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2-1-1 Long Island
A free, non-emergency information and referral service that connects Long Island residents to health and human services.
Ancestry.com (In Library use only)
A comprehensive genealogy resource center including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records.
Britannica Academic Edition
Search for articles, images, videos, primary sources, dictionaries, eBooks, journals and periodicals on a wide range of subjects
Britannica Escolar
Discover the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.
Britannica School Edition
Students in Elementary, Middle or High School can search for articles, images, primary source documents and videos on a broad range of subjects
Certification Matters
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is the recognized leader in developing and setting the gold standard for physician specialty certification in the United States. Use this online resource to search for board-certified doctors.
Community Resources
A collection of links to local agencies and government websites.
Coursera
The New York State Department of Labor provides free access to Coursera’s extensive roster of continuing education courses.
Cypress Resume
Cypress Resume is a simple, effective tool for resume creation specifically designed for job seekers to create a professional resume in a matter of minutes.
Digital Commons Network
Full Text, open access, discipline-specific repository in Law, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Medicine and Health Sciences, Engineering, Education, Life Science, Business and Architecture.
DuoLingo
Learn languages completely free, without ads or hidden charges. It’s fun, easy, and scientifically proven.
Educational Websites (In Library use only)
This is a collection of links helpful to both students and adults.
Explora Educator’s Edition
Professional development resources for educators including lesson plans, research guides, and curriculum standards.
Explora Public Libraries
This resource is designed for teens and adults. It offers an extensive collection of full-text articles from leading magazines and reference books.
Family Search (In Library use only)
FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history.
Gale Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology and literature.
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.
Gale Books and Authors
Answer the age-old question, ‘What do I read next?’ Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
24-hour expertise for business owners covering all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes.
Gale Business: Insights
Company profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, stock prices, investment reports, and industry statistics.
Gale General OneFile
News and periodical articles on a wide range of 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 general interest topics.
Gale Health and Wellness
This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.
Gale in Context: Elementary
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, arts and music, social studies, and more.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Topical databases for middle school children including: Biography, Canada, Global Issues, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, Student Resources, U.S. History, World History, and the middle school resource Research In Context.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
For those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues.
Gale in Context: Science
From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
Gale in Context: U.S. History
Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, U.S. History In Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Gale in Context: World History
Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, World History In Context provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.
Gale LegalForms
Offers a wide selection of essential New York State legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. Includes real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant, and many others.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science
Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Center
Resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico
Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.
Gale OneFile: News
This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields.
Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Includes full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more. It offers information on undergraduate and graduate programs and tuition and scholarship assistance, as well as a resume builder and interviewing advice.
Gale Resources with subject collections
Browse all Gale research products available from your library.
Glen Cove Herald Gazette-March 2017 to Present
In March 2017, the Gold Coast Gazette was re-branded as the Glen Cove Herald Gazette.
This “new” paper is the result of the Gold Coast Gazette joining forces with Herald Community Newspapers, which have been bringing hometown news to communities across Long Island since 1924.
Glen Cove Oyster Bay Record Pilot
Weekly Glen Cove/Oyster Bay area community newspaper. Includes coverage of news, local events, sports and obituaries from March 16, 2022 to May 1, 2024.
Glen Cove Record Pilot
Weekly Glen Cove area community newspaper. Includes coverage of news, local events, sports and obituaries from December 4, 1997 to March 9, 2022
Gold Coast Gazette
Gold Coast Gazette – A weekly newspaper covering news and events in Glen Cove, as well as Brookville, Glen Head, Glenwood Landing and Sea Cliff. In 2017, The Gold Coast Gazette was re-branded as The Glen Cove Herald Gazette.
HeritageQuest Online
A unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture.
JobNow
An innovative online service that provides expert resume help, real-time interview coaching and career advice. There are services to help with every step of a job search.
Kanopy
A video streaming service for quality, thoughtful entertainment. Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos that inspire, enrich and entertain.
Long Island Metro Collection-NewsBank
Find Long Island community information on topics related to business, education, government, people in the news, politics and more with dozens of New York state sources
Mometrix
The largest collection of test prep with study guides, practice tests, and flashcards for over 1,400 different exams.
Nassau County Job Development Center
This unit of the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights helps all Nassau County residents, but particularly minority group members, with their job search needs.
Nassau Digital Doorway (Libby) eBooks, Audiobooks and Magazines
Thousands of e-books, audiobooks, magazines, comics, graphics novels and videos. Access over 5,000 downloadable popular digital magazines.
New York State Archives
New York State Archives partnered with Ancestry.com and digitized some of the New York State records of interest for genealogy searching. This database is free if you live in New York and available for use in the library or remotely.
New York Times (Historical:1851-2020)
Historical local, regional and national news from the New York Times archives.
New York Times (June 1, 1980 to present)
Newsday
Full text coverage from October 1985-present of Combined edition
Newsday (Historical: 1940-1995)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Newsday.com
Today’s News. Search current issues of Newsday.com online.
Niche Academy
Provides ready-to-use tutorials for the most commonly used library electronic resources including OverDrive & Libby ebooks, language learning, Reference USA for business and more.
Nuwav Legal Documents
NUWAV Legal Documents is a database of documents that are easy to compose in categories
such as Business, Contracts, Landlord/Tenant disputes, Divorce and much, much more.
NY Department of Labor
The Department of Labor’s website contains many resources for job-seekers, from resume building tools and career training to local job listings.
Pronunciator
Learn up to 315 languages for free with your library card. Pronunicator can be used on your smartphone, tablet or computer. Users have access to live courses, self-paced learning modules, special interest modules, citizenship preparation and more.
Pronunciator en Español
Aprender hasta 315 idiomas gratis usando su tarjeta de la biblioteca. Pronunciator se puede utilizar en el teléfono celular, tableta o computadora. Los usuarios tienen acceso a cursos en vivo, módulos de aprendizaje a su propio ritmo, módulos de intereses especiales, preparación para la ciudadanía y más.
ProQuest US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980’s from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, tv and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts and digital only websites.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
Spotlight
Weekly Glen Cove community newspaper. Includes coverage of news and local events from 1952 – 1956.
Thomas For Industry
Thomas Register, a searchable database of North American manufacturing companies and products, contains entries for more than 173,000 U.S. and Canadian companies, over 152,000 brand names, as well as links to over 8,000 online supplier catalogs and websites.
Tutor.com
Provides online tutoring, homework help, and career services. Service available from 2-10 PM daily. Includes Spanish assistance.
Umbra
A free digital platform that brings together content documenting African American history and culture in order to enable the creation of new works—research projects, scholarship, curricula, art of all kinds—that illuminate parts of our history that have not been broadly accessible.
VetNow
Supporting the community’s veterans and their families with locating eligible benefits, live online academic tutoring, employment transition assistance, housing, and finding community resources.
Viscardi Center
This non-profit organization helps adults and adolescents with cognitive, physical and learning developmental disabilities make the transition from school to work.
Workforce Partnership
With offices located in Massapequa and Hicksville, this network of local organizations works with employers and people seeking work. It serves the Towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead and the City of Glen Cove.
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