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The New Hampshire State Library is pleased to provide your library with an outstanding collection of databases as part of the NHewLINK project.


Newspapers
The Union Leader & NH Sunday News
Audience:  Middle School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: NewsBank
Content: The full-text of the daily newspaper since 1989
Concord Monitor
Audience:  Middle School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: NewsBank
Content: The full-text of the daily newspaper since 2002.

Newspaper Source
Audience: Middle School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides full-text for regional US newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns as well as other sources.  Also contains indexing and abstracts for national newspapers
Magazines and General Reference
MasterFile Premier
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides full-text for over 1,900 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

Middle Search Plus
Audience: Middle School and Up
Access:  Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides full-text for nearly 150 popular magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school research
Academic Search Premier
Audience: Adult
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides full-text for more than 1,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

Primary Search
Audience: Elementary School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Designed Provides full-text for 57 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
TOPICsearch
Audience: Middle School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.  Contains more than 400,000 full-text articles selected by teachers and librarians, an online dictionary and more than 2,500 diverse reference sources including newspaper, biographies, opinion polls, book reviews, and government information

Searchasaurus
Audience: Elementary School and Up
Access:  Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: A colorful and easy to use search interface for elementary and middle school students.  It includes Primary Search and Middle Search Plus as well as EBSCO Animals and Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia

MAS Ultra: School Edition
MAS Ultra: Public Library Edition
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Designed for high school students, it provides full-text for over 515 general interest and current events magazines.

Best of the Internet
Audience: All
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: NH State Library
Content:  A resource compiled and maintained by the NH State Library to aid librarians, media specialists, teachers and the general public to locate quality information on the Internet.





Business Resources
Business Source Premier
Audience: High School and Up
Access:  Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides full-text for more than 1,000 journals covering business, management, economic, finance, banking, accounting and more
Genealogy, History & Biography Resources
Ancestry Library Edition
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library
Vendor: ProQuest
Content: Provides access to more than 1 billion names, more than 3,000 databases, primary-source documents images and a variety of genealogical research features including the federal census 1790-1930.
HeritageQuest Online
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: ProQuest
Content: With over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections, HeritageQuest Online provides access to one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country.
Biography Resource Center
Audience: Elementary School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Thomson Gale
Content: The Biography Resource Center combines over 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people from over 940 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors.

Health Resources
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides information on many health topics and contains the full-text for nearly 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition, and professional health care publications
Consumer Health Complete
Audience: High School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides information on health news, drug and herbs, alternative health sources as well as medical images and encyclopedias and reference books.
Professional Development Resources
Professional Development Collection
Audience: Adult
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full-text journals designed for professional educators
ERIC
Audience: Adult
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: Contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education related journals as well as full-text of more than 2,200 digests.
Books and Reader’s Advisory Services
WorldCat
Audience: Adults
Access: Public and High School Library Staff
Vendor: OCLC
Content: The world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database with more than 49 million records for libraries across the world.
NoveList
Audience: Elementary School and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: A reader’s advisory service that provides information and resources on more than 100,000 titles, and 75,000 full-text reviews to help locate the best in fiction.

NoveList K-8
Audience: Preschool and Up
Access: Library and Remote
Vendor: Ebsco
Content: A reader's advisory service that specifically targets children and young adults. It contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.

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