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Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Includes the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica's Internet Guide, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. |
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Grolier Online - Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL Program. |
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World Book - Includes all the articles from the print versions of The World Book Encyclopedia and The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles and learning resources.
Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd Edition (2007) - The landmark Encyclopaedia Judaica, lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s, has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Mango Language Learning - Immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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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. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL Program. |
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EBSCO Masterfile Premiere - Searchable full text for nearly 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week. Funded by RCLS and the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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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. Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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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. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL Program. |
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Books-in-Print - The first place to find currently available and forthcoming books, audios, and videos. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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ReferenceUSA - Contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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LearningExpress Library - Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Cengage Gale LegalForms - Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library Library. |
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Testing & Education Reference Center Basic - In-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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ChiltonLibrary - ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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Classical Music Library - An ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource. Remote users select "Ramapo Catskill Library System" and enter library card number. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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Smithsonian Global Sound - The collection includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Remote users select "Ramapo Catskill Library System" and enter library card number. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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Jazz Music Library - For online listening of thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Remote users select "Ramapo Catskill Library System" and enter library card number. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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American Song - An eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America’s past and present. Remote users select "Ramapo Catskill Library System" and enter library card number. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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Contemporary World Music - Takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples. Remote users select "Ramapo Catskill Library System" and enter library card number. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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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.
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ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). |
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BEST ONLINE REFERENCE SITES - A web guide to 500 of the best free web sites for answering common questions. [Note: access to these sites may be restricted on PCs within a library dedicated to the library catalog.] Compiled by librarians in the Ramapo Catskill Library System |
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| News Resources |
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Custom Newspaper Index - Full-text of more than 100 major newspapers (including The New York Times, Financial Times, Dallas Morning News, The Times (London), Boston Herald,
Korea Times, Irish Times, Denver Post, and more. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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New York State Newspapers - Full-text of 7 New York state newspapers: Buffalo News, Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, New York Observer, New York Post, and New York Times (2000-present). Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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National Newspaper Index - Provides indexing of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science
Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post; 1997-present Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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Journal News via Proquest - Full text of the Journal News 1999-present. Funded by Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Spring Valley News & Information Center - A local, county, state, and national news portal.
Produced and funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Rockland Job Listings - Rockland County joblistings, career information, tools and more.
Produced and funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Rockland County Messenger - Published Weekly from Haverstraw, 1847-1898
Produced and funded by the New City Library. |
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ProQuest New York Times - The complete text of recent (1999-present) articles is provided in the ASCII format. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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ProQuest Historical New York Times - The complete text of older ( -2005) articles is provided in the ASCII format. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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| Literature Resources |
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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. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program. |
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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. Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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NoveList - Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles. 3 powerful search techniques to look for books by subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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NoveList K-8 - A reader's advisory service. Find youth fiction titles similar to authors or titles you already enjoy. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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LitFinder - Over 100,000 full-text poems, including 10,000 under copyright. Plus Story Finder with thousands of full-text short stories. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Fiction Connection - Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| Science & Health Resources |
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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. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program. |
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InfoTrac Nursing & Allied Health Collection - Select full-text articles from nursing and health periodicals (supplementing our other health databases) Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Family Health - Covers in detail every aspect of family medicine, including current information on medical conditions, health issues, medical advances, and alternative therapies. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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LearningExpress Library - Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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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. Funded by the National Library of Medicine |
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PubMed Central - National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences literature (for medical and health services professionals). Funded by the National Library of Medicine |
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| Business Resources |
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Gale Business and Company Resource Center - Info on 448,000 US and international companies: histories; chronologies; rankings; statistics; and more. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program. |
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LearningExpress Library - Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Cengage Gale LegalForms - Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library Library. |
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Rockland Job Listings - Rockland County joblistings, career information, tools and more.
Produced and funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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ReferenceUSA - Contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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| History & Genealogy Resources |
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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. Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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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. Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. |
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Ancestry Plus - AncestryPlus is the most comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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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. Funded by federal funds, New York State funding for library systems, special grants and annual membership dues. |
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HRVH Historical Newspapers - 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. Funded by federal funds, New York State funding for library systems, special grants and annual membership dues. |
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| Resources for Students |
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Britannica Kids - Britannica Elementary; Compton’s by Britannica; Merriam-Webster’s Student Dictionary; interactive timelines; Video and audio content; Interactive world atlas; Age-appropriate magazine articles.
Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. |
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21st-Century Explorer - online reference and learning tools for students who read below grade level, are dealing with specific learning problems, or are at risk of falling behind.
Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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Grolier Online - Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL Program. |
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World Book - Includes all the articles from the print versions of The World Book Encyclopedia and The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles and learning resources.
Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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CollegeSource - Over 29,000 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Tutor.com - A top-notch, one-on-one, on-demand, tutoring experience for students who need help with their schoolwork." Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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Bookflix - Pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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LearningExpress Library - Practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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Testing & Education Reference Center Basic - In-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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NoveList K-8 - A reader's advisory service. Find youth fiction titles similar to authors or titles you already enjoy. Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library |
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EBSCO Middle Search - Provides full text for over 100 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students. Funded by RCLS and the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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EBSCO Middle Search via Searchasaurus - The same database as above, presented through a colorful, easy-to-use interface. Funded by RCLS and the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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EBSCO Kids Search - A search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. Funded by RCLS and the New York State Library NOVEL program |
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CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world Funded by the Finkelstein Memorial Library. |
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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. Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library). |
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