Online Resources

Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the areas of Criminal Justice, Economics, History, Marketing, Political Science, and Psychology. The Topic Finder feature is an easy visual to help explore sub-topics of your initial search.

Includes full text of many articles, plus index entries for others. Subject areas covered include arts & literature, humanities, science, social science and many other specialties. Updated daily.

A comprehensive image resource for students, teachers and scholars, with new collections added monthly. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.  

A searchable bibliography of works on European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. Search by subject, artist, author, article, or journal title.

Watch animated movies, play learning games, and more. Includes BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and, for English language learners, BrainPOP ESL. Videos and Activities cover topic areas within Science, Math, Social Studies, English Language Arts, and others. Content is Common Core-aligned.

Customized selection of journals relating to communications and mass media. From the New York State Online Virtual Library database collection.

Search for works that are available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. Formats include photographs, graphics, video, scholarly articles, books, and music.

Customized selection of journals relating to Diversity Studies. From the New York State Online Virtual Library database collection.

Artículos con texto completo de revistas, diarios y revistas académicas, índices generales, y otros recursos en ambos Español e Inglés. EBSCOhost Español tiene una función de traducción, pero no es garantizado obtener una traducción completamente exacta.

Journals from the New York State Online Virtual Library database collection relating to environmental studies and environmental policy, including climate change, recycling, and sustainability.

Web portal to the digital resources of many European museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Formats include books, paintings, films, objects, sound recordings and archival records. 

Customized selection of journals from the New York State Online Virtual Library database collection relating to the fine arts and music, from filmmaking, jazz and Mozart to Shakespeare and Van Gogh.

Get access to major magazines and journals to read on your smartphone, tablet, or PC. For instructions, please use this link .  To get the free Flipster app, search for "Flipster" in either Google Play or  Apple's App Store

24/7 access to reference ebooks. No checkout necessary. Titles can be browsed, searched, and downloaded anytime from any Internet-connected device. Topics include arts, business, education, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and social science.

Resources from the New York State Online Virtual Library database collection relating to health studies. Health reference topics include immunization, youth sports, food allergies and more.

An easily searchable database of general interest and scholarly periodicals on topics ranging from the humanities, education and business to current events, science and environmental issues. Also includes a full collection of NPR audio programs; transcripts and links to more than 5,000 video files of popular news shows; and 500 travel guides, including hundreds of Fodor’s titles.

Career and workplace community where users can find and anonymously share salary details about careers and jobs for specific employers. Find interview reviews describing company culture.

JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journals, books, and primary sources as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The material available spans many disciplines in the arts, sciences, and humanities.  (This service is available only at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library.)  Learn how to use this resource by watching a video.

Exciting database designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students.

Collection of streaming music from publisher Alexander Street Press. Stream music across different genres including classical, jazz, opera, world music, blues, and folk.

Online learning activities curated by educators and organized by subject, grade and Common Core standard. Educators can create playlists of activities tailored to their lessons and invite students to a "class" with a code and track their students' progress. Students can create an avatar and "level up" the more they play. Parents can also log in and connect with their children to set goals and rewards for them. Create a free login to get started.

Humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. 

Searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.  Also includes information education and training opportunities in science, tecnology, engineering, and mathematics fields for undergraduate and graduate students.

Covers major science areas like Earth Science, Space, Life Science, Human Body, Physics, and Engineering, with general overviews and articles for deeper understanding. Includes videos, project ideas, experiments, quizzes, and information about careers in science. Complements the Next Generation Science Standards.  Can adjust Lexile reading levels of articles.

Contains information on a variety of topics in an easy to read format. Includes primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, magazine articles, audio and video clips, and thousands of photographs and illustrations.  Includes topics in science, health, history, literature, current events, sports, world cultures, and business/economics.  Easy to search and topics are comprehensive in content.

TumbleMath has the most comprehensive collection of math stories available anywhere- all in our world famous TumbleBook format which combines animation and learning.