Online Resources

Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.

While other business resources are merely aggregations of articles, Gale Business Insights: Essentials is a user-friendly business tool. In addition to providing authoritative information and statistical data, Gale Business Insights: Essentials enables researchers to explore real world application and develop analytical skills. [Formerly Business & Company Resource Center] 

Business Source Premier provides access to full-text articles from nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, including nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Learn more about yourself and careers that suit your interests. Search for careers and find out what they are really like. Find out where to get the education you need to start your career. 

CLCD is a leader in providing diverse, unbiased reviews and one search access to PreK-12 media of all types. This includes book reviews, thematic lists, award listings, and curriculum tools to provide an extensive collection of materials to meet your needs, in an easy to use format. With Advanced Search, Power Search, and Award Listing search strategies, along with your choice of more than 50 other limiters, finding the information you need when you need it could not be any easier. 

Access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries. 

Whether you’re looking to brush up on the fundamentals of computers, more easily navigate the web or learn a new software program. Enjoy free access to more than 90 self-paced video tutorials with EBSCO LearningExpress’s Computer Skills Center. 

Full text access to content from the most current annual car issue of Consumer Reports Magazine. Includes articles, reviews and ratings. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. For access to Consumer Reports from outside the Library please use MasterFile Elite, Flipster or consumerreports.org.

Full text access to the online text version of Consumer Reports Magazine including access to unbiased ratings and reviews for thousands of products. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. For access to Consumer Reports from outside the Library please use MasterFile Elite, Flipster or consumerreports.org.

Website access to consumerreports.org. Includes unlimited access to unbiased ratings and reviews for thousands of products and services and includes content not published in the print magazine. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency and fairness in the marketplace.

Creativebug offers online video arts and crafts workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more.

The CultureGrams Online Database is a leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe. It includes four editions: the World Edition (for junior high school students and up) and the Kids, States, and Canadian Provinces editions (for upper elementary school students).

Resource for educators and education students. Access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties.

This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. It is developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5, featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface.

Es la mejor herramienta de referencia en español para niños. Contiene miles de artículos fáciles de leer y repletos de impresionantes ilustraciones, videos, mapas interactivos y una amplia variedad de juegos y actividades. Está diseñado para desarrollar las habilidades claves del lenguaje y de investigación durante su educación.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Search for articles, essays and primary source materials for teens and adults. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history. Any images found in the catalog that include the notation that they must be accessed at a FamilySearch Affiliate Library can be viewed from computers at any Smithtown Library building. This includes personal devices accessing the library's wireless network (wifi).