Newspapers

• New York State Newspapers – Collection of major newspapers, including the New York Times, published in New York State. The Journal News is not included.
• Historical New York Times - full text 1851 - 2005 – If you need a primary source, here it is. Proquest help
• Wall Street Journal – 1986 to the present. Proquest help
• National Newspaper Index – Indexes New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times & The Washington Post. Note: This does not contain the full text of the articles. The full text might be in another database (for example, the New York Times is in New York State Newspapers). Your friendly reference librarian can obtain copies of otherwise unavailable articles for you.
• Custom Newspapers – full text of 150 national and international newspapers ranging from the Oshkosh, Wi. Advance–Titan to the Fenland Citizen of Wisbech, England and to the Financial Times.

Reference Books

These are actual books made available through the Internet (which is a series of tubes). As they are reference books, they are not meant to be read or listened to from cover to cover like our downloadable audiobooks. Instead they are designed to be easily searched for particular bits of information.

However, the ebooks are distributed by different companies so there are different ways of signing in, searching, organizing and reading the materials depending upon the vendor. Right now, the library has access to electronic reference books through three vendors: Gale (the GVRL); Grolier; and Salem Press.

• GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library) – This vendor has our broadest selection. Titles range from the 23 volume Encyclopedia of World Biography, to VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever to the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History, and to various Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides. Use the GVRL link to search all 79 titles, comprising 157 individual volumes, at once. You can also search the GVRL History, Literature and Travel titles individually. Must have a Larchmont card for at–home access. Use the "widget" below to search the entire GVRL directly from this page.

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• Salem History – Use this if you are looking for primary sources or for criminals. There are three titles: Milestone Documents in American History; Milestone Documents of American Leaders; and Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives.
• Grolier – three different encyclopedias tailored to different age levels. At home access and In–library use.
  • Encyclopedia Americana – older students and adults
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia – middle school and higher
  • The New Book of Knowledge – elementary school and higher

Arts & Literature

• Literary Reference Center – an Ebsco database providing access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses from authors of every discipline. Includes a research guide for literary research – Ebsco help
• Try the gvrl. There are Novels, Drama,
• NoveList – Reader's advisory database with information on over 125,000 fiction titles with subject access, 100,000 book reviews, genre and topic book lists, awards lists, book discussions guides and book talks.
• Twayne Authors Series – Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
• Literature Reference Books – A subcollection of the GVRL Titles included are Novels for Students (16 vol.), Drama for Students (16 vol.), Literary Themes for Students (6 vol.) and Shakespeare for Students (3 vol.). You can use the "widget" below to search the Literature subcollection directly from this page.

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• Twayne Authors Series – Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.

You might also try looking in the Historical New York Times for reviews etc. going back to 1851.

Business

• Business & Company Resource Center - Detailed company and industry news that includes profiles,company histories, brand information, rankings, investment reports, etc. There are also articles available from obscure journals such as Asset Securitization Report and more mainstream magazines like Forbes.
• Wall Street Journal – 1986 to the present.
• Proquest Platinum – Contains are many excellent business sources, ranging from Wall Street and Technology to Fortune to Adweek.

Health

• Health & Wellness Resource Center, with Alternative Health – This database contains articles from medical publications and general interest publications; a health organization directory; links to health news and Internet sources and more.
• Proquest Platinum is a great place to look for health information. It has articles from magazines and journals ranging from Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness to The New England Journal of Medicine (with a three month delay) and to Cosmopolitan.

Social Science

There are many different useful Social Science books in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles include:

• Countries and their Cultures (4 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of European Social History (6 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Religion (15 vol.)
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (6 vol.)
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (5 vol.)

Proquest Platinum is a good source of scholarly writing on the Social Sciences.