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Book Creator
Britannica Academic
Britannica Escolar
Britannica School General reference resource for multiple age groups.
Business Insights
CQ Researcher Online Award winning in-depth coverage of topical issues written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked.
CREDO Source Reference Source Reference is a general reference database that integrates research and information literacy skill development in one platform. Curated content from major publishers provide a great place for students to start their research while providing instructional videos and tutorials to help understand the research process.
Culture Grams Concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations
EdPuzzle
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos Beginner’s Spanish language general reference tool.
Epoint Plus
Gale Academic OneFile Select with Subject Collections Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.
Gale Academic OneFile with Subject Collections Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Gale in Context: Biography Authoritative reference content covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers
Gale In Context: Global Issues Designed to support global awareness, the resource ties together news, perspectives, reference materials, primary source documents, audio, video, statistics, and more.
Gale in Context: High School Full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted website
Gale in Context: Middle School Created for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines Gale reference content with age-appropriate videos, periodicals, primary sources, and more
Gale In Context: World History Provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, people, and more.
Gale NovelNY Databases Gale resource portal.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete Resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
Gale OneFile: News This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.
Gale PowerSearch Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.
Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Facts and arguments on current events topics and social issues.
Issues & Controversies Hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
Issues and Controversies in History Learn about and understand some of the most controversial issues in American History that helped shape the world today. Articles in key subject areas such as immigration, politics and government, race and civil rights, religion, war and military, and more.
JSTOR Secondary Schools Collection An online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources. Participating K-12 schools gain access to all of the archival journal content (~2,000 academic journals in more than 60 disciplines) and JSTOR's primary source collections (JSTOR Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, African World Heritage Sites). Detailed descriptions of these collections are below.
New York Times A subset of Gale OneFile: News, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.
Newsbank
Newsomatic
Noodle Tools An online research tool to track your sources, take notes, create outlines, collaborate with classmates, and format and print your bibliography.
Rosen Learning Center
SIRS Discoverer A general reference database for elementary and middle school learners.
SIRS Issues Researcher Offers relevant, credible resources that tell the whole story on major issues and world conflicts of the day.
Sooth.fyi Sooth is a curated search engine optimized for students and knowledge professionals. We’ve built a proprietary search index comprised solely of expert content from across the web covering a range of important global topics. Accelerate your knowledge search.
Soundzabound Soundzabound royalty free music.
Teacher Ebooks Professional Education Ebooks purchased by the Genesee Region Teacher Center.
Teaching Books Discover online multimedia resources. Bring books and authors to life.
Teen Book Cloud An online collection of ebooks, enhanced novels, graphic novels, videos and audio books, which offers students and adults of all reading levels access to an amazing range of content.
U.S. History in Context Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, people, and more.
World Book
World Book Advanced High school reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
World Book Student Elementary and middle school general reference resource.