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| ART
AND MUSIC |
- Oxford
Art Online - Comprehensive
database covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory
to modern times, international in scope.
- Oxford
Music Online - Includes The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion to
Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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| BIOGRAPHY |
- Biography
Resource Center - Full-text articles from hundreds of
periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts
such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation
or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom
search.
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| BUSINESS |
- ABI/Inform
- Includes scholarly, trade and local and regional business
publications.
- Business
and Company ASAP - Information on companies, markets and
industries.
- Business
& Company Resource Center - Detailed company and industry
news and information from Gale, including company profiles, brand
information, industry rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies, and periodical articles. Available via EmpireLink,
a project of the NY State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.
- Business
Source Premier - As the world's largest full text business
database, Business Source Premier provides full
text for more than 3,000 scholarly business journals, including
full text for nearly 1000 peer-reviewed publications. Coverage
includes virtually all subject areas related to business and is
updated on a daily basis.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library - click on 'View Publications'
beside the word 'Business'.
- General
Business File ASAP - Analyze company performance and activity,
industry events and trends. Access a combination of broker research
reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company
directory listings with full text and images available.
- Investext
Plus - find investment, company and industry reports from
over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin
America, Africa and the Middle East.
- Newsletters
ASAP - information from specialized business, industry
and technology newsletters issued by various news services and
industry watchers.
- PROMT
- Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Research on companies,
the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in
which they compete. Includes business and trade journals, industry
newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases,
and investment and brokerage firm reports.
- Regional
Business News - coverage from 75 business journals, newspapers
and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas of the United
States.
- Value
Line
- The Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information
and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries,
the stock market, and the economy. See Reference
Librarian for assistance.
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CHILDREN
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- Discovering
Collection - Geared toward middle and high school students.
Includes reference content for the areas of Geography and Cultures,
History, Biographies, and Social Studies.
- EBSCO
Searchasaurus - Full text articles for children and young
adults. It includes a general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia
of animals.
- InfoTrac
- Junior and Kids Editions - Magazines, reference books
and newspapers for information on the elementary and middle-school
levels.
- Kids
Search - Similiar to Searchasaurus but has a new graphically-rich
look and feel.
- Middle
Search Plus - Provides full text for nearly 140 popular
magazines for middle and jr. high school research, primary source
documents, and an image collection.
- Novelist
K-8 - Discover current and classic fiction titles that
are popular with young readers. Contains materials for all K-8
grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter"
books and young adult titles.
- Student
Research Center -
includes primary source documents as well as magazines, newspapers,
biographies, radio and television transcripts, encyclopedias,
images and country reports, for grades 1 through 12.
- TumbleBooks
- Collection of talking, animated picture books, puzzles,
and quizzes. Includes resources for teachers.
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| COLLEGE
AND CAREERS |
- Career
Cruising - an interactive career resource designed for
people of all ages. Includes career matching quiz and college
selection questionnaires. In English and Spanish.
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COMMUNITY
RESOURCES |
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| COMPUTERS |
- Computer
Source - Full text articles on computers, telecommunications,
electronics and the Internet, a balance of full text technical
journals and full text consumer computer titles.
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| E-BOOKS |
- netLibrary
- Over 3000 e-books you can access 24 hours a days, seven days
a week.
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| EDUCATION |
- ERIC
- ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains
more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information
and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related
journals.
- Professional
Development Collection - Contains approximately 550 full
text education journals and more than 200 educational reports.
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
AND QUICK REFERENCE
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- AccessScience
- Online version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science
& Technology.
- Credo
Reference - A virtual reference library that provides
access to hundreds of reference books in one easy interface. Includes
dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotation books, and subject-specific
reference books on every topic from business to literature to
technology.
- Funk
and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- For students and adults alike (access through EBSCO).
- Grolier
Online - Multimedia
encyclopedias and resources provide quick access to factual information
as well as broad overviews of general subjects. Includes The
New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
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| GENEALOGY |
- HeritageQuest
Online -
Collection
of research materials for census data, family records and local
histories.
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| GLOBAL
STUDIES/MULTI-SUBJECT |
- Credo
Reference - A virtual reference library that provides
access to hundreds of reference books in one easy interface. Includes
dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotation books, and subject-specific
reference books on every topic from business to literature to
technology.
- CountryWatch
- Up-to-date information and news on countries of the world.
- Discovering
Collection - Includes reference content for the areas
of Geography and Cultures, History, Biographies and Social Studies.
- EBSCO
TOPICsearch - Full-text reference resource for students
exploring social, political, economic issues and more.
- Facts.com
- Full-text world news coverage from 1940; includes Issues &
Controversies.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library - click on 'View Publications'
beside the words 'Nation and World' and 'Social Science'.
- Issues
and Controversies - up-to-date, in-depth and objective
information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of
the day.
- Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center - explore both sides of important
social issues (access through InfoTrac).
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| HEALTH |
- American
Medical Association - search publications of the AMA including
The Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Consumer
Health Complete - Comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented
health content. Contains full text of reference books, drug patient
education sheets, pamphlets and videos.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library - click 'View Publications'
beside the word 'Medicine'.
- Health
Source - Consumer
Edition
- Health
Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
- Health
Reference Center Academic
- Health
& Wellness Resource Center
- Full-text for many citations, 1997 to present.
- Medline
Nursing
and Allied Health Collection - articles from 400 journals
covering all aspects of the Nursing profession from direct patient
care to health care administration, for students and practitioners.
- ProQuest
Health Management - Covers
all aspects of health administration, including public health
and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance,
population studies, labor relations and law.
Salem
Health - Fully searchable version of Magill's Medical
Guide, with over 1000 articles.
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HISTORY
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| IMAGES |
- Image
Collection - Over 180,000 photographs and images including
current events, sports, maps, entertainment, the sciences and
historical interests.
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LIBRARY
CATALOGS |
- ALISweb
Millennium - Nassau County Public Libraries Online Catalog
- netLibrary
- Over 3000 e-books you can access 24 hours a days, seven days
a week.
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| LITERATURE
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- Discovering
Collection - Includes reference content for the areas
of Literature and Biographies.
- Literature
Resource Center - Find up-to-date biographical information,
overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly
130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and
from around the world.
- LitFINDER
- Poem
Finder - 85,000 full-text poems plus 800,000 poem
citations and excerpts.
- Story
Finder - Thousands of full-text short stories plus
explanations, biographies and more.
- Essay/Speech/Play
Finder - Full-text. Essays focus on the humanities
and social sciences, and include biographies and literary
criticism. Speeches include the best-known speeches of the
past 2,500 years. Plays is the most complete single-source
of full-text plays.
- MagillOnLiterature
Plus - Critical analyses of literature, character profiles,
plot summaries (Masterplots) and author biographies.
- Twayne's
Author Series - Full
text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual
World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text
titles
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MAGAZINES
&
NEWSPAPERS ARTICLES |
- Academic
Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides
full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more
than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further
are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable
cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
- EBSCO
- Full
text journals and newspapers covering business, health, current
events, arts, science and entertainment. Includes
full-text Consumer Reports from 1984 to present
(excluding last three months). Can translate most articles
into Spanish, French and German. Use this link to search across
multiple EBSCO databases.
- EBSCO
A-to-Z - Search
for a periodical in EBSCO, InfoTrac, and ProQuest all at the same
time.
- EBSCO
Searchasaurus - Full-text articles for children and young
adults. It includes a general encyclopedia and an encyclopedia
of animals.
- Gale
Custom Newspapers - Contains 150 full-text newspapers,
including the latest 365 days of the New York Times. Offered through
the New York State Library.
- Gale
National Newspaper Index - Offered through the New York
State Library.
- Gale
New York State Newspapers - Offered through the New York
State Library. (Does NOT include Newsday.)
- The
Historical New York Times (1851-2005) - Full page and
article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Infotrac
from Gale- Use this link to search across multiple Gale
databases.
- Infotrac
from Gale - General Reference Center Gold - Search
magazine, newspapers and reference books for information on business,
health, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment,
etc. Full-text for many citations.
- Infotrac
OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles
on a wide range of topics: business, current events, economics,
education, health care, literature and art, politics, science,
social science, and many general interest topics. Millions of
full-text articles, many with images.
- MasterFILE
Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full
text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full
text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes
full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents,
and an image collection.
- Newsday
- Full-text articles, 1985-present.
- Newspaper
Source - Selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.)
and international newspapers. Also contains full text television
& radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more
than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
- ProQuest
- Full-text journals, dissertations and newspapers such as The
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and
Washington Post.
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READERS'
ADVISORY |
- NoveList
- Readers' advisory resource - classic and contemporary authors.
- NoveList
K-8 - Discover current and classic fiction titles that
are popular with young readers. Contains materials for all K-8
grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter"
books and young adult titles.
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| SCIENCE
& MATHEMATICS |
- Access
Science - McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science
& Technology.
- Discovering
Collection - Includes reference content for the area of
Science and Health.
- General
Science Collection - Full-text coverage for more than
60 science publications. Includes multi-volume encyclopedia, Great
Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century.
- Science
Reference Center - Full text of science encyclopedias,
reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology,
chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health
& medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science
& society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and
wildlife. Offered throught the New York State Library.
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| SPANISH
LANGUAGE |
- Career
Cruising - an interactive career resource designed for
people of all ages. Includes career matching quiz and college
selection questionnaires. In English and Spanish.
- EBSCO
Español
- iInforme!
- Revistas en Español - Spanish language online database.
Offered through the New York State Library.
- Salud
para todos - a full text consumer health resource written
entirely in Spanish and designed specifically for those seeking
information about health and medicine.
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| TEST
PREPARATION |
- LearningExpressEBooks.com
- Selection of online EBooks from Learning Express Library providing
test preparation and practice in skills improvement. (You will
be asked to create a user name and password; use your Baldwin
Library Card barcode number as your user name and make up any
password you like.
- LearningExpressLibrary.com
- Online practice tests of official exams such as Civil Service
exams, AP, SAT, U.S. citizenship, law enforcement, real estate,
ESL (Spanish) skills improvement and more. (You will be asked
to create a user name and password; use your Baldwin Library Card
barcode number as your user name and make up any password you
like.)
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