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Access Science
The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology on the Web. |
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Associations Unlimited
Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations. |
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Auto Repair Ref Center
Contains automobile repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, publishers of Chilton information. Included are instructional photographs, wiring diagrams, technical service bulletins & recalls, etc |
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Book Index with Reviews
Provides information on books, fiction and non-fiction with reviews. Titles can be sorted by popularity, price, date format, etc. Advanced searching options and a link to Library availability |
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Britannica Online
An integrated search that pulls results from articles within the Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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Business and Company Resource Center
Includes profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. |
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Careercruising
Includes interest assesment, occupational profiles, mulimedia interviews, college information, career portfolio tool and resume builder. |
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Career Zone From the NY State Dept of Labor, this site offers career information on more than 900 careers and NYS college and academic program information. For job seekers there is online resume help and other useful links.. |
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CollegeSource Online
College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format. |
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The Community Database of Long Island
Computerized directory profiles more than 6,000 community services & resources(health, human service & education agencies & programs) available in the Long Island area.
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Country Watch.com:
provides up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. |
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Downloadable Audio Books
Fiction and non-fiction books from Recorded Books and NetLibrary available to download directily to your computer and transfer to aMP3 player.
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EBSCOHOST:
Information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers. Consumer Reports full text 1990-Present |
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EBSCOHOST:
Information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers(En Espanol). |
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EBSCO: Searchasaurus
Designed for children. |
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EBSCO A-toZ:
Allows users to locate specific journals and to find out in what database they can be located.
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FACTS.com
Major U.S. and world events since 1980, with selected coverage back to 1940 with reference databases, maps, photographs and historic documents.
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Galenet
Includes: Literature Resource Center(Authors and Literary Criticism), Twaynes Author Series, Biography Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Associations Unlimited. |
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Greenwood Daily Life Online
Focuses on the daily life of people throughout world history.
Greenwood World Cultures Today Provides information on the modern world culture- food, clothing lifestyles, religion, holidays and more.
African American Experience Research tool for African American history and culture, includes primary sources,slave narratives, legal cases, speeches and much more. |
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Provides factual information and overviews of general subjects.
Encyclopedia Americana
Is especially useful for readers from midddle school upwards.
New Book of Knowledge
Reference and Current Events for grades 3 and up. Includes weekly news scoops,wonder questions, educational activities & experiments. |
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Grove's Dictionary of Art
This comprehensive reference tool for visual arts includes articles and images as well as links to additional online resources |
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GroveMusic
Is the first new edition of this landmark music reference work in over 20 years.
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Health Reference Center - Academic
Find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc
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Heritage Quest Online
A growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. |
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History Resource Center: U.S.
Provides primary documents, full-text journals articles & reference material for US History from pre-colonial times to the present . |
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Information Please
Includes the Time/Information Please Almanac, the ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac and theirEntertainment and Kid's Almanac, InfoPlease Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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InfoTrac
Includes Magazine & Newspaper articles(NY Times daily updates) and Reference information on business,health, industry, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. |
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Custom Newspapers
A full- text newspaper database that allows searching articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields.
New York State Newspapers
Includes Amoung others:
The Journal News (Westchester,NY)
The New York Observer
(New York,NY)
The New York Post
(New York,NY)
The New York Times-last 365 days. |
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InfoTrac Kids Infobits
Designed for younger children, kindergarten through grade five. Includes easy search options with thousands of searchable pictures, age-appropriate magazines, full-color maps, flags, charts, etc. |
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InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.A NY State Library project - NOVEL federally funded by LSTA grants . |
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Informe
The spanish language online database with all of the features of the English language version of Infotrac. |
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LitFinder
Find poems, plays, essays, stories and speeches by searching subjects, authors and genres |
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MedlinePlus
Health topics and authoritative information from the National Institutes of Health, other government, non-profit and other health-related orgaizations. |
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Music Online For Public Libraries:
Classical Music Library Listen to music ranging from Medieval to Contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, and the avant-grade.
Smithsonian Global Sound virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The database includes an array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
African American Song Listen to jazz, blues, gospel and other forms of African American musical expression; included are recordings by fifty top names in the history of black American music. |
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NetLibrary
Search the eBook and Audiobook Collection from this site. Access the full text of several thousands of reference, scholarly, and popular title books. |
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NewsDay
Provides combined editions coverage from 1985 to current in full text. (Click NewsDay link & the Continue button when the page loads up.) |
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Noah
Noah provides full text health information in English and Spanish. One can search by word or by health topics.
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NoveList
Readers' advisory tool that helps find new books on topics of interest. Provides full-text reviews and annotations |
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NoveList K-8
Similar to the original NoveList, this new version includes content and an interface tailored exclusively to support media centers, libraries, classrooms and students in K-8 schools. |
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ProQuest Direct
Includes full-text for Newsday, New York Times, Washington Post, aINFORMnd Wall Street Journal , ABI/( Business priodicals), Periodical Abstracts (General Periodicals) , Consumer Reports and Business Dateline. |
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Reference USA a comprehensive databases of 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents. Great for obtaining contact information for big and small businesses. |
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Rosetta Stone is an interactive language learning program that can record your voice and evaluate your pronunciation as you learn a language! Learn at your own pace from nine different languages. Register online with your user name and password. |
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Tumblebooks-is a collection of Tumblebooks(animated, talking books)TumblePuzzles, Quizzes and Games. |
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Testing & Educational Reference Center
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. (Please scoll down the Gale databases list to enter) |
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Virtual Reference Center from Gale
Encyclopedia and specialized reference sources in Health, History and Business A NY State Library project - NOVEL federally funded by LSTA grants . |
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World Book Encyclopedia online
Expanded version of the Book encyclopedia. Spanish language encyclopedia available. |
