Subscription Databases

EBSCOhost Databases

  • Primary Search - provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
  • GreenFILE - offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
  • Kids Search - graphical search designed especially for youth in grades K-5.
  • Searchasaurus - dinosaur themed search for users in elementary or middle schools. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
  • Teacher Resource Center - provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

EBSCOhost Espanol


Gale Databases

  • Academic OneFile - source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects
  • Business and Company Resource Center - detailed company and industry news and information
  • General OneFile - source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
  • Health Reference Center Academic - Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center
  • Gale Custom Newspapers - collection of 150 national and international newspapers
  • Gale New York State Newspapers - newspapers from Buffalo, New York City, and Syracuse
  • Gale National Newspaper Index - indexes New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
  • Twayne's Authors Series - high quality information about authors and their works

NoveList Plus

  • reader's advisory database to over 150,000 fiction titles plus over 50,000 readable nonfiction titles.

LearningExpressLibrary LearnATest

  • Limited to computer skills courses on Microsoft Office products, Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OS X.

OCLC WorldCat

  • Locate books anywhere in the world

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (ProQuest)


Grolier Databases

  • Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
  • American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

The following database is only available from within any OWWL library:

The following database is only available in the Geneva Public Library (the OWWL Central Library):

  • HeritageQuest & Ancestry.com - genealogy and local history information