Database Subscriptions

Most databases require a password, which is usually the 14-digit number of your library card entered with no spaces. Other databases require a username and password which you can obtain by calling the Library at 223-6228. We offer a wide variety of databases including those that offer magazine, journal and newspaper articles; research databases on specific subjects such as literature, music, art, science, business, health and readers' advisory. Additional databases are available for research in the library.

DATABASES AVAILABLE FOR ACCESS FROM HOME

Biography	Health
Business	History
Children	Images
College and Careers	Library Catalog/netLibrary
Community Resources	Literature
Computers	Magazines/Newspapers
Downloadable Audiobooks	Music and Art
Education	Readers' Advisory
Encyclopedias and Quick Reference	Science and Mathematics
Genealogy	Spanish Language
Global Studies/Multi-Subject	Test Preparation


Biography	Biography Resource Center - Full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Business	ABI/Inform - Includes scholarly, trade and local and regional business publications. Business and Company ASAP - Information on companies, markets and industries. Business & Company Resource Center - Detailed company and industry news and information from Gale, including company profiles, brand information, industry rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodical articles. Available via EmpireLink, a project of the NY State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants. Business Source Premier - As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 3,000 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1000 peer-reviewed publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business and is updated on a daily basis. Gale Virtual Reference Library - click on 'View Publications' beside the word 'Business'. General Business File ASAP - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends. Access a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. Investext Plus - find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Newsletters ASAP - information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers. PROMT - Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Research on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports. Regional Business News - coverage from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.
Children	Discovering Collection - Geared toward middle and high school students. Includes reference content for the areas of Geography and Cultures, History, Biographies, and Social Studies. EBSCO Searchasaurus - Full text articles for children and young adults. It includes a general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia of animals. InfoTrac - Junior and Kids Editions - Magazines, reference books and newspapers for information on the elementary and middle-school levels. Kids Search - Similiar to Searchasaurus but has a new graphically-rich look and feel. Middle Search Plus - Provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research, primary source documents, and an image collection. Novelist K-8 - Discover current and classic fiction titles that are popular with young readers. Contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Student Research Center - includes primary source documents as well as magazines, newspapers, biographies, radio and television transcripts, encyclopedias, images and country reports, for grades 1 through 12. TumbleBooks - Collection of talking, animated picture books, puzzles, and quizzes. Includes resources for teachers.
College and Careers	Career Cruising - an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. Includes career matching quiz and college selection questionnaires. In English and Spanish.
Community Resources	Community Resources Database - Lists over 11,000 health, human service, and education agencies on Long Island.
Computers	Computer Source - Full text articles on computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet, a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
Downloadable Audiobooks	netLibrary/Recorded Books - Download audio books to your computer or MP3 player (must be able to play Windows Media Audio files--Macs and iPods not compatible). Over 1400 titles available.
Education	ERIC - ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Professional Development Collection - Contains approximately 550 full text education journals and more than 200 educational reports.
Encyclopedias and Quick Reference	AccessScience - McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Credo Reference - A virtual reference library that provides access to hundreds of reference books in one easy interface. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotation books, and subject-specific reference books on every topic from business to literature to technology. Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - For students and adults alike (access through EBSCO). Grolier Online - Multimedia encyclopedias and resources provide quick access to factual information as well as broad overviews of general subjects. Includes New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, and more.
Genealogy	HeritageQuest Online - Collection of research materials for census data, family records and local histories. If you have difficulty accessing this database, please call HeritageQuest Technical Support at 1-800-889-3358 for assistance.
Global Studies/Multi-Subject	Credo Reference - A virtual reference library that provides access to hundreds of reference books in one easy interface. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotation books, and subject-specific reference books on every topic from business to literature to technology. CountryWatch - Up-to-date information and news on countries of the world. Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the areas of Geography and Cultures, History, Biographies, and Social Studies. EBSCO TOPICsearch - Full-text reference resource for students exploring social, political, economic issues and more. Facts.com - Full-text world news coverage from 1940. Gale Virtual Reference Library - click 'View Publications' beside the words 'Nation and World' and 'Social Science'. Issues and Controversies - up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - explore both sides of important social issues (access through InfoTrac).
Health	American Medical Association - search publications of the AMA including the Journal of the American Medical Association. Consumer Health Complete - Comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Contains full text of reference books, drug patient education sheets, pamphlets and videos. Gale Virtual Reference Library - click 'View Publications' beside the word 'Medicine'. Health Source - Consumer Edition Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition Health Reference Center Academic Health & Wellness Resource Center - Full-text for many citations, 1997 to present. Medline ProQuest Health Management - Covers all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
History	Gale Virtual Reference Library - click on 'View Publications' beside the word 'History'. Issues and Controversies in American History - In-depth explanations of opposing points of view concerning events in American History, including primary sources, biographies, timelines, background articles, photographs and maps.
Images	Image Collection - Over 180,000 photographs and images including current events, sports, maps, entertainment, the sciences and historical interests.
Library Catalogs	ALISweb Millennium - Nassau County Public Libraries Online Catalog netLibrary - Register at Reference Desk
Literature	Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the area of Literature and Biography. Literature Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. LitFINDER Poem Finder - 85,000 full-text poems plus 800,000 poem citations and excerpts. Story Finder - Thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies and more. Essay/Speech/Play Finder - Full-text. Essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Speeches include the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years. Plays is the most complete single-source of full-text plays. MagillOnLiterature Plus - Critical analyses of literature, character profiles, plot summaries (Masterplots) and author biographies. Twayne's Author Series - Full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Magazine & Newspaper Articles	Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. EBSCO - Full text journals and newspapers covering business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment. Can translate most articles into Spanish, French and German. Use this link to search across multiple EBSCO databases. EBSCO A-to-Z - Search for a periodical in EBSCO, InfoTrac, and ProQuest all at the same time. EBSCO Searchasaurus - Full-text articles for children and young adults. It includes a general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia of animals. Gale Custom Newspapers - Contains 150 full-text newspapers, including the latest 365 days of the New York Times. Offered through the New York State Library. Gale National Newspaper Index - Offered through the New York State Library. Gale New York State Newspapers - Offered through the New York State Library. (Does NOT include Newsday.) The Historical New York Times (1851-2004) - Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Infotrac from Gale- Use this link to search across multiple Gale databases. Infotrac from Gale-General Reference Center Gold - Search magazine, newspapers and reference books for information on business, health, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. Infotrac OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, current events, economics, education, health care, literature and art, politics, science, social science, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. MasterFILE Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection. Newsday - Full-text articles, 1985-present. Newspaper Source - Selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. ProQuest - Full-text journals, dissertations and newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
Music & Art	Grove Dictionary of Art - Comprehensive database covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s, international in scope Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Full text of the printed edition.
Readers' Advisory	NoveList - Readers' advisory resource - classic and contemporary authors. NoveList K-8 - Discover current and classic fiction titles that are popular with young readers. Contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.
Science & Mathematics	AccessScience - McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the area of Science and Health. General Science Collection - Full-text coverage for more than 60 science publications. Includes multi-volume encyclopedia, Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century. Science Reference Center - Full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Offered through the New York State Library.
Spanish Language	Career Cruising - an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. Includes career matching quiz and college selection questionnaires. In English and Spanish. EBSCO Español iInforme! - Revistas en Español - Spanish language online database. Offered through the New York State Library. Salud para todos - a full text consumer health resource written entirely in Spanish and designed specifically for those seeking information about health and medicine.
Test Preparation	LearningExpressEBooks.com - Selection of online EBooks from Learning Express Library providing test preparation and practice in skills improvement. (You will be asked to create a user name and password; use your Baldwin Library Card barcode number as your user name and make up any password you like. LearningExpressLibrary.com - Online practice tests of official exams such as Civil Service exams, AP, SAT, U.S. citizenship, law enforcement, real estate, ESL (Spanish) skills improvement and more. (You will be asked to create a user name and password; use your Baldwin Library Card barcode number as your user name and make up any password you like.)

ONLINE DATABASE AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE LIBRARY

Value Line - comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. See Reference Librarian for assistance.

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