2-1-1 Long Island
2-1-1 Long Island is a free, non-emergency information service that connects Long Island residents to health and human services. Available online, 2-1-1 Long Island provides information on nearly 10,000 community resources.
Ancestry.com Library Edition (In Library only)
Start searching billions of records and discover your family's story! In-library use only.
Ancestry.com New York
Several New York repositories have formed a partnership with Ancestry.com to digitize family history records and make them available online for free. Access requires a free Ancestry.com New York account. First-time users should visit the page and enter their zip code to get started.
Annual Credit Report.com
The only website authorized by the FTC to fill orders for the free annual credit report you are entitled to under law.
Britannica Academic Edition
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and many other research tools.
Britannica Escolar
Discover the leading knowledge-building resource trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.
Britannica School
Encyclopedia Brittanica geared toward grades (K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels-elementary, middle, and high.
Business Insights: Essentials
Delivering authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills. Featuring easy-to-search content and a user-friendly interface.
Career Cruising
Interactive career guide featuring multimedia interviews with real people in every career, in-depth occupational profiles and information on colleges and universities.
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is the world's largest nonprofit product-testing organization. Offers product ratings and reviews, users will find in-depth advice, tips and trends written by experts.
Creativebug
Access to more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. Videos are always available and are broken down into chapters and can be accessed an unlimited number of times. Material lists and descriptions are included (by brand name) and transcripts and patterns can be downloaded.
Cypress Resume
Cypress Resume is the simplest, most effective tool for resume creation on the market today. Specifically designed for job seekers skittish about writing, Cypress Resume allows anyone to create a professional resume—one that will stand out to potential employers—in a matter of minutes.
Education Station
Educate Station provides easy-to-use, comprehensive learning plans with a robust range of extension activities across a wide range of subject areas and grade levels. The beauty of the standards-aligned learning plans is that all of the support materials, including student-friendly worksheets, are included.
Ellis Island Passenger Records
Search the Ellis Island database of passengers arriving in New York 1892-1924. Initial information includes name, residence, arrival date and age at arrival. Free registration allows access to the full record for passengers.
Explora Educator’s Edition
Explora Educator’s Edition highlights content relevant to teachers, including lessons plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources.
Explora for Public Libraries
Ensure student and educator success with EBSCO’s new interface for schools and public libraries. Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Financial Literacy Series
Gain access to the full Financial Literacy Series including Financial Literacy Basics, Financial Literacy: Planning for the Future, Financial Literacy: How to Become an Investor, and Weiss Ratings Consumer Guides.
Full Text Finder
Full Text Finder assists users in discovering which online databases allow access to specific publications. Search by journal title, publisher, or subject. Barcode authentication required for in-house and remote access use.
Gale Academic OneFile
Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students.
Gale eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).
Gale General OneFile
Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.
Gale in Context: Biography
Gale in Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Gale In Context: Elementary
Gale In Context: Elementary meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search.
Gale In Context: High School
Gale in Context: High School is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale in Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers today's hottest social issues. This cross-curricular database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes
Gale in Context: Science
Gale in Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
Gale in Context: U.S. History
Gale in Context: U.S. History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.
Gale in Context: World History
Gale in Context: World History reaches back to the ancient world — and forward to today's headlines — to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race with rare primary sources, reliable reference and multi-media content.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis.
Gale Literature: Twayne’s Author Series
Twayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science
Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete
Gale OneFile: Educators Reference Complete provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.
Gale OneFile: Informe Academico
Gale OneFile : Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
Gale OneFile: News
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.
HeritageQuest
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online.
JobNow
JobNow, powered by Brainfuse, provides live interactive online help combined with online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job.
Kids Discover (Temporary Subscription)
Over 2,000 visually stunning science and social studies articles on any internet-enabled device, Username: nasboces ; Password: nasboces
LearningExpress
Test prep for Career Certification, U.S. Citizenship, and Civil Service Exams, grades 4-12, College Prep and Graduate School Exams, and more. Includes new NY State high school equivalency TASC prep materials. Also contains computer skills tutorials. You must set up a username and password the first time. Also included Job & Career Accelerator" can help job seekers,Find a Career Match,Explore Occupations,Search for Jobs and Internships Tools to Get Hired; Resume and Cover Letter Builders
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis.
Long Island Geneology
A searchable database containing over 3,212,043 individuals, 1,215,933 families and 171,229 sources all directly connected to the early settlers of Long Island.
LOTE Online for Kids
LOTE Online for Kids is a digital picture book collection featuring over 1,200 titles in 40 world languages.
MedlinePlus
Easy access to Medline and Health topics, medical dictionaries, directories and publications from the National Library of Medicine.
Miss Humblebee’s Academy
An interactive kindergarten-readiness program that introduces children ages three to six to key concepts in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music. It’s as challenging as it is fun! If prompted, use the password "open".
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar Investment Research Center is an easy to navigate database to help both novice and veteran investors reach their investment goals.
Nassau County Department of Consumer Affairs
Source for consumer complaints, licensing, and other legal matters
National Archives Genealogy Resources
Resources and tools from the federal government.
New York State Department of Consumer Protection
Help with consumer complaints, the New York State Do Not Call Law, and other consumer policies.
New York State Department of Financial Services
Information regarding home ownership, insurance, banking, small business, etc.
New York State Department of Labor
Search for job openings, career fairs and recruitments, and apprenticeships. Find sample resumes and cover letters, occupation information, unemployment assistance, wage information, and labor statistics.
New York State Newspapers
This database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State. Local newspapers and magazines with primary source material.
New York State Physician Profile
Profiles for all licensed doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who are registered to practice medicine in New York State.
New York Times
New York Times full text coverage from June 1980 to present in searchable formats.
Newsday
News and events in and around Long Island and New York City area from 1985 to the present day in searchable formats.
Niche Academy
Instructional video tutorials for digital library resources.
NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers’ advisory resource. In addition to the fiction database that NoveList has offered, NoveList Plus adds nonfiction.
NoveList Plus K-8
Helps teens and children identify books they'd like to read based on titles, authors and topics they have enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations.
NuWav Legal Documents
The goal of NUWAV Legal Documents is to 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.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Offers career information on a number of professions. Revised every two years, it provides information on what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations, etc.
Overdrive eBooks & Audiobooks
Download eBooks to your computer and read them on your screen or transfer them to a compatible portable device. Also includes a collection of downloadable audiobooks.
OverDrive Magazine
Gain access to over 3K popular magazines (both current and back issues).
ProCitizen
Prepare for the US Naturalization/Citizenship Test through the use of videos and quizzes.
Project Gutenberg
Download over 33,000 free ebooks, in many languages, to read on your computer, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
Pronunciator
Learn 80 languages in any of 50 languages, for a total of 4,000 available course combinations. Plus, ESL for 50 non-English languages.
ProQuest Entrepreneurship
ProQuest Entrepreneurship offers a central access point to a variety of discovery and advisory tools specific to the needs of entrepreneurship.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Newsday
This historical newspaper database provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF.
ProQuest The Wall Street Journal
Search full-text articles from The Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present.
ProQuest US Newsstream
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format.
Recalls.gov
Federal resource for product recalls.
Reference Solutions
The premier database for accurate, up-to-date information on businesses (public, private, government agencies, and non-profit) as well as being a rich household demographics source. Perfect for obtaining business information for startups and job searches, creating lists and marketing plans, and conducting competitive analysis, users have access to 298 million businesses and 319 million consumers, new homeowners and movers, as well as health care listings.
Slave Voyages
Links to the site’s three main databases -Transatlantic, Intra-American and African names - as well as all the special features.
Teen Health & Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular, and self-help support. Topics include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more. In addition, Teen Health & Wellness provides hotlines and help lines for national and state organizations/services on a host of subjects that often impact teens (alcohol and drugs, bullying, depression, eating disorders, grief, homele
Transparent Language
Transparent Language quickly and easily learn new languages using a wide variety of courses and activities. This product includes lessons for over 100 languages with 1,500-2,000 words and phrases for each, 25 native language courses for learning English (including an intermediate English course), features a flexible learning structure (dozens of learning activities designed for rapid learning and maximum retention), and develops the learner’s speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
TumbleBookLibrary
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.
TumbleMath
TumbleMath is the most comprehensive collection of math picture books you will find anywhere that combines animation, narration, and sound.
Tutor.com
Live help for elementary school, middle school, high school, beginner college students as well as adult education looking for career assistance available everyday from 2pm to 10pm. Skill Center available 24/7.
VetNow
Online resources for veterans and their families • VetNow Navigator: Helps veterans and their families understand and apply for benefits • Online Career Assistance: Designed to help with all stages of the job search process. • Unemployment Assistance (New) • Academic Skills Building
World Book School and Library Edition
The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.
World Book School and Library Edition for Kids
The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.