GENERAL MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS Academic Search Premier: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost User & Password: s7967540 & password (Choose database) Contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,650 of those titles, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-­‐reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Updated daily. (ELM/EBSCO) Expanded Academic ASAP: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnkbstmar Password: elm4you (Select the products you want to search.) is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-­‐text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-­‐reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage and an intuitive interface that expedites successful searches. (ELM/Gale) [InfoTrac] Junior Edition: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnkbstmar Password: elm4you Full text articles from 191 magazines, newspapers, and reference books, 2001 to the present. Covers a wide variety of topics. (ELM/Gale) [InforTrac] Student Edition: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnkbstmar Password: elm4you (Select the products you want to search.) Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-­‐Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-­‐text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. (ELM/Gale) MAS Ultra -­‐ School Edition: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/selectdb?vid=1&hid=111&sid=f206a923-­‐
b90a-­‐49cd-­‐a011-­‐1787e6f37eb0%40sessionmgr112 Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. (ELM/EBSCO) MasterFILE Premier: provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. (ELM/EBSCO) Middle Search Plus: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/selectdb?vid=1&hid=111&sid=f206a923-­‐b90a-­‐
49cd-­‐a011-­‐1787e6f37eb0%40sessionmgr112 Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. (ELM/EBSCO) 1 Primary Search: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost User & Password: s7967540 & password (Choose Databases) Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. (ELM/EBSCO) ProQuest Newstand Complete: http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto User & Password: BENILDEBSM & welcome (If the first attempt to open the link doesn’t work, try again.) Full text articles from major national and regional newspapers, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Barron’s and the Star Tribune. Coverage varies by title. (ELM/ProQuest) Looking for more information? Check MnKnows: http://www.mnknows.org/ or the Librarian: lbottge@bsm-­‐online.org August 2010 2