New York Public Library’s Free Databases
NYPL library card # 23333059228195
1) go to http://www.nypl.org/
2) Look at the far left-hand
column called
Find Books and Do Research
3) Click on Databases in the far
left-hand column
4) Now you are here:
http://www.nypl.org/databases/
5)
Click on the little red house for a
list of databases you can use from home
or school. The databases on this page are
in alphabetical order.
6) Below is a list of databases that can be
used for your I-Search topic. To enter each
one, click on the name and enter the library
card # at the top of this handout.
Database
Subject
Types of Sources
Academic Search Premier
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Biography Resource Center
Contemporary Authors
Custom Newspapers
Dictionary of Literary Biography
EBSCO Animals
Facts On File History Database
General Science Collection
Grolier Online
Health Source
History Resource Center: US
Lands & Peoples
Middle Search Plus
National Newspaper Index
Science Online
TOPICsearch
Twayne's Authors Series
World Book Online Reference Center
All subjects
Ancient Global History
All subjects
Writing, Literature
All subjects
Writing, Literature
Science, Living Environment
History
Science
All subjects
Science, Health, Nutrition
U.S. History
Countries, cultures, events
All subjects
All subjects
Science
All subjects
Writing, Literature
All subjects
Articles from magazines, journals, newspapers
Maps, articles, primary sources, biographies
Short biographies of famous people in history
Biographies of 100,000 writers
Newspaper articles from the U.S. and around the world
Articles about literary figures
Magazine articles
Articles, maps, biographies
Articles from 60 different science magazines
Encyclopedia articles
Magazine and journal articles
Articles, primary sources
Encyclopedia articles
Magazine articles
Newspaper articles from around the U.S.
Articles
Articles, biographies, and opinion polls
Articles about authors
Encyclopedia articles
Remember:
Start with nouns, think like a thesaurus, and use quotes to join terms
Examples:
Teen Teenagers, Youth, “Young People”
Parks  ”Public Spaces”, “Green Spaces”, “Central Park”
Abuse  Neglect, Misconduct, “child abuse”
TOPICsearch
TOPICsearch currently contains articles
from over 1,100 magazines, 150
newspapers, 400 pamphlets, 1,500 popular
biographies, 800 book reviews and 15,000
public opinion polls.
 Linked Full Text
 Lexile Reading Level
Custom Newspapers
A collection of 150 national and
international newspapers, available
fulltext.
 Documents with Full Text
 Search by Subject
 Search by Keyword
Lands & Peoples
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and
current events geared to student readers.
Searches encyclopedias, websites, world
newspapers, magazines, and other
databases at the same time.
 Advanced search
 Maps