Alphabetic Listing
A-to-Z
This database provides patrons with a single, comprehensive list of periodical titles
and in which databases they may be accessed from. Patrons can quickly locate and link to journals of interest, searching
by keyword or by browsing an alphabetical list by title or subject.
ABI/INFORM
Dateline (To
access from home click
HERE)
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business publications covering large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. This database provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources and contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
ABI/INFORM
Select (To access from home click
HERE)
Search for essential information from over 500 core business magazines and journals including Forbes, Journal of Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, and Industry Week. This database provides information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers, business tactics, market strategies, and more.
ABI/INFORM
Trade & Industry (To access from home click
HERE)
Search more than 1,200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.
Access
Science (To access from home click
HERE)
Search the updated McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
as well as their Yearbooks of Science & Technology and
Dictionary of Science & Technical Terms to obtain media-rich
content, terms, images, and videos of all major areas of science and
technology.
The
African American Experience Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
The African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use
online collection of information about African American life ever assembled and is the
definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture.
America the
Beautiful (To access from home click HERE)
America the Beautiful is an interactive database for state-by-state history and current events
for elementary and middle school students. This database also
includes timelines, profiles, games, and almanacs.
Ancestry.com Library Edition (In Library Use Only)
Allows the user to trace their family genealogy by searching original images of immigration, U.S. Census, and military records as well as the Social Security Death Index.
Annals of American
History (To
access from home click
HERE)
From Britannica. Explore the rich and varied history of the United
States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images,
and multimedia.
AP Image (To
access from home click
HERE)
The AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the
Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images
from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s.
Associations Unlimited
Use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S.
national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all
fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. This database allows the user to monitor association trends and identify related associations.
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Biography Resource Center
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.
Black Newspapers
(To access from home click
HERE)
A collection of significant Black newspapers from throughout the United States including the
Afro-American Red Star, Call & Post, Houston Post, and
the New Amsterdam News.
Business and Company ASAP
This database provides researchers with information on companies, markets, and industries
including market trends, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory, and company overviews
via business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles. This database includes full-text and images.
Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource of
company and industry news and information bringing together company
profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company
histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
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Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an interactive reference guide which provides in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers. In addition to job profiles, users will find multimedia interviews with real people in each career, search tools which can link the user's interest with a career, and a comprehensive database of colleges and universities which specialize in educating students interested each career.
Career Library
Available for a trial basis through December 2010! Career Library allows the user to take popular skill and career assessment surveys to determine the career which fits his/her needs and personality, as well as search for careers or colleges/universities based on the users interests, education, salary requirements, state, cost, and available majors. Career Library also provides the user with college planning assistance as well as resume help, important links and articles, and GED and SAT practice quizzes.
Computing Journals (To access from home click
HERE)
Use this database to search top computing journals in full-text for information on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
Custom Newspapers
Search a collection of 500 newspapers, both national and international.
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Daily Life in America Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Daily Life America provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big
and small that make up the day-to-day lives of normal folk throughout
the history and pre-history of America.
Daily Life Premium Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Daily Life Premium provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big
and small that make up the day-to-day lives of people throughout
the history and pre-history of the world.
Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards and covers core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies. This database also includes a selection of primary sources, creative works, and multimedia as well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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Education Periodicals (To access from home click HERE)
Search professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues including Education Week, Gifted Child Today, and many more.
Encyclopedia
Americana (To access from home click HERE)
This is the electronic version of Encyclopedia Americana. Database
articles include maps, flags, tables, and online links.
Encyclopedia Britannica
(To access from home click
HERE)
The complete encyclopedia online.
Encyclopedia Britannica for Kids (To access from home click HERE)
An encyclopedia and dictionary especially for young children. This database also includes educational games, videos, images, and guidelines for writing reports, science experiments, and research papers.
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The
Financial Times
(To access from home click HERE)
European financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on
European company and economic news, as well as its European perspective
on global business. Coverage: 1985-current.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources covering a wide range of topics including the arts, business, education, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and social science.
General Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics, and politics.
This database provides access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings. Full-text article and images are available via this database.
General OneFile
A one stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and technology. Many articles include images.
General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers,
reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current
events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences,
sports, hobbies, and more.
Global
Reference Center (To access from home click
HERE)
The Global Reference Center possesses a comprehensive online
encyclopedia in a variety of global languages. These
extensive and thorough databases are intuitive and fast, delivering
trustworthy information from around the globe.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (To access from home click HERE)
Aimed at junior high and high school students, this encyclopedia includes articles, images, sounds, and movies about numerous subjects. Also included are quizzes and games, time lines, and research ideas.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health & Wellness Resource Center provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. This database includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.
Health
Management Journals (To access from home click
HERE)
Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering
all aspects of health administration, including public health and
safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population
studies, labor relations, and law.
HeritageQuest
Online
(To access from home click
HERE)
Allows the user to trace their family genealogy through the search of U.S. Census
records, the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant
Application Files, and the Freedman's Bank (1865-1874).
History
Resource Center--United States
A multi-dimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text
periodicals, multimedia reference articles, overviews, and facsimiles
of historic documents ranging from pre-colonial times to the present.
History
Resource Center--World
A collection of articles, overviews, and primary sources of historic
documents ranging from ancient times to the present.
Hoover's
Company Records (To access from home click
HERE)
Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000
public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
The database includes in depth industry analyses, information on a company's
location, summary financials, top competitors, and top officers.
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Informe Informe provides the user with full-text articles as well as indexes and images from popular Hispanic magazines. Articles are in both Spanish and English (where available). Also included in this database is a Spanish language thesaurus.
Infotrac Junior Edition: K-12
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and
middle school and provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text
magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current
events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people,
government, history, sports and more.
Infotrac Newsstand Infotrac Newsstand is a full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or newspaper section. This database provides access to articles from more than 1,000 newspapers. Coverage: 1980-present.
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Kids
Infobits
This is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in
K-5th grade. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text
content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines
available.
This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science,
health, people, government, history, and sports.
Kids Search
This database meets the research needs of students in K-8th grade containing articles on current events, the arts,
science, health, people, government, and sports. This database
also includes an encyclopedia and dictionary.
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Lands
and People (To access from home click HERE)
Through the use of maps, images, and links, this database serves as
a principal resource on countries, cultures, and current events for the
classroom and for the library.
The Latino American Experience Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Comprehensive, informative, and easy to use, the Latino American
Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history
and culture of Latinos.
LearningExpress Library
This database offers the practice tests, exercises, and skill-building courses needed to achieve the results needed for school, work, and life. Receive extra help in elementary, middle, and high school subject matters (including SAT and AP subject tests). Learn how to use computer programs (Adobe and Microsoft) and brush up on important workplace skills (resumes and business writing). Prepare for the GED, US Citizenship Test, and other licensing, certification, and aptitude tests for a wide range of occupations.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes core journals, books, research reports, and proceedings in the field of library and information science. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.
Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary
criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all
time periods and from around the world.
Litfinder
Provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great
literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems,
stories, and plays in addition to other information sources such as
biographies, essays, and explanations of the author and his/her
work.
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Nassau Digital Doorway
Download free audio- (sound) and e- (text) books to your computer then transfer them to your iPod, MP3 Player, or other compatible reader (click here to see a complete list of compatible devices). These audio- and e-books will remain on your portable device until you chose to delete them. Audio-book files downloaded to your computer return themselves after 7 days while e-books delete themselves after 14 days. Available 24/7.
National Newspaper Index
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.
National Newspaper
Premier
(To access from home click
HERE)
National Newspapers Premier includes a balance of national and regional
newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional
representation. All titles are available in full-text. National
Newspaper Premier includes
national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, and The Washington Post along with a selection of
titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, and The Sacramento
Bee.
NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides full-text access to several thousand
reference, scholarly, and professional books. Patrons must set up an account
for this database at the library reference desk before accessing it at
home.
New
Book of Popular Science (To access from home click HERE)
Science encyclopedia for middle and high school students.
New York Newspapers
Search within this database for 15 newspapers published in the state of New York including
The New York Times and The New York Post.
New York Times Historical
(To access from home click
HERE)
This database provides searchable full page and article images of full-text articles dating back to the newspaper's first issue. Coverage: September 1851-December 2005.
Newsday
(To access from home click
HERE)
Newspaper reporting on news and events in the New York City area.
Coverage: 1985-current.
NextReads
Receive a monthly e-mail with suggestions for books to read based on your favorite fiction genre.
NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interests to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
NoveList Plus K-8
NoveList Plus K-8 is a database of young adult, children's, and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary,
and middle schools
utilizing the same search techniques and content of interests as the
adult version.
La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre (To access from home click HERE)
A complete full-text Encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and
students.
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Opposing
Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints is a one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues and features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary sources documents, statistics, images and links to websites.
Oxford Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day.
Oxford Music Online
This database, which includes full-text sources from The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of
Jazz, allows the user to search for up-to-date music information,
sounds, and illustrations about popular music, opera, and jazz styles
and musicians.
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p4a Antique Reference (To access from home click HERE)
p4a Antique Reference is a searchable database of information about antiques, including pictures of individual items and their latest auction prices, drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States in addition to other selected specialist auctions.
Pop Culture Universe Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital
library of information on American and world popular culture, past and
present.
Primary
Search
This database contains full-text articles from more than 60 elementary
school magazines as well as indexes and abstracts for nearly 100
additional magazines. Also included in this database are images such as
photos, maps and flags.
PROMT
This database allows the user to search companies, the products and
technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. It includes material from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals,
industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, new releases,
and investment and brokerage firm reports.
ProQuest (To access from home click
HERE)
This database provides access to all ProQuest databases.
ProQuest offers access to thousands of newspapers (including
international), periodicals, and academic journals including The New
York Times, The Washington Post, Barron's, and The
Los Angeles Times.
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Reference USA
This database contains detailed information on more than 14 million US
businesses, 210 million US residents, 855,000 US health care providers,
1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households. Information is compiled from business and residential telephone
directories, annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information as well as
continuing Medical Education (CME) directories, federal, state,
provincial, and municipal government data, Chamber of Commerce
Information, leading business magazines, trade publications,
newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories, and
postal service information.
Research
Library
(To access from home click
HERE)
This database allows the user to research full-text and scholarly
articles encompassing a broad range of subjects including the arts,
business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences,
social sciences, and women's interests.
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Salud En Espanol
This database provides full-text Spanish-language information from 300 publications for a wide variety of medical and health-related topics and is designed to make useful health information more readily accessible for Spanish-speaking consumers and patients.
Science
Online
This database allows the user to search a wide variety of science
disciplines including chemistry, earth science, forensic science, and
mathematics for articles, biographies, images, videos and timelines. A wide selection of science fair projects are also available via Science Online.
Scribner
Writer Series
This database provides critical essays on the works of noted world authors as
well as biographies and research topics. Information is drawn from
the acclaimed Scribner print series.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is a kid-friendly database which allows the user to search
for magazine articles as well as pamphlets, photos, maps, and flags. Also available: craft ideas and exciting educational activities suitable for young children.
Spanish Reference Center (To access from home click HERE)
This online Spanish encyclopedia, associated with Encyclopedia Britannica, provides comprehensive articles for high school (Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol) and elementary (Enciclopedia Juvenil) students.
Student
Resource Center--Bronze
The Student Resource Center Bronze acts as a general reference database
for students in middle and high school and offers easy access to
award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering
all core curriculum areas including history, literature, science, and
social studies, this database provides a premium selection of full-text
periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and
multimedia including video and audio clips.
Student
Resource Center--Health Module
Student Resource Center - Health Module is a curriculum-oriented
database that includes essays on medical and health-related topics,
including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the
fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas. The database
also includes full-text articles, photographs, and diagrams.
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Teen Health and Wellness
Aimed specifically at teens, this database provides information on a wide range of health related topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, and family life.
Tell Me More
Tell Me More is a language learning tool which gives you the skills you need to learn a language: reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and culture. Languages offered: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, and English (English as a Second Language).
Testing and Education Reference Center
This database helps users prepare for higher education and the working world by delivering downloadable practice tests for high school, college and graduate schools, as well as civil service, certification, professional license exams and study guides. It also provides information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs, vocational schools, and executive programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports, and more.
TumbleBooks
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) which teaches kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music, and narration to produce an electronic picture book which
they can read or have read to them. Children can also play interactive games based on the animated books.
Twayne Authors Series
Comprises of over 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters
series, including Twayne World, U.S. Authors, and English Authors.
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Webster's
Dictionary Online (To access from home click
HERE)
From Britannica, Webster's Dictionary Online provides word definitions
as well as crossword puzzle help and word origin information.
World Book
The World Book is a premier online reference source containing
every article from the 22-volume print set plus primary documents and
images from many major subject areas. A wide selection of games, activities, and crafts ( available in Word Book for Kids) provide highly entertaining and educational learning experiences for children. Also included in this
database are
L 'Encyclopedie Decouverte
and Enciclopedia Estudiantil
Hallazgos--French and Spanish language encyclopedias for
elementary and middle school students.
World
Data Analyst (To
access from home click
HERE)
Use this database to compare the economies, populations,
education, and social protection of nations throughout the world using
generated charts and tables.
World
News Digest
This database brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned
Facts On File World News Digest in print.
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