Bellmore Memorial Library Electronic Resources
updated June 2009
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for FACTS.COM, BLOOM's and FERGUSON's, Username = ALISBELL and Password = facts
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Science The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology on the Web. |
| The African American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. |
| Associations Unlimited Includes listings of national, international and U.S. regional state and local associations - their names, addresses, telephone, e-mail addresses, number of members, information on what the association does, publications and other details. This database is continually updated. |
| Bigchalk's
eLibrary the ultimate K-12 reference resource -- features more than 1,500 magazines, newspapers, reference works, transcripts, maps, images, Web links and audio and video sources. |
| Biography Resource Center This database contains nearly 1.4 million biographies gathered from over 130 Gale reference sources, as well as full-text articles from more than 280 magazines chosen for their biographical content. These biographies cover the areas of literature, science, business, entertainment, history, current events and the arts. |
| Bloom's Literary Reference Online |
| Books In Print Find what you're looking for quickly and easily, using this unbiased, authoritative, and comprehensive database of over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. |
| Business and Company Resource Center This is an infotrac database and a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. |
| Career Cruising |
| CollegeSource
ONLINE features over 11,400 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. When prompted: Username: Belmore1 Password: BML99 |
| Community
Resource Database of Long Island Search over 11,000 Health, Human Service and Educational resources on Long Island. Find agencies and programs that can help you! |
| Consulta Spanish language materials including reference material, journals, and primary source documents. Provided by NOVEL, New York State Databases. |
| Consumer Reports |
| Credo Reference Full text content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. Search engine like GOOGLE but your results come from a library of trusted reference sources without ads, clutter, or irrelevant hits. |
| Custom Newspapers This is an Infotrac database, which includes nearly 100 U.S. national, regional and local newspapers and more than 60 English language foreign newspapers. It also includes Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business News Wire. |
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EBSCO
A-Z |
| EBSCO Animals |
| Eldercare Search for information on nursing homes, assisted living, hospice care. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. |
| Encyclopedia Americana |
| FACTS.com
Major U.S. and world events since 1980, with selected coverage back to 1940. Use ALISBELL as your ID; use facts as your password. |
| Ferguson's Career Guidance Center |
| Fiction Connection Looking for your next good read? Use Bowker’s new readers' advisory product, Fiction Connection, to discover titles similar to those you already enjoy. Or feel free to browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe |
| Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library offers you an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection. |
| Galenet
Use your library card number as your log in password. A Web version of Gale Research products: Literary Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Discovering Biography, Discovering Authors, Discovering World History, Exploring Poetry and Biography. |
| General Science Collection This database provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full-text
coverage for more than 60 popular science publications. Provides access to the multi-volume encyclopedia
Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century from Salem Press.
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| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia |
| Greenwood Daily Life Online A celebration of daily life throughout history. Includes Daily Life in America and World Cultures. |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center Use this Resource Center to find information on: Fitness, pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. |
| Health
Reference Center 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. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. |
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Heritage Quest Online |
| History Resource Center - US A multi-dimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. |
| Hoover's Company Records |
| Informe
Full text of 50 Spanish language and bilingual periodicals, including Actual, Latina and Siempre. Full text of the El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL). |
| InfoTrac OneFile Use InfoTrac to search magazines, newspapers (NY Times daily updates), and reference books for information on business, health, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. |
| Infotrac
Kid's and Junior Editions Kid's edition gives children easy access to magazines, reference books and newspaper articles. Junior edition is designed for junior high and middle school students. |
| Investext Plus This database gives you full access to full-text investment research reports written by 700 investment banks, brokerage firms and investment advisory companies. Material is organized into company reports, industry reports and geographical and topical reports. |
| Kids Search |
| Lands and Peoples |
| The Latino American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. |
| Learning
Express Library Prepare for success with LearnATest.com's exclusive learning method, combining practice tests with unique test preparation study materials. Leading educators, top-notch career experts, and the LearnATest.com professionals give you the most effective tools possible to learn exactly what you need to know. |
| Literature Resource Center Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline |
| Litfinder Search or browse poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches. |
| MasterFILE Select Search EBSCO's MasterFILE Select for information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers |
| Middle Search Plus A database aimed at middle and high school research. Middle Search Plus
provides full-text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and junior high
school research, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents and an
Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
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| National Newspapers Index This database is an Infotrac product that offers indexing and abstracts only, no full-text for five major national newspapers; the New York Times, including the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. |
| Netlibrary
NetLibrary is the most comprehensive collection of online books (ebooks) and resource materials available. Using netLibrary, you can access a wide range of scholarly and reference materials entirely online. You must create a NetLibrary account before the collection can be accessed from home. Application available at the Reference Desk. |
| New Book of Knowledge |
| New Book of Popular Science |
| New
York State Newspapers Search this database of 10 NY State Newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. |
| New York Times Full text from 2004 |
| New
York Times Historical Edition The complete text and graphics of the entire New York Times from 1851 through 2003, in full image! |
| Newsday Full text from 1985 through 2004 |
| Novelist
This "readers' advisor" database has something for everyone. Adults, teens and children will be able to identify other books based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles |
| NoveList (K-8) contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Updated monthly, NoveList (K-8) is your starting place for learning about the books that you and your students need and will want to read! |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center |
| Oxford Art Online The
most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual
arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Please note: Leave password blank. Type in your library card barcode for USERID. |
| Oxford Music Online Comprising the full text of the printed edition, grovemusic.com also includes advanced search capabilities, which enable you to make concept, pattern and "Boolean" searches to pinpoint precise queries, a ‘browse ’option inviting you to browse entries at will and over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations. A programme of updates from the Grove Editorial Team will keep the site fresh and up to date, and grovemusic.com now includes the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera as an extra value-added feature. |
| Poemfinder Poem Finder on the Web is never out-of-date and continually updated, Poem Finder is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating close to one million poems. |
| Pop Culture Universe explores new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food: pop culture brings us together as a people. |
| Prices 4 Antiques The information in this database is drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions. |
| Primary Search Primary Search contains full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. |
| PROMT PROMT stands for the Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology and is an Infotrac database which allows you to search companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. It includes material from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, new releases and investment and brokerage firm reports. |
| ProQuest Full-text articles on business and general interest subjects, with graphics, are searchable by keywords. Also included are periodicals and newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. |
| Reference
USA (American Business Information)
This database, with information about both large and small United States companies, is searchable by name, executive name, ticker symbol, yellow page headings and geography. |
| ReferenceLink
Connect to more than 40 newspapers, newswires and news databases. Includes Newsday back to 1987 full text, and the New York Times back 90 days plus over 40 additional general reference databases/titles. The subject groupings are as follows: Business & Industry, Education & Reference, Environment & Energy, Government, Health & Medicine, Import/Export Data, Patents & Copyrights, Science & Technology and Statistics. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. |
| Salud En Espanol Research all aspects of consumer health and wellness in Spanish. |
| Story
Finder Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and contemporary stories. |
| Student Resource Center Bronze A general reference database for students. Fully integrated to support information needs across the curriculum, it contains award-winning content based on actual assignments and national curriculum standards. Targeted areas are Reference, Magazines/Newspapers, and Primary Source Documents. |
| Student Resource Center Health Module |
| Teen Health and Wellness Real life; real answers for teens on health and wellness issues. |
| Testing and Education Resource Center |
| Twayne's
Author Series
Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. |
| Wall Street Journal Full text 1982 - current |
| World Book Online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, and more. |
| World Cultures Today |
The Bellmore Memorial Library has these additional databases available
for research in the library. Ask at the reference desk for assistance.
| Community Resource Directory |
| OCLC FirstSearch |