Magazines and Newspapers

Full-Text Periodical Databases

EBSCOHost - Access PA POWER Library

bulletA comprehensive periodicals and reference database including: MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and ERIC.  
bulletClick on EBSCOHost when the POWER Library menu appears.
bulletThis service can be accessed from home by visiting the Ephrata Public Library's Homepage.  Use your library patron number on your public library card as a password.  See an EHS or Ephrata Public librarian to sign up if you do not have a card.

SIRS Knowledge Source - Current issue database

bulletSelected full-text periodical articles, government documents, and almanacs from SIRS Researcher and SIRS Government Reporter
SIRS Decades - Historical research database
bulletA collection of more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles
CultureGrams  
bulletConcise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 187 countries of the World and the 50 United States.  Includes picture galleries, maps, cultural glossaries, recipes, statistics and comparison data charts for the countries  
bulletAvailable from home with a password - see an EHS librarian.
bulletWorld Conflicts 
bulletAvailable from home with a password - see an EHS librarian.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

bulletDatabase covering social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites
bulletClick here for  home access .  See an EHS librarian for the password.
 
Facts.com- World News Digest
bulletWorld News coverage from 1940 to the present.  Includes Reuters Newswire Service with hourly updates of breaking news.  Also contains Country Profiles with related news stories and maps and biographies of key people
bulletNEW!!!  Issues and Controversies in American History
bullet When you open the program, click on the link "Click here to access the Reference Suite @ Facts.com.  
bulletAvailable from home with a password - see an EHS librarian.
Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers
bulletA comprehensive database for teens for researching health-related issues. Topics include body basics, diseases & disorders, friendship & dating, nutrition & fitness, drugs & alcohol, mind, mood and emotions, and many more.  Hotlines and help lines contact info  for teens for many issues included.

Issues and Controversies

bulletA reference database of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day
bulletAvailable from home with a password - see an EHS librarian.
Literature Resource Center - LRC
bulletFind up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world
Today's Science
bulletA reference database that presents full-text magazine and newspaper articles of the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them in the areas of health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society 
bulletAvailable from home with a password - see an EHS librarian.
 

Online Magazines and Journals

 

bulletAdvertising Age - the preeminent source of marketing, advertising and media news, information and analysis.
bulletCurrent History - a journal of contemporary world affairs
bulletDiscover - a journal of contemporary world affairs
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bulletHistorical Periodicals on the Web - a gateway to many full-text historical magazines and newspapers hosted by RSAP (Research Society of American Periodicals).
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Nature Magazine - International weekly journal of science

bulletNew Scientist
bulletOld Magazine Articles - historical articles
bulletScience Books and Films Online - an  authoritative guide to science resources, bringing you the expert information you need to make the best decisions when choosing science materials for your library, classroom, or institution.
bulletScience News Online -   weekly news magazine about the  most important research in all fields of science.  A subscriber ID and password is needed to access the full-text  articles .  Ask a librarian for the login information.