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ABCmouse

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ABCmouse has over 8,500 interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities. It's 100% educational, covering all major subject areas - reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music (ages 2-8+).

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Agriculture

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Agriculture

Broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

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Ancestry Library

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Ancestry Library

Provides access to Census records, birth, marriage and death records, military records, immigration and emigration records and more.

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BookBrowse

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BookBrowse

An online magazine for book lovers. Includes reviews, previews, “behind the book” backstories, author interviews, reading guides, and much more.

Books & Authors

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Books & Authors

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Brainfuse HelpNow

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Brainfuse HelpNow

Brainfuse HelpNow is unique tutoring, homework help, and studying resource designed to assist people of all ages to succeed. *Live Tutors are now available 24/7.*

Britannica Academic

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Britannica Academic

An accurate, current, and comprehensive resource for college-level learners, researchers, and faculty. Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools that make research easier and more productive.

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Britannica Schools

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Britannica Schools

Thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended web sites, and three separate databases for elementary, middle, or high school students. There is Read-aloud, a font size adjuster, and built-in translation tools support students with special needs and ELLs.

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Communications & Mass Media

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Communications & Mass Media

Research all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.

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Computer Science

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Computer Science

Contains computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas like hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

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Criminal Justice

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Criminal Justice

Information for those who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism; training for paralegal service; preparing for a career in homeland security; delving into forensic science; investigating crime scenes; developing policy; going to court; writing sociological reports; and much more.

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Culinary Arts

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Culinary Arts

Access academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

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Diversity Studies

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Diversity Studies

Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.

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Driving-Tests.org

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Driving-Tests.org

Getting ready for a driving test? Access practice tests and driver’s manuals for cars, motorcycles and CDL (commercial driver’s license), as well as an FAQ section with detailed answers to 100+ DMV-related questions.

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Economics and Theory

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Economics and Theory

Content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

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Educator's Reference Complete

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Educator's Reference Complete

Resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.

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Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather

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Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather

Covers essential topics that include the processes that produce weather, the world's climates, classification of climates, important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists, as well as the history atmospheric sciences, biographies of noteworthy contributors to the field, and significant weather events from extreme tropical cyclones to tornadoes to hurricanes.

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. Includes real business plans, how-to guides, articles, and more.

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Environmental Studies & Policy

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Environmental Studies & Policy

Provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

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Financial Wellness Center

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Financial Wellness Center

Use retirement, savings, and other calculators to help you make financial decisions. Get virtual coaching and read articles on topics such as buying a home, getting a loan, saving for college, and more. Database provided courtesy of SECNY.

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Fine Arts

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Fine Arts

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

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Gale Academic OneFile

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Gale Academic OneFile

Over 12,000 journals and reference sources, many of which are peer-reviewed and full text. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more.

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Gale Business: Insights

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Gale Business: Insights

Provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full text periodical articles.

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Gale General OneFile

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Gale General OneFile

Periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources covering a wide ranger of general interest topics and disciplines. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.

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Gale in Context: Elementary

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Gale in Context: Elementary

Contains over 100 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts and graphs.

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Gale in Context: Middle School

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Gale in Context: Middle School

Age-appropriate reference content, videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources and more support the completion of assignments in core subject areas.

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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Contains a range of perspectives on hundreds of today's hottest social issues featuring pro/con viewpoints. Resource types include reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.

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Gale Legal Forms

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Gale Legal Forms

Access a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms and resources across the most popular legal areas.

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Gale OneFile Entrepreneurship

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Gale OneFile Entrepreneurship

Provides access to journals and periodicals perfect for both business school students and entrepreneurs. The database offers content that includes insights, tips, strategies and success stories.

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Gale OneFile High School Edition

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Gale OneFile High School Edition

Designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

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Gardening & Horticulture

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Gardening & Horticulture

Information about gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. Content is relevant to hobbyists, gardeners, farmers, and landscape architects alike.

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Gender Studies

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Gender Studies

Balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

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GetSetUp

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GetSetUp

GetSetUp provides free virtual programming for older adults, taught by peers – ask questions, make new friends, learn new things and have fun. Classes include cooking, creativity, finance, health and wellness, fitness, music, photography, social media, technology, travel, business, and more. This service is offered by the Onondaga County Office for the Aging in partnership with New York Station.

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Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

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Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

This five-volume set includes American painting, architecture, sculpture, and photography from the Pre-Columbian sources to the colonial period to the twenty-first century devoting coverage to many previously underrepresented areas of inquiry, including African American artists, Asian American artists, and Native American art, both historical and contemporary. Artists, major movements, institutions, critics, and the architecture found in major cities of the United States are covered, as are new media and methodologies, including digital art, performance art, and installation art.

Health & Medicine

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Health & Medicine

Contains medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. Designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.

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Health & Wellness

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Health & Wellness

A comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

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Heritage Hub

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Heritage Hub

Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images.

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Home Improvement

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Home Improvement

Offers more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

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Hospitality & Tourism

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Hospitality & Tourism

The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries. The curious traveler will also find a wealth of information, from contents on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor's.

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Information Science

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Information Science

Updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

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Insurance & Liability

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Insurance & Liability

Protection of assets—physical or intellectual—is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. Search thousands of articles from leading journals in the field.

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Leadership & Management

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Leadership & Management

Provides access to content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.

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Linkedin Learning

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Linkedin Learning

Self-paced online learning programs in business, software, technology and creative skills. Library members have access to the lynda.com collection of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.

Local Yearbook Collection

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Local Yearbook Collection

An assortment of yearbooks from the Cicero-North Syracuse School District have been digitized and made available online. Choose from middle school, junior high and high school yearbooks from various years.

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Military and Intelligence

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Military and Intelligence

Over 500 titles and 7 million articles in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.

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New York Times Digital Collection

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New York Times Digital Collection

Access The New York Times, their digital edition, NYT Book Review, NYT for Kids, and much more through Gale databases from NovelNY.

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New York Times Recent

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New York Times Recent

Retrieve digital images of the New York Times from 2008 to present (with 1-month lag time). The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to complete and recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable and results can be saved in My Research Account.

News

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News

Access full text articles from more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading international titles. Search articles by title, headline, date, author or newspaper section.

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Newsbank

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Newsbank

Full text access to the Syracuse Newspapers from 1986 to present. It also includes Rochester and Utica newspapers.

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Newspaper Archive

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Newspaper Archive

Searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages from over 2000 newspapers from U.S and foreign cities. Includes Syracuse newspapers from 1809 forward.

NoveList K-8 Plus

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NoveList K-8 Plus

Find good books for kids, whether fiction or nonfiction. This online resource includes reading recommendations from librarians. Search for books by reading level, genre, content, time period, and more.

NoveList Plus

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NoveList Plus

Reading recommendations based on more than 120,000 adult, teen and children’s fiction titles. Includes hundreds of theme-oriented book lists: award-winning and recommended titles, read-alikes, book reviews and much more.

Nursing and Allied Health

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Nursing and Allied Health

Academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. Offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

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Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

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Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion

Over 2,500 entries from 180 international scholars including biographical sketches of important personalities associated with the development of the Jewish religion over the centuries and an index with alternate spellings of Hebrew terms.

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare

Examines all aspects of warfare and military technology in medieval times. This set provides an exhaustive and accurate view of how and why wars were waged throughout Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States from circa 500 CE to circa 1500.

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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible

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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible

Contains almost 120 in-depth entries, ranging in length from 500 to 10,000 words, on each of the canonical books of the Bible, major apocryphal books of the New and Old Testaments, important noncanonical texts, and thematic essays on topics such as canonicity, textual criticism, and translation.

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Peterson's Test & Career Prep

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Peterson's Test & Career Prep

Helps you prepare for the GED, SAT, ACT, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, the military, job searching, new careers, and more. Find in-depth information on college programs, tuition assistance, and career paths. Use templates to create visually interesting resumés, cover letters, and websites that can be externally shared with prospective employers.

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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Covers the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

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Pop Culture Studies

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Pop Culture Studies

Provides access to journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. Covers social science, history, art and liberal arts.

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Psychology

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Psychology

Includes access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind.

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Reference Solutions

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Reference Solutions

(Formerly ReferenceUSA) Contains data that allows users of all kinds search for jobs, find doctors, create marketing and small business plans, locate specific people, find home values and more.

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Religion & Philosophy

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Religion & Philosophy

More than 200 magazines and academic journals covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. This tool can be used to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.

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Science

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Science

Coverage of all areas of science, biological sciences, computing, engineering and technology.

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Syracuse Post Standard

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Syracuse Post Standard

Read the Syracuse Post Standard online, follow topics and create alerts through the database NewsBank.

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U.S. History

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U.S. History

A collection of journals providing balanced coverage of current events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

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VIN Decoder

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VIN Decoder

Official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is combined other parameters and is displayed in an easy-to-read, mobile-friendly format that tells the vehicle's "story": its manufacturer, brand, make and model, body style, engine size, assembly plant, and model year, along with recent recalls and complaints.

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Vocations & Careers Collection

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Vocations & Careers Collection

Access journals and magazines that aid in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

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Wall Street Journal Recent

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Wall Street Journal Recent

Retrieve digital images of the Wall Street Journal from 2008 to present (with 1-month lag time). The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to complete and recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable and results can be saved in My Research Account.

War & Terrorism Collection

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War & Terrorism Collection

Offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.

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World History

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World History

Balanced coverage of events in world history. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced researcher.

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Worldcat Discovery

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Worldcat Discovery

Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide (this is not the Onondaga County Public Library catalog).

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