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• To access these databases from home, you will need to use the 14 digit barcode on the back of your library card. No dashes or spaces are required. 

• To access NovelNY databases from home, patrons need to use the following: Password: empirelink, Location ID: nysl_li_farming

• To access NovelNy databases from EBSCO patrons need to use the following:  User ID: farmingdalepl, Password: farmingdalepl, Customer ID: s4712564

Art

Oxford Art Online (Oxford)

The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s.

Auto Repair

Auto Repair Reference Center (Ebsco)

Auto Repair Information for domestic and imported Cars. Covers cars manufactured from 1954-Present.

Business

ABI Select (Proquest)

ABI/INFORM Select is a source for acquiring business news. Users can research industry and economic conditions, business tactics, market strategies, and more.

Associations Unlimited (Gale/Cengage)

Includes listings of national, international and U.S. regional state and local associations - their names, addresses, telephone, e-mail addresses, number of members, information on what the association does, publications and other details.

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

The Business and Company Resource Center brings together company profiles, rankings, brand information, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Business Dateline (Proquest)

Business Dateline provides the full text of major news and feature stories from 550 regional business publications from throughout the United States and Canada.

Financial Times (Proquest)

Hoovers (Proquest)

This comprehensive database includes: Company overview, Company history, Officers and board members, Competitors, Products and operations, Auditors, Rankings, Related industry information, Historical financials.

PROMT (Gale/Cengage)

PROMT allows you to search companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete.

Reference USA  (InfoUSA)

Directory Information for US Businesses and Residences, Doctors and Dentists. Annual Reports, 10-Ks and other SEC Information. Canadian Business and Residential. 

Trade and Industrial Journals (Proquest)

Education

Academic OneFile

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.

Career Cruising (Career Cruising)

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!

Learning Express Library (Learning Express Library)

Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life.

Professional Educational Library (Proquest)

ProQuest Professional Education offers a comprehensive research collection of more than 300 magazines and journals for K-12 professional development and continuing education.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica - in library link

Encyclopedia Britannica  - at home link

Comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia with links to Britannica Junior for younger users.

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

World Book Online

World Book is now online. Complete with a dictionary, atlas, timelines, videos and more, students can now find information easily, quickly and on a world of topics.  Topics include people, places, science and mathematics, world religions, plants and animals, history and government, arts, sports and hobbies and much more.

Genealogy

HeritageQuest (Proquest)

HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture.

Health

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale/Cengage)

HWRC and AHM both provide instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.

Health Management (Proquest)

ProQuest Health Management is designed to help researchers studying the field of health administration.

Health Reference Center Academic

Health Reference Center - Academic is a database that provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals and a wide variety of personal health information.

History

Annals of American History Online (Britannica)

Annals of American History covers U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents.      

Daily Life in America (ABC-CLIO) in library link

Daily Life in America (ABC-CLIO) at home link

Daily Life in America covers food and cooking, holidays and festivals, clothing and fashion, housing and furnishings, religion and spirituality, folkways, games and amusements, music and dance, family life, women's history and culture, regional cultures and native American and other ethnic cultures.

Global Reference Center (Britannica)

The Global Reference Center includes encyclopedias for the following cultures:

Spanish-Encyclopedia Juvenil, Japanese- Britannica Online Japan, Korean-Britannica Online Korea, Chinese- Britannica Concise Chinese Encyclopedia, French - Encyclopedia Universalis, and, Spanish - Gran Encyclopedia Planet

Greenwood Daily Life Online (Greenwood)

Daily Life Online covers everyday life and social customs throughout world history. It includes maps, multimedia and more. 

History Reference Center (Ebsco)

The History Reference Center is an online database that covers U.S. and world history from ancient times to present.

U.S.History in Context (Gale/Cengage)

From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

World Data Analyst (Greenwood)

WDA lets users manipulate data in a variety of ways. Users can create tables and charts comparing countries across multiple statistical categories focus on statistics for a single country.

Job Search

Career Cruising (Career Cruising)

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!

Learning Express Library (Learning Express Library)

Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life.

Languages

Literature

Books and Authors (Gale/Cengage)

Gale Books and Authors helps readers find books they are interested in.  The database helps readers match similar authors or similar titles or similar topics/themes to other authors, titles or subjects/themes. 

Litfinder (Gale/Cengage)

Litfinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains more than 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. 

Literature Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Nassau Digital Doorway (Overdrive)

You can now download audiobooks and ebooks from the comfort of your own home! Download, listen, and transfer titles to your compatible MP3 player, iPhone, iPod, or eReader, using your home computer. You will need a valid Farmingdale Public Library card to use this service.

Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.

Novelist  K-8 (EBSCO)

Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.

*Twaynes Authors Series (Gale/Cengage)

Twayne World, US and English Authors each contains the 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.

What Do I Read Next (Gale/Cengage)

What Do I Read Next? includes over 134,300 recommended titles, more than 74,500 plot summaries, and awards information from 568 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Users can search by genre, subject, author, title, and series.

Magazines

General OneFile

General OneFile is an excellent magazine and periodical resource, with more than 11,500 titles - many of which have full-text articles included.

General Reference Center Gold (Gale/Cengage)

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Info Trac OneFile (Gale/Cengage)

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.

Miscellaneous

Community Resource Database of Long Island (CRDLI)

username: Nassau Libraries, password: CRD9812365  

The Community Resource Database of Long Island (CRDLI) 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.

EBSCO A-to-Z Journal Finder (EBSCO)

If you have the name of a journal or magazine, EBSCO A-to-Z lets you find the name of specific database that the magazine or journal is in.

Music

Oxford Music Online (Oxford)

Up to date music information, including biographies. Covers popular music, opera, and jazz. Links to sound archives and illustrations

Newspapers and Current Events

Black News (Current) (Proquest)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers

Infotrac Newsstand (Gale/Cengage)

Search a collection of more then 650 newspapers, both national and international.

General OneFile (Gale/Cengage)

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 more.

*InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Gale/Cengage)

This database includes nearly 100 U.S. national, regional and local newspapers and more than 60 English language foreign newspapers.

*National Newspaper Index (Gale/Cengage)

This online resource offers indexing and abstracts only. Full text is NOT available for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post.

National Newspapers Premier (Gale/Cengage)

Proquest's National Newspaper Premier includes the following national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today, The Denver Post, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Sacramento Bee, San Antonio Express-News, The San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Petersburg Times.

Newsday (Proquest)

Patrons can find full-text articles from Long Island's own Newsday from 1985 to the present.

*New York State Newspapers (Gale/Cengage)

Search this database of 28 newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

NY Times Historical (Proquest)

This database offers the New York Times in full-text from 1851 to 2001. It offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Reference Resources

Biography in Context (Gale/Cengage)

Biographies in the areas of literature, science, business, entertainment, history, current events and the arts.

Credo Reference

Credo's collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale/Cengage)

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials are accessible online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Legal Forms (Gale/Cengage)

Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.

Proquest Research Library (Proquest)

From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects.

Spanish Reference Center 

Spanish Reference Center is a reference collection of material for users from ages 6-12 through college. Spanish Reference Center includes over 47,000 encyclopedia articles plus 9,100 images, maps, and tables.

Webster's Dictionary Online (Brittanica)

This is the online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged. 

Science and Technology

Proquest Computing Journals (Proquest)

The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management.

Proquest Science Journals (Proquest)

When students, educators and researchers tap into this resource's data from an Internet-connected computer, they have instant access to more than 2.5 million full-text articles on hundreds of topics, the power to share them and the tools they need to help interpret and analyze the answers.

Student Resources

African American Experience (ABC-CLIO) in library link

African American Experience (ABC-CLIO) at home link

The African American Experience from Greenwood offers a very comprehensive collection of research on African American life. Included in the database are audio clips (interviews from former slaves), links to vetted websites, lesson plans and teacher materials, and hundreds of maps and images.

Kids Infobits (Gale/Cengage)

This database is meant for students from Kindergarten through Grade 5. Kids Infobits contains information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kids Search (EBSCO)

Latino American Experience (ABC-CLIO) in library link

Latino American Experience (ABC-CLIO) at home link

The Latino American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.

Live Librarian (Live Librarian)

Have a question? Need to know... Who? What? Where? When? or Why? Ask a Librarian. Professional Librarians are now available online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer your questions using special chat software on the Internet.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale/Cengage)

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Pop Culture Universe (ABC-CLIO) in library link

Pop Culture Universe (ABC-CLIO) at home link

OMG!  An authoritative, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present.

*Primary Search (EBSCO)

Primary Search contains full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines.

Tutor Help (Tutor.com)

Tutor.com allow students to connect one on one with a tutor. Students can ask a live tutor question and the tutor will help the student arrive at an answer. Tutors are available for Math, Science, Social Studies and English all the way from 4^th grade through 12^th grade.

World Cultures (Greenwood)

Daily Life Online moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture.