GROLIER ONLINE  Use Library Barcode for access.
From Scholastic Inc. Teachers. Includes:

• Lesson plans available to browse by grade & subject. All lesson plans are aligned to state standards.
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Children's Dictionary, Students Dictionary, Spanish Dictionary, & Children's Thesaurus.
• Roget's II The New Thesaurus.
• World atlases.
• Special section for teachers with printable state maps, graphic organizers & more.

Encyclopedia Americana, Includes international current events journal; Editors' Picks: a guide to topics & Web sites of special interest; Biographies.

New Book of Knowledge

La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre For beginning & intermediate students of Spanish.

New Book of Popular Science

Amazing Animals of the World Very colorful pictures

Highlights include:

• GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA Reduce search time across a wide variety of media with the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia—the powerful database that contains both resources for students and activities for teachers and librarians to use with their students.
  
  
• AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL A comprehensive program about the states and territories of the United States. The program is designed especially for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students although the content will be useful for junior-high students as well. America the Beautiful Online is composed of highly visual, fact-filled, interest-driven material, presented in a user-friendly manner.  *WITH TEACHER RESOURCES
  
  
• LANDS AND PEOPLE   Provides accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, and current events.
  
  

 

EBSCO DATABASES Use Library Barcode.

• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANIMALS Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals, including the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
  
  
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
  
  
• Kids Search Topics include Animals, Arts & Music, Geography, Health, In the News, Language Arts, Math, Science & more. Colorful & fun. Does not overlap with PRIMARY SEARCH VIA SEARCHASAURUS.
  
  
• NOVELIST K-8  Fiction reviews, summaries, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, & feature articles.
  
  
• PRIMARY SEARCH VIA SEARCHASAURUS  Articles & citations for elementary school students.
  
  
• TOPICsearch  Current events:  Articles from newspapers & magazines. Grades 5-8.
  

TUMBLEBOOKS! Happy Tumbling from the TumbleBook Famly! Online e-books for kids, with sound. Username: hillside & Password: libra

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MIDDLE SCHOOL

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL U.S. states and territories.

CREDO
Content from hundreds of reference books covering many subjects.

EBSCO DATABASES  Includes EBSCOhost Web, Searchasaurus, Novelist, Novelist K-8, Topic Search

EBSCO ESPANOL   Salud  para todos, MasterFile Select,  Topic Search, Genral Science Collection,  Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia.

EBSCOhost Web   MasterFile Select, Funk & Wagnalls  Encyclopedia, Topic Search, General Science Collection, & Salud para todos.

ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

GALE'S LITERARY INDEX     Look for authors & titles in the Index by name, birth date, death date, or nationality.

GALENET DATABASES      Includes Business & Company Resource Center, Discovering Collection, General Business File ASAP,  General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile, Junior Edition K12, National Newspaper Index, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Twayne Authors Series, Health & Wellness  Resource Center, & Contemporary Authors.

GENERAL ONFILE
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. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER GOLD
General interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

General Science Collection This database offers 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.

GREENFILE
Focuses on the relationship between human beings & the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources & beyond.

GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA

GROLIER ONLINE  From Scholastic Inc. Teachers: Lesson plans available to browse by grade & subject. All lesson plans are aligned to state standards. Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, New Book of Popular Science, Lands & Peoples, America the Beautiful. 

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

INFOTRAC ONEFILE (incl. Consumer Reports)   Articles from newspapers.

Junior Edition K12  Articles from newspapers, magazines & reference books.

KIDS SEARCH Designed especially for youth in grades K-8.

LANDS AND PEOPLE   Provides accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, and current events.

Literature Resource Center Find up-to-date biographical information, full-text literary criticism & reviews from all time periods around the world.

LITFINDER  Poems, poem citations & excerpts, short stories, essays, speeches, & plays.

MASTERFILE SELECT (incl. Consumer Reports)   *Click on EBSCOHost Web, then click on the first selection of the menu.  Articles from newspapers & magazines.

NETLIBRARY: DOWNLOAD e-BOOKS!

NEW BOOK OF POPULAR SCIENCE    SciClopedia,  NewsBytes, Careers articles, Biographies, Projects.

NOVELIST K-8   Fiction reviews, summaries, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, & feature articles.

La Nueva enciclopedia  Cumbre en linea  For Beginning to Intermediate students of Spanish.

POINTS OF VIEW
Online guide for debates, developing arguments, writing position papers, & for developing critical thinking skills. Essays includes questions & additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political & societal publications.

ProQuest Newspapers, *Including Newsday (1985-current)  Articles from newspapers & magazines.

SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER

TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER WITH CAREERS! Search colleges & graduate schools, take SATs & other high school & college & graduate entrance exams.
Also, find out about hundreds of occupations, take a career assessment & build a stellar resume.

TOPICsearch  Current events:  Articles from newspapers & magazines.

TWAYNE'S AUTHOR SERIES    World, US, and English Authors.

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HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND

Access My Library

BUSINESS & COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER  Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Community Resource Database of Long Island

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS  Complete biographical  information on  U.S. & international authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

CREDO
Content from hundreds of reference books covering many subjects.

CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS (not incl. Newsday)   National & international newspaper articles.

Directory of Open Access Journals  *Scholarly Journals Online

EBSCO ESPANOL  Including Salud para todos, MasterFile Select,  Topic Search,  Genral Science Collection, & Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.

EBSCOhost Web  MasterFile Select, Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, Topic Search, General Science Collection, & Salud para todos.

ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

GALE'S LITERARY INDEX     Look for authors & titles in the Index by name, birth date, death date, or nationality.

GALENET DATABASES   Business & Company Resource Center, Discovering Collection, General Business File,  General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile, National Newspaper Index, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Twayne Authors Series, Health & Wellness & Alternative Health Resource Center, & Contemporary Authors.

GENERAL BUSINESS FILE ASAP  Analyzes company performance & activity, industry events & trends as well as the latest in management, economics & politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals & company directory listings.

GENERAL ONFILE
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. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER GOLD
General interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

General Science Reference Center This database offers 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.

GREENFILE
Focuses on the relationship between human beings & the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources & beyond.

GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA

GROLIER ONLINE  From Scholastic Inc. Teachers: Lesson plans available to browse by grade & subject. All lesson plans are aligned to state standards. Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful. 

GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF ART   The Dictionary of Art online..

GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC & MUSICIANS  The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera & The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz online. Updated annually .

HEALTH CENTER ACADEMIC

Health & Wellness Center   Includes The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.  Updated reference material & magazines, journals, & pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

INFORME!    Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologia, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

INFOTRAC DATABASES  Business & Company Resource Center, Discovering Collection, General Business File, General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile,  National Newspaper Index, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Twayne Authors Series, Health & Wellness & Alternative Health Resource Center, Contemporary Authors.

INFOTRAC ONEFILE (incl. Consumer Reports)   Articles from newspapers & magazines. Updated daily.

LANDS AND PEOPLE   Provides accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, & current events.

Literature Resource Center Find up-to-date biographical information, full-text literary criticism & reviews from all time periods around the world.

LITFINDER   Poems, poem citations & excerpts, short stories, essays, speeches, & plays.

MASTERFILE SELECT (incl. Consumer Reports)   *Click on EBSCOHost Web, then click on the first selection of the menu. 
Articles from newspapers & magazines from 1984 to the present.  

NATIONAL NEWSPAPER  INDEX   Indexing of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

NETLIBRARY   e-books!  Audiobooks!      Create your own free account.          

• WHAT are NETLIBRARY ebooks?

NEW BOOK OF POPULAR SCIENCE   SciClopedia,  NewsBytes, Careers articles, Biographies, Projects.

NEW YORK STATE NEWSPAPERS (not incl. Newsday)  Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), Herald American (Syracuse, NY), Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY), New York Observer (NY, NY), New York  Post (NY, NY), New York Times, Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY).

NOVELIST ADULT FICTION SEARCH  Reviews, summaries, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, & feature articles.

La Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea  For Beginning to Intermediate students of Spanish.

POINTS OF VIEW
Online guide for debates, developing arguments, writing position papers, & for developing critical thinking skills. Essays includes questions & additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political & societal publications.

PROJECT MUSE *Scholarly Journals Online

PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS   *Be sure to select the ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times in the 'Select Database' area.  Search the Historical New York Times (1851-2001).

ProQuest Newspapers, *Including Newsday (1985-current)  Articles from newspapers & magazines.

Salud para todos

SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER

TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER WITH CAREERS! Search colleges & graduate schools, take SATs & other high school & college & graduate entrance exams. Also, find out about hundreds of occupations, take a career assessment & build a stellar resume.

TOPICsearch   Current events:  Articles from newspapers & magazines.

TWAYNE'S AUTHOR SERIES    World, US, and English Authors.                                                                                

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