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Agriculture
Gale OneFile: Agriculture (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection is comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
Art, Music, and Culture
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Business and Finance
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory (Gale Cengage Learning)
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With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.
Business Insights: Essentials (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find hundreds of full text subject-appropriate periodicals.
Gale OneFile: Business
Home and Library Use
A comprehensive collection of business, trade and international publications.
Cooking
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
COVID-19 Educational Resources
COVID-19 Resources for Individuals and Families
Home and Library Use
Benefits.gov/Help Center
Home and Library Use
Help for homeowners and renters during the coronavirus national emergency
Home and Library Use
Nassau County COVID-19 Information
Home and Library Use
New York State Information on Novel Coronavirus
Home and Library Use
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) CDC
Home and Library Use
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
Home and Library Use
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Britannica Academic Edition
Home and Library Use
- World Atlas: Search thousands of maps, flags, articles and statistics in this interactive World Atlas.
- Compare Countries: A unique geography tool that gives you quick facts and statistics on any two countries side-by-side.
- World Data Analyst: Comprehensive statistics on every nation of the world. Perform statistical comparisons between countries or explore changes over time.
Education and Careers
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Finding the right career can be a daunting and high stakes task: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career are all topics covered by this collection. Offering content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Both researcher and practitioner alike will find relevant, authoritative content in this collection, which includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine.
Gale OneFile: Information Science (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection, comprised of content from more than 100 leading industry journals, provides current and accurate information for this fast-moving field. Information professionals and other knowledge workers – from the research specialist to the information architect.
Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete
Home and Library Use
Provides access to academic journals, reports, and premier educational reference sources including the following subjects: administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.
JobNow (brainfuse)
Home and Library Use
JobNow, powered by Brainfuse, provides live interactive online help combined with online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job. Note: You must create a username and password to submit resumes.
JobZone – New York State
Home and Library Use
Local career and employment information from the New York State Department of Labor.
The Mailbox
Home and Library Use
A classroom and activity resource packed with more than 52K engaging ideas, activities, and worksheets for the elementary set. Topics include arts and crafts, classroom management, cross-curricular, fine/gross motor, language arts/literacy, literature, math, phonics, reading, science, social studies, and writing.
Tutor.com
Home and Library Use
Provides help with math, science, social studies or English on a kindergarten through college level.
Genealogy
Ancestry Library Edition
Library Use
Has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Daughters of the American Revolution; The Great Migration /Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630; Social Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and more, updated continually.
Data, unique books and records, and an informative comprehensive periodical index for genealogy enthusiasts at every level. U.S. Federal Censuses with original images of federal census from 1790 through 1930. Electronic access to the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant application files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, PERSI—The Periodical Source Index, and LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set.
General Research
Gale Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage Learning)
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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.
Gale Academic: OneFile Select (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers – many with full text and images!
Novelist
Home and Library Use
A readers’ advisory database with full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles. Searches can be made for children’s, young adult and adult levels.
Health
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference Center
Home and Library Use
Includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.
History
Gale OneFile: U.S. History (Gale Cengage Learning)
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This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
Gale in Context: U.S. History
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Provides a complete overview of America’s past, events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people, including materials from sources such as The New York Times, National Geographic, and NPR
Gale OneFile: World History (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
Gale in Context: World History
Home and Library Use
Coverage from the ancient world to today’s headlines, including primary sources, reliable references and multimedia content collected for students and researchers
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Both the historian and reporter on the frontline will find useful information in this collection, composed of content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
A definitive periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science.
Home and Garden
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. This collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
A collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters for coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.
Literature and Languages
Pronunciator
Home and Library Use
Learn 80 languages in any of 50 languages, for a total of 4,000 available course combinations including ESL instruction for 50 non-English languages.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
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Scribner Writer Series provides original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author and their works.
Law and Legal Issues
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Protection of assets is a concern for all: from the individual property owner to the multinational corporation. This collection of journals covers such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.
NuWav Legal Documents
Home and Library Use
Provide documents that meet the needs of the everyday citizen. Easily compose documents in categories like Business, Contracts, Landlord/Tenant disputes, Divorce and much more.
Magazines and Newspapers
Gale General OneFile (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
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. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: News (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This database is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. You can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
New York State Newspapers (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Observer, New York Post and Newsday.
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Popular Magazines includes more than 1,000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons, and is 100% full-text.
Psychology
Gale OneFile: Psychology (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. Your library’s users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Religion
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Why do some people believe in Heaven? Is it fear, hope, upbringing or blind faith? Users of this collection can research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.
Science and Technology
Gale OneFile: Computer Science (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
A collection of over 800 journals and 6 subject specific Delmar reference titles provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Gale OneFile: Science (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
A collection of over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments.
Gale in Context: Science
Home and Library Use
Supports high school curricula and university coursework, contains authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects from obesity to endangered species.
Social Issues
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies (Gale Cengage Learning)
Home and Library Use
A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes more than 150 journals.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies (Gale Cengage Learning)
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This collection covers such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Gale Cengage Learning)
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. It features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Collection
Home and Library Use
A collection of authoritative periodicals and scholarly journals.
Coping with Stress
Nassau Cares App
- Behavioral Health Helpline: (516) 227-TALK (8255)
- Long Island Crisis Center: (516) 769-1111
- National Suicide Hotline: (800) 273-TALK (8255)
- National Disaster Helpline: (800) 985-5990
Tutoring
Referencia en Español (Spanish Databases)
Britannica Escolar (both levels)
Home and Library Use
Un excelente recurso digital en español que ayuda a enriquecer el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primaria y secundaria.
Britannica Escolar Primaria
Home and Library Use
Buscar biografias e informacion sobre lugares y cosas, mir los videos y animaciones para aprender mas.
Britannica Escolar Secundaria
Home and Library Use
Ecuentra respuestas rapidas y ayuda con la tarea, explora los videos y articulos sobre personas y lugares famosos, y descubre mapas, fotos e illustraciones para proyectos escolares.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico
Home and Library Use
Si quieres hacer un informe académico para tu profesor, aprende a hacer uno con este modelo de informe académico y lo que necesita este tipo de informes.
ProCitizen
El Examen de Naturalización (The Naturalization Interview and Test)
Una base de datos que ayuda a los usuarios a prepararse para el Examen de naturalización / ciudadanía de EE. UU. mediante el uso de videos y cuestionarios. Está disponible en inglés y español.
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/the-naturalization-interview-and-test