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Doing research online? Want good results? The following links are premier databases and webpages that have been evaluated by Heights Library staff. Please note that some premier databases require a library card to access from home.

Cleveland Jewish News
Cleveland Jewish News and Cleveland Jewish News Archive. Full text, from the current issue to the first issue published October 30, 1964.
Cleveland Jewish News Olive Digital Edition
Cleveland Jewish News ActivePaper Archive

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icon Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 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. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Tags: Magazines, Newspapers, Journal Articles, Research

icon Alt HealthWatch from EBSCO Host
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals.
Tags: Health, Consumer Information, Science

icon Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Tags: Computers, Technology, Articles, Newspapers, Magazines

icon Consumer Health Complete--Spanish Version
(Spanish version of Consumer Health Complete.) Full text journals, magazines, and reference books from EBSCOhost dealing with health, wellness, fitness, and nutrition coverage that includes a focus on the complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health and wellness.
Tags: Health, Medical, Consumer Information, Magazines, Espanol, Spanish

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icon EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Tags: Biology, Animals, Science

icon Encyclopedia of Life
Comprehensive, collaborative, and ever-growing the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Pictures, scientific descriptions, maps, habitats, and
Tags: Animals, Encyclopedias, Science, Maps

icon Facts On File
Full access to Facts on File resources on science. Provided by CLEVNET. Must have a Clevnet library card to access at home.
Tags: Maps, History, Science

icon GreenFILE
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. There are approximately 295,000 records and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records.
Tags: Articles, Journals, Environment, Earth, Issues

icon Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Tags: Health, Science, Consumer Information

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icon Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Tags: Health, Science, Research, Articles, Journals

icon How Products Are Made
This database describes the details of how products are made, from everyday household items to complicated industrial machinery.
Tags: Science, Consumer Information

icon Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a completely new, visually appealing look and feel; the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; the ability to sort results by relevance, as well as by date; the option of filtering search results by source type; and the ability to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to the Folder.
Tags: Research, Search

icon Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Tags: Journals, Library Science, Technology, Information Science

icon MasterFILE Premier
Full text articles from nearly 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstracts backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.
Tags: Business, Newspapers, Magazines, Health, Science, Social Science, Arts, History

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icon MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Tags: Biography, History, Research, Primary Documents, Articles, Images

icon MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
(® U.S. National Library of Medicine) -- The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. Contains over 9 million records dating back to 1966.
Tags: Health, Consumer Information, Science, Medicine, Journals, Research

icon Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high 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. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Tags: Biography, History, Research, Primary Documents, Articles, Images

icon New England Journal of Medicine
This is the online home for the NEJM, featuring abstracts for past issues along with many full-text articles.
Tags: Health, Medicine

icon Primary Search (Grades K-6) from EBSCOhost
Elementary school students should click here to go to Searchasaurus, a research tool from EBSCOhost.
Tags: Children's, Research

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icon Science Online
Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. A wide range of scientific topics, biographies, and news. Provided by Ohio Web Library. Must have an Ohio library card to use this database.
Tags: Science, Encyclopedias, Biography

icon State Academies of Science Abstracts
A source of records on new species, range extensions, and threatened and endangered species. From agriculture to medicine, chemistry to zoology, the service indexes more than 50 years of journals for most states.
Tags: Science, Research, Journals, Abstracts

icon Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Tags: Children's, Research, Encyclopedias, Magazines, Dictionaries

icon What Snake Is That?
A handy online guide to over 30 species and subspecies of snakes native to Ohio. Quickly identify a snake by its appearance. Provided by Ohio Web Library. Must have an Ohio library card to access.
Tags: Ohio, Science, Animals

icon What Tree Is That?
This website will lead you through qualities of leaves and fruits from the common trees of Ohio. Provided by Ohio Web Library. Must have an Ohio library card to access.
Tags: Ohio, Science

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icon World Book Kids
Intended for grades K-8, World Book Kids is a fun and interactive way to introduce younger students to the world of online learning. Searching is simple and can be done by keyword or by choosing a general subject that breaks down into specific topics. The encyclopedia also provides images, diagrams, maps and activities tied to national curriculum standards.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Children's

icon World Book Online
World Book Online is a research tool that includes encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. News, images and "today in history" are additional features.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Children's

icon World Book Reference Center
World Book Encyclopedia articles form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Reference

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icon CH-UH
Must be a Cleveland Heights/University Heights resident with a CLEVNET library card to use database from home.
icon CLEVNET
Must have a CLEVNET library card to use database from home.
icon Inside CH-UH
Must use database from inside a Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.
icon Librarian Recommended
Database/Web site is accessible from anywhere without a library card.
icon Ohio Web Library
Database provided by Ohio Web Library. Must have an Ohio library card to use this database from home.