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Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1995.

With access to reports, working paper series, and journals from top Asia-Pacific institutions and world research institutions, Asia-Studies covers business, economics, government, politics, and social sciences. The humanities section includes Asian languages, arts, culture, history and religion.

The 53 countries covered by the database include all of Asia from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics on east through India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.

Consumer Reports Online is published by Consumers Union, an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization.  Since 1936, CU's mission has been to test products, inform the public and protect consumers.  We are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns.  Our income is derived solely from the sale of Consumer Reports (in print and online) and other services, and from nonrestrictive, noncommercial contributions, grants, and fees.

Consumers' Checkbook is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974 with the help of funding from the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. They do not accept support from businesses, and their publications and website carry no advertising.

Both the website and the print version of Boston Consumers' Checkbook (available in the Periodicals area) evaluate the quality and prices of local service firms and stores, such as auto repair shops, plumbers, dentists, veterinarians, banks, insurance companies, and many more. Checkbook's special health guides provide you with critical ratings and reports on doctors, hospitals, and health plans. The site also provides various kinds of help to consumers who want to buy or lease a new car.

A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports (most full-text) focusing on all levels of education, educational administration and policy.

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.  Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!

Use this database to research all business and management topics.  Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.  Choose "Advanced search" to search investment reports, containing Reuter’s Investment Profile, providing historical stock price trends, company profile, key ratios and statistics, analyst recommendations, and more.

General OneFile is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles, including most of the content across all Thomson/Gale databases. OneFile contains over 5,000 full-text periodical titles, and more than 9,200 titles in all, on a wide range of topics.

Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

JAMA's online version provides searchable full text and abstracts for issues from January 1998 to the present. It also includes abstracts for issues January 1975 - December 1997, and table of contents for January 1966 - December 1974. Users can select "Collections" to view articles published in JAMA on various topics.

"Advanced Search" allows users to search multiple journals (over 300) in addition to JAMA.

A collection of over 600 full text journals across 40 disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China. Subjects include the arts, current events, business, health, children's literature and much more. Most titles viewable in both simplified and classical viewing styles. Coverage: 2005-present.

A Massachusetts library card is required for access. You may need to install a language pack to view Chinese characters; the database should prompt you if you need to do this.

Infotrac's Science Resource Center provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics, and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.

Search Sports Illustrated full-text articles, covers, photos and video from 1954 to the present.

Search articles and covers from 1923 through the present, including European, Asian, and South Pacific editions.