eResources

Encyclopedia Britannica

Academic – Combines Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools providing the variety of reliable sources that college students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research—all from one resource. Written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other notable experts.

School – High | Middle | Elementary – Offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites.

Gale Cengage Learning

Academic One File – News are articles covering the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily.

Business Insights: Essentials – Research and analyze companies and industries around the world.

General One File – News and articles covering 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. Updated daily.

Health Reference Center Academic – Articles on general health issues from popular and scholarly magazines and encyclopedias; includes alternative medicine.

Infotrac Newsstand – Full-text newspaper articles from newspapers across the country and around the world, including the New York Times, the New York Post, The Daily News, the Albany Times Union and other newspapers.

Kids InfoBits – Contains over 100 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts and graphs.

National Newspaper Index – Contains indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context – Covers covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

Research in Context – Offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos and more on a variety of topics. Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies and science.

Virtual Reference Library – Includes Encyclopedia of World Biography (2005-2007), UXL Encyclopedia of Science, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

Hudson Valley Reads – Sign up for our e-newsletters and get great book suggestions by email.

JobNow – Submit your resumé for review, resumé templates, practice interviewing, and links to job search sites

Languages

Mango Languages – Learn Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Greek, or Russian the fun, interactive way – all on your own schedule, at your own pace, and wherever you want. Stop in the middle of a lesson and sign back in at a later point, Mango will keep track of everything for you!

eBooks, eAudiobooks, & more

Overdrive – Overdrive features popular downloadable audiobooks and ebooks. Many of the audiobooks are compatible with both i-pods and mp3 players.

Tumblebooks – Want to read and listen to some great children’s books. You can either have the text read to you or read the pages yourself.

Online Clasess

Universal Class – Take An Online Class. Over 500 CEU level courses covering 30 subject areas including: Computer Training, Personal Finance, How to/Do It Yourself, General Education, Business, Pet & Animal Care, Career Training, Health & Medicine,Arts, Crafts & Hobbies,And Much More!