Databases

2-1-1 Long Island

Free, non-emergency health and human services information.

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Ancestry.com In Library Use Only

Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.

Click here for Video Instructions on how to use Ancestry.com

Click here to learn about Searching Ancestry.com

Subject(s) Covered: Genealogy

Britannica Academic Edition

Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, Britannica, College Students, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, High School Students, History, Reference, Science

Britannica Escolar

Discover the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.

Subject(s) Covered: Britannica, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Foreign Language

Britannica School

A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels–elementary, middle, and high.

Subject(s) Covered: Britannica, Elementary School Students, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Science

Business Insights: Essentials

Business Insights: Essentials is a user-friendly business tool that delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, investors, students, and general researchers can explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills. Gale Business Insights: Essentials features easy-to-search rich content, a user-friendly interface, and robust analytical tools.

Click here for video instructions on how to use Business Insights: Essentials.

Subject(s) Covered: Business & Finance

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.

Subject(s) Covered: Health & Medicine

Certification Matters

Check to see if your doctor is certified. Unlimited access (no registration/barcode needed) when used within the library. There is a limit of 25 searches a day when used outside of the library.

Subject(s) Covered: Health & Medicine

Comics Plus

Thousands of digital comics and graphic novels available with unlimited simultaneous access

(no holds, no waiting, no limits on checkouts).

Subject(s) Covered: eBooks & Audiobooks, Middle School Students, Teen Databases

Culture Grams

Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, family, diet, holidays, economy, education, health, and events and trends. Also includes a look at the diversity and history of each U.S. State and the District of Columbia, reports on all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, a Recipe collection and a Famous People Index.

Subject(s) Covered: College Students, Elementary School Students, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Travel

DMV of New York drivers manual & practice tests

Use the New York State website to study for your driving test!

Subject(s) Covered: Teen Databases, Test Prep

DMV- Driving Tests

Driving-Tests.org contains free permit practice tests written by experts available to anyone who wants to study, along with online copies of official New York State DMV tests and handbooks.

Subject(s) Covered: High School Students, Teen Databases, Test Prep

Explora Educator’s Edition

Ensure student and educator success with EBSCO’s new interface for schools and public libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, Education

Explora for Public Libraries

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder^® is the most complete Web-based tool for organizing and providing links to all of our library’s electronic resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases and e-journal packages, and e-books. Full Text Finder offers users a “one-stop” search of our library’s e-collection, with easy navigation to full-text content.

Click here for How-To-Use Full Text Finder Instructions

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, Literature

Gale Academic OneFile

A current and easy-to-use resource for extensive research. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.

Click here for video instructions

(https://my.nicheacademy.com/nassaulibrary/course/703)

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students

Gale Academic OneFile Select

Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections.

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students

Gale eBooks

Gale eBooks is a database of eBook reference titles. With its continuously growing list of content and publishers, Gale Virtual Reference Library offers hundreds of titles to the library collection. . In addition to titles available from Gale, you can also access content from other publishers, including Wiley, Sage, Cambridge and the xreferplus collection. This database was formerly known as the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, High School Students, Literature, Middle School Students, Primary Sources

Gale General OneFile

Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

Subject(s) Covered: Business & Finance, College Students, High School Students, Magazines, Newspapers, Teen Databases

Gale in Context: Biography

Gale in Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world’s most influential people. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Subject(s) Covered: Biographies, Elementary School Students, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Teen Databases

Gale in Context: Elementary (formally Kids Infobits)

Gale in Context: Elementary is the perfect educational product for today’s young learners. It’s a content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. It features a new, modern, graphical interface and improved navigation based on feedback from both our existing customers and student users. The design helps kids explore the product and gain comfort with database searching.

Subject(s) Covered: Elementary School Students

Gale in Context: Middle School

Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale in Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale’s reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

Subject(s) Covered: Middle School Students

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.

Subject(s) Covered: High School Students

Gale in Context: Science

Gale in Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. Drawing students in with captivating subject matter, Gale in Context: Science showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather. The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.

Subject(s) Covered: High School Students, Middle School Students, Science