Valley Cottage 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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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 Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage Library.

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

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.

Facts on File World News Digest - Complete back file of Facts On File World News Digest; more than 200,000 full-text articles dating back to 1940
Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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
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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

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

Facts on File World News Digest - Complete back file of Facts On File World News Digest; more than 200,000 full-text articles dating back to 1940
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

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

ProQuest Historical New York Times - The complete text of older (1851-2005) articles is provided in the ASCII format.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

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

Literature Resources Library Access
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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.

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).

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 Valley Cottage Library.

Poetry for Students - Analysis of poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Short Stories for Students - Critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Science & Health Resources Library Access
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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.

Salem Health - Award-winning, health related reference guides from the publisher of Magill's Medical Guide.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Salem Health: Cancer - Award-winning, cancer reference guides from the publisher of Magill's Medical Guide.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health - This comprehensive five-volume set covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions, all in a simple, easy to use A-Z format.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Salem Health: Genetics and Inherited Conditions - An A-Z encyclopedia offering nonspecialist information about 460 topics in genetics, from the science behind this important field to diseases that can be passed down among generations.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Facts on File Today's Science - Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science now.
Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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
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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.

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 Valley Cottage Library.

Career Transitions - A complete self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire process of landing a job.
Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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.

Salem History - The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series; Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Mythology - Will help students with the plot points, the historical context, and the mythological allusions they need to fully understand how mythologies not only reflect cultures of old but also remain meaningful in society today.

Reconstruction Era Reference Library - Provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 Valley Cottage Library.

Facts on File Issues & Controversies - Analyzes and explains hundreds of controversial topics, in a language and format that students can understand, with the balance, accuracy, and regular updating that are synonymous with Facts On File News Services.
Funded by the Valley Cottage 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).

Poetry for Students - Analysis of poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.
Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Short Stories for Students - Critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods.
Funded by the Valley Cottage 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.
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.
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
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).
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 Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage Library.
Mango Language Learning - Immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses Funded by the Valley Cottage Library
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.
Facts on File World News Digest - Complete back file of Facts On File World News Digest; more than 200,000 full-text articles dating back to 1940 Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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
Facts on File World News Digest - Complete back file of Facts On File World News Digest; more than 200,000 full-text articles dating back to 1940 Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
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
ProQuest Historical New York Times - The complete text of older (1851-2005) articles is provided in the ASCII format. Funded by the Valley Cottage 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).
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 Valley Cottage Library.
Poetry for Students - Analysis of poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Short Stories for Students - Critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.

Science & Health Resources	Library Access (click on dot)	Home Access (click on dot)
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.
Salem Health - Award-winning, health related reference guides from the publisher of Magill's Medical Guide. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Salem Health: Cancer - Award-winning, cancer reference guides from the publisher of Magill's Medical Guide. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health - This comprehensive five-volume set covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions, all in a simple, easy to use A-Z format. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Salem Health: Genetics and Inherited Conditions - An A-Z encyclopedia offering nonspecialist information about 460 topics in genetics, from the science behind this important field to diseases that can be passed down among generations. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Facts on File Today's Science - Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science now. Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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.
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 Valley Cottage Library.
Career Transitions - A complete self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire process of landing a job. Funded by the Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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 Valley Cottage 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.
Salem History - The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series; Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
*UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology* - Will help students with the plot points, the historical context, and the mythological allusions they need to fully understand how mythologies not only reflect cultures of old but also remain meaningful in society today.
Reconstruction Era Reference Library - Provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.
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.
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.

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.
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).
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.
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 Valley Cottage Library.
Facts on File Issues & Controversies - Analyzes and explains hundreds of controversial topics, in a language and format that students can understand, with the balance, accuracy, and regular updating that are synonymous with Facts On File News Services. Funded by the Valley Cottage 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).
Poetry for Students - Analysis of poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.
Short Stories for Students - Critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Funded by the Valley Cottage Library.