Database Subscriptions

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.

DATABASES AVAILABLE FOR ACCESS FROM HOME

Art and Music	Global Studies/Multi-Subject
Biography	Health
Business	History
Children	Homework Help/Tutoring
College and Careers/ Test Preparation	Law
Community Resources	Library Catalog
Computers	Literature
E-Books and Audiobooks	Magazines/Newspapers
Education	Readers' Advisory
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries	Science and Mathematics
Genealogy	Spanish Language


Art and Music	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, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Use "library barcode" login to access from home.
Biography	Biography in Context (Gale) - 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 targeted custom search.
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. Financial Times - One of the world's leading sources of accurate and unbiased financial, economic and political news. 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. 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. LexisNexis Library Express - Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The Company Dossier module retrieves detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. (Note: No remote access available for legal information.) Use this link to access from home. 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	Country Watch Youth Edition - Combines country information and current events coverage--facts, history, culture, maps and flags. Use this link to access from home. 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. Encyclopedia Britannica for Kids- Comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia. Use this link to access EB from home. Grolier Kids - Includes the New Book of Knowledge, Encyclopedia Americana and the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Use this link to access Grolier from home. InfoTrac - Junior and Kids Editions - Magazines, reference books and newspapers for information on the elementary and middle-school levels. 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. 21st-Century Explorer - From Encyclopaedia Britannica, two levels of reference and learning tools designed for students who read below grade level, as well as English language learners and adult literacy students. Use this link to access from home.
College and Careers/Test Preparation	Adult Learning Center from Tutor.com - Live help is available from real tutors daily from 2:00 - 10:00PM (some holidays excluded). Users can receive assistance with careers, job searches, writing résumés and cover letters. Help with citizenship exams, school subjects from GED prep to introductory college courses is also available. SkillsCenter Resource Library is open 24/7. In English and Spanish. You may be asked to download Microsoft's Silverlight, a small, safe plug-in. 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 résumé 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 Library.com - Online preparation books and practice tests for 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.)
Community Resources	2-1-1 Long Island - Formerly known as the Community Resources Database of Long Island, lists over 11,000 health, human service, and education agencies on Long Island.
Computers	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 and Audiobooks (Downloadable)	Nassau Digital Doorway - powered by OverDrive®. Browse and select from a variety of great fiction and non-fiction titles for all ages, download them to your computer, transfer them to a variety of portable devices, or burn them onto a CD. Take the Guided Tour or read the Quick Start Guide.
Education	Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts 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 Kids for younger users (upper right-hand corner). Use this link to access from home. Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - For students and adults alike (access through EBSCO). 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 (includes Encyclopedia Americana and *The New Book of Knowledge) provide quick access to factual information as well as broad overviews of general subjects. Use this link* to access Grolier from home. Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged - Use this link to access from home. 21st-Century Explorer - From Encyclopaedia Britannica, two levels of reference and learning tools designed for students who read below grade level, as well as English language learners and adult literacy students. Use this link to access from home.
Genealogy	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	CountryWatch - Up-to-date information and news on countries of the world. Use this link to access from home. Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the areas of Geography and Cultures, History, Biographies, and Social Studies. Gale Virtual Reference Library - Click 'View Publications' beside the words 'Nation and World' and 'Social Science'. GreenFILE Issues and Controversies - Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Explore both sides of important social issues. World Data Analyst - Provides country snapshots and the ability to create comparison tables of statistical data. Use this link to access from home.
Health	Gale Virtual Reference Library - Click 'View Publications' beside the word 'Medicine'. Health & Wellness Resource Center - Full-text for many citations, 1997 to present. Health Reference Center Academic - Full-text and images from respected nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books. 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. Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Articles drawn from over 1,100 nursing and allied health journals. 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 Salem's Genetics & Inherited Conditions. Click on 'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to login from outside the Library.
History	Annals of American History Online - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Use this link to access from home. Gale Virtual Reference Library - Click on 'View Publications' beside the word 'History'. The Historical New York Times (1851-2007) - Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. History Reference Center (EBSCO) - U.S. and world history from ancient times to present, including primary documents, images and videos. 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. Salem Press E-Books - Access Milestone Documents in American History plus selected titles from the Decades, Great Lives in History and Great Events from History series. Click on 'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to log in from outside the Library.
Homework Help/ Tutoring	Adult Learning Center from Tutor.com - Live help is available from real tutors daily from 2:00 - 10:00PM (some holidays excluded). Users can receive assistance with careers, job searches, writing résumés and cover letters. Help with citizenship exams, school subjects from GED prep to introductory college courses is also available. SkillsCenter Resource Library is open 24/7. In English and Spanish. You may be asked to download Microsoft's Silverlight, a small, safe plug-in. 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.
Law	LexisNexis Library Express - Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. Includes complete coverage of U.S. federal and state courts, U.S. statutory and case law and access to hundreds of law reviews. Also included are the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, IRS bulletins and regulations, and U.S. patents from 1971 forward. (Note: No remote access available for legal information.)
Library Catalog	ALISweb Millennium - Nassau County Public Libraries Online Catalog
Literature	Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the areas of Literature and Biography. Gale Literature Cross-Search - Search Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Twayne's and other Gale literature resources simultaneously. 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 - Includes: 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. Masterplots - Summaries and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of English-language and world literature (long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction) that has been translated into English. Click on 'Remote Access' and use your library card barcode to log in from outside the Library. 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	Academic OneFile - Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, from academic journals. From Gale. Black Newspapers - A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States, via ProQuest. EBSCO A-to-Z - Search for a periodical in EBSCO, Gale's InfoTrac, and ProQuest all at the same time. EBSCO Searchasaurus - Full-text articles for children and young adults. Includes a general encyclopedia. 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 (1851-2007) - 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. LexisNexis Library Express - Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and foreign-language sources. (Note: No remote access available for legal information.) Use this link to access from home. Newsday - Full-text articles, 1985-present. ProQuest National Newspapers - National and regional newspapers available in full-text. Includes titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, 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 & Mathematics	Discovering Collection - Includes reference content for the area of Science and Health. ProQuest Science Journals - Search more than 1000 of the leading periodicals in science and technology. Coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation. Science in Context (Gale) - Coverage of the sciences, technology and mathematics as well as science history and biography. Includes topic overviews, biographies, periodical articles, images, videos and experiments. 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	Adult Learning Center from Tutor.com - Live help is available from real tutors daily from 2:00 - 10:00PM (some holidays excluded). Users can receive assistance with careers, job searches, writing résumés and cover letters. Help with citizenship exams, school subjects from GED prep to introductory college courses is also available. SkillsCenter Resource Library is open 24/7. In English and Spanish. You may be asked to download Microsoft's Silverlight, a small, safe plug-in. 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 Informé - 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.

ONLINE DATABASE AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE LIBRARY

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.

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