ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Available at the Gates Public Library

Some electronic resources are available on your home computer, courtesy of Monroe County Library System.

The rest are available on the computers at the Gates Public Library!

The first group are reached by going to www.libraryweb.org and clicking on the “Magazines and Databases” link on the left-hand side of the page.

Some of the databases included are:

• Biography Resource Center, where you can look up articles and photographs of well-known people.
• Business and Government Databases: Business and Company Resource Center, General Business File ASAP, for comprehensive information on business and companies large and small and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, which provides access to the website for the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and its databases.
• Full-Text Newspaper Articles, found in Gale Custom Newspapers, Gale Custom New York State Newspapers , and National Newspaper Index and the Democrat and Chronicle .
• General Research and Full-Text Magazine and Journal Articles available in EBSCO MasterFile Select, Expanded Academic ASAP, Gale Virtual Reference Library, General Reference Center, Infotrac OneFile and Topic Search. All are great places to start a research project.
• Health-related information for the Rochester area can be found in Clic-on-Health, which is locally-produced. Reference resources on health are available through Health and Wellness Resource Center & Alternative Health Module which provide a variety of ways to locate health information.
• EBSCO General Science Collection, which provides full-text articles from a variety of science publications.
• WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch, which provides access to the catalogs of other local libraries, including high schools, colleges, and universities.
• Rochester Images and Rochester History provide rare primary source historical information about our local region.
• HeritageQuest is a top-ranked genealogy resource that includes census information, primary source documents and much more.
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the online version of the popular series on controversial topics.
• InfoTrac Junior and Primary Search via SEARCHASAURUS make research easy and fun for children.
• Informe! and EBSCOHost Espanol are for those whose primary language is Spanish.
• Twayne's Author Series contains massive amounts of information on hundreds of authors and their works.
• OCLC First Search, WorldCat Databases is one of the world's largest catalogs, and can only be used in the library.

• ReferenceUSA includes directories of business and residential addresses, and is great for market research!
• LitFinder includes Poemfinder, Storyfinder, and Essayfinder are all rich literature resources.
• Novelist will help you find good fiction books similar to books you have already enjoyed.
• SIRS provides a wide variety of full-text articles and graphics on current events.
• Grolier’s Online includes The New Book of Knowledge for children; Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for all ages; and Encyclopedia Americana for adults.
• Town of Gates Meeting Minutes is a unique, locally-produced database of minutes from meetings dated 1948-1999.

• The Gates Human Services Directory, which has listings for agencies, schools, churches and other organizations and their services.
• The Gates Business Directory, a searchable database of businesses in the Town of Gates.

For assistance with any of these electronic resources, please ask the Reference Librarian!

11/07