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AccessScience
The entire contents of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is now available online. It includes 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 key scientists. Your library card number is required for access.

Auto Repair Reference Center
Complete automotive repair manuals as published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series.

Bowker's Patron Books In Print
The first place to find books, audios, and videos.

Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!

CareerZone
An online resource for students and jobseekers from the New York State Department of Labor.

College Source Online
CollegeSource Online features over 11,000 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

Community Resource Database of Long Island
Looking for information on local community services? The Community Resource Database of Long Island is a free, online directory of health, human service, and education agencies and programs on Long Island – services for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. With detailed information on nearly 12,000 community resources, the CRD provides instant, keyword access to essential information for Long Island individuals and organizations. The CRD reaches people wherever computers linked to the Internet are available, wherever people can benefit from its use – in their homes, in their workplace, in community agencies, schools, and libraries. The CRD is current, with information added and updated on a daily basis.

CQ Electronic Library
Your complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering and more....

Custom Newspapers (all) (This does NOT include Newsday)
NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

EBSCO Host Databases
MasterFILE Select
Primary Search
Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
EBSCO Animals
TOPICsearch

EBSCOhost Text Only
General Science Collection
Searchasaurus
Novelist
Novelist K-8
Auto Repair Reference Center
Alt-HealthWatch

EBSCOhost Espanol
Salud para todos

eLibrary (formerly Big Chalk)
Updated daily, this database is a comprehensive reference resource. You can search through more than 150 full-text newspapers, ( including Newsday), 800 full-text magazines, international news wires, 2,000 books, TV & Radio transcripts, maps and photographs.

Encyclopedia Britannica
Browse Encyclopedia Britannica online.

Gale Group / InfoTrac
Use InfoTrac to search magazines, newspapers (NY Times daily updates), and reference books for information on business, health, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. Contains: Associations Unlimited International; Biography and Genealogy Master Index; Biography Resource Center; History Resource Center: US; Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English and Twayne World Authors; Student Resource Center - Bronze; Business and Company Resource Center; General Business File ASAP; General Reference Center Gold; National Newspaper Index; Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center; Student Resource Center - Health Module; Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module; Health and Wellness Resource Center.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Greenwood Daily Life Online
A groundbreaking, dynamic resource, Greenwood Daily Life Online provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, Greenwood Daily Life Online is supported by an active publishing program to ensure an ever-expanding and updated content base.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Multimedia resources provide quick access factual information as well as broad overviews of general subjects. Contains: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea and The New Book of Popular Science.

Grove's Dictionary of Art
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.

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.

Heritage Quest Online
Your resource for census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials and genealogical and local history serials.

¡Informé!
NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos.
Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras
materias.

LearningExpress Exam Preparation
Prepare for academic and professional exams - ONLINE! Take practice tests at your own pace. Available exams are true previews of the official exams. Click on the link above to access. Once connected, click on the New User button. BE SURE TO SUPPLY YOUR 14-DIGIT LIBRARY CARD NUMBER IN THE USERNAME BOX.

LitFinder
Database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes.

Live Librarian
Live Librarian is a service available to residents of Nassau County, NY. It enables real-time communication with a Reference Librarian who can assist you with your Internet search or questions regarding the use of electronic resources.  Live Librarians cannot provide computer technical support.

National Newspaper Index (This does NOT include Newsday)
NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the
indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times
and The Washington Post.

netLibrary eBook Collection
Netlibrary is the most comprehensive collection of online books (ebooks) and resource materials available. Using netLibrary, you can access a wide variety of scholarly and reference materials entirely online.
You must create a netLibrary account in the library before the collection can be accessed from home. Please inquire at the Reference Desk.

New York State Newspapers (This does NOT include Newsday)
NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in
the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

Newsday Includes full-text for Newsday from 1985 to present.

Novelist
This "readers' advisor" database has something for everyone. Adults, teens and children will be able to identify books based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles.

Novelist K-8
Teens and children will be able to identify books based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations.

UMI's ProQuest
Direct Full-text articles on business and general interest subjects, with graphics, are searchable by keywords. Also included are periodicals and newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

World Book Online
Access over 31,000 encyclopedia articles, 6,000 web links, 25,000 periodical articles, 800 videos, animations, and sounds, 400 interactive maps, 100 3-D bubble views, and much more.

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