These databases are available in every
public library in Monroe County, and from your PC at home or at work.
Check with individual libraries and divisions for specific products
not listed here.
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Academic OneFile
Periodicals covering a broad range of material: arts, business,
education, general reference, health, law, literature, medicine,
sciences, social sciences, technology, and other subjects.
Type: Abstracts. |
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A.D.A.M Interactive Anatomy
Health resources for public libraries. Three award-winning medical databases, one comprehensive health and reference library.
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AtoZdatabases:
Search Jobs, Businesses or Mailing Lists
The database
includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business & executive
profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more. Ideal
for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment
opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more! |
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Britannica Academic Edition
An accurate, current, and comprehensive resource for college-level learners, researchers, and faculty. Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools that make research easier and more productive.
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Britannica Escolar
Encyclopedia that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. Two levels, Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school, offer unique content that is of interest to every student. Search easily across levels by topic or subject area.
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Britannica School
Thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases for elementary, middle, or high school students. There is Read-aloud, a font size adjuster, and built-in translation tools support students with special needs and ELLs.
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Business
Insights: Essentials
Includes company profiles, industry reports and financial reports, as
well as business magazines and newspapers. |
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments.
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CLIC-on-Health
A "one-stop-shopping" site for Rochester health information, CLIC-on-Health
is administered by the Rochester Regional Library Council. Funding for
CLIC-on-Health is provided by a grant from NY Senator Jim Alesi and
the Rochester Regional Library Council.
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Consumer
Reports
Find product ratings and reviews, in-depth advice, tips and trends,
and recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and
services.
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EBSCO
GreenFILE
A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship
between human beings and the environment. Comprised of scholarly and
general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports,
GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative
ways humans affect the ecology. |
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EBSCO
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on
subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management
and more. With coverage dating back back to the mid-1960s, it is the
oldest continuously produced database covering the field of
information science. |
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EBSCO Teacher Reference
Center (TRC)
This database provides coverage on key education topics such as
Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research,
Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy
Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 teachers and
librarians. |
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Educators Complete Reference
Provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.
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Gale Custom Newspapers (New York State Newspapers)
Eight full-text newspapers for New York State (from Buffalo, New York City and Syracuse) including: The Buffalo News and the Syracuse Post-Standard.
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Gale
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than
16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and
careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras
and genres. Comprised of the award-winning Dictionary of
Literary Biography series, which over its 30-year history has been
dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and
more accessible to students and interested readers, DLB Complete
Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and
the DLB Yearbook Series - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online
format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
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Gale Directory
Of Early Stage Investment
Covers the several types of early stage investors including: venture
capitalists, business incubators, angel investors and angel groups,
corporate investment divisions, crowd-funding and co-operative groups.
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Gale Literary Criticism Online
Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the
largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available:
Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the
scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets,
encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use
24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print
originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays
at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research
while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's
researchers demand.
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Gale Something
About the Author Online
Provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever
printed in Gale's acclaimed and long-standing Something About the
Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and
illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent
source on authors and literature for young people. Something About the
Author Online includes both the main series and Something About the
Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000
entries, and nearly 17,000 images - all delivered in an easy-to-use
24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print
originals.
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Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Trusted and authoritative digital reference books covering everything
from biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine,
multicultural studies, our nation and the world, religion, science and
social issues. All sources are full-text, available 24/7, translatable
into 11 languages, offer text-to-speech capability and options to
print, email and download articles. |
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General OneFile
This database contains news and periodical articles on many topics:
business, computers, current events, economics, education,
environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law,
literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many more. Type: Abstracts and some full text. |
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Health Reference Center Academic
Database contains the full-text of medical, nursing and allied health
journals, plus a wide variety of consumer health sources. Type: Full
text, abstracts. |
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HeritageQuest
A powerful and popular genealogical resource that includes the Federal
Censuses, over 25,000 family and local histories, bank and military
records, and genealogical and local history sources. |
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IInforme Academico
Provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
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InfoTrac
Newsstand
InfoTrac Newsstand is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database
which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop
source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With
InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and
results format. |
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Kids Infobits
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a
developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower
topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference
sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and
more. |
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Library Catalog
The online catalog of the holdings of the Monroe County Library
System. |
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Opposing Viewpoints
Contains a range of perspectives on many important issues, with over
13,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types:
reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more. |
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Research in Context
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.
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Rochester History
Rochester History is a journal that covers the history of Rochester
and western New York. All articles are available on-line - from 1939
to the present. |
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VIN Decoder
Enter your vehicle’s 17-character Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) to receive an instant report on its manufacturer, brand, make and model, body style, engine size, assembly plant, and model year. |
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WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
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