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The Freeport Memorial Library subscribes to the following list of online databases, some available only from within the Library and others can be accessed from home.
The house symbol indicates that the database is accessible from home.
- To access a database from within the Library, please click on the database name.
- To access a database from home, please click on the house symbol
next to the database name. Most of the databases require you to enter the 14-digit barcode from your Freeport Library card for access from home.
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Books and Literature [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Aliscat
- Catalog of books and other materials located in Nassau County public libraries. ALIScat allows you to search for books, videos, and music; as well as renew materials and place reserves electronically. More information about using this catalog is available at: http://www.nassaulibrary.org/freeport/pdfs/aliscat.pdf
- Bloom's Literary Reference Online
- Contains all of Harold Bloom's criticism for novels, plays, etc. as well as information on various authors.
- Books In Print
- This database includes approximately 5.8 million books that are in print, forthcoming, or declared out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979, as well as more than 500,000 full text reviews.
- Fiction Connection
- This new reader's advisory tool contains over 130,000 records, with 1,000 new records added monthly. Search for books by topic, genre, setting, character, location, or timeframe. Includes fiction, biographies, authobiographies, and memoirs. Fiction Connection is also available from within the Books In Print database.
- Nonfiction Connection

- First Search -
This database provides access to a wide variety of articles in a number of databases as well as a union catalog of books in libraries all over the world. Note: Within the First Search database, you must use the First Search commands - do not use the browser commands.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Electronic versions of many popular Reference books.
- LitFinder
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International in scope, this database covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content including more than 126,500 full text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
- Literature Resource Center
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this database to access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 140,000 authors from every age and literary discipline with this database.
- Long Island Library Catalog Advanced Search - This interface links the catalogs of academic, medical, public, school, and special libraries in Nassau and Suffolk Counties . Please be aware that some of the items found in this catalog may not be available to the public or through interlibrary loan. Please contact the Freeport Memorial Library’s Reference Department for more information.
- NetLibrary
- Downloadable audiobooks
and ebooks
- First Time Users - register for a free NetLibrary account here. Once you enter your 14 digit barcode from the back of your Library card, you will be brought to the NetLibrary page. Click on the Create A Free Account link in the upper right.
- Novelist
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This reader's advisory tool that helps readers discover fiction books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.
- Novelist
K-8
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Children and their parents will find this database useful when looking for age-appropriate novels.
- TumbleReadables
- Online collection of read-along books for children, young adults, and adults.
- TumbleTalkingBooks
- is an online audio book collection for children, young adults, and adults.. You may listen to these titles online, but they can not be downloaded to an MP3 player.
- Twayne's Author Series
- This database provides literary critical interpretation and discussion of nearly 600 authors and their works, as well as literary movements and genres. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
Business [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- ABI/INFORM Dateline
- This database delivers over 175 journals, with more than 170 available in full text. It includes hard-to-find local and regional business pubications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more. ABI/INFORM Dateline allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies, and other topics from a local and regional perspective. ABI/INFORM Dateline includes major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and area business publications. Titles include: Crain's Chicago Business, Business Journal - Central New York, Smart Business Pittsburgh, Sacramento Business Journal, and Texas Business Review.
- ABI/INFORM Global
- Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research
topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage
of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice
of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance,
taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to
information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles.
- ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
- This database provides major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,200 publications, with over 1,150 in full-text. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others. Titles include: Candy Industry, Airline Industry Information, Global Cosmetic Industry, Hospital Business Week, and R & D.
- Gale's Business and Company Resource Center
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A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Gale's General Business File ASAP
- This database is the place to look for analysis of company performance and activity, industry events and trends and the latest in management, economics and politics. Content includes broker-research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings with full text and images.
- Gale's Virtual Reference Library
- A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Investex Plus
- This database is the premier financial research database available today. With a rich backfile to 1982, search this database to find investment, company and industry report 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.
- Kiplinger Forecasts - Online version of the Kiplinger Newsletter. Username and password required to use this database. Please ask a Librarian for assistance.
- Newsletters ASAP
- Provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers.
- PROMPT - Predicates Overview of Markets and Technology
- Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. This database 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 report.
- Reference USA
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Provides addresses, sales information, and executive names for over 12 million U.S. companies and 1.3 million Canadian companies. Searchable by state/province, city, zip/postal code, SIC code and yellow page headings. Searches can be customized by company size, sales volume, geographic location, industry, etc. Many of the listings are for small businesses. Database also includes residential listings for phone numbers and addresses for 120 million U.S. households and 1.3 million Canadian households and information on 650 physicians and dentists
- Thomas' Register Online
- Search ThomasNet.com, the most comprehensive resource for industrial information, products, services, CAD drawings, and more.
Career and Exam Preparation [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Career Cruising
- Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. Use this database if you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training.
- Institute for Career Research - This database for students provides with detailed information about today's hot new careers including education requirements, good and bad aspects of the career, and interviews with folks working in the field. Also included are: real time general personality test to help students get started in the right direction, bulletin boards where students receive answers to questions from industry professionals, on-line videos offered for select careers, and up to the minute career news. Please see a Reference Librarian for the username and password.
- Learnatest from Learning Express
- Prepare for a number of exams, take practice tests, and find career resources. Practice tests include: Real Estate, Police Officer, EMT/Paramedic, Cosmetology, Military (ASVAB), Civil Service, GED and more! Now includes the ESL (Spanish) Skills Improvement Course.
Encyclopedias [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries that are searchable by subject, or keyword.
- Grolier Online
- This database includes seven encyclopedias for specific ages and areas of interest:
- Encyclopedia Americana : In-depth research and worldwide current events for older students and adults
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia : Quick reference and rich media for middle school and high school
- The New Book of Knowledge : Reference and current events for elementary readers and up
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre : Complete encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students
- The New Book of Popular Science : In-depth science, plus science in the news
- America the Beautiful : State-by-state history
- Lands and People
- World Book Encyclopedia Online
- An up-to-date, and extremely well illustrated encyclopedia, with over 9,600 pictures and maps, 60,000 cross-reference links, and 800 videos, animations and sounds. (NOTE: TO USE THIS DATABASE FROM HOME, YOU MUST CLICK ON THE HOUSE. AFTER CLICKING ON THE HOUSE YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR YOUR 14-DIGIT LIBRARY CARD BARCODE.)
Genealogy [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Ancestry Library - This database is a genealogical research tool that provides access to more than 4 billion names in more than 4,000 databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and the UK & Ireland Collection. It is the library version of Ancestry.com.
- Heritage Quest
- A genealogy resource combining census data, family records, local histories, and other primary sources. Users may search on personal names, place, type of material, and keywords. Full-image census records are further searchable by year, surname, given name, age, gender, race, birthplace, locality, county, and state. Many collections are delivered in full page image, ready for printing or pdf downloading.
- Proquest Obituaries
- The ProQuest Obituaries collection is a premier resource for genealogical and historical research. You can use the collection to search oituaries and death notices from prominent newspapers, such as the New York Times, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
History [ TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
Medicine and Health [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Gale's Health and Wellness Resource Center
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This comprehensive resource includes reference material like the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and the Alternative Health Encyclopedia, as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from authoritative medical sources. There are also links to related websites. Coverage includes such topics as chiropractic, herbal remedies, homeopathy, midwifery, and yoga. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Gale's Virtual Reference Library
- A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Health Reference Center Academic
- This database contains articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and more. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- 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.
- Reference USA
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This database provides contact information for 650 physicians and dentists.
- Rosen's Teen Health and Wellness
- This database provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
Periodicals
and Newspapers [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Custom
Newspapers
- This database includes full-text articles from 150 national and international newspapers. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Ebsco A-Z
This database provides users a single, comprehensive list of periodical titles that can be accessed, along with the databases databases in which they appear. Users can quickly locate and link to journals of interest, searching
for journals by keyword or by browsing an alphabetical list by title or subject.
- Ebsco
Databases
- This database provide full-text coverage for nearly 750 periodicals as far back as 1985; indexing and abstracts for more than 2,200 titles; 28 reference and travel books including the World Almanac and American Heritage Dictionary; and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps, and flags. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Fulltext Sources Online Directory - Use this database to determine in which of the periodical database a particular journal is indexed. This database requires a username and password. Please ask a Reference Librarian for assistance.
- General
Science Collection
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This database includes full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Providing information on all aspects of the scientific world, the General Science Collection offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.
- Infotrac - General
Reference Center Gold
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A general interest database that integrates newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images, in one easy-to-use interface.
- Infotrac
Junior
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This edition designed for junior high and middle school students, gives kids easy access to magazines, reference books, and newspaper articles.
- MasterFILE
select
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Provides full text for over 760 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more
- National
Newspaper Index
- This database provides quick access to the indexing of America 's five newspapers on one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- New
York State Newspapers
- Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the State of New York , including the New York Times and the New York Post. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Newsday
- This database includes full-text articles from Newsday from 1985 to present.
- Primary
Search
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Designed for the elementary school student, this database provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets.
- Proquest Databases
- Full-text journals, dissertations, newspapers, and articles on a variety of subjects.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers Extra! Edition
- Search a pre-selected collection of articles from The New York Times covering the major events in U.S. history over the last 150 years. Extra! Edition offers an intuitive graphical interface that is suitable for K-12 students. (NOTE: TO USE THIS DATABASE FROM HOME, YOU MUST CLICK ON THE HOUSE. AFTER CLICKING ON THE HOUSE YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR YOUR 14-DIGIT LIBRARY CARD BARCODE.)
- Proquest Historical New York Times (1851 - 2003) - This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproduction providing access to every page from every available issue.
- Proquest Newspapers
- Search the entire collection of Proquest Newspapers, including those listed below. Use this link to search the collection of newspapers at once, or click on the individual links below to search individual papers.
- Proquest Research Library
- From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. This combination of volume and scope makes it one of the broadest, most inclusive databases ProQuest has to offer.
- TOPICSearch
- Contains articles on political, social, and economic issues. Updated bi-monthly,
the database contains 50,000 full-text articles derived from over 3,000 sources.
Additional
Databases [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
- Access Science
- All Data - Provides diagnostic and repair information for cars and light trucks. Enter the make, model, and year of the vehicle and choose from service categories including exhaust, brakes, steering and suspension, heating and air conditioning, warning indicators, lighting and horns, wiring diagrams, diagnostic procedures, and maintenance schedules. The ALLDATA Service Advisor provides original price of parts and the estimated repair time enabling the consumer to determine repair costs.
- Auralog Language Learning Center
- Language learning program that applies speech-recognition technology to foreign language learning. Languages include: German, American English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, and Spanish (Latin American).
- BUC Value - What's your boat really worth? This database contains statistically authenticated current market values for used boat evaluations. See librarian for username and password to log on.
- Community Resource Database of Long Island
- Profiles more than 6000 community services & resources, with information
on private, non-private and government sponsored agencies dealing with health,
education, etc.
- Country Watch
- Provides comprehensive information on 192 countries around the world.
- CultureGrams
- This database is the leading primary reference source for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information ont he countries of the world. It goies beyond mere facts and figures to deliveran insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
- Credo Reference
Online reference service featuring over 250
full-text
reference titles covering all subject areas with over 3 million entries
from 57 highly-respected publishers all aggregated and integrated in a
robust search engine.
- EBSCO
Animals
- Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to nature and habitat of familiar animals.
- EBSCO Greenfile
- GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.
- EBSCO Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of an issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
- First Search -
Provides full text databases for on-line research including ERIC, Medline, Wilson Select,, etc. Note: Within the First Search database, you must use the First Search commands - do not use the browser commands.
- Foundation Center Electronic Reference
Desk - This online database is a good starting point for beginning grant seekers. It features the 10,000 largest U.S. foundations. Please ask a Reference Librarian for the username and password.
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
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This database allows you to search through detailed descriptions of more than 6,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers. Within seconds you can generate a list of prospective funders. Please ask a Reference Librarian for the username and password.
- Gale's Virtual Reference Library
- This database contains the following specialized reference sources in the arts, business, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, science, social sciences, and more.
- Infotrac Search
Bank
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This source contains eleven databases that provide full text articles and in-depth information
- General Reference Center Gold
- National Newspaper Index
- General Business File ASAP
- Business and Company Resource Center
- Literature Resource Center
- Newsletters ASAP
- PROMT - Predicates Overview of Markets and Technology.
- Investext Plus
- Kids InfoBits
- Infotrac One File
- NOVEL Databases
- Remote access to NOVEL databases is available to holders of a New York State Resident Borrower's Card or New York State Photo Driver License or Non Driver Photo Identification Card.
- Oxford Art Online
- A comprehensive reference source devoted to the visual arts worldwide and throughout history, Grove includes the entire text of the 34 volume print edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art. The 45,050 articles include more than 22,000 links to art images in galleries and museums around the world.
- Oxford Music Online
- This database includes the full text of the 29 volume print edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. There are more than 3000 links to related sites, including sound clips and illustrations.
- Prices For Antiques
- Rosetta Stone Online Language Learning Center
- Take language lessons at your own pace and repeat them as often as you like. Use this interactive online software to learn the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Farsi (Persian), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Russian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh. If you are using this product from home, you will need to have Windows 98 or better, IE6 with the Shockwave plugin installed, a sound card, and a microphone. If you would like to use this product in the Library, please ask in the Job and Education Information Center. Rosetta Stone is a gift from the Friends of the Freeport Memorial Library.
- Searchasaurus
(Primary Search )
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Database with a graphical interface designed for elementary-to-middle school students. It contains encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, books, and more.
Spanish
Databases [TOP][BOTTOM] Please remember to click on the house symbol when logging in from home.
La biblioteca conmemorativa de Freeport
se subscribe a las siguientes bases de datos electrónicas.
Algunas son dispnibles solo dentro de la biblioteca y otras las pueden obtener
desde su propia casa. El simbolo de la casa
dar entender que la base de dato está disponible desde su propia casa.
- Para entrar
a una base de dato desde la biblioteca, favor de hacer un clíc en el
nombre de la base de dato.
- Para entrar
una base de dato desde su propia casa, favor de hacer un clíc en el
simbolo de la casa que está a lado del nombre de la base de dato.
Para obtener acceso a la mayoría de las bases de datos se requiren
que escriba los catorce números de código
de su tarjeta de la biblioteca.
- EBSCOHost
Espanol
- Spanish versions of the EBSCO databases.
- MasterFile Select - Esta base de datos multidisciplinaria ha sido especialmente diseñada para bibliotecas públicas. Abarca el texto completo de casi 800 publicaciones generales de referencia, con información desde 1984. MasterFILE Select abarca casi todas las áreas de interés general e incorpora 20 libros de referencia a texto completo y una colección gráfica de 107.135 fotos, mapas y banderas. Esta base de datos se actualiza a diario via EBSCO host.
- Salud para todos Esta base de datos es una fuente de información con textos íntegros y redactados en español. Está ideada para aquellos que deseen buscar información en materia de salud y medicina. Los artículos contenidos en Salud para todos se han extraído de más de 300 publicaciones y fuentes obra de 50 asociaciones de investigadores e institutos nacionales.
- Primary Search Primary Search contiene el texto completo de más de 60 populares revistas para la investigación en la escuela elemental. Todos los artículos íntegros incluidos en la base de datos tienen un indicador de nivel de lectura (Lexiles), y se remontan a 1990. Además, esta base de datos se actualiza a diario en EBSCO host.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Esta base se compone de 25.000 entradas de enciclopedia de diferentes áreas.
- EBSCO Animals Proporciona información completa sobre diferente temas relacionados con los animales. La base de datos contiene índices, resúmenes y texto completo que describen la naturaleza y hábitat de animales conocidos.
- TOPICsearch Esta base de datos contiene información sobre temas de actualidad. Está pensada para los investigadores interesados en la sociedad, la política y la economía, los descubrimientos científicos y otras materias populares de estudio común en los centros de enseñanza. TOPICsearch contiene más de 92.700 artículos íntegros extraídos de 2.500 fuentes distintas, entre las que se encuentran más de 1.550 publicaciones periódicas completas.
- General Science Collection Esta base de datos contiene el texto íntegro de más de 60 de las publicaciones científicas más populares. General Science Collection proporciona información sobre todos los aspectos del mundo científico y presenta textos completos desde 1992.
- Informe
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Artículos completos.
- Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
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Cumbre Encyclopedia Online

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