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These databases will help you find articles that Google cannot find! They are all available within the library.

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Biography
Discovering Collection |Biography Resource Center |
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Books, Literature & Reading

Gale's Literature Resource Center | Literary Reference Center|What Do I Read Next?

Business, Finance & Legal
Business & Company Resource Center |
ReferenceUSA| LexisNexis |SRDS | LegalTrac
e-Reference
e-Reference Books
Genealogy
Heritage Quest
General Resources
Academic OneFile | Consumer Reports | General Reference Center Gold | Opposing Viewpoints | PowerSearch |World News Digest
Grants & Foundations
Foundation Directory Online Professional | Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Health & Science
Health & Wellness Resource Center | Science Resource Center
History
American History Online | History Resource Center: U.S. | History Resource Center: World
ICONN
iCONN
JOBS
JobNow!
Music
New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Newspapers
Hartford Courant |Historical Hartford Courant |The New York Times |The Times (London)| Wall Street Journal

POWERSEARCH

Not sure what you'll find in a particular database? PowerSearch makes it easy for you to select the databases appropriate for your search by providing an alphabetical listing of databases.
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BIOGRAPHY

Discovering Collection
Biographies, essays, images & timelines.
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Biography Resource Center
Includes brief biographies and magazine articles of famous people from antiquity to the present with links to related full-text articles.
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Biography and Geneology Master Index
Covers nearly 5 million people and points to books and other publications that contain their biographies.
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BOOKS, LITERATURE & READING

Literature Resource Center
Author biographies and literary criticisms and a reader's advisory service.
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Literary Resource Center
Full text analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. This database includes: Masterplots, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Magill Book Reviews.
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Discover new reading adventures based on favorite books or literary subjects. A Monthly Highlights page includes selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
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BUSINESS & FINANCE
Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics.
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Newspaper articles, newsletters, magazines, and broadcast transcripts. Detailed company information and financial performance measures in the Company Dossier module. Primary source legal material (accessible only in the library) include law reviews articles, case law and regulations.

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LegalTrac
Articles from major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
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A directory of over 14,000,000 businesses in the US that can be sorted by geography, size, type of business and other criteria.
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SRDS
Online access to comprehensive media information formerly available from SRDS only in print.  Includes detailed ad rates, dates, contacts and demographic data for most media formats. 
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e-REFERENCE


A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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MUSIC

Oxford Music Online

New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Access to the 29 volume set surveying music from classical to zydeco.
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GENEALOGY
Heritage Quest Online
Information on people and places described in over 25,000 family and local histories. Includes US Federal Census Records from 1790-1930.
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GENERAL RESOURCES

Academic OneFile
Articles from leading journals and reference sources offering extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, and literature.
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Ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, food, personal finance, and travel.
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General Reference Center Gold
Multi-source general interest reference tool
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Opposing Viewpoints
A dynamic online library of current topics - the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
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GRANTS & FOUNDATIONS

These databases are part of the Westport Public Library's Foundation Center Cooperating Collection:

Foundation Directory Online Professional
An efficient way for fundraisers to identify potential funding sources. Search among foundations, corporate fund sources, grant recipients and the foundations' IRS form 990 tax returns.
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Foundation Grants for Individual

Provides information about more than 6,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other grant seekers.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Medical information for health professionals and general readers.
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An in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for science-related research needs.
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Consumer Report Card on Health Insurance Carriers in CT - 2009
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Facts on File American History
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
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A diverse collection of full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. Provides a complete overview of U.S. history.
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Combines a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources supporting undergraduate and high school research and curriculums.
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JOBS
jobnow
Expert resume assistance, live interview coaching and tips and resources to help start your job search.
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NEWSPAPERS

Hartford Courant Historical Hartford Courant
Full text articles from 1992-present
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Historical Hartford Courant Historical Hartford Courant
Digital archive available from 1764 to 1922
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The Times (London)
Full text from 1985- present.
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The New York Times
Full text articles from 1985-present.
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Wall Street Journal
Financial newspaper offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of news 1984-present.
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Facts on File World News
Information about world news, issues, statistics and people since 1940. Includes maps, photographs, historic documents and headline news stories.
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iCONN

ICONN

Information for homework assignments, consumer health, business and readers' advisory, magazines and newspapers.
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