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Databases by Subject

In Library use onlyThese databases can only be accessed from within the library.


Accessible from home with your library card These databases can be accessed from home with your library card number.

Enter your Port Washington library card number (without spaces) at the login screen for each database service.

All other links can be accessed from home or the library.

Arts & Collectibles
Grove's Dictionary of Art & Artists In Library use only
Grove's Dictionary of Art & Artists Accessible from home with your library card
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians In Library use only
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians Accessible from home with your library card
Prices For Antiques & Collectibles (P4A) In Library use only

Prices For Antiques & Collectibles ( P4A) Accessible from home with your library card

Biography
Biography Resource Center (Over 1 million historical & current biographies)

Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Citations to locate over 4 million biographies)

Business & Investment

Associations Unlimited (International & national organizations, societies, associations & non-profits)

Business & Company ASAP (Research companies, markets & industries from 1980-present)
Business & Company Resource Center (Company & industry information & news)
Business Source Premier (Full text for over 2,000 business journals and trade publications)

General Business File ASAP (Analyze company performance and industry trends from 1980-present)

Investext Plus (Financial analyst and broker reports from 1982-present)
MergentOnline (Annual reports & SEC filings for US & International firms) In Library use only
MergentOnline Accessible from home with your library card
Morningstar Online (Mutual fund & stock ratings & reports) In Library use only

Predicast PROMT (This" Overview of Markets & Technology" includes company & industry data from 2005-present)
RealQuest (Real estate data provides property details, comparabale sales, etc.) In Library use only
ReferenceUSA (Detailed yellow page directory information for over 12 million US businesses)

Regional Business News (75 local business journals & newspapers from the US)
Valueline (Stock ratings, reports, & opinions, including small-cap edition) In Library use only

Career & Testing

Career Cruising (Career profiles and college information)In Library use only
Career Cruising Accessible from home with your library card
Learning Express Library (SAT,GRE, & GMAT practice exams - Username must be library barcode number)

Testing & Education Reference Center (College & licensing exams including scholarship information)

Community

Associations Unlimited (International & national organizations, societes, associations & non-profits)
Community Resource Database of Long Island (12,000 programs, organizations, services & resources)

RealQuest (Real estate data provides property details, comparabale sales, etc.) In Library use only

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Bacon's Directories (Identify print & broadcast media contacts & information) In Library use only

Britannica Online In Library use only
Britannica Online Accessible from home with your library card
Credo Reference (Search full-text reference books & image files)

Discovering Collection (Research subjects in history, literature, science, and social studies)
Ebsco Animals
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Search the full text of popular reference e-books)

Grove's Dictionary of Art & Artists In Library use only
Grove's Dictionary of Art & Artists Accessible from home with your library card
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians In Library use only
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians Accessible from home with your library card

Topic Search (Over 139,000 articles on current event topics)
World Book Encyclopedia In Library use only
World Book Encyclopedia Accessible from home with your library card

Education

Career Cruising (Career profiles and college information)In Library use only
Career Cruising Accessible from home with your library card

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center Index & related resources)

Learning Express Library (SAT,GRE, & GMAT practice exams - Username must be library barcode number)

Testing & Education Reference Center (College & licensing exams including scholarship information)

Genealogy
Ancestry Library (1790-1930 Census data, passenger lists, birth, death, & marriage records)In Library use only
HeritageQuest (1790-1930 Census data, books and articles)In Library use only
HeritageQuest Accessible from home with your library card


Health and Medicine
Alt-HealthWatch (Books, pamphlets, and articles from 1990-present on alternative medicine)
Health Source Consumer Edition (Search 80 full text consumer health magazines & resources)

Health & Wellness Resource Center & Alternative Health Module (Books, news, pamphlets from 1980-present)
Health Reference Center Academic (Professional nursing and medical journals from 1980-present)
MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine Index of biomeidcal journals & resources)
ReferenceUSA (Health Care Database provide information on physicians and dentists)
Salud para Todos (Spanish consumer health and medical information from 300 publications)
Teen Health & Wellness (Self help resources on medicine, nutrition, mental health & fintness)

History

History Resource Center US (Historical primary documents, articles, and books from pre-colonial times-present)

Student Research Center (Students in grades 6-12 can search magazines, newspapers, videos, & books)
Student Resource Center (Students in grades 6-12 can search reference works, magazines & primary sources)

 

Law &  Tax

CCH Tax Research Network (Federal & state tax cases and rulings) In Library use only
Gale Legal Forms (National and state forms for wills, real estate, contracts, divorce, etc.)

LoisLaw (Federal & state case law, statutes, acts, rules & public records) In Library use only

Literature & Criticism
Books Index with Reviews (Information & reviews on 3 million book titles including audiobooks and large type)

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (50,000 full-text poems,citations and author biographies)In Library use only
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Accessible from home with your library card
Literature Resource Center (Literary criticism, reviews,& biographical information on 130,000 writers worldwide)
LitFinder (Information on poems, short stories, essays, speeches & plays)

MagillOnLiterature Plus (Plot summaries, literary criticism, & author biographies)

Novelist (Fiction reader's advisory service provides reviews and helps you find similar titles)
Novelist K-8 (Elementary school fiction reader's advisory service with reviews & "what to read next")
NetLibrary (First Time User) (Search ebooks and download e-audiobooks)
NetLibrary (Account Holder)
Scribner Writer Series (Critical essays for 2,000 significant authors worldwide)
Twayne Author Series (Critical essays & biographies for 600 authors worldwide)

Magazines & Newspapers
Ebsco (Select and search multiple databases simultaneously)

Ebsco A to Z (Find which online database will provide full-text articles)

Ebscohost Text Only

Electric Library (Search books, serials, transcripts, pictures, maps & videos) In Library use only
Electric Library Accessible from home with your library card

Full Text Sources Online (Find which online database will provide full-text articles) In Library use only
Gale (Select and search multiple databases simultaneously)
General Reference Center Gold (Search general interest books, magazines & newspapers from 1980-present)
Infotrac OneFile (Newspaper & periodical articles on a wide range of topics from 1980-present)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Index for 600 library publications from 1960-present)
MasterFILE Premier (Search books, articles, biographies, photos, maps, & flags from 1975-present)

Newsletters ASAP(Search 400 business & industry newsletters from 2003-present)

Predicast PROMT (This" Overview of Markets & Technology" includes company & industry data from 2005-present)
Proquest (Includes Newsday 1985-present, Wall Street Journal 1989-present, & NY Times 2004-present)
Topic Search (Over 139,000 articles on current event topics)

Newspapers
Custom Newspapers (Search 650 international & national newspapers)
Historical New York Times (Full text coverage from 1851-2004) In Library use only

Historical New York Times (1851-2004) Accessible from home with your library card
National Newspaper Index (Index & abstracts for NYT, WSJ, LAT,CSM,& WP from 1977-present)
Newspaper Source (International, national, regional newspapers, radio & tv transcripts)
New York State Newspapers (Search 28 newspapers including the NY Post)

Proquest (Includes Newsday 1985-present, Wall Street Journal 1989-present, & NY Times 2004-present)

Regional Business News (75 local business journals & newspapers from the US)

Photographs & Images
AP Photo Archive (Search Associated Press photographs from 1840-present) In Library use only
AP Photo Archive Accessible from home with your library card
Ebsco Image Collection

Science & Technology

Computer Source (Search 300 full text technology publications for trends & information)

General Science Collection (Search 60 popular science publications from 1992-present)
Science Reference Center (Search encyclopedias, reference books, & periodicals)

Spanish Language Resources

Consulta (Biographies, maps, dictionaries, & literature resources)
EbscoHost (Articles can be translated into Spanish, French, German, etc.)
EbscoHost Espanol (Magazine, newspaper, health, science & business resources)
Informe (Articles from Hispanic magazines in Spanish & English from 1994-present)
Salud para Todos (Spanish consumer health and medical information from 300 publications)

Student  Resources

Credo Reference (Search full-text reference books & image files)

Discovering Collection (Research subjects in history, literature, science, and social studies)
elibrary Elementary (K-6 students can search newspapers, magazines, books, maps,etc.) In Library use only
elibrary Elementary Accessible from home with your library card

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Search the full text of popular reference e-books)
Infotrac Junior Edition (Middle & junior high school students can search magazines & newspapers)

Kid's Infobits (K-5 students can search books, magazines & newspapers)
Kid's Search (K-8 students can search books, magazines & newspapers)
Live Homework Help (Tutor.com - Service available from 3-9 PM daily)

Middle Search Plus (Middle & junior high students can search magazines & other resources)

Novelist K-8 (Elementary school fiction reader's advisory service with reviews & "what to read next")
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Current event overviews & opinions)
Points of View (Current event overviews & opinions)
Primary Search (K-6 students can search magazine articles, maps,& flags from 1990-present)
Searchasaurus (K-8 students can search articles, books, biograpahies & more)

Student Research Center (Students in grades 6-12 can search magazines, newspapers, videos, & books)
Student Resource Center (Students in grades 6-12 can search reference works, magazines & primary sources)
Teen Health & Wellness (Self help resources on medicine, nutrition, mental health & fintness)

Topic Search (Over 139,000 articles on current event topics)

Telephone Directories
ReferenceUSA (Residential, business, health care & Canadian listings)

Reference Room Use Only (See Librarian for Login Information)In Library use only
Ancestry Library (1790-1930 Census data, passenger lists, birth, death, & marriage records)

Bacon's Directories (Identify print & broadcast media contacts & information)

CCH Tax Research (Federal & state tax cases and rulings)

Full Text Sources Online (Find which online database will provide full-text articles)
Loislaw (Federal & state case law, statutes, acts, rules & public records)

Morningstar (Mutual fund & stock ratings & reports)

RealQuest (Real estate data provides property details, comparabale sales, etc.)

Valueline (Stock ratings, reports, & opinions, including small-cap edition)


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