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Online Resources - Magazines & Newspapers

Indexing for magazines and newspapers with many of the articles full-text. Coverage is from general interest magazines to scholarly journals with ages ranging from children to adult.

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Reference Librarian

Patty Crane

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417-624-5465

Reference Databases

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		Academic Search Elite Provides core resource of scholarly information for academic Institutions containing full text for more than 2,100 journals and over 1,700 peer-reviewed, full-text journals.
		ERIC The Education Resource Information Center provides citations to education literature and resources.
		MAS Ultra - School Edition Specifically designed for high school students incudes full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, more than 360 reference books, and an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs.
		MasterFILE Premier Designed for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more; full text more than 500 reference books; over 107,000 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
		Middle Search Plus Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines, primary source documents, reference books, and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
		Newsbank Indexing and full-text articles for the Kansas City Star (1991-Current) and St. Louis Post Dispatch (1988-Current). Database includes full-text coverage of 30 of the top magazines for News, Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Science, and Sports.
		Newspaper Source Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and full-text television & radio news.
		Primary Search Primary Search®, designed specifically for elementary school students contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
		Professional Development Collection Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for nearly 520 high-quality education journals.