includes Reuters Newswire Service with hourly updates
of breaking news. Also contains Country Profiles with related
news stories and maps and biographies of key people
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Literature
Resource Center - LRC |
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| Find up-to-date biographical information,
overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000
writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the
world |
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TeachingBooks |
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| An online, multimedia collection of resources about books and
authors. Each resource is selected based on its ability to bring a
book to life by connecting a reader to a book in a new, personalized
way including streamed videos our author interviews, readings by
authors, and Web sites. |
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Teen
Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real
Answers
| A comprehensive database for teens for researching
health-related issues. Topics include body basics, diseases &
disorders, friendship & dating, nutrition & fitness, drugs
& alcohol, mind, mood and emotions, and many more.
Hotlines and help lines contact info for
teens for many issues included. |
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Today's
Science |
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| A reference database that presents full-text magazine and newspaper articles of
the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them in the
areas of health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and
space science, and science and society
| Available from home with a
password - see an EHS librarian. |
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Online Magazines
and Journals
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| Advertising Age - the
preeminent source of marketing, advertising and media news, information and analysis. |
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| Discover
- a journal of contemporary
world affairs |
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| Science Books and Films Online - an authoritative guide to science resources,
bringing you the expert information you need to make the best decisions when choosing
science materials for your library, classroom, or institution. |
| Science News
Online - weekly news
magazine about the most important research in all fields of
science. A subscriber ID and password is needed to access the
full-text articles . Ask a librarian for the login
information. |
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