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ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

IMPORTANT: Home Access to the available databases on this page now requires a Patchogue-Medford Library card. You will be prompted to enter the barcode from your card.

Academic Search Premier
Description: Database of articles from thousands of academic and scholarly journals spanning most areas of academic study.
Full Text: Approximately half of the database, about 4,000 journals, are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1980+, but some full text journals available back to 1975.
Updates: Daily.

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ConsumerReports.org
Description: ConsumerReports.org features all content that's in the current magazine issue plus a searchable archive of past reports published within the past 4 years. It includes product and service Ratings and recommendations. The reports online and in the magazine are essentially the same, but adapted for optimal online presentation. Many reports have updated Ratings information, reflecting changes in the availability of products since the report was first published.
Updates: Daily.

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EBSCOHost
Description: Links to all the EBSCOHost databases to which the library subscribes.
Full Text: Select full text is available.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the database
Updates: Daily.

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Library Literature
Description: Indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science journals published in the United States and elsewhere.
Full Text: Select full text is available.
Coverage: Indexing and abstracts 1984+, Select full text 1997+
Updates: Four times a week.

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Long Island Union List of Serials
Description: Location and holding information for magazine and journal holdings of Nassau and Suffolk libraries. Now accessible through the library's FirstSearch subscription. To access, once FirstSearch main page loads, click on "Databases" tab and then choose "Long Island Union List."
Updates: Annually.

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MasterFile Premier
Description: An index to general magazines, journals and books designed expressly for public libraries.
Full Text: Contains full text for over 2,000 magazines and journals. Adobe Acrobat Reader required for some articles
Coverage: Majority of full text titles are from 1990s forward, with select titles as far back as 1975.
Updates: Daily.

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WilsonWeb Cross Database Search
Description: Links to all the WilsonWeb databases the library subscribes to, along with the ability to search more than one database at a time.
Full Text: Selected full text is included.
Coverage: Varies, but generally from 1983+
Updates: Varies depending upon the database.

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WORLD WIDE WEB LINKS

Magazine Article Databases Popular Magazines

IMPORTANT: These links to freely searchable magazine indexes on the Web are provided for your information only. Remember that your tax dollars support a number of quality, reliable databases containing millions of full text articles from thousands of magazines and journals that you will not find in Google, Yahoo or other search engines. As a plus these databases contain No ads. All you need to access them is your Patchogue-Medford Library card. See the Online Subscription Databases link to view the complete list.

Magazine Article Databases

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Ingenta

MagPortal

Popular Magazines

PubList
Contains information on over 150,000 periodicals.

Consumer Reports
Economist
National Geographic Magazine
Newsweek
Reader's Digest
Time
U.S. News and World Report
World Press Review
Excerpts of articles from international magazines and newspapers on current issues of the day.

This page was last updated on April 27, 2007.