Online Research

Do it yourself auto repair guide.

Small Engine Repair Source is a full-text database containing thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components. Routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as more extensive repairs involving engine transmission disassembly are covered. Engines types include: motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more.

Unlock information in primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. Search across centuries to see the broader continuum of the story you choose to tell. We have integrated Literature Resources from Gale and Literature Criticism Online into a single research environment to help you take your research to new levels.

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This is an online database with over 300k reviews, MARC records and related information on children’s literature. Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database contains a variety of search options to help you find books by subject, age level, genre.

The selective list presented in this collection features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English. The best authors and their most widely-read works in literary and popular fiction (old and new) are listed, including mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, Westerns, and romance.

Literature Criticism Online represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Literature Criticism Online includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.

Instantly borrow digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.

The Literary Reference Source is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of the Literary Reference Source is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.

NoveList is a comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers. It allows you to locate over 125,000 novels in a variety of ways, including “Author read-alikes”, and “similar books”. NoveList will help you to answer the question of what to read next.

Something About the Author Online brings you comprehensive online access to all volumes of Gale’s award-wining reference set, Something About the Author, the main series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series. You’ll find thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children’s authors and illustrators, all in an easy-to-use interface that is ideal for teachers, librarians, professors, students, and other researchers of children’s and young adult literature.

​Business Insights: Essentials is a comprehensive research tool that offers accurate and up-to-date business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies, including periodical and news articles, press releases, company financials, investment reports, industry and company rankings, market share data, and more.

*Previously called ‘Reference USA Business/Residential/Health Telephone Books’ – Data Axle Reference Solutions is a directory of over 14 million public and private U.S. companies plus 135 million white pages listings of business, residential, and health care telephone numbers.

Includes access to Encyclopedia of Associations, International; Encyclopedia of Associations, National; and Gale’s Companies and their Brands.

ThomasNet.com is the leading industrial destination containing every conceivable industrial product or service, more than 607,000 industrial companies in North America are included, indexed by 67,000 product and service categories.

CollegeNow provides patrons with expert guidance and resources for college admissions. From 2:00 – 11:00 PM (Monday-Thursday) patrons can meet a licensed school guidance counselor regarding college applications, admissions interviews, essay writing, and FAFSA help. High School Juniors and Sophomores may find this platform helpful as it also contains resources on how to begin the application process, how to find the right college, and how to fill out an application!

Free Online Tutoring available at home. Connect with live expert tutors in all core subjects from grades K-12! Professional tutors in Math, Social Studies, English and Science are ready to help struggling students as well as those seeking enrichment and additional challenges. The Tutors include certified teachers, college professors, undergraduate and graduate students from accredited universities and professionals. They provide help, not answers, and bring every session to an educationally sound conclusion. All Tutors are thoroughly screened and certified.

**Now offering help with filling out FAFSA forms

Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

Job Search/Relocation resources

The Community Resource Database of Long Island is a free, online directory of health, human service, and education agencies and programs on Long Island services for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. With detailed information on nearly 12,000 community resources, the CRD provides instant, keyword access to essential information for Long Island individuals and organizations.

The Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk, Inc (EOC of Suffolk, Inc) is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) minority community based organization (CBO) incorporated in the State of New York on May 5, 1967. The EOC of Suffolk promotes a goal of self-sufficiency by broadening the minds of children, revitalizing communities, and assisting families and children in need through the provision of services and to coordinate available federal, state, local, and private resources.

Directory of 130 Local Organizations

Ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.

Home Improvement Source is a full text database focused on home improvement and home repair.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues. All the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles that help to develop critical thinking.

Free Online Tutoring available at home. Connect with live expert tutors in all core subjects from grades K-12! Professional tutors in Math, Social Studies, English and Science are ready to help struggling students as well as those seeking enrichment and additional challenges. The Tutors include certified teachers, college professors, undergraduate and graduate students from accredited universities and professionals. They provide help, not answers, and bring every session to an educationally sound conclusion. All Tutors are thoroughly screened and certified.

**Now offering help with filling out FAFSA forms

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Gale in Context: Elementary (formerly – Kids InfoBits) is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

TumbleMath has the most comprehensive collection of math stories available anywhere- all in our world famous TumbleBook format which combines animation, narration, and sound to create a compelling and enticing story book for students of all ages. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes. TumbleMath is a perfect complement and supplement to the math taught in school.

History Reference Source is a comprehensive full text history reference database, containing more than 112,000 historical documents; more than 113,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 112,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

The Literary Reference Source is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of the Literary Reference Source is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues. All the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles that help to develop critical thinking.

Provides access to the online versions of the World Book Encyclopedia plus over 1.3 million primary source documents, the Student Discovery Encyclopedia, and the Spanish language Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.

Ancestry Library Edition offers a comprehensive research experience combining advanced search technology and image viewing of original documents on Ancestry.com. Ancestry Library Edition provides access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos, plus local narratives, oral histories, indexes and other resources in over 30,000 databases that span from the 1500’s to the 2000’s.

Free family history, family tree, and genealogy records and resources from around the world through the family history library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.

Original records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about these everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. On Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoe boxes to create an online memorial for someone who served.

NSPL site for genealogy resources

Genealogy resource with over 10,000 databases, including birth, death, military, census, and parish records.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s record keeper. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.

Court Help Resource Center from SuffolkWeb.

FileRight makes it easy to complete immigration applications online. Answer simple questions then just print, sign, and file!

Local Government link sites

Law Depot is a publisher of do-it-yourself legal documents and templates.

A guide all about personal law.

A database of over one million lawyer profiles and over 100,000 legal service professionals.

United States Census Bureau homepage, including information on the 2020 Census.

DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This includes more than 814,000 doctors. AMA member physicians are offered an expanded listing that contains additional information such as office hours, accepted insurance providers, educational history and other helpful information.

This is a database that will allow you to search and see if your doctor is a Board Certified Doctor from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).

*Previously called ‘Reference USA Business/Residential/Health Telephone Books’ – Data Axle Reference Solutions is a directory of over 14 million public and private U.S. companies plus 135 million white pages listings of business, residential, and health care telephone numbers.

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of reference titles.

North Shore Public Library resource page for Health/Medicine

Consumer Health Information brinda articulos traducidos sobre condiciones medicas comunes y procedimientos faciles de entender. Ademas de buscar en el teclado, CHI le ofrece un mapa del cuerpo interactivo; que ayuda al usuario a localizar textos completos sobre articulos relacionados a temas de salud para todas las areas del cuerpo. Todo el contenido esta basado en evidencias y esta redactado por escritores medicos con experiencia e independientemente revisado por expertos con credenciales medicas. Los articulos de Consumer Health Information son revisados y actualizados regularmente con el fin de reflejar la informacion mas reciente e investigación disponible. La información provista por esta base de datos no debe ser considerada como una forma de auto-diagnostico o substituida por consejo medico profesional, diagnostico o tratamiento.

Track your health, get rewarded. Everyone can be physically active – anytime, any place. The more you move, the healthier you’ll become. Get rewarded for your healthy habits by creating an account, and logging in your minutes moved, miles traveled, or steps walked. Track your journey across Long Island, and be entered to win exciting prizes!

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Here you will find profiles for all licensed doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who are registered to practice medicine in New York State. A profile is information about the doctor. This information can help you choose a doctor or find out more about a doctor you go to now.

Muzzy is a learning language course for children. Muzzy online offers a comprehensive, interactive and fun way to learn a second language.

Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 80 languages with self-directed lessons, live teachers, movies, music, and more.

Flipster is an easy-to-use digital magazine newsstand for libraries and corporations.  Your library’s go-to resource for bestselling digital magazines. You may access E-magazines using your computer or mobile device through NSPL’s database Flipster. Download the Flipster app on your mobile device.

Instantly borrow digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.

Stream films anytime, anywhere on your preferred devices.

Current Ebsco Databases

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Elite provides full-text magazines, periodicals and reference books covering a wide-range of subject areas. It also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.

A dedicated search interface for all EBSCO public library databases.

This is an electronic version of the printed indexes to the Long Island Forum, published from 1938 to 2004 by the Friends for Long Island’s Heritage.

Search through Live-brary.com for Online Journals, Books and more!

Full-text coverage of the New York Times. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents. Coverage: 1995-current.

Easy access to the past. Full text, easily searchable. Coverage 1851-2005.

Access to local and Long Island regional news stories and articles covering 1985 – current.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Newsday (1940-1993) 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.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues. All the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles that help to develop critical thinking.

US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

The News-Review is the direct descendant of two of Riverhead Town’s original community newspapers, The County Review (1868) and The Riverhead News (1905). It is a fully searchable database.

List of online magazines reference products from the Suffolk county e-resources page.

List of online newspaper reference products from the Suffolk county e-resources page.

Suffolk Historic Newspapers is a centralized, searchable collection of Suffolk’s local newspaper heritage available to you online. Included are newspapers from Sag Harbor, Huntington, Cutchogue, Babylon and Sayville from the 1800’s.

The Suffolk Times is the community weekly newspaper that has served the North Fork of Long Island (NY) continuously since its founding in 1857. Over the years it has been the official newspaper of Southold Town, Shelter Island Town and the Incorporated Village of Greenport.

Serving the North Shore of Long Island stretching from Huntington to Wading River, it is fully searchable and the listings are the same ones that appear in the printed paper.

List of online Science and Technology products from the Suffolk county e-resources page.

North Shore Public Library’s web portal of events/links that would interest our senior population.

United States Treasury forms and publication resource page, the official source of IRS tax products.

New York State Department of Finance and Taxation and online tax center.

Zillow.com is an online real estate service dedicated to helping you get an edge in real estate by providing you with valuable tools and information.

For a listing of websites that include Discover Long Island, the local major airports, the LIRR, and Suffolk County bus schedules, please click the link below!