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Magazine and Newspaper Databases
EBSCOhost offer indexing for and full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers Our subscription provides access to several different databases. Go directly to MAS Ultra-School Edition.

SIRS provides articles selected from magazines and Newspaper. All articles are full text.


NewsBank is a searchable database of Iowa newspapers (including the Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press Citizen Cedar Rapids Gazette) and select national newspapers (New York Times, Cicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald Herald).
 

Specialized References

AccuWeather is a detailed weather database, including weather news and forecasts and climatological information
AP Multimedia Archive is a searchable database of AP photos from the 1840s up to minutes ago! It also includes graphics, charts, tables, text, and audio clips.
Atomic Learning is an electronic help desk to assist you with your favorite software programs. Have a question about Excel or PowerPoint or Word? Check out this site.


Clipart.com is a searchable database of 2.5 million clip art images, photos, fonts and sounds
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.


Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, multimedia, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!

Contemporary Authors   
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select   
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

NoveList is an readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It covers fiction for children, young adults, and adults, and contains annotations and reviews for over half of the 100,000 titles included.
UnitedStreaming is a searchable digital video database with over 4000 videos, 40000 video clips and thousands of images for streaming and downloading

 



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