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High School Library Databases by Subject

Arts, Literature, Music, Hobbies

Salem Press
This series contains the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world’s most-studied literature. Each volume in the series focuses on an individual author’s entire body of work or on a single work of literature. 
Critical Insights Themes: Good and Evil
Critical Insights Authors:

  • George Orwell
  • John Steinbeck
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Critical Insights Works
  • The Bell Jar
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Great Gatsby
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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Business

FindIt! BOCES
A comprehensive collection of NOVELny databases, as well as any subscriptions purchased through Nassau BOCES. Hoovers Company Profiles provides information about 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover is widely recognized as a leader in company data, delivers in-depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers and more.

Gale Databases
Small business collection; Business Economics and Theory; General Business File ASAP
Business Insights: Essentials

Financial Literacy
Database articles explore macro, micro, and global economics as well as personal and household finance.

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Careers

Gale Cengage Learning
Vocations and Careers Collection

New Careers Internet Database
Comprehensive reports of promising career fields for the 21st Century


Current Events

NewsBank
A world of information

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General, Multi-Subject

World Book Online

  • Early World of Learning
  • Kids
  • Student
  • Advanced
  • Activity Corner
  • Discover
  • Dramatic Learning
  • Early Peoples
  • Inventions and Discoveries
  • Living Green
  • Encyclopedia Estudiantie Hallazgos
  • Hispanica Saber
  • L'Encyclopedie Decoverte

BrainPOP
600+ animated movies for grades 3-12; Visually appealing; Interactive quizzes for assessment & enrichment, experiments & creative activities.

FindIt! BOCES
A comprehensive collection of NOVELny databases, as well as any subscriptions purchased through Nassau BOCES.

Gale Databases

  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • General OneFile
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Academic OneFile
  • General Reference Gold
  • Junior Edition
  • Junior Edition K-12
  • Student Edition
  • Kids InfoBits

Scholastic GO

  • Amazing Animals
  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • New Book of Popular Science
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • America the Beautiful
  • Lands and People
  • La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre

FindIt! BOCES
General reference resource for young researchers that makes learning fun and intuitive. Helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.

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Health, Science

FindIt! BOCES
General reference resource for young researchers that makes learning fun and intuitive. Helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.

JoVE
JoVE publishes peer-reviewed scientific video protocols to accelerate biological, medical, chemical and physical research. Watch our scientific video articles.

TRUEflix
TRUEflix is a multimedia resource with videos and activities on dozens of science and social studies units

FindIt! BOCES

A comprehensive collection of NOVELny databases, as well as any subscriptions purchased through Nassau Boces.

American Physical Society Journals
Physical review, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics

ScienceDirect
Journal collection; Over 25% of the world's science, technology & medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Infobase
Curriculum-oriented encyclopedia for sciences, including images, experiments, biographies, and national & state education standards

Information, images and videos on health topics including:

  • Drug Abuse
  • Body Systems
  • Diseases and Disorders
  • Nutrition and Wellness
  • Mental Health

*Login and then choose Health Reference Center

World Book Online
World Book Digital Libraries, including Timelines and Discoverer information

Gale Databases
Health Collections:

  • Health Reference Center Academic
  • Nursing and Allied Health
  • Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
  • Psychology Collection

Science Collections:

  • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
  • Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture
  • Computer Database
  • Agriculture Collection Info
  • General Science Collection

Infobase
Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Salem Press
Adolescent Health and Wellness

ScienceFlix
Curriculum-driven, leveled content, interactive features,  intuitive navigation for grades 4-9

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History, Geography Biography, Religion, Government

TRUEflix
TRUEflix is a multimedia resource with videos and activities on dozens of science and social studies units

FindIt! BOCES
A collection of NOVELny databases, as well as any subscriptions purchased through Nassau BOCES.

ABC-CLIO
American History; World History - Ancient & Medieval:  Prehistoric times to beginning of Renaissance; World History - Modern Era: 1500's to the present

Salem Press

  • Great Lives in History: 20th Century - worldwide biographies
  • Notorious Lives
  • Inventors and Inventions
  • Great Events from History: Renaissance and Early Modern Era 1454 - 1600
  • Great Athletes: Baseball, Football, Boxing, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Racing, Olympic Sports
  • Decades: 1920's - 2000's

FindIt! BOCES
SIRS Decades: 5000 primary and secondary source articles on the 20th century. This portal offers access to other SIRS products including: Issues Researcher- current events and controversial topics

Worldbook Online
Early People including Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Africans and American Indians, etc.

Gale Database

  • Criminal Justice Collection
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  • US History Collection
  • U.S. History in Context
  • New York Times 1985
  • History Resource Center - US
  • Massachusetts History Online
  • History Resource Center - World
  • Global Issues in Context
  • World History Collection
  • World History in Context
  • Biography in Context
  • Biography Resource Center

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Newspapers, Media, Communications

Gale Cengage Learning

  • Academic OneFile
  • New York Times Newspapers
  • General OneFile
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • General Reference Center Gold
  • Student Edition
  • Junior Edition K12

Gannet News Stand
Search Gannet News Stand to quickly find news information you need. Get access to top news stories and the information contained on the various sections of the newspapers.

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Social, Contemporary Issues

FindIt! BOCES
A comprehensive collection of NovelNY databases, as well as any subscriptions purchased through Nassau Boces.

Infobase Learning
Combines objective analysis, explanations of opposing points of view and other special features.

Proquest - SIRS Issues Researcher
Covering the Leading Issues most studied and debated by students

Gale Databases
Criminal Justice Collection; General OneFile; Opposing Viewpoints in Context; Global Issues in Context

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Teaching Tools

Discovery Education
Educational videos & information on all content areas - use same login as used with Castle Learning. Teacher logins provide access to additional features.

Teaching Books
A collection of multimedia K-12 author and book resources including interviews with authors, professional book readings, and book guides

BrainPOP
600+ movies that are visually appealing, cleverly written and speak to kids in a voice they can relate to; Interactive quizzes and enrichment materials, like experiments and creative activities supplement the movies.

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World Languages, ESL

WorldBook Online
Specialty Sites: Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos; Hispanica Saber; L'Encyclopedie Decoverte

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