ONLINE DATABASES
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Databases Descriptions
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GROVE
art
Grove's Dictionary of Art is the most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. |
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GROVE
music
Grove's Dictionary of Music comprises the full text of the printed edition. Grovemusic.com also includes advanced search capabilities to pinpoint precise queries, a 'browse' option and over 3000 links to related sites, including archives and illustrations. The Grove Editorial Team will keep the site up-to-date, and grovemusic.com now includes the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera as an extra feature. |
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p4A
(Prices for Antiques) Antiques Reference
p4A (Prices For Antiques) Antiques Reference database offers antiques research focusing on the American regional marketplace. These antiques are organized into 1,280 different classifications including furniture, collectibles and historical documents. Each record includes information on when and where the item was sold as well as the price realized. Updated daily. |
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eLibrary
The eLibrary is a comprehensive digital archive of periodicals and books for students of all ages who need to research information. It is a collection of more than 900 full text periodicals, 9 international newswires, 2000 classic books, hundreds of maps, and thousands of photographs. |
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GaleNet
GaleNet includes Associations Unlimited, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Resource Center includes Biography, Literature and History. The Student Resource Center, aimed at middle school and high school students, provides an archive of primary source documents, topic overviews, literary criticisms and full text articles from periodicals and newspapers. |
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LitFinder
LitFinder is a comprehensive literature database comprised of Poem Finder, Story Finder,and Essay/Speech/Play Finder. It provides access to over 100,000 full-text poems and thousands of full-text short stories and essays, plus biographies, pictures, best-known speeches and 1,000 complete plays. |
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netLibrary
eAudiobooks
Downloadable unabridged eAudiobooks are digital versions of the latest best sellers, book club favorites, award winning authors and more that you can download and listen to on your computer or portable listening device such as MP3 players. Note: iPods are not currently supported. How To Get Started with Downloadable Audiobooks |
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netLibrary
eContent Collection
Netlibrary provides access to our eContent Collection. eContent offers electronic full-text copies of fiction, non-fiction and reference books. You can access eContent 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You must create a netLibrary account in the library before the collection can be accessed from home. Please inqire at the Reference Desk. See FAQ for information on how to access the collection. |
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NoveList
NoveList is a reader's advisory resource containing information on 34,000 adult fiction titles from all major genres and general fiction. The database is retrospective and includes classic authors as well as current titles. |
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Business
and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed industry news and information. |
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Community
Resource Database of Long Island
This computerized directory profiles more than 6,000 community services and resources available in the Long Island area. These are mostly private non-profit or government sponsored public agencies and programs serving infants, children, teens, adults, and senior citizens. |
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Gale
Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library includes the following business titles: Encyclopedia of Small Business, Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, 1st edition and Business Plans Handbook, volumes 5-10 (volumes 1-4 are not electronic). |
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General
Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. |
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ReferenceUSA
The ReferenceUSA database contains information on U.S businesses, U.S. residents, U.S. health care providers and Canadian businesses. |
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Career
Cruising
Career Cruising is a comprehensive and interactive career guidance resource that provides in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers, detailed information on colleges and universities, and multimedia interviews with people in every career. |
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Careers
Internet Database
Institute For Career Research provides reliable vocational guidance information to young people who face the prospect of choosing a life work and to adults when changing jobs or switching careers. User Name: 925w Password: future |
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Computer
Skills Tutorial
Learning Express Computer Skills Tutorial is an easy to use, comprehensive, interactive online learning platform. It provides self-paced courses that are designed to help learners of any age and experience level develop computing skills. The tutorials provide instruction on various software applications including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Access and more. Please sign in:Username is your Levittown Library barcode number. |
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ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents. |
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Live
Homework Help
Live Homework Help is available seven days a week from 3-9 p.m. Students in the 4th-12th grades as well as college freshmen can connect to a tutor in the Online Classroom where they can receive help in Math, Science, Social Studies and English. |
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Student
Resource Center
Student Resource Center is aimed at middle school and high school students. It provides content in the major subject areas.Users have access to a wide variety of resources including an archive of primary source documents, topic overviews, literary criticism and full text articles from periodicals and newspapers. |
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Testing
and Education Reference Center
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals. |
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HeritageQuest
Online
HeritageQuest is a resource for tracing family records and local histories. Access is provided to a searchable collection of over 25,000 family and local history books, U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790-1930, military records, primary source materials and genealogical and local history publications. |
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AccessScience
AccessScience provides all of the text and illustrations from the 9th edition of the Mc Graw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition. In, addition, it features new trends and developments in science and technology, biographies of scientists, learning resources and study guides. It is updated daily. |
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ALISCAT
Graphic interface of the Union Catalog of Nassau County Public Libraries. |
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Country
Watch
Country Watch provides cultural, economic, political and environmental information and current news articles on the countries of the world. |
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Credo
Reference
Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer) is the world's largest online reference service. It features content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference offers unique, cross-referencing technology, enabling users to find authoritative answers fast. |
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Gale
LegalForms
Gale LegalForms provides a wide selection of state-specific legal forms covering the most popular legal topics. The site includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, and landlord/tenant forms. It also features a comprehensive directory of attorneys by state and a dictionary of legal definitions. |
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Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library contains 319 searchable online reference titles focusing on health, history and business. These reference materials can accessed online from the library or remotely 24/7. As each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries. |
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Grolier
Online
Grolier Online is a unique reference collection of encyclopedias designed for students of specific ages and areas of interest. Encyclopedia Americana: In-depth research and worldwide current events for middle school, high school, and college. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: Quick reference and the news for middle school and high school. |
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Twayne
Author Series
Twayne's Authors Series contains the full text of scholarly articles on authors, genres and literary movements representing the complete contents of Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. |
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Alt-HealthWatch
Alt-HealthWatch is a full text and image database focusing on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers articles from peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, original research and book excerpts. (Note: Alt-HealthWatch is now accessed through EBSCOhost) |
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Consumer
Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource of health related periodical articles covering topics in mainstream medicine,complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database also includes information from consumer health encyclopedias and reference books as well as access to evidenced-based reports. |
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Health
Reference Center
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Gale Virtual Reference Library: The Gale Virtual Reference Library includes the following medical resources: Gale Encyclopedias of Alternative Health, Cancer, Genetic Disorders, Medicine and Nursing and Allied Health. |
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MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. |
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NOAH: New
York Online Access to Health
NOAH provides access to full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH also offers a selection of complementary and alternative therapies. |
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Teen
Health and Wellness
Teen Health and Wellness provides students with self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. |
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AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an extensive online collection of photos, graphics, text. The Associated Press (AP) news photos date from photos date from 1840's to the present. The AP Graphics component contains maps, charts, graphs, tables and logos. AP Text contains news stories and headlines dating from 1997. It is updated daily. Please sign in: enter the first five digits of your Levittown Library barcode number in both the Username AND Password box. |
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EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost offers access to a variety of periodical resources on a broad range of disciplines such as academic, business, social sciences, humanities, multicultural, education, general science, and health related topics. New EBSCO Databases! Auto, Home and Small Engine Repair Reference Centers, Eldercare Search and Literary Reference Center. |
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eLibrary
The eLibrary is a comprehensive digital archive of periodicals and books for students of all ages who need to research information. It is a collection of more than 900 full text periodicals, 9 international newswires, 2000 classic books, hundreds of maps, and thousands of photographs. |
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InfoTrac
Infotrac is a system of integrated electronic databases which provides indexing to periodicals from the past few years, and to recent corporate information. Includes full text for many periodicals. Custom Newspapers Search a collection of 500 newspapers, both national and international. New York State Newspapers Search this database of 15 newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post. |
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¡Informe!
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. |
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Proquest
Historical Newspaper
ProQuest Historical Newspaper offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating back to the 19th century and for Newsday from 1985 to the present. |
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Readers'
Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a searchable database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals in the United States. Current coverage for the database includes the years 1890 through 1982. |
Alphabetical list of all Online Databases in the library:
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AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive ALISCAT Alt-Healthwatch Ancestry Library Edition Business & Company Resource Center (InfoTrac) Career Cruising College Source Online Community Resource Database of Long Island Consumer Health Complete Country Watch Credo Reference EBSCOhost eLibrary ERIC Essay Finder (LitFinder) GaleNet Gale Virtual Reference Library General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac) GROVE art GROVE music |
Health Reference
Center
HeritageQuestOnline ¡Informe! InfoTrac Learning Express Computer Skills Tutorial LitFinder Live Homework Help MEDLINE netLibrary eAudiobooks netLibrary eContent Collection NoveList Poem Finder (LitFinder) Proquest Historical Newspapers Readers' Guide Retrospective ReferenceUSA Story Finder (LitFinder) Student Resource Center Testing and Education Reference Center Teen Health and Wellness Twayne Authors Series |
