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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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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 Suffern Free 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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Lexis-Nexis - Access over 9,500 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and foreign-language sources.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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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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Auto Repair Center
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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.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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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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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CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world
Funded by the Suffern Free Library.
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Byki Online Language Learning - 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.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free Library
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Sanborn Maps - Sanborn® fire insurance maps--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.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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.
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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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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 the Suffern Free Library.
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Proquest Digital Microfilm - Cover-to-cover full-image microfilmed editions of the New York Times from the 2008 volume year forward
Funded by the Suffern Free Library.
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ProQuest Historical New York Times - The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 all the way to 2005.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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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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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free Library.
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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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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 Suffern Free 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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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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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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free Library.
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Prices 4 Antiques - Contains detailed descriptive and pricing information on antiques, many collectibles, fine art and historic Americana
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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Foundation Directory Online Professional - Provides the most comprehensive and accurate information on U.S. grantmakers and their funding activities.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online - More than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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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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 Suffern Free Library
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HeritageQuest - Represents the most comprehensive collection of genealogical information available anywhere.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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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
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Proquest Obituaries - You can use the collection to search obituaries and death notices from prominent newspapers, such as The New York Times (dating back to 1851).
Funded by the Suffern Free 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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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 Grolier Multimedia, Encyclopedia Americana, and America the Beautiful
Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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Bookflix - Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning.
Funded by the Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free 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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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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CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world
Funded by the Suffern Free 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 Suffern Free Library
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