research databases

East Rockaway Public Library

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Research Databases by Subject
All Databases are available from the library or From home.
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Art & Music	From Home From Home
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Biography	Biography Resource Center - Integrates Thomson Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.
Business	Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants.) Business and Company ASAP - Information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Gale Virtual Library - includes Business Plans Handbook, Encyclopedia of Small Business, and Gale Encyclopedia of E-commerce. (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants) General Business File ASAP - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images. Investext Plus - The premier financial research database available today. Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image. Newsletters ASAP - Provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers. PROMPT - Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. From Home Includes The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and Magazine Articles.
En Espanol	Informe - Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre in Groliers - Geografía, Historia, Lengua y Literatura, Ciencias de la Vida, Artes Escénicas, Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Sociedad y Ciencias Sociales, Deportes, Juegos y Recreación, Tecnología, Artes Visuales. EBSCOhost Espanol Salud para todos
Encyclopedias	From Home Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier's Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, Lands & People, and America the Beautiful.
Health	Health Reference Center Academic - Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants.) Gale Virtual Library - includes Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Encyclopedia of Cancer, Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Encyclopedia of Medicine, and Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health. Health & Wellness Resource Center - Medical dictionary & encyclopedia, health news, health organization directory, drug & herb finder and more. (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants.)
Images	Image Collection
Literature & Books	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, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. Story Finder - Essay and Play Finder Read books online at home. Reference, Cliff's Notes, computer, self help , travel books and more. Come in to the library and sign up for Netlibrary to access the East Rockaway Library's collection of online books. You can browse, check them out, or read them off-line. NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction. NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen. Twayne's Author Series - Contains the 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. (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants.)
Magazines & Newspapers	Custom Newspapers Search a collection of 500 newspapers, both national and international. National Newspaper Index National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. New York State Newspapers - Search this database of 15 newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post. Newsletters ASAP Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers. From Home (provided via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants) . Search to see which databases include a particular periodical title. ProQuest Database From Home ProQuest Newspapers ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Science & Math	From Home General Science Collection - 60 of the most popular science publications. Science Reference Center - Middle & High school level science. TOPICsearch -This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources. From Home
Social Studies & Current Events	Points of View Reference Center - a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. Gale Virtual Reference Library - includes American Civil War Reference Library, American Revolution Reference Library, Americans at War, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages , and more. TopicSearch in EbscoHost This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.