Databases
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![]() | Available to Central | In Library Use Only Find information on more than 90,000 U.S. foundations including direct corporate giving programs and company-sponsored foundations, 900,000 recent grants, and more than 400,000 key decision-makers.
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![]() | Available to Central, City, Suburban Over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines.
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![]() | Available to Central, City, Suburban Access full text articles from more than 1000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading international titles. Search articles by title, headline, date, author or newspaper section. Tutorials
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![]() | Available to Central, City, Suburban A searchable archive of digital images and full text from newspapers in these states;
Included in the collection is a searchable archive of Syracuse newspapers from 1857 forward. ![]() |
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