Career Cruising

Career Cruising offers users in-depth profiles of hundreds of different occupations and comprehensive post-secondary information. With multiple search options and direct links between our career and education databases, users can quickly and easily access material they are looking for.

http://www.careercruising.com
Username is Suffolk
Password is lib

Global Issues in Context

http://trials.gale.com/public/go/?key=8130_123522.

No login required.

Global Issues in Context is for people who want to know what’s going on in the world today and why.

► It is a new e-resource that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance and provides background information on them, placing them in context.
► It ties together a variety of sources from across the globe---news, perspectives, video, reference, country information, primary source documents, statistics---to present a rich analysis of critical issues, whether social, political, military, economic, science or health related, environmental, or cultural.
► It provides researchers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues, helping them think critically about global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
► It gives them the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in an increasingly global marketplace and in life in the 21st century.

Summer 2009 EBSCO Trial.

EBSCO has enabled many databases for Suffolk libraries to trial over the summer. Please try them out and post your comments. Your opinions matter as we review our current subscriptions in Suffolk e-Resources and look at databases to keep, drop, or add. Please post comments and come to the forthcoming zone meetings for additional discussion.

Go to http://trial.ebscohost.com
User id is scls
Password is trial

Multilingual Health Database

To Login to the Free Trial:    
Go to:  http://trial.ebscohost.com     
User Id:        scls   
Password:       trial  

You might need to enable your browsers to support multiple foreign languages, you need to download language packs.  Here are the links for IE and Firefox:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/install.mspx

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides comprehensive full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full-text for more than 500 magazines and books, as well as access to 333 videos and 144 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercrafts; and offers extensive information on over 140 topics. Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter's World, and many more.

Go to: http://trial.ebscohost.com
User Id: scls
Password: trial

WORLD VITAL RECORDS

Go to http:// www.worldvitalrecords.com

Find the area labeled member login.

The user name is diane@suffolk.lib.ny.us
The password is library08

Footnote.com

Footnote.com makes millions of original historical documents (primary sources) accessible in useful ways. Much of the material on the site is free, but much of it is newly digitized primary source information. More than likely this would be a coordinated order if there is enough interest. Take a look:

This is now IP authenticated. No login is required. We have access until July 7th.