Online Resources

Provides listings and eligibility information for human service benefit programs offered by City, State, and Federal government agencies.

National directory of social service organizations. Search by zip code to find nearby food, health, housing, job training programs and more.

For consumers and business owners researching insurers, find in-depth analytical reports and finanical strength ratings. 

Compare your company’s financial performance to local and national companies of similar size by industry. Download BizMiner’s Industry Financial Profiles and Industry Market Reports; view the reports as HTML in order to input your company’s data.

Brooklyn Newsstand is a collection of digitized Brooklyn newspapers made possible through a partnership between Brooklyn Public Library and Newspapers.com.   Brooklyn Newsstand | Partial Content (831,000 digitized pages) - can be accessed for free from anywhere with an internet connection - contains the full run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper (1841-1963) and Brooklyn Life (1890-1931), a Brooklyn society magazine. Learn more about the history of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn Newsstand | Full Content (2,402,000 digitized pages) contains over 30 additional newspapers, each listed below with date ranges and description, and can be accessed for free via Brooklyn Public Library’s public computers and public wireless network. Please note: We've made arrangements with our partner, newspapers.com to provide free access to all Brooklyn titles during our closure. In branch and in library wifi use only, will go back into effect when we reopen.

Discover Brooklyn history: Explore our collection of digitized Brooklyn content.

Find full text to many of the electronic journals held by the Brooklyn Public Library through its online database subscriptions.

Contains complete articles from thousands of business journals, market research and industry reports for hundreds of industries, as well as international economic reports. 

Lists changes for corporations and organizations resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, liquidations and more, providing the security holder with facts to compute gain or loss in capital.  This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a librarian.

The Central Intelligence Agency's collection of free maps of countries of the world. Maps can be downloaded and printed in PDF or JPEG formats.

Media outlets and contacts. Share your news release with journalists, bloggers and social influencers via Cision PR.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Cross-reference listings of names, phone numbers and addresses for residential and business addresses in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Authoritative research on key business management topics from The Conference Board, a business membership and research association. Topics include workforce planning, governance, economics, markets, risk management, and organizational design. 

Crain’s New York Data Center is currently unavailable. Please check back shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. Data on leading companies and organizations that operate in the NYC market; includes the New York Book of Lists; use these lists to benchmark your business, gather competitive intelligence, and target potential new clients

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.

Free community-curated directory that indexes and connects to full text, open access, peer reviewed scientific and scholarly journals.

Access Brooklyn Public Library’s collection of digital books, magazines and reference library, available to download wirelessly to your device.

A website that allows anyone to create and publish a free obituary online and in the process involve the community in building their own collection of local history.

Collection of education research and information. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

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. 

Official Federal Government publications provided by Government Printing Office.

Search for obsolete or existing stocks using CUSIP number, stock symbol or company name. Previously known as the Annual Guide to Stocks and the Directory of Obsolete Securities. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Find the best foundation for your nonprofit organization. Evaluate a funder, gain an understanding of the grant writing process, and find financial information.  

Source of funding for students, researchers, marketers and other individual grant seekers. Provides contact and basic factual information on the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. 

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.

Social Security and Federal benefit payments are to be deposited electronically by law of as March 2013. Sign up for a prepaid debit card or with your bank account for direct deposit.

A knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals to information, insights, and resources on global business activities, created by the International Business Center at Michigan University.  

5,000 health and social services available to low income, uninsured and underinsured persons.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development assists in finding subsidized apartments in New York State.

Access Chinese eBooks and audiobooks on a variety of topics including health, English learning, art, literature and children’s materials. Titles can be read or played on PCs, laptops, or mobile devices. Download the free app.

Get step-by-step, user created instructions on how to make just about anything. Examples include instructions on building a digital microscope or sewing a zipper.

Learn how to invest, find news on market trends and personal finance, and access the digital IBD Weekly

National Library of Medicine’s database of health information for consumers and health professionals. Includes information on over 750 health topics, drugs and supplements, medical encyclopedia, dictionaries, interactive tutorials, and surgery videos. Also includes health information in over 40 languages.

MedlinePlus le ayuda encontrar las respuestas que usted busca en temas de salud. MedlinePlus ha recopilado la informacion mas confiable proveniente de fuentes autorizadas tales como la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina y los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud, asi como otras agencias gubernamentales y organizaciones de servicios para la salud. MedlinePlus tambien le ofrece mucha informacion sobre medicamentos, una enciclopedia medica ilustrada, programas interactivos para el paciente y las mas recientes noticias acerca de la salud.

Evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more, created by Memorial Sloan Kettering's Integrative Medicine Service.

Historical Mergent (Moody’s) Manuals of global corporate data in digitized PDF documents dating back to 1909. Also includes historical D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios from 1979, Million Dollar Directory from 1959, and Who Owns Whom from 1961. 

Market research reports with analysis of consumer markets, companies, and brands.   

Provides information for owners and managers of residential real estate, covering topics like rent stabilization, rent control, building maintenance requirements, and correction of code violations. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Locate information on New York City's public schools. Search by borough, grade, school name, and zip code.

Search and browse digital collections about New York State's extensive history. Includes letters, diaries, photographs, newspapers, and maps from over 160 museums, libraries and archives.

Provides landlord-tenant court decisions as far back as 1993, including cases from the NYC Civil Court, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), and NYC Environmental Control Board.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Lists New York State bidding opportunities for contracts greater than $15,000. 

Legislative information related to both houses of the New York State Legislature. Look up bill text, summaries, committee agendas, and voting records from 1995 to the present.

Banks, insurance companies, corporations, courts, and other organizations are required by law to report dormant accounts and turn over unclaimed funds to the State Comptroller. Search by name or organization to discover and claim funds.

Nursing Home Compare, from the official government site for Medicare, contains quality of care and staffing information for all 15,000 plus Medicare- and Medicaid-participating nursing homes. Information updated monthly.

A data searching tool from the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau, including information on income, housing prices, health, and labor force.

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. 

This site combines proprietary data with public data. View the comprehensive listing of a given property including its sale history, ownership information, zoning etc. Foreclosure listings and comparable sales along with phone numbers and maps are also available.(This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Areas include medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and pre-clinical sciences.

Net worth and biographical information of Americans with estimated net worth of $25 million or more.   (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

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.

UNdata Easy way to search and download across multiple United Nations' databases. Includes current information on populations, trade, standard of living, and the environment.

View our collection of city stories and check out the platform of digital collections of New York City's museums, archives, and libraries.

Search by agency, recipient, state funding, or even your own neighborhood to see how federal money is being used.  Developed as part of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.

Investment advice and information from interviews with CEOs and analysts offering comments on specific equities, specific industries, finance and investing.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Find information on vital records like birth records, death records and marriage records. Offers direct links to state and other agencies that assist in locating information on vital records.  

The WordPlay Shakespeare eBook series places a filmed performance next to the written text of Shakespeare's plays. These web based eBooks also contain modern English and Spanish translations, glossaries, quiz questions, summaries, and links to other helpful materials, all designed to help students and teachers work with (and enjoy) Shakespeare’s plays. For a limited time, enjoy free access to three WordPlay titles (Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth). To request a free license (applies to individuals or a class of students) visit the resource link and follow instructions under “COVID-19 Free Offer”. This offer will expire August 31, 2020.

Images of historic items from countries around the world, curated by the U.S. Library of Congress and the United Nations.  Materials include photographs, maps, newspapers, journals, books, and manuscripts from museums, libraries, and national archives from around the world, representing over 100 languages.  Easily search by time period, institution, type of material, language, place, or topic.