Databases Available From Home

 

CATEGORY	DATABASE	HOW TO ACCESS	DESCRIPTION
Art	Grove Dictionary of Art Online	Enter number from back of your library card	Covers the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990’s. Includes biographies and links to images on the Internet.
Business/Finance	ABI/INFORM GLOBAL	Enter number from back of your library card.	Access to a variety of business topics including trends, management techniques and corporate strategies. Includes citations and abstracts with full-text for about half of the titles.
	Business and Company Resource Center	Enter number from back of your library card	Includes company profiles, stock prices, press releases, etc.
Careers	Career Cruising	Enter number from back of your library card	Provides in-depth information about different careers, colleges, and financial aid.
Countries & States	America the Beautiful	Enter number from back of your library card	Reference for grades 4 and up about the states. Provides articles, timelines, games, current events.
	Countrywatch	Enter number from back of your library card	Political, economic, geographic and social information on the 192 countries of the world, including maps.
	Lands and Peoples	Enter number from back of your library card	Encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for students. Includes atlas, and internet links.
General Encyclopedia	Encyclopedia Americana	Enter number from back of your library card	A standard general reference encyclopedia for middle to upper grade students.
	Credo Reference
	Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia	Enter number from back of your library card	Useful for students and adults. Contains text as well as images
	Grolier Multimedia	Enter number from back of your library card	General Reference for grades 5 and up. Contains news, articles, video clips, timelines and games.
	The New Book of Knowledge	Enter number from back of your library card	Online version of the print The New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia. Also includes images, timelines, biographies, and science experiments.
	Searchasaurus	Enter number from back of your library card	General encyclopedia, encyclopedia of animals, photos, etc.
	World Book Online Reference Center	Enter number from back of your library card	General encyclopedia useful for students and adults.
Health	American Medical Association	Enter number from back of your library card	A proquest database that searches the publications of the AMA including JAMA, American Medical News and the Archives Sources.
	Gale Health Reference Center Academic	Enter number from back of your library card	Full text from nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters, reference books, etc.
Homework Help	Tutor.com	Just click on the link!	Live homework help for students in grades 4-12. Subjects covered are math, science, social studies and English. Available from 3pm to 9pm.
	Points of View Reference Center
Literature/Books	LitFinder	Enter number from back of your library card	This database includes full-text of thousands of poems, short stories and plays. Also includes essays on a variety of subjects and literary criticism.
	TumbleBook Library	Click directly on link	TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which you can read, or have read to you.
	Twayne's Author Series	Enter number from back of your library card	Critical interpretation, biographical information, 600 full text titles for high school and college students.
	NetLibrary	*Please note: you must initially register from within the library. You may then access this database from home.	A variety of full-text e-books including reference and other non-fiction works.
	Novelist	Enter number from back of your library card	Fiction database with reviews, read-alikes and reading lists
	Novelist K-8	Enter number from back of your library card.	NoveList K-8 's powerful search engine uses detailed and rich subject headings to search by instructional unit, theme or topic. You can also search for read-alikes. Great for teachers, students and parents.
Music	Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians	Enter number from back of your library card	Includes the full-text of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, including biographical and genre information.
News/Reference	Custom Newspapers	Enter number from back of your library card	Full text of more than 95 newspapers inc. the New York Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, etc.
	Gale Virtual Reference Library	Enter number from back of your library card	Searchable full-text of several reference titles, including the Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Encyclopedia of World Biography, and many more. Some of the titles included are brought to you by NOVEL.
	Masterfile Select Image Collection	Enter number from back of your library card	Image database with captions
	National Newspapers	Enter number from back of your library card	Indexes and abstracts to 32 national newspapers with access to full-text for 21 of the titles.
	National Newspaper Index	Enter number from back of your library card	Indexes to the following newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.
	Newsday	Enter number from back of your library card	Nassau and Suffolk county editions of Newsday with full-text coverage from August 15, 1985 through the present.
	New York State Newspapers	Enter number from back of your library card	Newspapers from Binghamton, Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Westchester County
Periodicals	EBSCO A to Z	Just click on the link!	Find out which databases contain the periodical you are looking for. Includes holdings for all Nassau County libraries.
	Infotrac Junior	Enter number from back of your library card	Designed for middle and high school stidents, this database contains hundreds of newspaper and periodical articles and more than 300 Rand McNally maps.
	Kidsearch	Enter number from back of your library card	Designed for grades K-5. Search magazines, newspapers, photographs & reference books all from one screen
	Masterfile Select	Enter number from back of your library card	Full text for nearly 800 general publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Also includes 38 full text reference books and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
	Periodicals Research II	Enter number from back of your library card	Access to a variety of periodical, newspaper and journal sources, including current New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles
	Primary Search	Enter number from back of your library card	Full-text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research dating back to 1990.
	Topic Search	Enter number from back of your library card	Current events database w/ information on social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries.
Science	Access Science	Enter number from back of your library card	The Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Includes definitions, scientific tables, and articles on a variety of scientific topics, as well as biographies of scientists.
	EBSCO Animals	Enter number from back of your library card	In-depth information on the nature and habitat of different animals.
	General Science Collection	Enter number from back of your library card	Providing information on the scientific world, includes full-text from more than 60 of the most popular science publications.
	Popular Science	Enter number from back of your library card	Science encyclopedia for students includes biographies, projects and StarGazer feature.
Test Preparation	Learn-A-Test	Enter number from back of your library card	Practice tests and online course tutorials for a variety of tests, inc. Civil Service, SAT, GED.
Databases in Spanish	EBSCOhost Espanol	Enter number from back of your library card	Access to a selection of databases in Spanish. Includes periodicals databases, as well as General Science Collection, EBSCO Animals, and Funk &Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
	Informe	Enter number from back of your library card	A collection of full-text articles in Spanish.
	La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre	Enter number from back of your library card	Comprehensive encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students
	Salud Para Todos	Enter number from back of your library card	Consumer health resources in Spanish.