Articles & Databases
46 resources found.
- (-) Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years)
Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
African American Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Great resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate users. Browse by type of content and by era. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
American Indian Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians. Ideal resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate research on American Indian history. Fully searchable, or browsable by era, tribe, state, and region. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
American Memory
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Berg Fashion Library
Comprehensive coverage of world fashion from reference titles, journal articles, ebooks, and images. Select "Resource Area" to access lesson plans, thematic reading lists, and biographies. Please note that Fairchild Books and Fashion Photography Archive content is not included in the Library's subscription. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on 650,000+ people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. For more in-depth biographies of figures from American history, consult American National Biography. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Bisonnette on Fashion: A Visual Dictionary
Timeline of fashion history from the 18th to the 20th century, from Kent State University Museum.
Black Studies Center
This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, periodical literature, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more. Combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
BrainPOP
Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Career Cruising
Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world enclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. It can be searched by place name or full-text.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms. Background information and search tips for this database. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Credo Reference
Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Ethnic NewsWatch (1959-present)
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
This digital collection provides access to primary sources on American social and cultural history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It provides thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides addressing political, social, and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. It emphasizes conduct of life and domestic management literature, and contrasts in regional, rural, and urban cultures. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Explora High School
Searches across content geared toward high school students, such as Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Explora Middle School
Searches across content geared toward middle school students, such as Middle Search Plus and Newspaper Source. Includes material previously accessed through Kids Search. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
FreedomFlix
Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO [grades 5-8]
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Infotrac Newsstand
Searchable full-text of 1000 plus newspapers, both national and international. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Latino American Experience
Covers history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Features peer-reviewed essays, reference sources, primary documents, media, newspapers, and magazines. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
LearningExpress Library
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams, including the PSAT, SAT, GED replacement, TASC, test, and other exams. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Literati
See Credo Reference.
Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.
*First time users must create a profile in order to access the resource.
**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences
Coverage of the Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda, and other regions, from 1904 to the present. Material is divided into general overviews (Topics) and explorations of issues (Perspectives), supported with articles, images, speeches, and other documentation. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
New York Times (1851-2016) w/ Index
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Information on hundreds of different types of jobs and training or education needed.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
ProQuest Research Library
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Regents Exam Prep Center
Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.
Something About the Author
Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists.
TrueFlix
TrueFlix is an online resource that helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.
**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Twayne's Authors Series
Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. *Twayne's Authors Series is now available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.
**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**