Databases Available in the Library
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DATABASE
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DESCRIPTION
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| Art | Grove Dictionary of Art Online | Covers the visual arts from pre-history to the 1990’s. Includes biographies and links to images on the Internet. |
| Business/Finance | ABI/INFORM Global | 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 | Includes company profiles, stock prices, press releases, etc | |
| Careers | Career Cruising | Provides in-depth information about different careers, colleges, and financial aid. |
| Countries & States | America the Beautiful | Reference for grades 4 and up about the states. Provides articles, timelines, games, current events. |
| Countrywatch | Political, economic, geographic and social information on the 192 countries of the world, including maps. | |
| Lands & Peoples | Encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for students. Includes atlas, and internet links. | |
| General Encyclopedia | Encyclopedia Americana | A standard general reference encyclopedia for middle to upper grade students. |
| Credo Reference | ||
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | Useful for students and adults. Contains text as well as images. | |
| Grolier Multimedia | General Reference for grades 5 and up. Contains news, articles, video clips, timelines and games. | |
| The New Book of Knowledge | Online version of the print The New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia. Also includes images, timelines, biographies, and science experiments. | |
| Searchasaurus | For elementary school students, includes a general encyclopedia, encyclopedia of animals, photos and images, etc. | |
| World Book Online Reference Center | General encyclopedia for students and adults. | |
| Health | American Medical Association | A proquest database that searches the publications of the AMA including JAMA, American Medical News and the Archives Sources. |
| Gale Health Reference Center Academic | Full text from nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters, reference books, etc. | |
| Homework Help | Tutor.com | 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 | This database includes full-text of thousands of poems, short stories and plays. Also includes essays on a variety of subjects and literary criticism. |
| NetLibrary | .A variety of full-text e-books including reference and other non-fiction works. *Please note: you must initially register from within the library. You may then access this database from home | |
| Novelist | Fiction database with reviews, read-alikes, reading lists and many other features. | |
| Novelist K-8 | 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. | |
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TumbleBook Library | TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which you can read, or have read to you. |
| Twayne's Author Series | Critical interpretation, biographical information, 600 full text titles for high school and college students | |
| Music | Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | 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 and Reference | Custom Newspapers | Full text of more than 95 newspapers inc. the New York Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, etc. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | 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 | Image database with captions | |
| National Newspapers | Indexes and abstracts to 32 national newspapers with access to full-text for 21 of the titles. | |
| National Newspaper Index | Indexes to the following newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. | |
| New York State Newspapers | Newspapers from Binghamton, Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Westchester County | |
| New York Times - Historical | Full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 2001. | |
| Newsday | Nassau and Suffolk county editions of Newsday with full-text coverage from August 15, 1985 through the present. | |
| Periodicals | EBSCO A to Z | Find out which databases contain the periodical you are looking for. Includes holdings for all Nassau County libraries. |
| Infotrac Junior | Designed for middle and high school students, this database contains hundreds of newspaper and periodical articles and more than 300 Rand McNally maps. | |
| Kidsearch | Designed for grades k-5. Search magazines, newspapers, photographs and reference books all from one screen. | |
| Masterfile Select | 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 | Access to a variety of periodical, newspaper and journal sources, including current New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles. | |
| Primary Search | Full-text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research dating back to 1990. | |
| Topic Search | Current events database w/ information on social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries. | |
| Science | Access Science | 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 | In-depth information on the nature and habitat of different animals. | |
| General Science Collection (EBSCO) | Providing information on the scientific world, includes full-text from more than 60 of the most popular science publications. | |
| Popular Science | Science encyclopedia for students includes biographies, projects and StarGazer feature. | |
| Test Preparation | Learn-A-Test | Practice tests and online course tutorials for a variety of tests, inc. Civil Service, SAT, GED. |
| Databases in Spanish | EBSCOhost Espanol | 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 | This database contains a variety of full-text articles in Spanish. | |
| La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre | Comprehensive encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students | |
| Salud Para Todos | Consumer health resource containing articles in Spanish. |