Search Databases by Subject

Health/Medical

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

Health Reference Center Academic
Millions of articles from full-text nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters; and select consumer health information sources, full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.

Library Access Home Access

Medline Plus
Information on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Library Access Home Access

PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences literature (for medical and health services professionals).

Library Access Home Access

Virtual Reference Library – Health
Searchable full-text of the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health.

Library Access Home Access

The Official ABMS Directory

Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists

Library Access Home Access

History

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

Annals of American History
With over 2,000 primary source documents and 700 pieces of multimedia, Annals of American History is an excellent resource for expanding your understanding of the history and culture of the United States.

Library Access Home Access

Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Library Access Home Access
Footnote.com - Documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
Library Access Home Access

HRVH Historical News

Provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. As a first step toward this vision, The Kingston Daily Freeman has been completely digitized for the years 1903 to 1912.

Library Access Home Access

Hudson River Valley Heritage

HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations from the following counties in New York State: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester.

Library Access Home Access

Proquest Historical New York Times
The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 all the way to 2003.

Library Access Home Access

Sanborn Maps
Sanborn® fire insurance maps are the detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities across a century of change.

Library Access Home Access

Home Improvement

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

EBSCO Home Improvement Reference Center Thousands of repairs will be available in the areas of outdoor projects, electrical projects, remodeling projects, plumbing projects, wood projects, decorating projects and maintenance.

Library Access Home Access

Job Now!

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

Job Now! Get LIVE job coaching, resume assistance, interview assistance and more!

Library Access Home Access

Language

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

Byki Online Language Learning Database

Byki is a powerful language-learning system that uses flashcards to teach your patrons a set of words or phrases. Register once in the library, then access from any location.

Library Access  

Learning Express Library
Practice exams, based on official tests, will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Includes AP exams, SAT preparation, TOEFL, GED, EMS, Firefighter, law enforcement, nursing, teacher certification, real estate and many more. Also contains reading, grammar and writing skills improvement.

Library Access Home Access

Literature

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

Twayne’s Authors
Features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges.

Library Access Home Access

Gale Literature Resource Center
Critical essays on contemporary authors; lives and careers of authors of all eras and genres; biographies and bibliographies on more than 90,000 contemporary authors.

Library Access Home Access

NoveList
Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles similar to those you enjoy. 3 powerful search techniques to look for books by subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records.

Library Access Home Access

NoveList K-8
A reader's advisory service. Find youth fiction titles similar to books and authors you already enjoy.

Library Access Home Access

LitFinder
LitFinder contains over 100,000 full-text poems, including 10,000 under copyright, plus Story Finder with thousands of full-text short stories. You’ll also find essays, speeches and explanations.

Library Access Home Access

Magazines and Journals

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access
Academic OneFile
More than 13,000 titles, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals and more than 5,000 in full text with strong coverage of hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business.
Library Access Home Access

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Full-text access to scholarly journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

Library Access Home Access

EBSCO Kids Search
Designed specifically for elementary/middle school students, kids can search by topics such as Social Studies, Arts & Music, Language Arts, Math, Science, Sports. Or, kids can enter their topic.

Library Access Home Access

Ebsco Masterfile Premiere

Searchable full text for nearly 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week.

Library Access Home Access
EBSCO Middle Search
The same database as above, presented through a colorful, easy-to-use interface.
Library Access Home Access

General OneFile

More than 7,100 general interest periodical full-text titles and 3,600 refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers. Also more than 500 travel guides, including Fodor's.

Library Access Home Access
Informe! Revistas en Español
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Library Access Home Access

Infotrac Junior
Provides junior high and middle students with a wide variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Library Access

Home Access

TOPICsearch

This current events database includes 40,000 full text documents carefully selected by a staff of librarians and teachers. Check out the easy-to-use Visual Search.
Library Access Home Access

Music

Database Name & Description Library
Access
Home Access

African American Song
The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

Library Access Home Access
American Song - Includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period.
Library Access Home Access
Classical.com
The world's first streaming classical music service for libraries that enables listening and learning at library and home computers.
Library Access Home Access

Classical Music Library Free Download of the Week

Every two weeks, we make available one complete work from our popular streaming music database, Classical Music Library, for free download.

Library Access Home Access
Contemporary World Music - Contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku.
Library Access Home Access
Smithsonian Global Sound
Includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
Library Access Home Access