Online Databases - Alphabetical List

Patrons can find books, DVD's, books-on-cassette, books-on-CD, CD-ROM's, audiocassettes and more by using this online catalog. Patrons can reserve materials using the online catalog as well. 

Click on My Account if you want to reserve books using the ALISweb card catalog.    

Patrons can find materials by searching by the authors' last name, title of the item, by subject, by ISBN number or by keywords. 

Alternative Health Module

Available 24 hours a day via the Internet, Health & Wellness Resource Center's Alternate Health Module provides a one stop, full-service resource for alternative and complimentary therapies. It provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines and pamphlets for consumers and health care professionals.

This module displays additional information on alternative topics such as, herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, chiropractic and more. This module is a nice compliment to Health & Wellness Resource Center.

Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. Spanish-language videos are available.

Some of the references included in this module are: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine,

PDR for Herbal Medicines, PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies,

Expanded Commission E Monographs, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information Sourcebook.

Among the many periodicals in this database are: 

America the Beautiful

State-by-state history and current events for elementary and middle schools.

Associations Unlimited

Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Auto Repair Reference Center

Database content includes approximately 26,000 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 150,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 70,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 100,000 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; unlimited remote access and much more. 

New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

This database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.

Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who

Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. Patrons can find biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. The Marquis Who's Who module provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people.

Business & Company ASAP

Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

The Business Searching Interface (BSI) is EBSCO's highly focused user interface created especially for the business searcher. BSI provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research.

The Business Searching Interface was designed to take full advantage of all of the diverse content available in our Business Source Premier, Business Source Premier: Alumni Edition, Business Source Corporate, and Business Source Complete databases - the definitive research tools for business journals and other sources.

The Business Searching Interface is a completely separate user experience from the typical EBSCOhost experience. Since this interface was designed exclusively for the Business Source suite of databases, users should be directed to BSI when they are searching for business information.

Business Source Elite

Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business periodicals ranging from general magazines to trade publications and top management journals. Business Source Elite contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal).

Regional Business News is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Elite. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 50 sources.

This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.

Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), etc. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.

Career Cruising

Career Cruising is a database that lets the user find information on virtually every career that is available. Specifically, the user can find information about careers and find a Job Description, Working Conditions, Earnings, Education, Career Path, find Related Jobs and Other Resources. Interviews with people involved in the job are available as well. 

Career Cruising is an online database with 4 different components. The Career Matchmaker section enables the user to take an interactive survey that helps the user find careers that match his/her interests. The Explore Careers section enables user to view a multimedia interview with real people in every career. In addition, career information is available in this section. The College and University section allows the user to learn about various colleges and universities across the country. You can find out where to get the education you need to start your career in a specific field.  The Helpful Information section includes Resources for Career Advisors and Teachers.

Community Resource Database of Long Island

username: Nassau Libraries

password: CRD9812365

The Community Resource Database of Long Island is a free, online directory of health, human service, and education agencies and programs on Long Island – services for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. 

With detailed information on nearly 12,000 community resources, the CRD provides instant, keyword access to essential information for Long Island individuals and organizations. The CRD is current, with information added and updated on a daily basis. 

What's included in the Community Resource Database of Long Island?

Health services, counseling & substance abuse services, support groups, child care and elder care, education and training programs, food and emergency services, parenting education, housing assistance, disability services, literacy and GED classes, family violence services, financial management assistance, hotlines, volunteer opportunities, houses of worship, schools, camps and youth services, libraries, chambers of commerce, civic and other community organizations. 

Each entry contains detailed information, including:

• Agency - the official name of the organization, 

• Resource/Program - specific programs of each agency, 

• Address - including mailing, E-mail, and homepage addresses, Telephone - includes telephone, fax, hotline, and TTY numbers, 

• Days/Hours - office hours or hours of operation, 

• Purpose - description of services, 

• Eligibility - to whom the services are provided, necessary documentation, special requirements, any limitations to clients served, fees or forms of payment accepted, Languages spoken, Handicapped accessibility, 

• Personnel - usually the agency or program director, Multiple index terms - using the Infoline Taxonomy of Human Services, and the 

• Date of entry/update - currency of information.

Computer Source

Featuring more than 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as computers, robotics, electronics and the Internet, cybernetics, telecommunications, computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, information systems, software and provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Computer Source provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.

Leading general magazines are also provided including: eWeek, Fast Company, MacWorld, PC Magazine, PC World, Red Herring, Software Magazine and more . Many full text titles are available in PDF format and scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Computer Source offers full text journals such as:

Consulta

Contemporary Authors

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

EBSCO A-to-Z Journal Finder

With EBSCO's A-to-Z Journal Finder users can quickly locate and link to journals of interest. Users can search for journals by keyword or browse an alphabetical list by title or subject. 

The master A-to-Z title database provides link and coverage information to more than 100,000 unique titles from nearly 1,000 databases. 

EBSCOHost Espanol

EBSCOhost Web Text Only is designed for users with older browsers and operating systems, and for users who require ADA compliance. EBSCOhost Web Text Only offers functionality comparable to EBSCOhost Web. In addition. EBSCOhost-Text Only does not incorporate images into its interface, is frameless (except when using PDF files), does not require cookies, does not incorporate JavaScript (except for non-essential functions) and is fully ADA-compliant.

This resource serves as a reliable source of eldercare-related information that can be used to empower consumers to make intelligent, informed eldercare decisions. CareScout's (who partnered with EBSCO to create this database) national senior care database is the underlying foundation of EBSCO Eldercare. 

Users can make use of the database’s sophisticated search environment to gain access to proprietary, comprehensive reports to over 90,000 eldercare facilities and services throughout the United States including: 95% of all certified nursing homes (17,000 reports); 45,000 assisted living facilities; 23,000 home health care programs; 3,500 adult day care centers; and 3,000 hospice organizations. All of the included reports are between 3-15 pages in length, and many include ratings & rankings as well as demographic information about the facilities.

ERIC

Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and resources.  ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information & citations & abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text & images available.

Grolier Suite

Grolier Suite is a link to various Grolier Online Databases. You can access the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands & Peoples, & America The Beautiful. 

Encyclopedia Americana

In depth information for students and adults. Users can browse by various subjects, find Editors' Picks for introduction to research topics, websites and articles, use the current events database and find biographies of various individuals.

Grove's Dictionary of Art

Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links are included in the database.

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell, was published simultaneously in print and online as Grove Music Online in January 2001. Grove Music Online began to develop independently immediately; regular revisions and additions to the content began in Spring of 2001 and continue today through an ambitious editorial programme. In addition to the regular programme of revisions and new articles, Grove Music Online has grown to include The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published in print in 1992 and online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2001). Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples.

This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 129 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.

History Resource Center - U.S.

History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

HeritageQuest Online™ combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Patrons can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America , and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. 

Many other distinctive and invaluable sources of information can be found within HeritageQuest Online.  These include Periodical Source Index (PERSI), and much, much more.

History Reference Center

The Image Collection database consists of over 100,000 total images in these categories, broken down as follows 70,000+ photos, 30,000+ images from Canadian Press, 1,200+ maps from MapQuest, 500+ photos from public domain sources.

The images consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places and the natural kingdom.

Infotrac Junior Edition

Info Trac One File

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.

Investext Plus

Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.

Kids Infobits

Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and much more.

Kids Search

Kids Search is a database with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that is both powerful and fun to use. Kids can search by various topics (Animals, Arts & Music, Geography, Health, In the News, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and Sports), use the Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and search for Images/Videos. Teacher Resources are available as well. 

Lands and Peoples

An encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for middle and high schools.

Gale LegalForms is comprehensive in the various types of legal documents made available. Included documents are "attorney forms," officially approved forms actually used at typical law firms and very different from those documents found in form books -- generic, do-it-yourself documents that may not have been drafted by an attorney. Users can choose professionally drafted specialized documents in the following subject areas: Bankruptcy, Bill of Sale, Contracts, Divorce, Employment, Incorporate, LLC, Landlord Tenant, Name Change, Power of Attorney, Real Estate, Taxes, Last Will and Testament, and more

Gale LegalForms also includes a detailed legal definitions section, featuring thousands of definitions prepared by practicing professional attorneys providing comprehensive information well beyond the typical definition format (updated weekly).

LitFinder

LitFinder is an online database that allows the user to find Poems, Stories, Essays, Plays, and speeches.  Users can search by genre, by subject, and by Contemporary Authors' name.  There is a Kids' Korner section as well.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Literature Resource Center includes Scribner and Twayne (US, English and World) Author resources. 

Masterfile Premier

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for more than 1,900 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps & flags.

MasterFILE Premier now offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc. 

Medline

Middle Search

Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. 

Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. Middle Search Plus also includes the Our States reference book series from Great Neck Publishing, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States. 

Examples of magazines contained in Middle Search Plus include: 

Net Library

(1st time users must register at Reference desk at library)

NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week.

New Book of Knowledge

Reference and current events for elementary school and higher. 

New Book of Popular Science

Science and technology, plus science in the news for middle and high schools.

New York Times

The New York Times - full-text from 1851-2003. For recent issues of the New York Times, use this link, Custom Newspapers - NOVEL..

Newsday

Long Island's Newsday - full-text from 1985-current. 

Newsletters ASAP

Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers. Some of the many newsletters in the database include the following: 

Newspaper Source

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star. The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News and more.

Novelist

Use the product's "Find a Favorite Author" feature to locate a list of John Grisham's titles, and then use one of these titles to find more than 200 other legal thrillers for your John Grisham fans with the Find Similar Books feature. 

With the "Describe a Plot" search, you can use natural language to search the product's full-text reviews for "fast-paced" books or books that make good "read aloud" titles for a day-care center. Results lists in NoveList can be sorted multiple ways, including by author, title, publication year, relevance and--one of our new features--by popularity.

Novelist  K-8

NoveList K-8, a fiction database, is aimed at helping younger readers find the books they want to read. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. NoveList K-8 allows users to search by author, title, series, theme or topic. 

With the "Describe a Plot, Topic, or Unit" search, you can use natural language to search the product's full-text reviews for titles of interest. Users can find books that are similar to an author that writes in a specific style.

Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea

A comprehensive encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Welcome to one of the web's best sources for learning about and valuing antiques, collectibles and fine art. The www.prices4antiques.com reference database (p4A) provides this information on hundreds of thousands of items, updated daily. We do not sell or buy any merchandise. All items seen on our site have been sold. We are a completely independent reporting service for appraisers, auctioneers, museums, dealers, collectors and the general public.

Reference USA (Business USA)

Reference USA is a database that contains detailed information on more than 13 million U.S. businesses, 120 million U.S. households, 683,000 U.S. health care providers, 1 million Canadian businesses, and 11 million Canadian residents.

Information is compiled from Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories, annual reports, 10-k's, and other SEC information, federal, state, provincial and municipal government data, Chamber of Commerce information, leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories, and postal service information. 

Salud para Todos

This database is a full text consumer health database written entirely in Spanish. Designed specifically for those seeking information about health and medicine, the content in Salud para Todos includes all articles that appeared in the original Oryx Press print version of Información de Salud para los Consumidores, essays & articles from government and health agencies, articles from Nidus Publishing's Well-Connected series and articles from the Clinical Reference Systems collection. 

The articles contained within the database were selected from over 300 publications and sources created by over 50 research associations and national institutes, with each article associated to one of 48 main categories including substance abuse, cancer, mental health, contraception, infectious diseases and many other key health areas. 

Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Science Reference Center

Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. 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. Science Reference Center also satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

The The Scribner Writers Series includes over 1,550 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives in two, three, or even four essays--a broad bio/critical overview as well as specialized treatments. Each essay includes a concise introductory preface and a biography placing the author's work within a personal and historical framework. The complete contents of the following Scribner Writers Series are included:

EBSCOhost Searchasauraus

Searchasaurus is a database with a graphic interface designed for elementary-to-middle school students. It contains encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, books and more.

Student Research Center

The Student Research Center allows students to search by topic in fields like Arts & Media, English & Language Arts, Business, Careers, Current Issues, Health, History, Math, Science, Social Studies, Sports, and Technology. 

When doing a search, students can narrow down to format like Magazines, Newspapers, Reference Works/Encyclopedias, Biographies, Radio & TV News Transcripts, Country Reports, State/Province Reports, Primary Source Documents, Photos/Maps/Flags and Film and Video.

Student Resource Center - Bronze

A fully integrated database containing thousands of primary documents, topical essays,