Most
databases require a password, which is usually the 14-digit number
of your library card entered with no spaces. Other databases require
a username and password which you can obtain by calling the Library
at 223-6228. We offer a wide variety of databases including
those that offer magazine, journal and newspaper articles; research
databases on specific subjects such as literature, music, art, science,
business, health and readers' advisory. Additional
databases are available for research in the library.
Oxford
Art Online - Comprehensive
database covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory
to modern times, international in scope. Use "library
barcode" login to access from home.
Oxford
Music Online - Includes The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion
to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Use "library barcode" login to access from home.
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. Now includes Who's Who.
Business
ABI/Inform
- Includes scholarly, trade and local and regional business
publications.
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.
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.
Hoover's
- widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data,
Hoover's delivers in-depth industry analyses, information
on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors
and top officers for more than 40,000 public and non-public
companies.
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.
Salem
Press E-Books - Access the Historical Encyclopedia
of American Business. Click
on 'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to
log in from outside the Library.
Children
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. Includes a general encyclopedia.
Kids
Infobits-
Especially for students in K-5. A picture-rich interface
helps access reference books and the best magazines for
elementary students.
Kids
Search - Similiar to Searchasaurus but has a new
graphically-rich look and feel.
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.
TumbleBooks
- Collection of talking, animated picture books, puzzles,
and quizzes. Includes resources for teachers.
College
and Careers/Test Preparation
Career
Cruising - An interactive career resource designed
for people of all ages. Includes career matching quiz and
college selection questionnaires. In English and Spanish.
Job
Search and Workplace Skills Learning Center
- from LearningExpress Library. Includes resume and interviewing
success skills, job search skills and business writing skills.
(In order to access the lessons and save your work, 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.)
LearningExpress
EBooks.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.
LearningExpress
Library.com - Online practice tests of official
exams such as Civil Service exams, AP, GED, SAT, U.S. citizenship,
law enforcement, real estate, ESL (Spanish) skills improvement
and more. Now also includes preparation courses for
the SAT, ACT, GED and TOEFL, as well as review courses in
math, reading comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and grammar.
(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.)
Computer
Skills Tutorials - from LearningExpress Library.
Over 50 tutorials for applications including Microsoft Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook, as well as WordPerfect
and Windows and Mac operating systems. (In order to access
the lessons and save your work, 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.)
ProQuest
Computing Journals -
Includes top computing journals in full text for research
on subjects such as database design, software development,
web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
e-Books
netLibrary
- Over 3000 e-books you can read 24 hours a day, seven days
a week. You must come to the Reference Desk to sign up for
an account before accessing netLibrary. Please note:
These books are not downloadable.
ProQuest
Education Journals - Professional magazines and
periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related
issues.
Encyclopedias
and Dictionaries
Encyclopaedia
Britannica - Comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia.
Links to Britannica Junior for younger users (upper right-hand
corner). Use this
link to access from home.
Global
Reference Center - from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Use this
link to access from home. Encyclopedias
in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Also
includes Spanish-language encyclopedia for younger users.
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, Encyclopedia Americana
and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
HeritageQuest
Online -
Collection
of research materials for census data, family records and
local histories. If you have difficulty accessing this
database, please call HeritageQuest Technical Support at
1-800-889-3358 for assistance.
Global
Studies/Multi-Subject
The
African American Experience - All about African-American
history and culture. Includes the arts, education, biography,
folklore, literature, civil rights and more.
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.
Issues
and Controversies - up-to-date, in-depth and objective
information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues
of the day.
The
Latino American Experience - All about Latin-American
history and culture. Includes the arts, education, biography,
folklore, literature, immigration and more.
Pop
Culture Universe - American and world popular culture,
past and present, searchable by decades. Includes clothing
and fashion, TV and movies, food and drink, music, literature,
sports, leisure and more.
World
Data Analyst - Provides country snapshots and the
ability to create comparison tables of statistical data.
Use this
link to access from home.
MedlinePlus
- From the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes
of Health, and other U.S. government agencies and health-related
organizations. Includes extensive information about drugs,
an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient
tutorials, clinical trial information, and the latest health
news.
ProQuest
Health Management - 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.
Salem
Health - Fully searchable version of Magill's
Medical Guide, with over 1000 articles. Click on
'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to log
in from outside the Library.
History
The
African American Experience - All about African-American
history and culture. Includes the arts, education, biography,
folklore, literature, civil rights and more.
Issues
and Controversies in American History - In-depth
explanations of opposing points of view concerning events
in American History, including primary sources, biographies,
timelines, background articles, photographs and maps.
The
Latino American Experience - All about Latin-American
history and culture. Includes the arts, education, biography,
folklore, literature, immigration and more.
Salem
Press E-Books - Access Milestone Documents
in American History, The Sixties in America,
The Eighties in America, and the Historical
Encyclopedia of American Business. Click
on 'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to
log in from outside the Library.
Live
Homework Help (Tutor.com) - Live help is available
from real tutors daily from 2:00 - 10:00PM (some holidays
excluded). Students in grades K-12, introductory college
students and adults can receive help with math, science,
social studies, English and writing. Also provides résumé
and cover letter assistance and proofreading. Available
in English and Spanish. You may be asked to download Microsoft's
Silverlight, a small, safe plug-in.
netLibrary
- 3000+ e-books available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
You must come to the Reference Desk to sign up for an account
before accessing netLibrary. These books are not
downloadable.
Literature
Discovering
Collection - Includes reference content for the
area of Literature and Biography.
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.
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.
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.
Magazine
&
Newspaper
Articles
Black
Newspapers - A collection of significant Black
newspapers from the United States, via ProQuest.
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. Includes a general encyclopedia.
The
Historical New York Times (1851-2006) - 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
Newsstand - Contains 150 full-text newspapers,
including the latest 365 days of the New York Times. Offered
through the New York State Library.
Infotrac
General 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.
ProQuest
National Newspapers - National and regional newspapers
available in full text. Includes titles such as The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Financial
Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times
and The Washington Post.
ProQuest
Research Library - Coverage of a broad range of
subjects including arts, business, children, education,
general interest, health, humanities, international, law,
military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social
sciences, and women's interests.
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.
Science
Online - A comprehensive overview of a broad range
of scientific and mathematical topics. Definitions, images,
video, biographies, news articles and more. Also includes
1000 experiments and activities indexed by grade range.
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.
Informe
- access to many popular Spanish language magazines.
Live
Homework Help (Tutor.com) - Live help is available
from real tutors daily from 2:00 - 10:00PM (some holidays
excluded). Students in grades K-12, introductory college
students and adults can receive help with math, science,
social studies, English and writing. Also provides résumé
and cover letter assistance and proofreading. Available
in English and Spanish. You
may be asked to download Microsoft's Silverlight, a small,
safe plug-in.
Spanish
Reference Center - from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Use this
link to access from home. Includes Enciclopedia
Universal en Español, a comprehensive Spanish-language
encyclopedia, and Enciclopedia Juvenil,
a Spanish elementary encyclopedia with images and videos.
Salud
en Español - a full text consumer health
resource written entirely in Spanish and designed specifically
for those seeking information about health and medicine.
Morningstar
Mutual Funds - Morningstar® Mutual Funds Online provides
easy access to fund reports in a PDF format. Individual reports
are updated every Friday. See Reference Librarian for assistance.
Value
Line - 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.
If
you experience problems with a link or have a comment, please e-mail
us at info@baldwinpl.org
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