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All Resources & Databases - Suffolk County Libraries
Access all the databases and online resources offered by the public libraries of Suffolk County through Livebrary.com. Search and browse by category, age group, or format.
New! GetSetUp
Access live and on-demand classes, designed for and taught by older adults, to enhance skills and foster social connections.
Car & Home
Auto Repair Source
This database contains do-it-yourself repair and maintenance information on thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. Content has been provided by MOTOR Information Systems.
Search: Consumer Reports
Online Text Version. Full text access to the online text version of Consumer Reports.
Home Improvement Reference Center
Provides access to detailed “how-to” information for home improvement and repair projects. Provided by EBSCO after Hurricane Sandy at no cost to Suffolk Public Libraries.
NHTSA – National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: provides car crash test results, automotive recalls and links to all aspects of automotive safety.
Genealogy & Heritage
Ancestry
Ancestry.com offers a network of genealogical and historical record websites, develops and markets genealogical software, and offers a wide array of genealogical related services.
Our Ancestry.com account is available for in-library use only.
Fold 3 – By Ancestry
Access to US military records including stories, photos, and personal documents.
Heritage Quest
Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History book collection.
MyHeritage
Search records from around the world including birth, marriage, death, military, census, and parish records.
New York Heritage Digital Collections
A research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State. Provides access to more than 170 distinct digital collections, totaling hundreds of thousands of items.
Health, Medicine, & Wellness
Gale Health Reference Center
Access to nursing and allied health journals, plus select consumer health information sources, and thousands of health-related multimedia.
Long Island 2-1-1
Directory of local health and human service agencies and programs. A project of the United Way and the Middle Country Public Library.
Medline
Access to biomedical and health journals. Includes recently published.
MedlinePlus
A great resource for all things related to health and medicine. Use the Encyclopedia for comprehensive information on medical tests and results.
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
New York State Physician Profile
NYS Physician Profile provides information on doctors' education, practice information, specialties and legal actions.
Science Reference Center
Access science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and more. Topics include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, and more.
Legal Documents, Finance, & Investment
Law Depot on Libby
Access hundreds of customizable legal documents on Law Depot from your Libby account.
Law Depot
Create an account and then start preparing your own legal forms.
Live-brary Guide: Law
A beginner's guide to legal research, focused on personal law. Contains resources to find a lawyer and research legal topics including bankruptcy, citizenship, courts, federal & New York laws, divorce/family law, foreclosure, and more.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar provides data on more than 385,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 8 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets.
Research Databases
Britannica Academic
Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools for college-level learners, researchers, and faculty.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Access to educational literature and resources.
Explora Public Library
Search for articles, essays and primary source materials for teens and adults.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directories. Use it to search, sort and export a variety of information such as financial information for companies, membership figures for associations, education- related financial aid and scholarships, and much more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources. You can download journal articles and book chapters in PDF format, save items for later use, and get pre-formatted MLA, APA, or Chicago citations.
Live-brary Topic Guides
Browse topic guides created by Suffolk County librarians to help you find the information, books, databases, and online resources you need. Live-brary provides 40 guides on 27 subjects.
Opposing Viewpoints
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.
Teacher Reference Center
Access to journal articles for teachers and librarians.