Suffern Free Library Database Selection Page

REFERENCE AND MAGAZINE ARTICLE DATABASES

To find journals available in FULL TEXT, browse by subject or the periodical title A-to-Z list; or search by periodical title keyword(s):

General Resources Library Access
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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.

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.

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.

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

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

Proquest Platinum - Periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.
Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program

Auto Repair Center
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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

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).

Gale Expanded Academic ASAP - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System

CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world
Funded by the Suffern Free Library.

Mango Language Learning - Immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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.

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

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

Classical.com - The world's first streaming classical music service for libraries that enables listening and learning at library and home computers.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

African American Song - The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

American Song - Includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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.

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).

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

News Resources Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

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

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

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

Journal News via Newsbank/America's News Magazines - Full text of the Journal News 1999-present. Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library.

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.

Rockland County Messenger - Published Weekly from Haverstraw, 1847-1898
Produced and funded by the New City Library.

Literature Resources Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

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.

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).

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

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

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.

Science & Health Resources Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

Health & Wellness Resource Center - Magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc.
Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program.

U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science - This alphabetically organized set opens up the entire world of science in clear, nontechnical language.
Funded by the SENYLRC using regional automation database funds.

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.

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

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

Business Resources Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

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.

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

Thomson 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.

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.

Prices 4 Antiques - Contains detailed descriptive and pricing information on antiques, many collectibles, fine art and historic Americana
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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

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

History & Genealogy Resources Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

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).

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.

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

HeritageQuest - Represents the most comprehensive collection of genealogical information available anywhere.
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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

Resources for Students Library Access
(click on dot) Home Access
(click on dot)

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.

Grolier Online - Includes Grolier Multimedia, Enyclopedia Americana, and America the Beautiful
Funded by the Suffern Free Library

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations - Presents easy-to-understand information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world.
Funded by the SENYLRC using regional automation database funds.

CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world
Funded by the Suffern Free Library.

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

General Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Proquest Platinum - Periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program
Auto Repair Center Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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
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).
Gale Expanded Academic ASAP - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System
CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world Funded by the Suffern Free Library.
Mango Language Learning - Immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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.
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
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
Classical.com - The world's first streaming classical music service for libraries that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
African American Song - The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
American Song - Includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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.
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).
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

News Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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
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
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
Journal News via Newsbank/America's News Magazines - Full text of the Journal News 1999-present. Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines. Funded by the Suffern Free Library.
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.
Rockland County Messenger - Published Weekly from Haverstraw, 1847-1898 Produced and funded by the New City Library.

Literature Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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.
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).
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
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
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.

Science & Health Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
Health & Wellness Resource Center - Magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL program.
*UXL Encyclopedia of Science* - This alphabetically organized set opens up the entire world of science in clear, nontechnical language. Funded by the SENYLRC using regional automation database funds.
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.
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
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

Business Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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.
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
Thomson 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.
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.
Prices 4 Antiques - Contains detailed descriptive and pricing information on antiques, many collectibles, fine art and historic Americana Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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
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

History & Genealogy Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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).
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.
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
HeritageQuest - Represents the most comprehensive collection of genealogical information available anywhere. Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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

Resources for Students	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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.
Grolier Online - Includes Grolier Multimedia, Enyclopedia Americana, and America the Beautiful Funded by the Suffern Free Library
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
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.
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
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
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
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).
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations - Presents easy-to-understand information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Funded by the SENYLRC using regional automation database funds.
CountryWatch - Comprehensive background on the 192 countries of the world Funded by the Suffern Free Library.
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