Suffolk e-Resources
Over 65 searchable information resources accessible at any time from any ccomputer connected to the Internet. Suffolk e-Resources includes both popular and academic reference works and additional genealogical resources. Access from outside the library requires a library card and password. If you do not have a password, or have forgotten it, please call the library (631-725-0049, ext. 21) for assistance.
For a full list of Suffolk e-Resources click on the link below.
Ancestry Library Edition
Search for your ancestors from over two billion names listed in this comprehensive genealogical database. You must be using a computer in the John Jermain Memorial Library to access this resource.
To use Ancestry Library Edition in the library click on the link below.
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an Internet-based career exploration and planning
tool to help explore career and college options
and develop a career plan. Career Cruising can be accessed from wherever you have access to the Internet. Features of the program include:
- Interest and Skills Assessment - a world-renowned career assessment tool to help people identify suitable career options based on their interests and skills.
- Career Profiles - thorough and up-to-date information about hundreds of different occupations, including direct links between careers and related college programs.
- Multimedia Interviews - interviews with real people in each occupation, which add depth and realism to career profiles.
- College and Financial Aid Information - comprehensive college and financial aid information, with a number of useful search tools to help students find the right college and the right scholarships.
- Electronic Career Portfolio - available online, so you can develop your education and career plans from wherever you access Career Cruising.
- Resume Builder - integrated with the portfolio to help you format and print professional-looking resumes quickly and easily.
To use Career Cruising, click on one of the links below.
Reference USA
ReferenceUSA provides business and consumer research. It offers
a full-service platform that helps users create marketing plans, conduct
competitive analysis, raise funds and locate people. Also included is
real-time access to more than 20 Million Businesses, 222 Million Consumers, U.S.
New Businesses, U.S. New Homeowners and Movers. ReferenceUSA’s information helps researchers,
students and job-seekers answer a wide variety of questions.
Small-business owners and entrepreneurs can conduct powerful market research. For example: select
a location and do a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in
the area. Check the strength of the competition with years in business and credit
rating. Look for businesses to buy or connect with fellow business owners.
Job seekers can locate and research companies they want to work for. ReferenceUSA has
details on 14 million U.S. Businesses including 200,000 human resource contact names,
business descriptions, company size and website links to job postings.
Students can find articles for research on businesses, perform complicated
searches for papers and class projects, or use data summaries to profile an entire
neighborhood, city or state by type of business, size of business or household median
income.
Movers can find schools, childcare, churches, doctors and other services. They can also research
neighborhoods they want to move into, plus, look for housing, and check home value
and median income to see how they will compare to their new neighbors.
To use ReferenceUSA, click on one of the links below.
Natural Standard
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. Natural Standard is impartial; not supported by any interest group, professional organization, product manufacturer. Institutional subscriptions, custom content and licensing are available.
Databases
- Foods, Herbs & Supplements
- Health & Wellness
- Comparative Effectiveness
- Interactions & Depletions
- Charts & Tables
- Brand Names
- Symptom Checker
- Medical Conditions
- Sports Medicine
- Genomics & Proteomics
- Environment & Global Health
- Interactive Tools
To use Natural Standard in the library click on the link below.
Suffolk Historic Newspapers
Suffolk Historic Newspapers is a centralized, searchable collection of Suffolk's newspaper heritage available to you online. Because of Suffolk County's unique geography and historical development, no one newspaper can provide complete coverage of the county. Digitizing allows searching of previously unindexed microfilm resources across multiple multiple newspapers, covering any time period. The articles can be viewed separately or as they appear on the full page. They can be printed, saved to your local computer and emailed.
To view Suffolk Historic Newspapers, click on the link below.
Hudson River Valley Historic Newspapers
The vision for HRVH Historical Newspapers is to provide 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. The entire contents of the newspaper issues can be searched and browsed in HRVH Historical newspapers.
To view Hudson River Valley Historic Newspapers, click on the link below.
|
