Databases for Research

CORE COLLECTION LINKS

Great links to use from home with your Westbury Library card number:

Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica
Besides the encyclopedia entries, includes: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus, World Data Analyst and World Atlas, Notable Quotations, and current, full-text magazine and journal articles and advanced search and workspace features.

Gale Cengage Learning

Gale General One File
Gale's General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 11,000 titles and backfile coverage from 1980.
Opposing Viewpoints
A virtual library of resources from Gale designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.
Kids Infobits
Colorful, east-to-use interface invites students to explore. Kids InfoBits contains more than 100 full-text, kids magazines, more than 6,400 images, Merriam-Webster®’s Elementary Dictionary and 1,200 maps, flags & seals and over 1,700 colorful charts and graphs.
PROMPT
Use PROMT to research market size and share, industry and product trends, emerging technologies, and competitive opportunities. International in scope. Covers over 1,600 international and regional trade journals, industry newsletters, and newspapers, plus summaries from Investext reports.
Litfinder
LitFinder is Gale’s premier resource for full-text literary works, including poems, short stories, novels, essays, plays and speeches.

Greenwood

Greenwood Daily Life Online
A comprehensive resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, exploring how others lived, and how their lives shaped ours.
World Cultures
Explore Daily Life through History around the world. Includes timelines and comparisons. Includes primary content that reflects the voice of the people—including some uncensored vernacular speech.
Daily Life in America
A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level. Thousands of primary documents, from recipes to newspaper articles. State-by-State Resource Center. Plus, for teachers, lesson plans, and curriculum correlations.
Pop Culture Universe
Is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers.
African American Experience
The African American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans. It includes a wealth of primary sources.
Latino American Experience
Focuses on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas through to the present-day.

ProQuest Databases

Historical NY Times
The full text of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to 2005 (several year lag from the present date). Images of the actual texts of articles and of the full page on which the articles appear are presented.
Newsday
Full-text from 1985 to present.
Heritage Quest
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.
Research Libraries
Provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,050 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward.
ProQuest Cross-Reference
Offers a comprehensive publication collection that meets a wide range of research demands.
Black Newspapers
Access to esteemed Black newspapers from across the U.S. ranging from 1989-present.
ABI Dateline
Over 190 business journals, with more than 170 available in full text.
ABI Select
Business news and information from over 510 journals, with nearly 400 available in full text. Titles include: Forbes, Journal of Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, Industry Week, Strategy & Leadership.
ABI Trade and Industry
Major trade and industry news from sector and corporate publications.
Hoover's
Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives.
Professional Education Periodicals
Delivers more than 290 full-text professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of K-12 education.
Proquest Computing Journals
Is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics.
Proquest Health Management Journals
ProQuest Health Management™ is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration with coverage for more than 650 key journals.

Novel

Is provided by the New York State Library and connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELNY is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The New York Knowledge Initiative is a proposal for permanent state funding for NOVELNY (NOVEL requires the use of your library card number or your New York State Driver License or DMV Non-Driver Photo ID Number - The State Library has worked with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to offer this option. To ensure user privacy, no records of the access will be stored on the State Library's server or the user's computer or attached to any individual's driver license or non-driver photo ID information).

Grolier
Includes these encyclopedias: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge
National Newspaper Index
Gale Index and abstracts from New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, L.A. Times and Wall Street Journal
Business and Company Resource Center
Gale resource for U.S. and International company profiles and histories, industry rankings, investment reports and financial overviews, magazine articles and links to websites
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Gale resource for Consumer health and medical information, including herbal remedies, alternative or complementary treatments
Custom Newspapers
Gale resource for recent New York Times, the New York Post and others, including regional, local and foreign language newspapers
Twaynes Authors Series
Gale resource for critical essays on the works of noted World authors from Ancient Times to present and biographies and research topics
Ebsco Primary Search
For elementary school students: magazine articles and links to pamphlets, photos, maps and flags.
Salud En Espanol
Health information for Spanish speaking consumers and patients.

Additional databases and services

Heritage Quest
For genealogy research.
Oxford Art Online
Coverage of visual arts including paintings, sculpture, architecture, photography, decorative arts, peformance arts and multimedias. Provides links to International galleries and museums.
Grove Music Online
Up to date music information including biographies, covers popular music, opera and jazz, links to sound archives and illustrations.

Links to Use at the Westbury Library

Annals of American History
Ancestry Library Edition
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. (available only at the library)
Global Reference Center
Welcome to Britannica's Global Reference Center, the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages.
Recepción a Britannica' centro de referencia global de s, el hogar del contenido en línea comprensivo en una variedad de idiomas globales. Estas bases de datos extensas y cuidadosas son intuitivas y rápidas, entregando la información digna de confianza alrededor del globo.

Britannica'への歓迎; sの全体的な基準標点、いろいろ全体的な言語の広範囲のオンライン内容の家。これらの広範で、完全なデータベースは直観的、速く、信頼できる情報を世界中から提供する。

Britannica'에 환영; s 세계적인 참고 센터, 다양한 세계적인 언어에 있는 포괄적인 온라인 내용의 가정. 이 광대하고 철저한 데이타베이스는 직관 적이고 빠르, 확실한 정보를 세계 각처에서 전한.

欢迎到Britannica's全球性标准中心，全面网上内容的家在各种各样的全球性语言的。这些广泛和详尽的数据库是直觉和快速的，世界各地提供信得过的信息。

Bienvenue à Britannica' ; centre de référence global de s, la maison du contenu en ligne complet dans une série de langues globales. Ces bases de données étendues et complètes sont intuitives et rapides, fournissant l'information digne de confiance de autour du globe.
Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
World Data
Greenwood Dailylife
Daily Life in America
Pop Culture Universe
African American Experience
Latino American Experience
Proquest
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