Databases at the New City Library: Featured
Link to New City A-Z Database List
Consumer Reports
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Consumer Reports - New City
ConsumerReports.org provides ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
Funded by The New City Library
CLICK TO ACCESS FROM HOME:
Rosetta Stone
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Rosetta Stone Language Learning - New City
Rosetta Stone offers libraries and their patrons the proven language-learning immersion method that more than 22,000 schools have trusted for over the last 20+ years.
Funded by the Ramapo Catskill Library System Central Library (Newburgh).
CLICK TO ACCESS FROM HOME:
Want to use the Rosetta Stone App?
Create your account at the Library portal to Rosetta Stone with your library card number.
Then Download the App, Select Sign In and when asked "What type of account do you have?" Select "Work or School"
and login with the username and password you created from the Library Rosetta Stone portal. In the Namespace field type s8466808
Ancestry Library Edition
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Ancestry Library Edition - New City
Provides access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, including images of the decennial U.S. census from 1790-1930, passenger lists, military records, court, land & probate records, birth, marriage & death records, church records and more.
Funded by the New City Library.
For use in the library only.
Literature Resource Center
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Gale Literature Resource Center - New City
Critical essays on contemporary authors; lives and careers of authors of all eras and genres; biographies and bibliographies on more than 90,000 contemporary authors.
Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library).
Funded by the New York State Library NOVEL Program.
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Lynda.com
Lynda.com, a LinkedIn Company is an online educational site that includes over 5,700 courses (and over 180,000 videos) in popular fields like web design, web development, IT, education/instruction, media production, and business. Patrons can create their own account at the following link: https://www.lynda.com/portal/sip?org=newcitylibrary.org
Downloading & Streaming Content from Your Library
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Kanopy - New City
Watch over 30000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films. On Desktop, Mobile and Roku for Students, Professors & Library Patrons.
Funded by the New City Library.
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Hoopla - New City
hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!
Funded by the New City Library.
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Access Video on Demand - New City
Thousands of exclusive educational videos from top producers such as PBS, BBC, Nightline, American Experience, Nova, and National Geographic segmented into easy-to-use clips. Features closed-captioning and interactive transcripts on thousands of titles. User-friendly, intuitive interface with new content added monthly.
Funded by the New City Library.
CLICK TO ACCESS FROM HOME:
Investing Databases
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Value Line - New City
Whether you’re a beginning investor or a veteran looking for high-impact ideas, Value Line can position you for financial success quickly and easily. The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies.
Funded by the New City Library.
CLICK TO ACCESS FROM HOME:
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Morningstar Investment Research Center - New City
Comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds.
Funded by the New City Library.
CLICK TO ACCESS FROM HOME:
Overdrive eBooks and Digital Audio
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Overdrive eBooks and Digital Audio
Download eBooks and digital Audiobooks from your computer, smartphone or tablet.
Key to the Icons Used in this Guide
Open Access -- Access to the site is free to anyone, wherever they are. No library card needed.
In-Library Access only -- can only be accessed on computers on the library building's network. No library card needed.
Access requires you to enter your library card number (which must be issued by the library offering the resource)
Access to library cardholders is free, but registration is required (often used by instructional sites that track your learning progress)
Access to library cardholders is free, but registration is required to take advantage of some optional features
Local History Databases
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HRVH Historical Newspapers
HRVH Historical Newspapers provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. Includes several Rockland and Orange County newspapers.
Funded by federal funds, New York State funding for library systems, special grants and annual membership dues.
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Hudson River Valley Heritage
HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations from the following counties in New York State: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester.
Funded by federal funds, New York State funding for library systems, special grants and annual membership dues.
Your Library and the Deep Web
What is the Deep Web?
The term "deep web" (also known as the "invisible web" or "hidden web") refers to the vast repository of information that search engines often don't have direct access to, like magazine/journal article databases, other document repositories, and sites with instructional content. Unlike pages on the "surface" web (that is, the web that you can access from search engines), information within these sites is inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes.
How big is the Deep Web?
The Deep Web is estimated to be literally thousands of times larger than the web content found with general search engine queries. The major search engines - Google, Yahoo, Bing - don't bring back all the "hidden" content in a typical search, simply because they can't see that content at all; or can't access it without specialized search parameters and/or search expertise.
Your Library and the Deep Web
Your public library offers tools that can find content in the "Deep Web" -- content that you can not find using popular web search engines. Some of this "hidden" content is freely accessible--if you know where to look. But other content is not made available for free; and only allows access by authorized users.
Your public library, along with New York State, the Ramapo Catskill Library System (RCLS), and the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh), have paid to license access to much of this content so that you, as a library cardholder, can benefit from the information it provides. Within the library building, that licensed access often appears seamless, because the content providers recognize that access is coming from registered library computers.
Outside the library building (known as "remote access"), users may be prompted to enter their library card number in order to be authorized to access this content.