ONLINE DATABASES
ONLINE DATABASES
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Database Descriptions
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Oxford
Art Online
Oxford Art Online searches the content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference. Users can choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images. It is the most extensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. |
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Oxford
Music Online
Oxford Music Online provides multiple music reference resources including Grove Music Online. It offers articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. Oxford Music also features the Encyclopedia of Popular Music which covers popular music from 1900 to the present. Oxford Music is a virtual music library of unparalleled scope and depth. |
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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 These antiques are organized into 1,280 different classifications including furniture, collectibles and historical documents.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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GALE CENGAGE Learning Gale Cengage Learning includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Resource Centers for Biography, Literature and History. A Student Resource Center, aimed at high school students, provides an archive of primary source documents, periodicals and full-text 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 K-8 Plus NoveList K-8 Plus is a reader’s advisory service designed to help readers from kindergarten to 8 th grade find age appropriate reading materials. It includes picture books, children’s “chapter” books and young adult titles. The database is searchable by title, author, series name and subject. |
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NoveList Plus NoveList Plus is a readers’advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction titles. It is an upgrade of NoveList. Featured content includes lists of award winning books, Book Discussion Guides, Book Talks, Recommended Reads, First Chapter excerpts and more. |
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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. Note: Username is your Levittown Public Library barcode number. |
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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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Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports offers instant access to thousands of expert unbiased product ratings and reviews that are updated regularly. Consumer Reports provides valuable buying advice, product reliability data and CR Best Buys. |
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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 twelve 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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Global
Road Warrior
The Global Road Warrior is an international resource for social, cultural, travel, and business information. The database covers 175 countries and territories and includes information on demographics, economy, holidays, points of interest, currencies, climate, immunization, travel information, country and regional maps, international dialing guides, and more. |
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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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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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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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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. |
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A to Z (EBSCO) A to Z provides a single, searchable, comprehensive list of journal and newspaper titles located in the library’s databases. You can quickly locate and link to items of interest by doing a keyword search or by browsing an alphabetical list by title or subject. |
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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. |
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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. Infotrac Newsstand 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 Newspapers
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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. |
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