ART
Oxford Art Online - Online reference resource including access to not only Grove Art resources but also Oxford art reference as well.  Includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion To Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.  Users can choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows users greater access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.


 

BIOGRAPHY
Biography Resource Center - Integrates award-winning biographies from Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites.  Search for people -- both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor -- based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.  Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.  Includes access to The Complete Marquis Who's Who.


 

BUSINESS & FINANCE
ABI/INFORM Dateline - Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/INFORM Select - Search for essential information from 515 core business periodicals. Provides information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers, and more.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - Search more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

Business & Company ASAP - Provides researchers with information on companies, markets, and industries.  From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews.  Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Business & Company Resource Center - This database provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

General Business File ASAP - Provides access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Hoover's Company Records - Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Morningstar (NEW!) - A one-stop shop for investment learning. Whether you're looking for direction when using the site, tips for choosing funds for stocks, or the definition of an investment term, you'll find it all here.

PROMT - Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology.  Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

Reference USA - Reference USA contains US Business Data and US Residential directory information.  Business Data contains detailed directory information for 14 million+ U.S. Public and Private businesses.  Residential Data contains names, addresses, and phone numbers for 200 million+ U.S. households.  NOTE: If you are having difficulty accessing this database from home, please refer to the extensive Reference USA help page for suggestions on how to correct the problem.


 

CAREERS
Career Cruising - This database offers resources for those looking for career information.  You can learn about colleges and universities and the programs they offer, explore different careers that you are interested in, or take an interactive survey to help find careers that match your interests.  You can even set up a portfolio allowing you to save any information that you are working on so you can return to it at another time.


 

CHILDREN & TEENS
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - This general encyclopedia for students in middle and high school includes 39,000+ articles, photos and graphics, maps, and multimedia in the form of video, audio, panoramic photos, and map essays.

Junior Edition - K12 - Contains over 330 titles, cross searchable with e-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school 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.

Kids InfoBits - This database is designed for students in K-5.  It features a developmentally appropriate graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text age appropriate curriculum-related magazine and reference content.

Kids Search - a search interface designed especially for students in grades K through 5 and powered by EBSCOhost, searches a number of databases including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and EBSCO’s Newspaper Source and Primary Search databases.

Lands & Peoples - An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events for middle and high school students.  Each of the 400 articles includes article and web links, photos, maps, flags, and facts and figures.  This database also provides an atlas, an almanac, and a cultures comparison module.

Middle Search Plus - provides full text for 150+ popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 82,000+ biographies, 90,000+ primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.

New Book of Knowledge - This general encyclopedia is for middle grade students and includes literary selections, a timeline, projects and experiments, news, homework help and more.

Primary Search - Provides full text for 60+ popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Searchasaurus - This database provides access to full-text articles for children and young adults.  It includes a general encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of animals, and EBSCO's Primary Search.

Student Resource Center - Bronze - This database contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 680+ magazines, newspapers, 20,000+ photographs and illustrations, and hours of audio and video clips.

TumbleBooks - TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.  You can access TumbleBooks from the library or from home.

All you need is the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound and speakers. If you find that you are unable to view the TumbleBooks at home, you may need to download the FREE plug-in for Flash animations at www.macromedia.com/downloads.




CONSUMER INFORMATION
ConsumerReports.org (NEW!) - Features Ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.

GreenFILE - Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.




CURRENT EVENTS & ISSUES
Community Resource Database - This computerized directory profiles more than 11,000 community services and resources available in the Long Island area. It provides individuals and organizations with easy access to current information about health, human service and education agencies and programs.

CountryWatch - Provides country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.  A great source for thematic or physical maps.

Greenwood - Pop Culture Experience - Combines the best traditional scholarship with the convenience of web technology to enhance the study of American and world pop culture and pop history.

Opposing Viewpoints - Brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to hand-selected web sites.

SIRS Researcher® -  A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are selected from newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications.


 

EDUCATION
Career Cruising - This database offers resources for those looking for career information.  You can learn about colleges and universities and the programs they offer, explore different careers that you are interested in, or take an interactive survey to help find careers that match your interests.  You can even set up a portfolio allowing you to save any information that you are working on so you can return to it at another time.

Educator's Reference Desk - provides access to resources including links to 3,000+ resources on educational issues as well as 2,000+ lesson plans.  This database also includes a collection of 200+ responses to questions on education and links to the ERIC database.

ProQuest Education Periodicals - Search professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues.


 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia Americana - Provides access to 45,000+ encyclopedia articles, full-color maps, flags, 1,000+ tables and fact boxes, 4,500+ images, and 100,000+ periodical articles.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Annals of American History Online - Covers U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents including speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, video and audio clips and pictures.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Global Reference Center - Offers access to Britannica Encyclopedias in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and French.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Online Reference Center - Offers online access to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica including timelines, videos, quotations, and atlases.  Also included is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus and the Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Webster's Dictionary Online - Offers access to the entire 470,000 entries in the Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

Encyclopedia Britannica - World Data Analyst - Offers Country Snapshots (statistics on demography, vital statistics, national economy, transportation and communication, education and health, and military for individual countries), Country Comparisons, and Ranked Statistics (compile information for all countries and allow you to view the countries with the highest or lowest totals, rates, or percentages in statistical categories ranging from population to vegetable production to cellular phones as well as information about major natural and man-made features of the world).

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - A Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - This general encyclopedia for students in middle and high school includes 39,000+ articles, photos and graphics, maps, and multimedia in the form of video, audio, panoramic photos, and map essays.

New Book of Knowledge - This general encyclopedia is for middle grade students and includes literary selections, a timeline, projects and experiments, news, homework help and more.


 

GENEALOGY
HeritageQuest - This database provides genealogical information. Includes available U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.


 

HEALTH
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module - This database provides access to over 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Medline Plus - MEDLINE Plus offers current and accurate health care information from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) - This database is a bi-lingual source of health and consumer information including references to regional community resources and support groups.

ProQuest Health Management - Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.

Salem Health - Offers access to the full text of the reference works Magill's Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer.  Magill's Medical Guide is a reference source helping to bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides.  Salem Health: Cancer is a four-volume set covering more than 800 topics of crucial interest to students, patients, caregivers, and others who have received a diagnosis or are associated with those who have cancer.


 

HISTORY
Greenwood - The African American Experience - A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.  Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians of color, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

Greenwood - Daily Life America - Provides content from reference works, primary documents, and lesson plans as well as a state-by-state resource center.  Reference titles include The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures, The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States, and Famous American Crimes and Trials.

Greenwood - Daily Life Online - Provides content from reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Titles include The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, Daily Life America, World Folklore and Folklife and Daily Life Through History.

Greenwood - The Latino American Experience - A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.  Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.

Greenwood - Pop Culture Experience - Combines the best traditional scholarship with the convenience of web technology to enhance the study of American and world pop culture and pop history.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times - This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Salem History - Offers access to the following Salem reference sets: Milestone Documents - A new, primary source series featuring 134 full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary, The Decades - Salem's history series covering the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, and Great Lives from History - a far-reaching view of history, offering worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement.


 

LAW
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Directory - Provides access to 900,000+ lawyer and law firm listings.


 

LITERATURE
Gale Literary Databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography - these three literary databases combine to provide biographical information on 120,000+ US and International authors and 20,000+ biographical and critical essays on authors, works, eras, and genres.

Literature Resource Center (LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online) - Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of 130,000+ authors from every age and literary discipline.

LitFinder - Offers access to more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Includes:
EssayFinder - full-text essays focused on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism based on books published in the 20th century
PlayFinder - 1,000+ complete plays. Although international in scope, all are in English or English translations, can be searched by subject, title, or playwright
PoemFinder - 85,000+ full-text poems, 800,000+ poem citations and excerpts, a subject navigator, listings for the year's best poetry (New Poems), Kids' Korner section as well as explanations, biographies and pictures, international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present
SpeechFinder - best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and categorizes them into searchable genres
StoryFinder - thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, and pictures

NetLibrary - This database is a collection of online books (e-books) and resource materials. Using NetLibrary, you can access a wide range of scholarly and reference materials entirely online. You must create an account on a computer in the library before the collection can be accessed from home.

Shakespeare Collection: Featuring The Arden Shakespeare Collection Works - This database provides an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.

Student Resource Center - Bronze - This database contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 680+ magazines, newspapers, 20,000+ photographs and illustrations, and hours of audio and video clips.

Twayne Authors Series - Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.


 

MUSIC
Oxford Music Online - Online reference resource including access to not only Grove Music resources but also Oxford music reference as well.  Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.  Also features the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, online for the first time.  Search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source, and specific era or subject category. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. Advanced search capabilities, including biography and bibliography searching, provide users with powerful tools for content navigation.


 

NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS
Custom Newspapers - Search a collection of 650 newspapers, both national and international.  Includes The New York Times, The New York Post, The Christian Science Monitor and others.

EBSCO A-to-Z - Provides library staff and patrons with a single, comprehensive list of journals or magazines offered in our databases  Enter the publication title and this database will link to the appropriate database with full-text, if it is available.

General OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.  Updated daily.

InfoTrac Newsstand - This full-text (back to 1996) database includes nearly 100 U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers including The New York Times and New York Post and more than 60 English language foreign newspapers.  It also includes Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business News Wire.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

MasterFILE Premier - Offers full-text access to periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, science and more.  Also includes 2,350+ full text reference books, 84,000+ biographies, 86,000+ primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.

Middle Search Plus - provides full text for 150+ popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 82,000+ biographies, 90,000+ primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.

National Newspaper Index - National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

New York State Newspapers - A database of 28 major newspapers published in the state of New York, including The New York Times and The New York Post.

Newsday - The Newsday database is now part of ProQuest.  You can still search for Newsday articles and headlines back to 1985.  Most articles are full text. Updated daily.

Newspaper Source - Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for 200+ regional (U.S.) newspapers.

ProQuest - Offers access to 1,800+ newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals.  Includes coverage of many national newspapers, such as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Barron's, USA Today, The New York Times (full-text 90 days), and The Wall Street Journal (full-text back to 1989).

ProQuest Black Newspapers - A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States.

ProQuest Computing - Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.

ProQuest Education Periodicals - Search professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The New York Times - This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Text only link: Click here.

ProQuest Research Library - Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.




SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
EBSCO A-to-Z - Provides library staff and patrons with a single, comprehensive list of journals or magazines offered in our databases  Enter the publication title and this database will link to the appropriate database with full-text, if it is available.

General OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.  Updated daily.

MasterFILE Premier - Offers full-text access to periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, science and more.  Also includes 2,350+ full text reference books, 84,000+ biographies, 86,000+ primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000+ photos, maps and flags.

ProQuest - Offers access to 1,800+ newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals.  Includes coverage of many national newspapers, such as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Barron's, USA Today, The New York Times (full-text 90 days), and The Wall Street Journal (full-text back to 1989).


 

SCIENCE
New Book of Popular Science - This science encyclopedia is divided into searchable or browsable sections: SciClopedia, Newsbytes, Projects, Biographies, SciZone, SciFiles, SkyWatch, and Ask PopSci.


 

SPANISH LANGUAGE DATABASES
EBSCOhost Espanol - Offers popular EBSCOhost databases MasterFILE Premier, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Newspaper Source, and Primary Source in Spanish.

Informe - A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text.  Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.


 

TEST PREPARATION
Learning Express Library (Test Preparation) - A source for test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based on official tests.  To gain access to the LearningExpressLibrary.com's test preparation materials you will need to register.  (Click on "NEW USER" if you are a first time visitor.)  When accessed from home, your username must be your 14-digit library card number.