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PML -- These databases can only be accessed by Patchogue-Medford Library patrons using their library card barcodes.
VRC -- These databases can be accessed by Suffolk County (NY) residents using their library card barcodes and PIN
LIB -- These databases may only be accessed from workstations in the Patchogue-Medford Library.

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Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Antiques and Collectibles Arts and Humanities Auto Repair Biography Books and Literature

Business Careers and Jobs Children's Databases Community Computers

Education Encyclopedias Espanol-Spanish Genealogy Health and Medicine

History Law Music Science Social Sciences

Language Learning Maps and Atlases

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Fiction Connection -- LIB --
Description: "Looking for your next good read? Use Bowker’s new readers' advisory product, Fiction Connection, to discover titles similar to those you already enjoy. Or feel free to browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe."
Coverage: Includes fiction and biography titles.

Learning Express Library -- PML --
Description: Prepare for academic, civil service, military and career tests by practicing online with exams modelled on the actual tests. You must register for scoring and individualized feedback. Choose "new user" your first time using the database to create a personal account. Please remember your username and password.
Coverage: Includes practice tests for AP,ASVAB, ACT, SAT, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, as well as general civil service, firefighter, law enforcement and EMS, real estate, teaching, nursing, and reading, writing, and math skills for elementary, middle school and high school students.

Marquis Who's Who on the Web -- LIB --
Description: Contains over 1 million biographical profiles from the Marquis Who's Who series of books.
Full Text: All records are full text.
Coverage: 1985+ from 20 Marquis annual volumes
Updates: Daily.

Natural Standard -- PML --
Description: "Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions. For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion in Natural Standard databases."

Nursing Tests from Learning Express Library -- PML --
Description: Prepare for NCLEX-RN tests by practicing online with exams modelled on the actual tests. Take continuing education nursing tests and courses online. You must register for scoring and individualized feedback. Choose "new user" your first time using the database to create a personal account. Please remember your username and password. In order to use the Nursing Continuing Education module you must submit your RN license number and expiration date to satisfy accreditation requirements

PriceMiner -- PML --
Description: Contains over 20 million art, antiques and collectibles auction records from the online auction sites, GoAntiques.com, eBay, and TIAS.com. Objects are arranged in over 5,200 categories and the database contains over 10 million images.
Coverage: GoAntiques and TIAS records date back to 1998. eBay data dates from the beginning of 2005.
Updates: Monthly

Rosetta Stone -- PML --
Description: Interactive, multimedia, language-learning exercises. Learn the English language. Also available are language modules for travelers to learn the basics of English (U.S. and British), French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish (Latin American and Spain).

Thomson/Gale Legal Forms -- PML --
Description: Provides a wide selection of New York 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. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. Most forms are provided in rich text format (rtf), which will load in almost any word processor; MS-Word format for use with Microsoft Word; and Adobe Acrobat PDF for viewing and printing purposes. Forms may be opened up in the word processor of your choice, filled in and then printed. Law forms are provided for informational purposes only, please consult an attorney for serious legal matters.
Coverage: Current
Updates: Daily.

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P4A Antiques Reference Database -- PML --
Description: Reference database with price and background information on thousands of antique, collectible, and fine arts objects. All records have at least one picture and pricing information comes from actual auction sales.
Full Text: All records include a picture of the item, a description of its condition, the sales history of the item, and contact information for the auction house. Approximately 20% of the items have additional reference information on the object, such as a biography of the creator, a history of the manufacturer, or background on the category of the object.
Updates: Updated regularly.

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Art
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Art Abstracts -- VRC --
Description: Bibliographic database indexing art related periodicals.
Full Text: No full text. Records added since 1994 contain abstracts.
Coverage: 1984+
Updates: Weekly

Art Index Retrospective -- VRC --
Description: Bibliographic database indexing art related periodicals.
Full Text: No full text. Citation only database
Coverage: 1929--1984
Updates: Closed file

Grove Dictionary of Art Online -- VRC --
Description: Contains over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts with links to art image libraries.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: Contains the complete text of the Grove Dictionary of Art plus updates.
Updates: Continuous.

Literature
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Philosophy
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Religion & Philosophy Collection -- VRC --
Description: Covers topics such as world religions and denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Full Text: 300+ journals are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990+, but some full text journals available back to the 1950s.
Updates: Daily.

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Auto Repair
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Auto Repair Reference Center -- VRC --
Description: Contains repair information and wiring diagrams on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, based on the Chilton manuals.
Coverage: Over 25,000 vehicles from 1954+, although coverage is spotty prior to 1980.
Updates: Daily.

Mitchell onDemand -- LIB --
Description: Car, light truck, and van repair manuals and wiring diagrams.
Full Text: All records are full text.
Coverage: Main file covers 1983 to the present. Back file has wiring diagrams from 1960-1982 and engine performance articles from 1966+
Updates: Daily.

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Biography
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index -- PML --

Description: Citation index to biographical sources, both current and retrospective, covering individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. There are over 13 million biographical citations in the database. The library owns many of the sources indexed.
Full Text: Citations only.
Coverage: Current
Updates: Bi-annually.

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated -- VRC --
Description: In depth full text biographies of newsmakers and figures of prominence with photographs.
Full Text: All biographies are full text.
Coverage: Covers historical figures from antiquity to the present day.
Updates: Monthly.

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Books-in-Print -- PML --
Description: Database of currently available books and other media.
Full Text: All records contain complete bibliographic information.
Updates: Daily.

Book Review Digest Plus -- VRC --
Description: Index to book reviews of English language fiction and non-fiction.
Full Text: All records include a summary of the book and excerpts from reviews. Select full text is available.
Coverage: 1983+
Updates: Daily.

Essay and General Literature Index -- VRC --
Description: Index to essays published in anthologies and collections.
Full Text: Citations only, no full text.
Coverage: 1985+
Updates: Annually.

Essay/Speech/Play Finder -- VRC --
Description: Database of essays and discursive writing published in the 20th century and focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Also includes the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and full-text for selected plays and dramatic works.
Full Text: Several thousand full text essays are included, along with author biographies and pictures.
Updates: Quarterly

FirstSearch -- PML --
Description: Collection of bibliographical and directory databases.
Includes the following databases:

WorldCat -- Union catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Article First -- Index of articles from the tables of contents of journals.
Electronic Collections Online -- Collection of citations from scholarly journals.
Wilson Select Plus -- Selected articles and citations from H.W. Wilson databases in science, humanities, education, and business.

Full Text: Includes a limited number of full text journal articles.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the database.
Updates: Daily.

Granger's World of Poetry Online -- LIB --
Description: Index to poetry with full text of selected poems.
Full Text: Contains the full text for over 30,000 poems.
Updates: Continuous.

Literature
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Literature Resource Center -- VRC --
Description: Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of over 120,000 authors from all time periods and literary forms.
Full Text: Select full text is available from several hundred literary journals plus critical and biographical information.
Updates: Monthly.

Magill onLiterature Plus -- PML --
Description: Literary criticism and plot summaries for the most studied works of world literature, as well as biographical and critical information on over 1,500 notable authors.
Full Text: All entries are full text.
Coverage: Contains the complete text of 62 volumes in Salem Press' Magills series with the the addition of Masterplots and Magill Book Reviews.
Updates: As new volumes are published in the series.

NoveList -- VRC --
Description: A reader's advisory service for adult, young adult and children's fiction.
Coverage: Fiction titles only.
Updates: Daily.

Poem Finder -- VRC --
Description: Searchable database of poems with selected biographies and criticism.
Full Text: Includes full text for over 100,000 poems.
Updates: Quarterly

Short Story Index -- VRC --
Description: Index to short stories written or translated into English that have appeared in collections and periodicals.
Full Text: Selected full text is available for approximately 1,600 stories.
Coverage: Indexing 1984+
Updates: Annually.

Story Finder -- VRC --
Description: Searchable database of thousands of full text short stories along with author biographies and story explanations.
Full Text: All stories are full text.
Updates: Quarterly

Twayne's Author Series -- VRC --
Description: Critical introductions to the work of several hundred of the most-studied American, British, and world authors
Full Text: All profiles are full text.
Updates: Updated as new volumes are published in the series.

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Associations Unlimited -- VRC --
Description: Directory of over 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state and local nonprofit membership organizations.
Full Text: All records are full text complete.
Coverage: Current
Updates: Annually.

Business
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Business & Company Resource Center -- VRC --
Description: An integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodical articles.
Full Text: Company and investment reports and a majority of articles are available full text
Coverage: 1980+
Updates: Daily.

Business Source Premier -- PML --
Description: An index to business journals and newsletters, covering virtually every area of business activity.
Full Text: Majority of journals are full text
Coverage: 1980+, with select journals in full text as far back as 1922.
Updates: Daily.

Foundation Directory Online Platinum -- LIB --
Description: Complete database of thousands of public, private and corporate grantmakers, as well as listings for thousands of individual grants.
Full Text: All records include complete contact and descriptive information on the foundations.
Coverage: Contains the complete database of the Foundation center
Updates: Bi-weekly.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online -- LIB --
Description: Database with information on grants to individual artists, researchers, students, etc. Over 6,000 individual grantmakers are currently included.
Full Text: All records include complete contact and descriptive information on the foundations.
Coverage: Contains the complete database of the Foundation center
Updates: Quarterly.

Morningstar.com Library Edition -- PML --
Description: Analyst reports and screening and comparison tools for over 20,000 stocks and mutual funds.
Full Text: All records are full text.
Coverage: Financial information, when available, dates back 10 years.
Updates: Daily.

New York State Contract Reporter -- LIB --
Description: Official weekly newsletter announcing contract opportunities with New York State government entities.
Full Text: All records are full text.
Coverage: Archive covers back to December 1998.
Updates: Weekly.

Reference USA -- PML --
Description: Directory of over 12 million public and private U.S. companies plus 120 million white pages listings of residential telephone numbers.
Full Text: All entries include complete, directory, contact, and line of business information
Updates: Daily.

Regional Business News -- PML --
Description: Coverage of over 65 local and regional business newspapers and journals.
Full Text: Contains full text for 50 periodicals.
Coverage: Indexing, abstracting and select full text 1993+
Updates: Updated daily.

Sports Business Research Network -- LIB --
Description: Includes market and financial research on the sports and recreation industry, statistics on consumer participation in a variety of activities, and full-text articles from sports business journals. Also includes an online equipment directory of the sports and recreation industries.
Updates: Daily.

Suffolk County Real Property Tax Database -- LIB --
Description: Property tax database for Suffolk County.
Coverage: All towns in Suffolk County, NY.
Updates: Annually.

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Career Guidance Center -- PML --
Description: Online database with profiles of over 2,000 jobs and careers in 90 industries.
Updates: Bi-monthly

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America the Beautiful -- VRC --
Description: Comprehensive database covering facts about the states and territories of the United States.
Full Text: All records are full text complete.
Updates: Monthly

Curriculum Resource Center -- VRC --
Description: Includes maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and other handouts in U.S. and world history, science, and geography.
Full Text: All diagrams are full text.

Encyclopedia of Animals -- VRC --
Description: Database entries describe the nature and habitat of many animals.
Full Text: All records are full text and most include a picture.

Homeschooling Resources
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Homework Sites
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Infotrac Junior Edition -- VRC --
Description: Searchable periodical database aimed at junior high and middle school students.
Full Text: Contains full text for over 90 popular magazines.
Coverage: Indexing and select full text 2000+
Updates: Daily.

Kids' Sites
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Middle Search Plus -- PML --
Description: Searchable database of popular magazines for middle school students.
Full Text: Over 150 full text magazines are included
Coverage: 1990+
Updates: Daily.

NoveList K-8 -- PML --
Description: A reader's advisory service for children's and young adult fiction from grades K-8.
Coverage: Fiction titles only.
Updates: Daily.

Parent's Sites
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Primary Search -- VRC --
Description: A colorful, animated database interface aimed at elementary school students.
Full Text: Contains full text for 60 popular magazines and over 100 pamphlets. All articles are assigned Lexile reading levels.
Coverage: Select full text 1990+
Updates: Updated daily.

SearchaSaurus -- VRC --
Description: A colorful, animated database interface aimed at elementary school students.
Full Text: Contains full text for 60 popular magazines and over 100 pamphlets. All articles are assigned Lexile reading levels.
Coverage: Select full text 1990+
Updates: Updated daily.

Teen Sites
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

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Community Resource Database of Long Island
Description: Searchable directory profiles for more than 12,000 community resources and services available on Long Island, including health, education, and human and social services programs.
Full Text: All records include contact information and a description for the organization.
Updates: Updated regularly.

Patchogue-Medford Library Community Service Directory -- LIB --
Description: An index to Patchogue-Medford and Suffolk County community organizations. Currently available only on staff workstations
Updates: Ongoing.

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Computer Source -- VRC --
Description: Database of articles covering computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet.
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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Education
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Education -- Professional Development Collection -- VRC --
Description: Specialized collection of full text articles for professional educators, librarians, and education researchers. Covers topics from child health and development to pedagogical theory and practice.
Full Text: 550+ journals are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990+
Updates: Daily.

ERIC -- VRC --
Description: Index to education journals and digests.
Full Text: Limited number of full text journal articles, with text available for digests.
Coverage: 1986 to the present.
Updates: Daily.

Teachers' Sites
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

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Enciclopedia Cumbre -- VRC --
Description: A general Spanish language encyclopedia with a special emphasis on the peoples and cultures of Latin America.
Full Text: All entries are full text in Spanish.
Updates: Quarterly for articles and monthly for Internet links.

Encyclopedia Americana -- VRC --
Description: An online version of the encyclopedia with over 45,000 articles.
Full Text: All entries are full text.
Updates: Quarterly.

Encyclopedia of Animals -- PML --
Description: Database entries describe the nature and habitat of many animals.
Full Text: All records are full text and most include a picture.

Encyclopedias
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Famous First Facts -- VRC --
Description: Database of inventions, discoveries and first happenings in American history from 10,000 B.C. to 1997.
Full Text: All records are full text.
Coverage: 10,000 B.C. -- 1997
Updates: Whenever a new edition of the print book appears.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia -- VRC --
Description: Multimedia encyclopedia designed for students.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Updates: Weekly.

Grolier Online Atlas -- VRC --
Description: Political and thematic maps of the nations of the world. Has links to corresponding encyclopedia articles.
Full Text: Linked articles are full text.

New Book of Knowledge -- VRC --
Description: A reference and current events encyclopedia designed for elementary school students.
Full Text: All entries are full text, including links to several thousand full text articles.
Updates: Quarterly.

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EBSCOHost Espanol -- VRC --
Description: Puede buscar en estas bases de datos en español. Para buscar en una sola base de datos, oprima en el nombre de la base de datos listado a continuación de las mismas. Para seleccionar más de una base de datos en que buscar, ponga un visto en las casillas junto a las bases de datos y oprima en el botón RETORNO.
Full Text: Select full text is available.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the database
Updates: Daily.

Informe! (Magazines in Spanish) -- VRC --
Description: A collection of full text Spanish language magazines. Coverage includes business, health, technology, and popular culture.
Full Text: Select full text is available.
Coverage: 1999+
Updates: Daily.

Informe! (Revistas en Espanol) -- VRC --
Description: Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Full Text: Select full text is available.
Coverage: 1999+
Updates: Daily.

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America's Obituaries and Death Notices -- PML -- Description: Searchable database of full text obituaries and death notices from over 500 American newspapers.
Full Text: All obituaries are full text.
Coverage: Majority of newspapers indexed are from the 1990s forward. Some titles date back to the late 1980s.
Updates: Daily.

Ancestry Library Edition -- LIB --
Description: Collection of genealogy databases including U.S. and UK census images, birth, marriage and death records, the U.S. Immigration Collection, containing many passenger and naturalization records, and a wide variety of other genealogy materials.
Full Text: Complete full text.
Updates: New databases are added daily.

Genealogy
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Genealogy.com -- LIB --
Description: Genealogy.com contains a database of over 1.8 billion names for researching your family history through family trees, historical records, and the Genealogy Learning Center.
Updates: Continuous.

Heritage Quest -- VRC --
Description: Genealogy database with a fully searchable collection of 25,000+ genealogy books, plus U.S. Census images from 1790-1930.
Full Text: All genealogy books included are in full text.
Coverage: Includes U.S. Federal Census images 1790-1930.
Updates: Periodic updates, approximately once a quarter.

Origins Network -- LIB --
Description: Searchable database specializing in records for Britain, Ireland, and Scotland. The database has indexed wills, court, probate, apprenticeship, birth, marriage, burials and census records dating back to the 1500s.
Updates: Weekly.

Patchogue-Medford Library Genealogy Index
Description: An index to genealogy materials at the Patchogue-Medford Library.
Updates: Whenever new genealogy materials are added to the collection.

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Alternative Health Watch -- PML --
Description: Database of publications focusing on alternative, homeopathic and complementary approaches to health care.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: 1990 to the present.
Updates: Daily.

Health & Wellness Resource Center -- VRC --
Description: Contains full text articles from medical journals and consumer health publications covering all aspects of health and medicine. Also includes pamphlets and reference books.
Coverage: Full text begins for many titles in 1980, with the majority from the mid 1990s forward.
Updates: Daily.

Health for Consumers
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Health Reference Center Academic -- VRC --
Description: Index to health and medical periodicals and journals.
Full Text: Approximately 80% of the journals are in full text, plus pamphlets and reference book excerpts.
Coverage: 1980+.
Updates: Daily.

Health Source: Consumer Edition -- VRC --
Description: A health and medical database designed for the general public.
Full Text: Approximately 50% of the journals are in full text.
Coverage: 1990+.
Updates: Daily.

MEDLINE w/MeSH -- VRC --
Description: Searchable index and abstracts from over 4,600 biomedical journals.
Full Text: A very limited number of citations contain links to full text. Adobe Acrobat Reader required for some articles
Coverage: 1966+
Updates: Daily.

Well-Connected -- LIB --
Description: Contains in-depth reports, written for non-health professionals on common diseases and health concerns.
Full text: All reports are full text and available in English and Spanish.
Coverage: Based on the Well-Connected print series.
Updates: Quarterly.

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American Civil War Reference Library -- VRC --
Description: Aimed at students, this database covers the events, people, and places of the American Revolution, including biographies and primary source documents.
Full Text: All articles are full text.

American Indian History and Culture -- PML --
Description: Online encyclopedia covering the culture, history, and biography of the Indian tribes of North America
Updates: Bi-monthly

American Revolution Reference Library -- VRC --
Description: Aimed at students, this database covers the events, people, and places of the American Revolution, including biographies and primary source documents.
Full Text: All articles are full text.

American Slave Narratives -- VRC --
Description: Includes over 4,000 American slave narratives, plus related sources.
Full Text: All narratives are in full text.

Ancient History and Culture -- PML --
Description: Online encyclopedia covering the ancient culture and history of Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, MesoAmerica, and Mesopotamia.
Updates: Bi-monthly

Daily Life Online -- VRC --
Description: Explores the everyday life of ordinary citizens throughout history, including topics such as marriage and family, education, sports and amusements, arts and crafts and more.
Full Text: Approximately half of the database, about 4,000 journals, are in full text.
Coverage: All historical periods, from antiquity to the present are covered.
Updates: Monthly.

Historic Events of the 20th Century -- VRC --
Description: Contains historical background and analysis of the following issues from the 20th century -- Civil Rights Movement, the collapse of Communism, the Holocaust, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the two world wars.
Full Text: All material is in full text.
Updates: Monthly.

History Behind the Headlines -- VRC --
Description: Provides historical background information on conflicts and crises occurring on the world stage.
Full Text: All articles are full text.

History Resource Center: U.S. -- VRC --
Description: Primary and secondary source database for the study of American history from colonial times to the present day.
Full Text: Full text for over 100 journals in history, plus primary documents, images, and maps.
Updates: Daily.

Long Island Forum Index
Description: An electronic version of the print indexes of the Long Island Forum journal of Long Island history.
Full Text: The library maintains a full set of the print journal in our Local History Room.
Coverage: 1938 to 2004.
Updates: The journal ceased publication in 2004.

Major Acts of Congress -- VRC --
Description: An illustrated encyclopedia of U.S. congressional acts from the first Congress to the present.
Full Text: All articles are full text.

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Law
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Legal Collection -- VRC --
Description: This database contains information centered on law and legal topics, such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor and human resource law, ethics, environmental law and more.
Full Text: 260+ full text, scholarly journals in law.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990s forward, but some full text journals available back to 1975.
Updates: Daily.

Shepard's Citations -- LIB --
Description: Legal citation information that allows you to check whether or not a decision in question has been overturned.
Coverage: U.S. and New York State cases.
Updates: Daily.

Westlaw -- LIB --
Description: Legal database featuring law codes and cases from New York State and federal sources
Updates: Daily.

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Academic Search Premier -- VRC --
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.

AP Photo Archive -- LIB --
Description: Current and historic photographs with descriptive captions. From the Associated Press
Full Text: Each photograph has a full caption.
Coverage: Most photos date from 1995+, but some images date back as far as 1840.
Updates: Daily

ConsumerReports.org -- LIB --
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.

Custom Newspapers -- VRC --
Description: Full text database of over 150 United States and international newspapers.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the newspaper, but generally from the 1990s forward.
Updates: Updated daily. Normally a one day lag in full text availability.

Current News
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

EBSCOHost -- PML --
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.

GaleNet -- VRC --
Description: Provides links to all the Gale Group databases subscribed to by the library
Full Text: Most of the databases are majority full text.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the database
Updates: Daily.

Library Literature -- VRC --
Description: Indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals 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.

Long Island Union List of Serials -- PML --
Description: Location and holding information for serial publications in Nassau and Suffolk libraries. Now accessible through the library's FirstSearch subscription. To access click on "Databases" tab and then choose "Long Island Union List."
Updates: Annually.

Magazine Indexes
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

MasterFile Premier -- VRC --
Description: An index to general periodicals and books designed expressly for public libraries.
Full Text: Contains full text for over 2,000 periodicals. 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.

National Newspaper Index -- VRC --
Description: Index to five major newspapers: the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.
Full Text: Citations only, no full text.
Coverage: 1977 to the present.
Updates: Daily.

National Newspapers -- VRC --
Description: Searchable database of full text articles from the following newspapers -- Atlanta Journal Constitution 1995+, Boston Globe 1980+, Christian Science Monitor 1988+, New York Times 1995+, USA Today 1987+, Wall Street Journal 1984+, and the Washington Post 1987+. These newspapers may also be searched individually. See the separate alphabetical entries for each paper.
Full Text: All articles are in full text.
Updates: Daily, with a one day lag in coverage.

New York State Newspapers -- VRC --
Description: Database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times, New York Post, and New York Observer.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the newspaper, but generally from the 1990s forward.
Updates: Updated daily. Normally a one day lag in full text availability.

New York Times Current -- VRC --
Description: Searchable full text of the New York Times Late Edition, New York Times Book Review, and New York Times Magazine.
Full Text: All articles are in full text.
Coverage: 1995+
Updates: Updated daily. Normally a one day lag in full text availability.

New York Times Historical -- VRC --
Description: Complete, searchable image archive of the New York Times from 1851 to 2003.
Full Text: Complete full text. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

Newsday Archive -- VRC --
Description: Searchable full text of Newsday and New York Newsday.
Full Text: All articles are in full text.
Coverage: 1985+
Updates: Updated daily. Normally a one day lag in full text availability.

Newspaper Source -- PML --
Description: Provides selected full text coverage for 250 newspapers and radio and television programs.
Full Text: Selected full text coverage is available
Coverage: Varies, but generally from 1990s forward.
Updates: Daily.

ProQuest National Newspapers -- VRC --
Description: Searchable full text of the following newspapers.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: See below
Updates: Updated daily. Normally a one day lag in full text availability.

Atlanta Journal Constitution 1990+
Boston Globe 1980+
Chicago Tribune 1985+
Christian Science Monitor 1988+
Los Angeles Times 1985+
USA Today 1987+
Wall Street Journal 1984+
Washington Post 1987+

Serials Solutions -- LIB --
Description: Comprehensive listing of full text journals in print, microfilm, and online formats to which the Patchogue-Medford Library subscribes.
Updates: Bi-monthly.

WilsonWeb Cross Database Search -- VRC --
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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Grolier Online Atlas -- VRC --
Description: Geopolitical, thematic and exploration maps of the nations of the world. Has links to corresponding encyclopedia articles. Click on the "Atlas" link in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Full Text: Linked articles are full text.

World Atlas -- PML --
Description: World Atlas provides more than 1,100 clear, reproducible maps and statistics and data on more than 280 nations, territories, regions, U.S. states, and Canadian provinces. Statistical data for states and countries may be compared and ranked.
Full Text: Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view maps.
Updates: Bi-monthly.

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Grove Dictionary of Music Online -- VRC --
Description: A multimedia encyclopedia of music in all formats.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: Contains the full text of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Updates: Annually.

Music
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Patchogue-Medford Library Classical Music Index
Description: An index to classical sheet music at the Patchogue-Medford Library.
Updates: Whenever new music is added to the collection.

Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index
Description: An index to Patchogue-Medford Library's popular songbook and sheet music collection.
Updates: Whenever new music is added to the collection.

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General Science Collection -- VRC --
Description: Database of general science magazines and journals covering all aspects of the natural sciences.
Full Text: Includes full text for 60+ journals.
Coverage: Indexing and abstracts 1988+, Select full text 1992+.
Updates: Daily.

Science
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Science Online -- VRC --
Description: A curriculum-oriented database that offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences.
Full Text: Includes diagrams, definitions, biographies, essays, and timelines.
Coverage: All areas of the natural sciences.
Updates:

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Multicultural Resources
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center -- VRC --
Description: Brings together viewpoint articles and background information on a wide variety of controversial social and economic issues.
Full Text: All articles are full text.
Coverage: 1992+
Updates: Daily.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection -- VRC --
Description: Comprehensive database of articles from academic and scholarly journals in psychology and behavioral sciences, covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Full Text: 540+ journals are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990s forward, but some full text journals available back to 1975.
Updates: Daily.

Self Help & Psychology
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Social Sciences
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.

Sociology Collection -- VRC --
Description: Covers information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
Full Text: 500+ full text journals in sociology are indexed.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990s forward, but some full text journals available back to the 1950s.
Updates: Daily.

Topic Search -- VRC --
Description: Current events database aimed at students, covering social, political and economic issues and other topics in the news.
Full Text: Selected full text is available from over 1,300 magazines and newspapers, plus pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, and public opinion polls.
Coverage: Indexing and abstracting 1991+ Selected full text 1998+
Updates: Four times a week.

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