• Gale Custom Newspapers: over 120 titles
• Gale New York State Newspapers: 15 titles
• New York Times

Biographies

• Twayne's Authors Series: Biography and literary criticism on more than 600 world authors.
• Encyclopedia of World Biography: Vol. 24 (2005) | Vol. 25 (2005) | Vol. 26 (2006) | Vol. 27 (2007)

Homework Support

• EBSCO Kids Search or Searchasaurus (features an animated dinosaur theme) for elementary school students. Includes 70 popular magazines, Encyclopedia of Animals & American Heritage Children's Dictionary
• Grolier includes:
  • Encyclopedia Americana: In depth information for older students & adults
  • Multimedia Encyclopedia: Quick reference with rich media for middle school & higher
  • New Book of Knowledge: Reference & current events for elementary school & higher. Includes projects & experiments
  • Online Atlas
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
  • American Heritage Children's Thesaurus
  • American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  • American Heritage Student Dictionary
  • American Heritage Children's Dictionary
  • American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary
  • American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary
• Additional Encyclopedias
  • Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
  • Encyclopedia of Population
  • Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
  • UXL Encyclopedia of Science
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

Help

• Contact your local library with questions or comments, and to locate additional library materials not included in these databases.
• If you are having difficulties: Sometimes there are conflicts with firewall software on home computers, and the following settings may take care of the problem:
  • the option to accept cookies, including third party cookies, needs to be enabled
  • you may need to include the URL you are trying to access inyour "accepted" list
  • the option to allow the use of port 2048 to be checked ON

* What does "free" mean? Free to patrons of Columbia County Libraries. These resources have information you cannot acccess through a normal Internet search, in fact, they are part of the "invisible web," available only to patrons of libraries where access has been purchased for them.  Funds to purchase these resources came to libraries through Columbia County , New York State Government & the New York State Library's NOVELny program. Feedback encouraged!