Search over 11,000 health, human services and educational resources on Long Island.

ABCmouse is designed to help young children (ages 2 – 8+) build a strong foundation for future academic success with more than 10,000 fun learning activities in reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music. More than 1,200 activities are offered in Spanish.

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Updated daily.

Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.

*Must access through Internet Explorer Browser* Covers wiring diagrams, trouble code diagnostics, recommended service intervals, cost of parts & labor, a component locator, technical service bulletins, and specifications. (Please be aware this site only works properly with Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox web browsers, it will not work in Google’s Chrome browser.)

This authoritative reference tool provides certification status and professional information about board certified physicians from the 24 Member Boards.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1857 – 1922

The American Physical Society (APS) has given readers and researchers in public libraries in the United States full use of all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to the first issue in 1893, a collection including over 400,000 scientific research papers.

With over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, AncestryPlus is the most comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available.

This database contains do-it-yourself repair and maintenance information on thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. Content has been provided by MOTOR Information Systems.

Find in-depth, original profiles of current biographies with full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.

Book Index with Reviews™ (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.

Access to adult learning services including GED prep, 24/7 writing lab, live tutoring, career resources, U.S. citizenship prep, MS Office Essential Skills Series, and more.

CollegeNow equips patrons with the tools and knowledge to excel in admissions interviews, boosting their confidence and increasing their chances of securing a coveted spot at their dream colleges.

Access to live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests. Also includes a 24-hour online writing lab and Homework Question Center.

Live, anytime, anywhere job assistance, including up-to-date nation-wide and local job search engines, professional resume critique and proven interview techniques. Experience personalized career center seamlessly integrated with advanced virtual technology to help job seekers of diverse backgrounds and needs.

Connect with an expert to learn more about eligible VA benefits and community resources.

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

Accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish.  Available at two levels—primary and secondary.

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

Includes company profiles, industry reports and financial reports, as well as business magazines and newspapers.

Updated daily, this source presents full text for periodicals related to all areas of business.

Learn more about yourself and careers that suit your interests. Search for careers and find out what they are really like. Find out where to get the education you need to start your career. Search jobs by zip code.

Features reviews of several thousand children’s books. Helps teachers, librarians, childcare providers, and parents make appropriate choices for children. At their page click on “Subscriber Login” to access database.

Questions about careers, education, financial aid or the job search? Looking to start the self-assessment process? Begin here!

Questions about careers, education, financial aid or the job search? Looking to start the self-assessment process? Begin here!

Borrow test prep materials in easy downloadable eBooks.

Online Text Version. Full text access to the 2018 Car Issue of Consumer Reports.

ConsumerReports.org offers buying advice, products ratings, product reviews, recommendations and money-saving advice and tips.

CultureGrams editors have added over 100 new videos! Watch traditional musicians in Ethiopia, kids gathering water in CAR, and a wedding procession in Cameroon, among many others!

The Data Axle Reference Solutions database (formerly ReferenceUSA) contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents.

Searching for a magazine or journal article in a database?  Start here with this A to Z list.

New York State specific information and permit practice tests for: 11 car practice tests, 8 motorcycle practice tests, 3 CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) practice tests, 3 online driver’s manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL)

Access information from education-related journals. Many are full text.

Includes the following databases: ERIC, History Reference Center, Teacher Reference Center, MasterFile Elite, Literacy Reference Center, Student Reference Center, GrennFile, Topic Overviews 6-12

Browse historical military records.

Provides resources covering all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. Resources include sample business plans, e-books and content from over 300 business journals and magazines.

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Gale Small Business Builder is a tool that provides step-by-step guidance on planning, starting, and running a small business or nonprofit. Entrepreneurs can create entrepreneur profiles, assess business ideation, perform break-even analysis, and create business plans and financial projects.

The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directories. Use it to search, sort and export a variety of information such as financial information for companies, membership figures for associations, education- related financial aid and scholarships, and much more.

Contains over 550 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts and graphs.

Contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.

Contains a range of perspectives on many important issues, with over 21,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.

Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.

Resource for educators and education students.  Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.

Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.

This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

General-interest sources include magazines, children’s magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books and more.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

Presents Federal Census records plus searchable family histories.

Search for historical information from reference books, encyclopedias, and historical magazines.

The Home Improvement Center database contains straightforward explanations and instructions and clear photos for all of the following categories: electrical, plumbing, home maintenance, woodworking, outdoor projects, remodeling and redecorating. It also includes how-to-videos, glossaries of terms and conversion tables for all kinds of measuring.

Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.

Provides full-text access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Fill in online and print out ready to use legal forms for free.

Prepare for academic, civil service, military, and career tests by practicing online; obtain scoring and maintain a record of completed work. This database also features tutorials for using the Internet, operating systems for Mac or Windows computers and popular software like Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals.

LinkedIn Learning is an online video-tutorial library featuring thousands of instructional and professional development tutorials. Online video tutorials will help you learn software, creative, and business skills.

Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 159,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), 450 literary journals, more than 632,000 book reviews, more than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,600 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.

Updated daily, it provides full text for many publications covering virtually every subject area.

This version of the medical information website run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health utilizes the Ebscohost search interface and allows you to search Medline simultaneously with other Ebsco databases.

Furnishes authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and a host of other health related fields as provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Proporciona información médica autorizada sobre medicina, enfermería, odontología, medicina veterinaria, el sistema de atención de la salud, ciencias preclínicas y una multitud de otros campos relacionados con la salud a lo dispuesto por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de EE.UU. y los Institutos Nacionales de Salud.

Mergent Intellect provides comprehensive up-to-date information for over 260 million US and international companies, contact information on over 250 million consumers, demographic information including census data by zip code, job search capabilities, and news and industry reports.

Provides access to thousands of databases—including birth, death, military, census, and parish records- which makes it easier to fill in the missing information in your family tree.

Access more than 500 pictures that you can freely download for educational use. 200 National Geographic Kids books. Full issues of National Geographic Kids magazine, from 2009 to the present (3 month embargo.)

Provides access to the indexing of the following newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

New York Amsterdam News 1922-1993. The New York Amsterdam News became one of the nation’s leading black newspapers and one of New York’s most influential black-owned institutions. It is a great resource for both news and genealogy.

A subset of Gale OneFile: News, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.

Here you will find profiles of all licensed doctors of medicine and osteopathy who are registered to practice medicine in New York State.
The doctor’s medical education, translational services and legal actions taken against the doctor are available.

Access to full text articles from 1851 through 2014.

Access to full text articles from 1980 through today.

Access to local and Long Island regional news stories and articles covering 1940 – 1989.

Access to local and Long Island regional news stories and articles covering 1985 – current.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and International newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Discover fiction titles that are popular with young readers, as well as titles to use in the classroom. Search by theme, topic or similar book.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.

Read online or download more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines from 150 countries (popular titles include The Guardian, Newsweek, Der Tagesspiegel, El Razon, and China Daily) and in more than 60 languages.

No limits on downloads. They’re yours to keep forever.

Learn 80 different languages and ESL classes for 50 non-English languages.

Proquest/US Newsstream provides access to local, regional, and national newspapers (1980-current). Includes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.

30 languages; 50 hours of instruction; core reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills lessons; grammar and vocabulary activities; and more.

This curriculum-oriented resource offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences, Diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions, and biographies are arranged by topic and contain thousands of hyperlinks.

A science database for students that includes encyclopedias, timely articles, informational pamphlets and more.

eBooks, Audio eBooks, Interactive eBooks, and Animated eBooks

Includes repair and maintenance information for ATV’s, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, boats, outdoor power equipment, personal watercraft, snow blowers, snow mobiles, tillers, and other small engines.

Facts and pictures about authors and illustrators of books for young people.

Covers the following: The Corrector, 1822 – 1911; The Long Island Traveler, 1872 – 1898; The Long-Islander, 1839 – 1974; The Mid-Island Mail, 1935 – 1941; Patchogue Advance, 1926 – 1948; Port Jefferson Echo, 1892 – 1931; Sag Harbor Express, 1885 – 1898; South Side Side Signal, 1869 – 1879; Suffolk County News, 1888 – 1953 and 1996 – 2007

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Features a full text collection of regional, national and international newspapers.

Access to full text articles from 1889 through 2000.

Access to full text articles from 1984 through today.

Offers encyclopedia articles on a variety of subjects. Choose between an English or Spanish interface.

La enciclopedia estudiante es organizada de modo que los estudiantes pudieran encontrar la informacion rapidamente y facilmente.