COMPUTER SUBSCRIPTION RESOURCES AT WESTHILL

Click on the links below to access the web site.  Pick up user name and password list in the Media Center.

CT Digital Library
Use your public library barcode number as your ID

InfoTrac Student Edition - Designed for high school students, searches magazines, newspapers and reference books.

iCONN Newsstand - Newspaper articles from the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Hartford Courant, and others.

General Reference Center Gold - Database to find articles from newspapers, reference books, magazines - includes images.
Health & Wellness Resources Center - Medical information for general readers and health professionals.
Informe (Revistas en Espanol) - Full text Spanish newspapers and magazines.
What Do I Read Next? - Reader's advisory - find another book by the criteria you set.

And more....

Gale Databases
Use your public library barcode number as your ID

Literature Resource Center - Biographies and critical analyses of authors.
Health Reference Center Academic - Articles on all kinds of health topics.
History Resource Center: US - Access to historical documents (primary documents)), reference articles and journal articles covering themes, events, people, and periods in U.S. history.
Resource Center Health Module - Essays on medical and health related topics. Includes a timeline of events from the history of medicine, photographs, and diagrams.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource - Essays that present arguments on all side of an issue.  Can be searched by issue or keyword.  Most of the essays are primary sources.

NewsBank

Includes NewsBank NewsFile, African American Experience (1693-1830), Business NewsBank (1993-present), Noticas en Espanol, NewsBank Retrospective (1970-1991), UN Connections, and the Connecticut Post. 

Newspaper and periodical articles, documents, images, maps, and statistics.

Literature Finder

World's Best Poetry - Poets' biographies and their poems. Includes critical analysis of specific poems.
Story Finder - Author biographies and their short stories. Many major authors are included.

Essay Finder - Author biographies and their essays.

CQ Researcher

Pamphlets with information about important current issues.  Includes an analysis of the issue, background information, a chronology, the future outlook for the topic, and two opposing viewpoint essays..

Facts on File Online

A database for news related information.  Includes News Digests, Today's Science, Issues and Controversies on File, an Almanac, and an Almanac Encyclopedia.

Historical Newspapers

Newspaper articles from 1850 to the present.  Provides an actual facsimile of the newspaper in PDF format.  A great primary source.  Ask at librarian or see handout for user name and password.

ProQuest Professional Collection

Access to articles from a large collection of newspapers and journals.  The only database that provides back articles from the New York Times.