databases by subject

databases A-Z
Books & Literature
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Over 150,000 full-text, searchable, adult-level reviews of children's books, plus award citations and booklist appearances. Funded by: bpl

Literary Reference Center
This is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Funded by: bpl

NoveList - Your Guide to Fiction
NoveList, a readers' advisory service, offers a wide range of resources that will expand your ability to find the right book. Funded by: bpl

Twayne's Author Series
Literary criticism for high school and college students; contains full text of the 600 books in U.S., English and World Authors series. Funded by: novel


Business & Finance
Business and Company ASAP
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Funded by: novel

Business and Company Resource Center
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Funded by: novel

ReferenceUSA
Business and residential telephone numbers and addresses; information on over 11 million US business. Funded by: uhls


Education
Mango Languages
Interactive language learning system that offers basic and intermediate conversation courses and ESL instruction. Funded by: bpl

Testing & Education Reference Center
Use this database to research thousands of post-secondary schools. Scholarship opportunities, test-preparation tools and online practice exams are also provided. Funded by: uhls


Genealogy
Ancestry - library edition (in-library only)
Primary source documents and images, census records, Passenger & Immigration Lists Index, Social Security Index, Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Funded by: bpl

HeritageQuest
US Census records from 1790-1930, full text of 25,000+ family and local history books, index of 1.6 million genealogy and local history articles, selected Revolutionary War records. Funded by: bpl


Health Information
Health Reference Center Academic
Funded by: novel

Journals-professional
Academic OneFile-Over 12.000 journals and reference sources, many peer-reviewed and full-text. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature and more. Funded by: novel

Magazines and more
General OneFile - Over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, majority full-text. Subjects include humanities, education, environment, technology, health care, politics and more. 30-year backfile. Funded by: novel


Newspapers & Periodicals
Custom Newspapers (articles from 100+ papers; NYT: 1/1/1995-; Times Union: 1986- )
Full-text newspapers from New York State, the U.S., and the U.K. Search by title, headine, date, author or section. Funded by: novel

Journals-professional
Academic OneFile-Over 12.000 journals and reference sources, many peer-reviewed and full-text. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature and more. Funded by: novel

Magazines and more
General OneFile - Over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, majority full-text. Subjects include humanities, education, environment, technology, health care, politics and more. 30-year backfile. Funded by: novel

National Newspaper Index (citations from 5 major US papers)
Indexes of America's top five newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post. Funded by: novel

New York Times, Historical:1851-2005 (in-library only)
Full text and full-image articles for all issues from 1851-2005. Funded by: bpl

Times Union (now included in Custom Newspapers)
Archives of most locally written stories published since 1986. Funded by: novel


Reference
Auto Repair Reference Center
Database content includes more than 33,100 vehicles covered from 1945 to present. Funded by: bpl

Grolier Encyclopedias
This resource includes these encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. This link is for BPL cardholders only. All others, use www.uhls.org/new/databases.asp. Funded by: bpl

Kids Search reference
An easy way for students to search by keyword or by topic. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Legal Forms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Funded by: uhls

ReferenceUSA
Business and residential telephone numbers and addresses; information on over 11 million US business. Funded by: uhls





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