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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. Instant access to award winning scholarship in 41,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and further information in  museum and other art-related Web sites.

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Auto Repair

Auto Repair Information for domestic and imported Cars. Covers cars manufactured from 1954-Present. Repair Tips, Troubleshooting, Service Bulletins and Diagrams are included.

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Business

ABI Select (Proquest)

ABI/INFORM Select is a source for acquiring business news and information. ABI/INFORM Select delivers over 510 journals, with more than 400 available in full text. Users can research industry and economic conditions, business tactics, market strategies, and more. Titles include Forbes, Journal of Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, Industry Week, and Strategy & Leadership.

Associations Unlimited (Gale/Cengage)

This database is mostly comprised of the Encyclopedia of Associations, the best source for information on associations and professional societies. 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. This database is continually updated.

*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. The regional perspectives reported in the business press make Business Dateline an excellent source of in-depth business information with a local point of view. Nearly all aspects of regional business activities and trends are covered. Business Dateline emphasizes economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, mergers, acquisitions, business executives, new products, and competitive intelligence.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

This database provides full text coverage for 1,130 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1800 journals and has detailed profiles of top companies.

Hoovers (Proquest)

Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records provides easy access to the most thorough and up-to-date business information available. This comprehensive database gives users the whole picture, including: 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. It includes material from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, new releases and investment and brokerage firm reports.

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)

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Education

Academic OneFile

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. Academic OneFile is very easy for patrons to use. Finally it has transcripts and audio from all NPR (National Public Radio) programs.

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. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

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.

Testing & Education Reference Center  (Gale/Cengage)

Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

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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.

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Genealogy 

HeritageQuest (Proquest)

HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes images of original U.S. Census records.

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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. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Management (Proquest)

ProQuest Health Management is designed to help researchers studying the field of health administration. Content in the database includes a wide range of topics, including: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, public health administration and more. Coverage includes more than 640 key journals with over 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses.

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 from the InfoTrac Health Reference Center.  Health Reference Center - Academic integrates the full text and images of respected nursing journals, medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.  With more than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Health Reference Center Academic ensures that students get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health care questions.

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History

Global Reference Center (Britannica)

The Global Reference Center includes encyclopedia's 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 Planeta

U.S.History Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

History Resource Center - World includes articles from ancient times to the present using many primary documents. 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. Create tables and charts comparing changes over time. Users can also generate tables of countries with the highest or lowest totals, rates, or percentages in several statistical categories, as well as create tables covering the most remarkable features and attributes of different countries and the world.

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Job Search

Languages

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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.  Readers will find whole new worlds of materials to read!!!

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.  Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.  New content is loaded on a quarterly basis.

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. Criticism, biographies and list of works for noted authors are also included.

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.

NoveList Plus is a comprehensive online readers' advisory tool. 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. All of this rich editorial content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field -- making NoveList Plus the premier readers' advisory resource.

Novelist  K-8 (EBSCO)

School media specialists, teachers and parents interested in helping kids locate age-appropriate books in the library will appreciate the features and depth of content contained within NoveList K-8 Plus. 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. Just type in an author, title or key words in the Find box, or browse our database by age group, and you�ll access our rich collection of titles, BookTalks, Recommended Reads book lists and more. Our book jacket images, annotations and first chapter excerpts, as well as tools like Lexile scores and popularity ratings, help you to quickly find that just-right book.

*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. A monthly highlight page lets users see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

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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. The following is a small sample of the features of General OneFile: Full-text of the New York Times to 1995, Financial Times to 1996 and London Times to 1985; Full collection NPR programs with transcripts, Ten years of full text articles from Discover Magazine, More than 20 reference sets and articles can be translated into 8 different languages.

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.

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

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.

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Music

Oxford Music Online (Oxford)

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

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Newspapers & 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. It also includes Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service and Business News Wire, New York Times, the New York Post. 

*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)

This database is an Infotrac product that offers indexing and abstracts only, no full-text for five major national newspapers; the New York Times, including the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

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. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

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Reference Resources

Biography Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

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

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Our collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. 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. The database includes more than 4,070 titles - nearly 2,800 in full text-from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

Spanish Reference Center 

Spanish Reference Center is a reference collection of material for users from ages 6-12 through college. Information in the database can be tailored so the material is age-appropriate content for all users. Spanish Reference Center includes over 47,000 encyclopedia articles plus 9,100 images, maps, and tables.  A dictionary, an atlas and a timeline is also included.

Webster's Dictionary Online (Brittanica)

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

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Science & Technology

Proquest Computing Journals (Proquest)

Proquest Computing Journals delivers vital information directly to your desktop from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management.

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.

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Student Resources

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 - in library link

Latino American Experience - at home link

The Latino American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. The Latino American Experience focuses on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. 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. It's convenient. It's easy. And It's free.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. 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 (Greenwood)

OMG!  An authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present - in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students - without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.

*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. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.

Student Resource Center (Gale/Cengage)

Users can narrow down their search by content type (magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, film & video) will be included with their search. Patrons can search by topic heading, use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, and even limit the search according to appropriate reading level.

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. There's more to history and contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours. Daily Life Online's content is enhanced with new books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and more on a regular cycle. Subscribers will receive two enhancements per year as part of their subscription, with the option to purchase additional modules on an annual basis.

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