Databases

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	African American Experience: (From Home Click Here) The African American Experience is a full text digital resource that explores the history and culture of African Americans as well as the Greater Black Diaspora. It was developed with the guidance of leading librarians and subject specialists. Its rich content includes slave narratives, primary documents, speeches, court cases, photographs, maps and a searchable timeline.
	ALISWeb : Search the online catalog for material in this and other Nassau County public libraries.
	Byki Online: An acronym for Before You Know It, this online foreign language learning database allows users to learn a language by collecting words and phrases in their memory as they progress through the lessons. Available languages include: Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and dozens more. Library barcode required. You need to set up an account from inside the library, but after that the account can be accessed online from any computer. Returning users, click here.
	Career Cruising :A comprehensive and interactive career guidance resource. It includes in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers, detailed information on colleges and universities and multimedia interviews with real people in every career. Library barcode required.
	The Catastrophe Readiness Clearinghouse, sponsored by a grant from the Allstate Foundation, provides tools to empower families, individuals, and small businesses to more effectively plan their own strategies for responding to potentially catastrophic events.
	Community Resource Database of Long Island provides information on nearly 12,000 health, education, social and human service agencies and programs on Long Island 24 hours a day-7 days a week.
	Credo Reference: Get content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. It's a search engine like Google, but instead of searching the entire internet, your results come from a comprehensive library of trusted sources. Library barcode required.
	Daily Life in America: (From Home Click Here) A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. Includes a virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps. This is a key resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level, but with a fresh approach.
	Daily Life Online: (From Home Click Here) Provides continually updated content from a number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Includes World Folklore and Folklife. Based on the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and the Daily Life through History series, which explore everyday life past and present.
	Ebsco A to Z: A locator tool listing all of the library's e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages and e-books. This is a great way to see if the library has electronic access to certain publications.a particular has electronic access to certain particular electric journal. Library barcode required.
	Ebsco Primary Search: Full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines and indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Provided by the New York State Library through LSTA funds. Library barcode required.
	Encyclopædia Britannica: The complete multimedia Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Links to Britannica Junior for younger users. Library barcode required.
	Encyclopædia Britannica for Kids: Contains children's encyclopedia articles with thousands of images and videos, an atlas, timelines, research guides, a student dictionary and a thesaurus. Also includes learning activities and educational games in different content areas. Library barcode required.
	Encyclopædia Britannica 's 21st-Century Explorer provides reference and learning tools for students who read below grade level, are dealing with specific learning problems, or are at risk of falling behind. This user-friendly collection contains all of the resources that students need including encyclopedias, an atlas, historic timelines, a dictionary, videos, games, and news. 21st-Century Explorer is ideal for reluctant readers, ELL and ESL students, and adult literacy students. Library barcode required.
	Galenet: Provides access to 7 databases: Business and Company Resource Center, General Business File ASAP, Literature Resource Center (LRC), General Reference Center, National Newspaper Index, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center,and Student Resource Center. Library barcode required.
	Galenet Business & Company Resource Center:Detailed company and industry news and information.Click on Gale Databases to access ReferenceLink and Twayne author series. Provided by the New York State Library through LSTA funds. Library barcode required.
	Galenet Health Reference Center: Find articles on fitness, health, medicine, pregnancy, nutrition. Provided by the New York State Library through LSTA funds. Library barcode required.
	Gale Virtual Reference Library American Civil War, American Revolution, Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Major Acts of Congress, Encyclopedia of Cancer, Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Encyclopedia of Medicine, History Behind the Headlines. Library barcode required.
	Global Road Warrior: Extensive information on 175 countries, including thousands of photographs and maps. Business people doing research for international trade, students working on research for country reports and patrons who are planning international travel all will find this database very helpful. Library barcode required.
	USA.gov: Government Made Easy Official portal for all federal, state and local government information. One place to get fast answers to your questions about government benefits and services!
	HeritageQuest Online™ – Resource for census data, family records, and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical and local history serials, and more. Library barcode required.
	Informe: Provides access to many popular Spanish-language magazines. The text of the articles is in Spanish, and some in English, as originally published. Many articles have images and other graphics. Library barcode required.
	Infotrac Newstand: Includes nearly 100 U.S. national, regional and local newspapers and more than 60 English language foreign newspapers. This is also a good source for recent New York Times and New York Post articles. It also includes Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business News Wire. Library barcode required.
	Latino American Experience: (From Home Click Here) The Latino American Experience marks the first ever-database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos. Its resources include primary documents, Spanish language content, maps, images and links to vetted web sites.
	Learning Express Library: Learning Express is a completely interactive and comprehensive website that features more than 300 online practice tests and courses for students and adults of all ages. You can take practice tests online that could help you reach your school and career goals, including academic tests, computer program tutorials, and civil service tests. Once you register, the free account provides you with instant online scoring and records a customized analysis of your strengths and weaknesses. Library barcode required. The username must be your library card barcode in order to login from home.
	Live Homework Help: Get one-to-one help with your homework question from a live tutor. 7 days a week from 2-10 p.m. Library barcode required.
	Live Librarian : Professional Librarians are now available online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer your questions using special chat software on the Internet.
	Masterplots: A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres—long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction—throughout history and around the world, helping to define and critique the literary canon. Library barcode required.
	NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week. See your Librarian to create an account.
Historical	New York Times Historical offers the New York Times in full-text from 1851 to 2006. It offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Library barcode required. (Note: For access to more recent New York Times articles use the link to UMI Proquest)
	NextReads is the Malverne Public Library's newsletter service. They list new, forthcoming and vintage titles in the genre of your choice-- emailed to your inbox.
	Novelist K-8: An electronic Reader's Advisory for Kindergarden to 8th grade, includes Teacher's Resources.Library barcode required.
	Novelist : An electronic Reader's Advisory Resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Library barcode required.
	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: A source for information on social issues and current events. Pros and Cons, topic overviews, statistics, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary documents and links to websites. Library barcode required.
	Oxford Art Online: (Formerly Grove Dictionary of Art) Extensive coverage of the visual arts including paintings, sculpture, architecture, photography, decorative arts, peformance arts and multimedias. This database also provides links to international galleries and museums. Library barcode required.
	Oxford Music Online: (Formerly Grove Dictionary of Music) An online resource for all aspects of music, including biographies. Covers popular music, opera and jazz. Includes Oxford's Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Library barcode required.
	PlanetaSaber: A multimedia Spanish-language resource for academic-level research. It features the Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language. Can only be accessed at the Malverne Public Library.
	Pop Culture Universe: (From home click here) Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.
	ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more that 13 million U.S. businesses; 120 million U.S. households; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Library barcode required.
	Salem History: Several history databases, including: Milestone Documents in American History, The Sixties in America, The Nineties in America, Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, G reat Events from History: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, and Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Library barcode required. (In the library? Click here instead.)
	Science in Context (Formerly Sciecne Resource Center) Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards. Library barcode required.
	Sesame Street E-Books: Visit your favorite Sesame Street characters! Read e-books, listen to e-audiobooks, and play with interative, animated e-books. Library barcode required. (In the library? Click here instead.)
	Spanish Reference Center includes two Spanish-language multimedia encyclopedias, each with its own unique interface. Enciclopedia Juvenil (for younger researchers) and Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Library barcode required.
	Teacher Resource Center (TRC) is a free resource to anyone interested in teaching and education. This bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
	TumbleBooks: The TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books.
	Twayne Author Series: Find information on authors, including critical writing. You can search by genre, nationality and time period. Library barcode required.
	UMI Proquest : Newspaper and periodicals database. Includes full-text and graphics for NY Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Library barcode required. Note: If an error message appears when first accessing this database, hit the "refresh" button on your browser.


	Last Updated 1/4/10