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Research Databases



Note: When in the Library, access the databases by clicking on the links. When outside the Library, use remote access link for the databases.

 

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ABI /INFORM Select Remote Access
Business, Finance, Economics: journals, magazines that provides information on   advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers, and        more.

ABI/INFORM Business Dateline Remote Access
Business, Economics: local and regional business publications providing access to business information not typically found in national news sources. 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 Trade and Industrial Journals Remote Access
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources,   including full text for more than 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications.

African American Experience Remote Access
The African American Experience (AAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

Ancestry ----

Access hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records, including all available US Census records, the immigration collection, UK Census collection, NY passenger lists and more…


Annals of American History Online Remote Access
Annals of American History illuminate U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents—the original words of history-makers.


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Biography Resource Center w/ Marquis Who’s Who ( Gale) Remote Access

Contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000     photographs of the subjects.  Many of the biographies are enhanced with full   text, abstracts, and citations


Black Newspapers (Current) Remote Access
A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States.

Encyclopedia Britannica Remote Access
With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most authoritative information sources in the world

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale-Cengage) Remote Access
Detailed company and industry news and information including company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.


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Career Cruising Remote Access
Career profiles, including multimedia interviews as well as information about colleges and universities.

CREDO Reference Remote Access
A digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Credo contains a selection from 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers.

CRDLI – Community Resource Database of Long Island Remote Access


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.


Custom Newspapers Gale-Cengage Remote Access
Recent New York Times, New York Post and others.


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Daily Life in America Remote Access
Provides continually updated content on everyday life and social customs throughout world history.Sources include Primary documents, reference works, maps and multimedia.


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EBSCO –Primary Search
Remote Access
Access full-text for more than 70 popular magazines for grade school aged children.

Encyclopedia Britannica Remote Access
With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most authoritative information sources in the world

 

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Global Reference Center Remote Access
Britannica's Global Reference Center is the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages delivering trustworthy information from around the globe.

Greenwood Daily Life Online /World Cultures Remote Access

Everyday life and social customs throughout history; includes World Cultures.

Grolier –  Online Passport and  Online Kids Remote Access

Grolier Online Passport, created for older students and adult searches across five encyclopedias at once: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, and Enciclopedia Cumbre.

Online Kids provides information for younger students.



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Health and Wellness Resource Center Remote Access
General interest and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals,reference books and pamphlets. Includes herbal remedies, alternative or complementary treatments

Health Management/ Proquest Remote Access
Health, business subjects found in journals, magazines, dissertations with 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 Remote Access

U.S. federal census records 1790-1930 plus searchable family histories


History Reference Center Remote Access
  • U.S. and world history from ancient times to present
  • Primary documents, images and videos

Home Improvement Reference Center * Remote Access
 

Hoovers Remote Access
Delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. The Hoover's database consists of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.


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Kids Infobits Remote Access
Magazine and newspaper articles for students Grade K-5 containing information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, and sports.


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Latino American Experience Remote Access
The Latino American Experience (LAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the present-day U.S. Latinos.

Learning Express Remote Access

Practice tests and online courses for school and licensing exams. Immediate scores and analysis of your results.

(1) Sign in as a New User if it's your first time.
(2) Use your EPL barcode number as your username


Literature Resource Center Remote Access
Plot summaries, synopses and overviews. Thousands of articles, essays, author biographies, book reviews. Also includes poems, short stories, author interviews, and classic (out of copyright) texts.

LitFinder Remote Access
Includes PoemFinder: full-text poems and excerpts of poems; StoryFinder: full- text short stories plus explanations, biographies, and pictures; EssayFinder: full- text essays including biographies and literary criticism.

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Mango (language learning center) Remote Access
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

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National Newspaper Index Gale-Cengage

Remote Access

Index and abstracts from NY Times, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times and Wall Street Journal.

National Newspapers Premier Remote Access
Search Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post all at once.

Natural Standard Remote Access
 

Newsday Remote Access

Newspaper reporting on news and events in the New York City area. Full text from 1985.

New York State Newspapers Remote Access
   

NY Times Historical 1851-2007 Remote Access

The entire historical run of The New York Times from 1851-2004.
Each article is in pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view


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OneFile Gale Remote Access
Newspaper and Periodical articles of general interest.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Remote Access
Everything you need to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected Websites.

Overdrive-Downloadable Audio Books Remote Access
Downloadable versions of print books for adults, teens and children. 

Oxford Art Online Remote Access
The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions and links to images.

Oxford Music Online Remote Access
Dictionaries of Music, Musicians, Opera, and Jazz with web links, sound files, and images.

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Pop Culture Universe Remote Access
Pop Culture Universe: Icons | Idols | Ideas (PCU) is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present.

PROMT Gale Remote Access
Predicast's Overview of Markets and Technology. Articles from business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers and market research studies. New releases and investment and brokerage firm reports

Proquest Academic Journals Remote Access

Selected databases providing full text scholarly, peer reviewed materials and dissertations in Business, Finance, Economics, Education, Health, Science, and Technology

Proquest Computing Journals Remote Access
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, Intranets, and the Internet.

Proquest Health Management Remote Access

This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.

Proquest Professional Education Journals Remote Access
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer- reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

Proquest Research Library Remote Access

Articles in newspapers, magazines and academic journals available in full text. Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, and social sciences.

Proquest Science Journals Remote Access

This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980"s.

 

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Sesame Street eBooks Remote Access
 

Science in Context Remote Access
 

 

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Teen Health and Wellness
Remote Access

real life - real answers


Tumble Books
(Tumble Book Library and Tumble Talking Books)
Remote Access

Read-along titles for students from K-12. . Read and listen to books as well as play language and memory games Adjustable text size and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they're read. Pages turn automatically. Great for reluctant readers and an excellent tool for ESL.



Tutor.Com – Live Homework Help
Remote Access
Connect one on one with a tutor Math, science, social studies and english on a 4th through 12th grade level. Includes help with resumes.

Twaynes Author Series Remote Access

Critical essays on the works of noted world authors from ancient times to present.

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 Webster's Dictionary Online Remote Access
Comprehensive database of words: Webster’s Third International Dictionary for   grades 6-12, College and University.

World Data Analyst Remote Access
Combining detailed statistics with powerful tools for analysis and display, this resource features a unique collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world and allows you to create interesting and information comparative charts and tables.

 

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