Online Resources
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211 Long Island
Suffolk Collection: Profiles of more than 11,000 community services and resources available in the Long Island area |
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ABMS Directory, The Official
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) provides quick and easy access to professional information about board certified physicians in more than 50 specialties and more than 100 subspecialties. |
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Academic One File
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Over 12,000 journals and reference sources, many of which are peer-reviewed with full text. |
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America the Beautiful
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password State by state histories, maps, and current events for primary school students. |
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AncestryPlus
HPL Collection: In-library use only Comprehensive genealogical source for pursuing family history research. |
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AtoZtheUSA
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Web-based encyclopedia with detailed information for 56 U.S. states and territories. Includes hard-to-find public domain data. |
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Car repair information |
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Biography Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password More than 450,000 full-text biographies. |
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BookFlix
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number This online literacy resource pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. |
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Business Insights
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Provides access to a variety of global business information: competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, and company histories. |
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Career Cruising
Suffolk Collection: Learn about careers that suit your interests. Find out where to get the education to start your career. Strengthen your job search skills and find job postings. Test your career awareness. (Username & password are not required to access this site.) |
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Children's Literature Comprehensive Database is an ever growing online database with over 400,000 reviews, MARC records and related information about children’s literature. |
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College Source
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Profiles college catalogs in full, original page format for 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. |
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Computer Source
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in technology |
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Consumer Reports Buying Guide
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Annual summary information from the monthly Consumer Reports magazines |
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Consumer Reports Magazine
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Full text access to Consumer Reports magazine |
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Credo Reference
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password A great place to start your research. Find encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions. |
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CultureGrams
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Provides information about the cultures of 200+ countries and the 50 United States in fun reports that include maps, statistics, in-depth information, fun facts and more. |
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Cypress Resume
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Create professional-quality resumes in three quick and simple steps with this online resume builder. |
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EBSCOhost Español
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Research resources in Spanish |
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Encyclopedia Americana
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Grolier Online's Encyclopedia Americana |
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ERIC
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. |
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Financial Ratings Series Online
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password A single source for financial strength ratings (combining strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings) and financial planning tools covering banks, insurers, mutual funds and stocks. |
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Fold3 (formerly Footnote)
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Provides history and genealogy archives with social networking and interactive features |
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Foundation Center Grant to Individuals
HPL Collection: In-library use only: Ask librarian for assistance (Main Library only) Provides sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support. |
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Foundation Directory Online Professional
HPL Collection: In-library use only: Ask librarian for assistance (Main Library only) Online source for funding research |
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Funk and Wagnalls
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password 25,000 articles covering a variety of subject areas |
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General OneFile
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Contains magazines, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources |
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Global Road Warrior
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Regularly updated travel and professional information, high-resolution maps, and culture reports. 175 countries. Great reference for business travelers. |
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Greenfile
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
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Grolier Online Kids
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password A kid friendly place to search four major encyclopedias |
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Grolier Online Passport
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password For older students and adults. Searches four encyclopedias at once: Encyclopedia Americana, Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge and America the Beautiful. |
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Health Reference Center Academic
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Includes over 2,800 journals and magazines, many full text. Contains nursing and allied health journals, as well as other medical and consumer health magazines. |
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HeritageQuest
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History book collection. |
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History Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Comprehensive, full text, history reference database designed for secondary schools and undergraduate research. Features full text for 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books. |
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Home Improvement Reference Center
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Online tool for home improvement assistance: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. |
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Job & Career Accelerator
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Step-by-step job search assistance from researching occupations to viewing and applying to jobs. |
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Kids' Search
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Search by keyword or topic. |
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Law Depot
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Unlimited access to thousands of legal forms across all categories, including Real Estate, Business, Human Resources, Family, and more. |
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Learning Express Library
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests, that help improve scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. |
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LexisNexis Library Express
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Contains more than 9000 news, business, legal, and other sources; up-to-date industry reports; foreign news; US federal and state court coverage. Note: The LexisNexis legal resources component is only available from inside the library. |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password professional librarian collection |
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Literary Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. Specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. |
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Literature Resource Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Information on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around the world. |
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Live Study Help (Brainfuse)
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number Homework Help, Skills-Building, 24-Hour Writing Lab, 24/7 Homework Question Center, Adult Learning Center, Foreign Language Center, Spanish-Speaking Support |
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Mango Languages
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number Learn Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Greek, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish with this revolutionary language learning program. |
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Masterfile Premier
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. |
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MEDLINE
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Scholarly medical journal articles |
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Middle Search
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Contains 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. |
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Mitchell 1
HPL Collection: In-library use only Note: Use only with Internet Explorer browser. This is a premier information source for automobile repairs, estimating, TSB’s, etc. |
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Morningstar Investment Research Center
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Comprehensive data and analysis of 11,000+ companies & 24,000 mutual funds. Unbiased Morningstar guidance, such as the popular Star Rating. Screen for stocks, funds, and ETFs, and learn about retirement savings, college planning, and more. |
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Muzzy Online
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Award-winning language program, hailed by kids, parents and teachers, provides a comprehensive, interactive and fun way to learn a second language: Spanish, French, English, German and Italian |
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National Newspapers (InfoTrac Newstand)
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Full-text newspaper database allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Search thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers. Select screen appearance, search options and results format. |
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National Newspapers Index
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password National Newspaper Index provides indexing to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. |
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New Book of Knowledge
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password From Scholastic, Inc. |
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New York Amsterdam News
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password New York Amsterdam News became one of the nation’s leading black newspapers and one of New York’s most influential black-owned institutions. |
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New York State Newspapers
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Newspapers from the cities of Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse, plus the New York Observer, the New York Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News, back to 1980. |
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New York Times 1995+
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Find full text from 1995 to the present of the New York Times. To search the New York Times Book Review and/or New York Times Magazine please select New York State Papers found above. |
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New York Times Historical 1851-2009
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password The entire historical run of The New York Times from 1851-2009. Each article is in PDF format and includes images. Find obituaries and death notices back to 1851. |
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Newsday
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Full text articles from Newsday back to 1985. |
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Newsday Historical 1940-1984
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password This historical newspaper database covers 1940 - 1984. |
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Newsday Microfilm Online (Proquest Digital Microfilm) - Suffolk Edition
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Newsday microfilm in digital format (2010 & forward). Full-image newspaper content. Easy to browse and skip through “reels.” User can view enhanced high resolution grayscale images, scroll, zoom, crop, print, save, and email images. |
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Novelist Plus
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Reader's advisory service that helps readers find fiction books to read, based on books they have already read or by searching for topics of personal interest. |
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Novelist Plus K-8
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Fiction and nonfiction readers’ advisory for children and young adults. |
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Novels for Students
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Provides literary and historical background of 15 to 20 novels from various cultures and time periods. Concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story’s cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number A virtual library of resources to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues. |
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Philanthropy In/Sight
HPL Collection: In-library use only: Ask librarian for assistance (Main Library only) Combines Foundation Center’s data on grantmakers and their grants with Google maps to tell the story of philanthropy. Create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships. Overlay grant data with 150+ demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create compelling visual portraits, showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs. |
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Points of View
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview , point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). |
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Primary Search
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research. |
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RealQuest
HPL Collection: In-library use only: Ask librarian for assistance Comprehensive Suffolk County real estate information, including property profiles, sales comparables, transaction history and street maps. |
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Reference USA
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Contains detailed information on US and Canadian Businesses, US and Canadian Households, plus US Physicians and Dentists. |
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Salem Health
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Up-to-date, authoritative medical information, including conditions, diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialities, anatomy, and other issues. |
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Sanborn Maps
HPL Collection: In-library use only Sanborn Maps (New York State only) were created to assist fire insurance companies in assessing property risk. Maps list street blocks and building numbers from 1867-1970. This is a useful tool for researching property history. |
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Science Online
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Science Online presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. |
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Science Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Access science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and more. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, and more. |
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Searchasaurus
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Resources for primary through middle school students. Includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, magazine articles and encyclopedia of animals. Searchasaurus is visual, fun and colorful. |
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Something About the Author
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Examine the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. |
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Student Research Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Search databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit searches according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
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Suffolk e-Magazines
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Looking for specific Magazine and journals? Suffolk e-Magazines lists all the magazine and journals that are available through county wide subscriptions. |
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Suffolk Historic Newspapers
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Newspapers with obituaries covering nearly 100 years of Suffolk County history. |
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Teacher Reference Center
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Magazine articles for teachers and librarians. |
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TrueFlix
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Engaging subject-area content in science and social studies for students in grades 3-5. Helps your child hone literacy skills, bolster their understanding of crucial subjects, and enhance their ability to organize and assemble information—for class reports, exams, and assignments. |
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Twayne's Author Series
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Information about authors and their works for high school students. |
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U.S./Intl. Major Newspapers
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password A full text collection of over 250 regional, national and international newspapers. |
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Value Line
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number The gold standard in independent investment research. Published weekly. Tracks approximately 1,700 stocks in over 90 industries and ranks those stocks in timeliness and safety. |
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WestLaw
HPL Collection: In-library use only Westlaw's New York Primary Law Library provides access to a variety of legal resources including New York cases, McKinney's annotated statutes and New York court rules, as well as U.S. Supreme Court cases, Second Circuit and New York Federal District Court cases, the U.S.C.A. and other items of importance and use to attorneys, students and anyone with an interest in the U.S. legal system. |
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Winway
HPL Collection: In-library use only: Ask librarian for assistance Resume writing software. Ask a librarian at the Main Library or Station Branch. |
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World Book Encyclopedia Online Reference Center
HPL Collection: Remote access with library card number Includes the complete World Book Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, Web Links, Magazines, Historical Documents and more. |
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World Vital Records
Suffolk Collection: Remote access with library card number & password Birth, marriage, death, military, census, and parish records online. |
