All databases listed here are available at the Poughkeepsie Public Library District branch libraries. However, remote access to some databases may be limited to City and Town of Poughkeepsie residents (marked in red), while others are available throughout the Mid-Hudson Library System. If you have an access problem and live in the Mid-Hudson region, but not in Poughkeepsie, you can find your, and look for the ‘Home Access’ logo.
– Automotive repair information for do-it-yourself people.
– Approximately 7,000 biographies in 24 volumes on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.
– Subscribe to e-newsletters featuring the types of books you like to read.
– Company profiles, industry rankings, products, brands, stock prices. Contents can be retrieved with a Catalog Plus Articles search in a Catalog Search. – Hundreds of full text subject-appropriate periodicals. The collection contains 10,231,146 articles updated daily. All articles have been published between 1980 and 2012. – A premier business and residential directory. Source a supplier, prepare for a job interview or do research on a company or business, see who your competitors are, and more. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – The premier tool to explore publicly traded stocks, with history and risk analysis. The PPLD subscription also includes access to the Mutual Funds Advisor. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District Cardholders.
) – Select a vocational or career school, find a college or graduate program, plan your education finances, or prepare for civil service/licensing exams. Log off and come back whenever you like! – Finding the right career can be a daunting and high stakes task: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career are all topics covered by this collection, providing current and applicable content for all vocational milestones. Offering content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. – Current job openings in New York State. – A database that will help you create a resume, hone your interview skills and search for jobs. Patrons can also take practice tests, chat with a live tutor or receive writing help.
— This is the full access to the official Consumer Reports subscription level Web product, including articles and product ratings. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District
– Census records and other documents for genealogy and family research. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – Find census, birth, marriage, death records and more. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – Page image newspapers that are keyword searchable from many parts of New York State. The Poughkeepsie Eagle News is available from November 30, 1861 – December 30, 1922 (with some coverage gaps). Also included are the Kingston Daily Freeman (1873-1977), and the Middletown Herald and variant names (1894-1970s). Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District Cardholders.
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– A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923 — each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – 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. Contents can be retrieved with a Catalog Plus Articles search in a Catalog Search.
– Current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices, information on recommended therapies, and medicinal uses for plants and herbs. – Includes entries covering cancers, cancer drugs, treatments, side effects, and diagnostic procedures. – Clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies. – Articles on general health issues from popular and scholarly magazines and encyclopedias; includes alternative medicine.Contents can be retrieved with a Catalog Plus Articles search in a Catalog Search.
– 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. Rosetta Stone pioneered the use of interactive software to accelerate language learning. Today the company offers courses in more than 30 languages, from the most commonly spoken (such as English, Spanish and Mandarin) to the less prominent (including Swahili, Swedish and Tagalog). Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. Rosetta Stone is provided though funding from The American Dream Starts @ your library® initiative, an adult literacy grant program administered by the American Library Association and generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.)
– Profiles and criticism of contemporary authors, contains LitFinder, Literature Resource Center and Literature Criticism Online. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents.
– News are articles covering the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily. Contents can be retrieved with a Catalog Plus Articles search in a Catalog Search. – 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. Contents can be retrieved with a Catalog Plus Articles search in a Catalog Search. – Contains over 85 Gannett newspapers, 6 of which are New York newspapers. These include the Ithaca Journal, Poughkeepsie Journal, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Journal News (White Plains), Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton) and Star-Gazette (Elmira). – Online provides full text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 2005 and is searchable by keyword (“Titanic sinks”) or by date (April 16, 1912). Scrollthrough all related articles, or use the Page Map to view the entire page and navigate through the paper from first page to last. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – 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. – Page image newspapers that are keyword searchable from many parts of New York State. The Poughkeepsie Eagle News is available from November 30, 1861 – December 30, 1922 (with some coverage gaps). Also included are the Kingston Daily Freeman (1873-1977), and the Middletown Herald and variant names (1894-1970s). Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District Cardholders.
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– Full text access from 1985 to the present. Articles can be translated into more than 10 different languages or listened to using the audio player.
Reference Books Online
– A wide-ranging selection of over 600, full-text, searchable, authoritative reference works in digital format. Offsite access limited to Poughkeepsie Public Library District residents. – A library of searchable electronic-format reference books covering biography, business, history, medicine, nations of the world, and science. – Contains comprehensive reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
– Select a vocational or career school, find a college or graduate program, plan your education finances, or prepare for civil service/licensing exams. Log off and come back whenever you like!