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Access Science The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology on the Web.

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.

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.

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.

Country Watch  CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests.

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.

EBSCO A-Z Master title database providing link and coverage information to more than 76,000 unique titles from more than 750 database and e-journal packages from more than 100 different providers. Search by title, subject, or keyword.

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.

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

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.

Greenwood Daily Life Online  A celebration of daily life throughout history.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

Grove's Dictionary of Art 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.

Grove's Dictionary of Music  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.

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.

Heritage Quest Online Trace your family's history! Research your family and uncover your past by using over 25,000 books, the US Census, and other expanding collections.

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 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.

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.

Litfinder  Search or browse poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches.

MasterFILE Premier Search EBSCO's MasterFILE Premier for information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers

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 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 1999 through 2003

New York Times Historical Edition The complete text and graphics of the entire New York Times from 1851 through 1999, 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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teen Health and Wellness Real life; real answers for teens on health and wellness issues.

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.

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