Port Washington Public Library

Database Subject Guide - Text Only

Animals | Associations | Art | Biography | Business & Company | Career | Consumer | Electronic Books | Encyclopedias | Foreign Language | Genealogoy | Health | Law | Library Catalog | Literature | Magazines & Newspapers | Newspapers | Music | Poetry | Photographs & Images | Primary Sources | Reader's Advisory | Short Stories | Social Issues | Spanish Resources | Student Resources | Tax | Telephone Directories | TV & Radio Trasnscripts | Test Preparation |

Please enter your full Port Washington library card number (without spaces) at the login screen for each database service. Each service offers access to specific subject database titles. The following links may not go directly to the database that you request. In some cases, you must select the appropriate database from a list provided by the vendor on the opening page.

Please note that some databases can only be accessed from the library's Reference Room, and are for in library use.

Animals
Ebsco Animals (EbscoHost)

Associations
Associations Unlimited (Galenet)

Art
Grove's Dictionary of Art (Link from Library)
Grove's Dictionary of Art (Link from Home)

Biography
Biography Resource Center (Galenet)
Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Galenet)

Business & Company
Business & Company Resource Center (Galenet / NOVEL)
Business Source Elite (EbscoHost)
General Business File ASAP (Galenet)
MergentOnline (Link from Library)
MergentOnline (Link from Home)
Morningstar Online (Library Use Only)
ReferenceUSA (Business Database)

Career
Career Cruising
Learning Express Library

Consumer
Community Resource Database of Long Island (Library Use Only)

Electronic Books
NetLibrary (Please Register first at the Reference Desk)

Encyclopedias
Britannica Online (Link from Library) 
Britannica Online (Link from Home)
Columbia Encyclopedia (Electric Library-Link from Library)
Columbia Encyclopedia (Electric Library-Link from Home)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EbscoHost)
World Book Encyclopedia (Electric Library-Link from Library)
World Book Encyclopedia (Electric Library-Link from Home)

Foreign Language
EbscoHost (Articles can be translated into Spanish, French and German)
(See also Spanish Language Resources below)

Genealogy
Ancestry Plus ( Galenet)
HeritageQuest (Link from Library)
HeritageQuest (Link From Home)

Health
Alt-HealthWatch (EbscoHost)
Health Source Consumer Edition (EbscoHost)
Health Reference Center Academic (NOVEL)
Informe (Galenet / NOVEL) - Spanish Version)
ReferenceUSA (Health Care Database-Physicians and Dentists)
Salud para Todos ( EbscoHost - Spanish Version)

Law
LoisLaw (Library Use Only)

Library Catalog
ALIS Web
Long Island Union List of Serials
Net Journal Finder (Library Use Only)

Literature
Books In Print with Reviews (EbscoHost)
Literature Resource Center (Galenet)
LitFinder
Novelist (EbscoHost)
Novelist K-8 (EbscoHost)
Monarch Notes (Electric Library-Link from Library)
Monarch Notes (Electric Library-Link from Home)
NetLibrary (Please Register first at the Reference Desk)
PoemFinder (LitFinder)
StoryFinder (LitFinder)
Student Resource Center (Galenet)
Twayne Author Series (NOVEL)

Magazines & Newspapers
Electric Library (Link from Library)
Electric Library (Link from Home)
General Reference Center Gold (Galenet)
Infotrac OneFile (Galenet)
MasterFILE Premier (EbscoHost)
Proquest

Newspapers
Custom Newspapers (NOVEL)
National Newspaper Index (NOVEL)
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost)
New York State Newspapers (NOVEL)
Proquest

Music
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Link from Library)
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Link from Home)

Poetry
Columbia Granger'sWorld of Poetry (Link from Library)
Columbia Granger'sWorld of Poetry ( Link from Home)
PoemFinder (LitFinder)

Photographs & Images
AP Photo Archive (Link from Library)
AP Photo Archive (Link from Home-Username & Password are the first five digits of your library card number)
Galenet (Google Image Search)
Image Collection (EbscoHost)
Pictures File (Electric Library-Link from Library)
Pictures File (Electric Library-Link from Home)

Photographs & Images
Student Resource Center (Galenet)

Readers' Advisory
Novelist (EbscoHost)
Novelist K-8 (EbscoHost)   

Short Stories
StoryFinder (LitFinder)

Social Issues
Opposing Viewpoints (Galenet)

Spanish Language Resources
EbscoHost (Articles can be translated into Spanish, French and German)
EbscoHost Espanol
Informe (Galenet / NOVEL)
Salud para Todos ( EbscoHost - Health)

Student Resources
elibrary Elementary (Link from Library)
elibrary Elementary (Link from Home)
Infotrac Junior & Kid's Edition (Galenet / NOVEL)
Primary Search (EbscoHost)
Searchasaurus (EbscoHost)
Student Resource Center (Galenet)

Tax Research
CCH Tax Research Network (Library Use Only)

Telephone Directories
ReferenceUSA ( Residential, Business & Health Care)

Television & Radio Transcripts
TV & Radio Transcripts (Electric Library-Link from Library)
TV & Radio Transcripts (Electric Library-Link from Home)
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost)

Test Preparation
Learning Express Library

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