Database Categories

Art
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s. Instant access to award winning scholarship in 41,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites.
 
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Business & Finance
Prompt
PROMPT (Gale Group)
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. 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 reports.
ABI Select
ABI Select ( Proquest w/Business Dateline, Trade and Industrial Journals, Hoovers, The Financial Times)
ABI/INFORM Select™ is a source for acquiring business news and information. ABI/INFORM Select delivers over 510 journals, with more than 400 available in full text. Users can research industry and economic conditions, business tactics, market strategies, and more. Titles include: Forbes, Journal of Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, Industry Week, and Strategy & Leadership.
Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.
 
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Career
Career Cruising
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a comprehensive and interactive career guidance resource that provides the information you need to make the right career choice.
NYS Map
NYS Department of Labor
Link to website for job seekers, career planning, workforce professional tools, and veteran's services.
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
This links you to a television series and multimedia project from P.B.S. that is helping New Yorkers deal with the current economic crises. The focus is on four areas: employment, job training, consumer protection, and family finances.
Career Onestop Logo
CareerOneStop
Tools to help job seekers, students, business and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
O net logo
O*NET OnLine
An interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. Use the assessment instruments for finding or changing careers.
 
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Dictionary and Encyclopedias
Websters Dictionary
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica
(Access at Home)
Comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia. Links to Britannica Junior for younger users.
Grolier Online Passport

Grolier Online Passport
(Access at Home)
This database is part of NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Grolier Online includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.

 
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Genealogy
Heritage Quest Online
HeritageQuest(tm) Online
Resource for census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. An ongoing project; will grow to encompass obituaries, Freedman's Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index and additional material.
 
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Health and Medicine
Proquest Health Maqnagement
Health Management (Proquest)
Designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. This healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics including: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health, economics, public health administration. Coverage for more than 640 journals with over 4,5000 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses.
Health reference Center Academic
Heallth Reference Center Academic (Gale)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
The perfect resource for up-to-date information on the camplete range of health care topics. With more than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Health Reference Center Academic ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health care questions.
Salud en Espanol
Salud en Espanol (Ebsco)
This database provides full-text Spanish-language information from 300 publications for a wide variety of medical and health-related topics and is designed to make useful health information more readily accessible for Spanish-speaking consumers.
 
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History
Annals of American History
Annals of American History (Britannica)
This valuable online chronicle provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews. Topics Include: American Democracy, Art and Leisure, Business and Industry, Education, Family, Labor, and more.
World Data Analyst
World Data Analyst (Britannica)
Compare and Customize Data of the Nations of the World. This rich trove of current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy. Plus, World Data Analyst allows subscribers to create tables, charts, and even export the information to a spreadsheet for data crunching and deeper analysis. Users can also link to country articles from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Ideal for research, to explore new topics for study, or just to learn more about the world.
Black Newspapers
Black Newspapers (Proquest)
Provides access to esteemed Black newspapers from across the U.S.  ProQuest Newsstand-Black Newspapers is a collection of current newspapers providing access to news from 1989-present, and is cross-searchable with all of the newspaper collections on the ProQuest platform including ProQuest National Newspapers and U.S. Hispanic Newsstand.
 
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Learn a Language
Aurolog Tell Me More
Tell Me More powered by Auralog
Language Learning Program.
 
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Literature
Lit Finder
Lit Finder
Your clearinghouse for poetry, short stories, essays, and plays since 1976!
Twayne Authors Series
Twayne Authors Series (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
Novelist
NoveList (EBSCOhost)
NoveList provides enhanced subject access to over 74,000 fiction titles. Use a favorite author or title to discover new authors and titles of interest. Enter words that describe the content of books you want to explore.
NoveList K-8
NoveList K-8 - EBSCOhost
Discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. NoveList Learning Center shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students.
 
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Music
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online
Universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music lovers worldwide.
 
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Newspapers
National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
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.
National Newspaper Premier
National Newspaper Premier (Proquest)
Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers.
Custom Newspapers
Infotrac Newsstand (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
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..
Newsday
Newsday from 1985 to the Present (Proquest)
News, Sports, Long Island Life, Leisure, Shopping, Library, Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Automotive, Jobs and Real Estate.
New York Times Historical Newspapers

LexisNexis Library Express
(Access at Home)
LexisNexis® Public Library Express provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

   
New York Times Historical Newspapers
New York Times Historical (Proquest)
This database offers the New York Times in full-text from 1851 to 2006.  It offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.  The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
AP Images
APImages
(Access at Home)
A primary source database from the Associated Press that takes users on a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphic and text spanning over 160 years o history. Imagery may be used in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations.
 
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NOVELny
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
The premier resource for peer-reviewed, full-text journals and reference sources, Academic OneFile is a 2009 and 2008 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Online General Reference Service. Perfect for research libraries, graduate schools, universities and community colleges, Academic OneFile is a sophisticated, current and easy-to-use resource for extensive research. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly
General One File
Infotrac General One File
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics; business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology and many general interest topics.
Health reference Center Academic
Heallth Reference Center Academic (Gale)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
The perfect resource for up-to-date information on the camplete range of health care topics. With more than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Health Reference Center Academic ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health care questions.
Grolier Online
Grolier Online
(Access at Home)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.
Primary Search
Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.
National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
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.
Custom Newspapers
Infotrac Custom Newspapers (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Search a collection of more than 650 newspapers, both national and international.
NYS Newspapers
New York State Newspapers (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Search this database of 28 newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
Twayne Authors Series
Twayne Authors Series (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
This search is comprised of Encyclopedia of Animals, General Encyclopedia, Middle Search Plus and Primary Search geared towards greade levels K-6.
NOVEL
NOVEL NY
Gives communities across New York State online access to the full text of hundreds of journals, newspapers, and other references.
 
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Science
Facts on File Science Online
Science Resource Center
Science in Context delivers delivers integrated content through 150+ comprehensive reference sets from Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, Science in Dispute and Macmillan Science Library.
Proquest Computing Journals
Proquest Research Library
Research Library is designed to cover the top 150 core academic subject reference areas—and cover them extensively—so not only is it an invaluable database for a number of different academic disciplines, it’s also accessible to readers and researchers at every level. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Facts on File Science Online
Science Online (Facts on File)
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
 
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Test Preparation
Learning Express
Learning Express
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on academic and licensing tests.
 
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Travel
Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior
The ultimate business travel guide. Expertise varies from business, trade, and travel; research and development; sales and marketing; customer service; accounting; editing and writing; to IT and web design.
 
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General Reference
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile (Gale Group)
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
The premier resource for peer-reviewed, full-text journals and reference sources, Academic OneFile is a 2009 and 2008 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Online General Reference Service. Perfect for research libraries, graduate schools, universities and community colleges, Academic OneFile is a sophisticated, current and easy-to-use resource for extensive research. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly
General One File
Infotrac General One File
This database is part of NOVELny, a project of the New York State Library funded through LSTA grants.
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics; business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology and many general interest topics.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference
A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale Group)
A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
Professional Education Journals
Professional Education Journals (Proquest)
Delivers more than 290 full-text K-12 professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of K-12 education, including all core and supplemental curricula subjects, information technology, library science, business and administration, guidance and careers, and much more. 
Proquest Computing Journals
Proquest Computing Journals
ProQuest Computing is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes over 390 titles, with over 310 available in full text. Whether you’re an expert in the field or an undergraduate, ProQuest Computing delivers vital information directly to your desktop from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management.
EBSCO A-to-Z
EBSCO A-to-Z
Users can quickly locate and link to journals of interest. Search by keyword or browse an alphabetical list by title or subject.
Community Resource Database
Community Resource Database
Profiles more than 6,000 community services and resources available in the Long Island area. Easy access to current information about health, human service and education agencies and programs.
Long Island Library Catalog
Long Island Library Catalog
(Not Available at Home)
Search the Union Catalog of books and other materials in Long Island libraries. Includes the holdings of public, academic and special libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties as well as the holdings of the School Library Systems.
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