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This tutorial is designed to help high school students use databases to find information for papers and course assignments. Electronic databases can help you find magazine, journal, and newspaper articles and other published information sources. Colonie Central High School subscribes to a variety of databases. The databases may differ in the way that the screen looks or the type of information they store but essentially they all work on the same principles. Once you understand how databases work, you will be able to use almost any database. A database is a collection of records, stored on a computer, with information about different items.

Getting Started: select one of the databases to start the tutorial by clicking directly on the title of the database.