QUICK LINKS to some online content available from home with your library card that might be helpful during this time: (PLEASE NOTE, if you are having trouble with your library card for any reason, or live in New Haven but don’t have a card, please call 203-946-8130 x101 or email refdesk@nhfpl.org for assistance and we will be in touch with you. We are here to help!
Overdrive | National Emergency Library | Hoopla – New: Bonus Borrows! | RBdigital books | RBdigital magazines | BookFlix | Kanopy | Freading | New York Times | New Haven Register archive | CreativeBug | Foundation Directory Online (temporary remote access)
NEW!
Click HERE for temporary access to Ancestry from home through your library account! Log in to your library account and click the Ancestry icon!
Introducing Hoopla Bonus Borrows: For a limited time, there are 1000+ top titles you can borrow without using any of your monthly hoopla Borrows!
Internet Archive has announced the National Emergency Library, a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.
TUMBLEBOOKS is offering free access to some of their content during this time, no library card needed! (Through August 31, 2020):
TumbleMath: K-6 math ebooks. A comprehensive collection of math picture books with animation and narration and accompanied with supplementary lesson plans and quizzes.
TeenBookCloud: Grades 7-12 ebooks. An online collection of ebooks, enhanced novels, graphic novels, videos and audio books, which offers students and adults of all reading levels access to an amazing range of content.
AudioBookCloud: Audiobooks for all ages. Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and Spanish language. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download.
RomanceBookCloud: A huge collection of steamy Romances for the older crowd! Unlimited and unrestricted access to a curated collection of romance ebooks. Includes award winners and best sellers, plus new books added all the time, you will never run out of romance to read.Read to your heart’s content!
And don’t forget about our regular collection of TumbleBooks for grades K-5, available with your library card!:
TUMBLEBOOKS for kids K-5 (ebooks): A collection of animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles. Includes Math Stories, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Videos (from National Geographics), TumbleTV (pre-set playlists of a sequence of books) and Tumble Puzzles & Games. Created from existing picture books.
You may also want to check out the following online content, available with your library card!
New York Times: Complimentary access within any of our locations. You will need to log in or register first. For off-site access, log in or register here.
CREATIVEBUG: Art & Craft Designs. Free access to over a thousand award-winning & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. From drawing and illustration to jewelry making, knitting and crocheting to home décor (and everything in between), patrons of all ages and skill levels will find inspiration.
Mergent Intellect: An expansive directory database that includes more than 100 million private US, Canadian and global businesses, more than 6000 US public companies and over 200 million residents and local businesses, with previous addresses and allowing for reverse telephone lookups. It has job search and executive search capabilities and a multifaceted advanced search functionality. It also includes census data by zip code.
Statista: This database is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Ask a librarian to log you in.
SEMRUSH: This database offers solutions for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content, social media and competitive research by allowing users to analyze the effectiveness of your business or nonprofit’s online presence. Ask a librarian to log you in.
Grant Watch
Find nonprofit grants and small business grants for your community or religious organization, 501c3, NGO, school, university or municipality on GrantWatch. Ask a librarian to log you in.
Gale Business Plan Builder: Are you an aspiring entrepreneur or do you have an existing small business? This database provides a step-by-step process supported by a rich variety of recognized tools that enable users to produce complete business plans and other documents essential for gaining access to capital and growing an enterprise. Get started today!
Did you know we offer lynda.com to our patrons? Learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. Video courses for all levels cover technical skills, creative techniques, business strategies and more.
Click here and click on ‘Watch Overview’ button to watch a video intro to this great tool.
Then just click on the Lynda.Com logo (on the left) to go to the New Haven Free Public Library login screen to create an account or log in.
Ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines, music & movies
Overdrive (audiobooks & ebooks) : Choose from our ever-growing collection of downloadable audiobooks and ebooks!
Watch Tutorial/Guided Tour | Get Started | Help | Search or browse collection.
HOOPLA: A unique digital entertainment / media service which allows you to borrow movies, videos, music and audiobooks straight from your browser, tablet, or smartphone! NEW! Introducing Hoopla Bonus Borrows: For a limited time, there are 1000+ top titles you can borrow without using any of your monthly hoopla Borrows!
Kanopy: Stream a variety of feature films, documentaries and educational videos from Criterion Collection, First Run Features, PBS, Great Courses and more!
TUMBLEBOOKS for kids K-5 (ebooks): A collection of animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles. Includes Math Stories, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Videos (from National Geographics), TumbleTV (pre-set playlists of a sequence of books) and Tumble Puzzles & Games. Created from existing picture books.
Access complete digital magazines! Sign up for an RBdigital account to start reading.
-Keep magazines as long as you want.
-Instantly stream on your PC or Mac.
-Download to mobile devices for offline reading.
-Enjoy mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android and Windows 8.
Click here for access or here for help on getting started!
Freading is a collection of thousands of ebooks from every genre. You can explore them all without ever waiting on a hold or worrying about late fees. Read on your computer or take the book with you on a compatible eReader, smartphone, or tablet! Start here with the Freading FAQ, then access the collection here.
BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning for children, pre k – grade 3. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration. Features 80 fiction-nonfiction pairs and 20 Spanish pairs. Click here to access from home.
TrueFlix is an online resource that brings books to life. It features electronic versions of Scholastic’s award-winning True Books series paired with topical videos, project ideas, age-appropriate web links, and interactive educational games. Click here to access from home.
RBdigital eAudio & eBooks: researchIT CT’s downloadable eAudio & eBook service: Provided statewide, this downloadable audiobook collection features nearly 1,400 titles and just recently added ebooks to their collections. These titles can be checked out after creating a new RBdigital account. Click here to learn more or here to access the collection.
General Reference, Research and Readers' Advisory
NEW! Weiss Ratings Consumer Guides: Nine How-To Guides that will help you plan for & select the right insurance and financial products.
NOVELIST PLUS Readers’ Advisory: NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
Master File. Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Gale Online Resources: Includes literary criticism, directories, and other reference books on many topics.
Gale Directory Library. Gale has long been known for publishing authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (iCONN): Search the contents of science, health and history reference books.
Academic Search Premier encompasses the expansive academic disciplines now being offered in colleges and universities. This resource provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,050 titles.
Legal Information Reference Center. Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Science Reference Center provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. , Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources.
GreenFile: Scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Newspapers
NEW! New York Times: Complimentary access within any of our locations. You will need to log in or register first. For off-site access, log in or register here.
NewsBank: This newspaper archive includes New Haven Register going back to 1988. In addition, October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900 is available in America’s Historical Newspapers (searchable early American newspapers from various periods between 1690-1922.) Finally, America’s News Magazines covers the last one to two decades of news magazine articles.
This collection of digitized newspapers include the following New Haven newspapers from 1880-1908:
- The daily morning journal and courier 1894-06-25 to 1907-12-14
- Morning journal and courier 1880-01-01 to 1894-06-23
- The morning journal-courier 1907-12-16 to 1908-12-31
| Christian Science Monitor: 1997 – present.
Hartford Courant: 1764 – 1922. Hartford Courant: 1992 – present. Los Angeles Times: 1985 – present. |
New York Times: 1980 – present.
Wall Street Journal: 1984 – present. Washington Post: 1987 – present. |
Popular Magazines
Access complete digital magazines! Sign up for an RBdigital account to start reading.
-Keep magazines as long as you want.
-Instantly stream on your PC or Mac.
-Download to mobile devices for offline reading.
-Enjoy mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android and Windows 8.
Click here for access or here for help on getting started!
Also check out ResearchIT CT’s Popular Magazine page for such popular titles as Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports Buying Guide, Consumer Reports on Health, Atlantic, Backpacker, Bonjour, Ebony, Field & Stream, Inc., Jet, Outdoor Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Ski. Check it out here!
(Please note, articles from these titles are also searchable in research databases such as MasterFILE).
Referencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources. Its intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed for non-English users with limited online research experience.
Business, Jobs and Nonprofit
NEW!
Mergent Intellect: An expansive directory database that includes more than 100 million private US, Canadian and global businesses, more than 6000 US public companies and over 200 million residents and local businesses, with previous addresses and allowing for reverse telephone lookups. It has job search and executive search capabilities and a multifaceted advanced search functionality. It also includes census data by zip code.
Statista: This database is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Ask a librarian to log you in.
SEMRUSH: This database offers solutions for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content, social media and competitive research by allowing users to analyze the effectiveness of your business or nonprofit’s online presence. Ask a librarian to log you in.
Grant Watch
Find nonprofit grants and small business grants for your community or religious organization, 501c3, NGO, school, university or municipality on GrantWatch. Ask a librarian to log you in.
Gale Business Entrepreneurship: Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, and more. Supports prospective and current entrepreneurs.
ReferenceUSA: Information on over 14 million U.S. businesses, including company executives, contact information, lines of business, credit rating, & sales volume.
Legal Information Reference Center: Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Wall Street Journal: 1984 to present.
Weiss Ratings Consumer Guides: Nine How-To Guides that will help you plan for & select the right insurance and financial products.
JobNow: Live job assistance. Available Monday through Sunday, 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. EST. Other job resources available 24/7 online include: personality & career assessments, aptitude tests, resume writing, interview coaching, and skill builders.
Foundation Center’s Ebook Collection: Create a free account to access the Foundation Center’s Overdrive ebook collection of nonprofit literature.
Foundation Directory Online: Professional version of the web-based portal to the Foundation Center ‘s database of private philanthropies and corporate giving programs. Available only at Ives Main Library. CLICK HERE FOR TEMPORARY REMOTE ACCESS!
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online: An online database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. Available only at Ives Main Library.
GuideStar: Create a free account and use GuideStar to identify and sort nonprofit organizations by category and geographic location.
Allows development and fundraising professionals to gather philanthropic and wealth information on foundations, individuals, and corporations.**
** Only available at Ives Main. You may need a librarian to log you in.
Health and Wellness
MedlinePlus: Developed by National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health for consumers needing health information.
HealthNet: CT Consumer Health Info. Network: Research service for Connecticut residents with medical questions. Provided by the University of Connecticut Health Center’s Lyman Maynard Stowe Library.
History, Biography & Genealogy
Click HERE for temporary access to Ancestry from home through your library account! Log into your library account and click on the Ancestry icon!
Ancestry® Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Now available at Ives Main Library and our library branches. “Not available remotely”
History Reference Center is a comprehensive full text history reference database with more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
Daily Life Through History: Spotlights the day-to-day lives of average people and places, past and present. Covers food and cooking, holidays and festivals, clothing and fashion, housing and furnishings, religion and spirituality, music and dance, family life, women’s history. Also includes information on the 50 states (capitals, population, state motto, state bird, etc). Browse by time period, region or subject.
Hartford Courant (1764 – 1922)This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts.
America’s Historical Newspapers: Searchable early American newspapers from various periods between 1690-1922. Includes the New Haven Register from October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900.
Connecticut Digital Collections: Connecticut Digital Collections presents historical photographs, maps, manuscripts, oral histories and more from Connecticut libraries, museums, and historical societies.
Connecticut History.org: Stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up the rich history of the Nutmeg State, with weekly updates.
Biography Reference Center is a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies on notable personalities, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies. Resources offered include Biography Today and Biography.
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Biography Reference Bank is a biographical resource for all disciplines. This database contains biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work
Social Science
African American Experience: With WPA slave narratives, music clips, texts, articles, photographs, maps and other documents, the black experience from African origins to the present is brought to life!
Latino American Experience: This is a full-text, multimedia database with both English and Spanish content focusing on individuals of Hispanic origins living in the Americas.
American Indian Experience: Offers hundreds of primary documents and thousands of images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and photographs.
Daily Life Through History: Spotlights the day-to-day lives of average people and places, past and present.
Popular Culture Universe: Provides information on American and world popular culture through the decades.
CultureGrams: Allows you to learn about the history, customs, and everyday life of countries around the world.
Kids and Teens
SCIENCEFLIX
Access ScienceFlix from home
TODAY’S SCIENCE for students
The award-winning Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats. The accessible content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by Common Core, state, national, national STEM, and Next Generation Science Standards. Users can follow an extensive network of hyperlinks and suggested searches to related topics, and tabbed search results help users easily find their desired results quickly and easily.
Highlights:
•Complete coverage: the full spectrum of scientific disciplines
•Experiments and activities: more than 1,150 science experiments and activities, indexed by grade range, subject category, and time required. Great for science fairs!
•Full science and mathematics coverage: intuitive access to thousands of reference articles and news stories
•”Today’s Science Feature”: handpicked articles from Today’s Science highlighting recent scientific events and discoveries
•Images, videos, and animations: more than 9,400 printable diagrams, illustrations, and images; nearly 810 iPad/mobile-friendly videos and animations
TUMBLEBOOKS for kids K-5 (ebooks)
A collection of animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles. Includes Math Stories, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Videos (from National Geographics), TumbleTV (pre-set playlists of a sequence of books) and Tumble Puzzles & Games. Created from existing picture books.
NOVELIST K-8 PLUS Readers’ Advisory
NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests.
Click here for more Kids Resources
Click here for more Teen Resources
Driving Tests
Driving-Tests.org offers free CT DMV permit practice tests, as well as tips for getting or renewing your driver’s license! Check it out today!
Language Learning
NEW! Check out our new language-learning database, Pronunciator!
Pronunciator is a web-app that provides access to courses in 80 languages, including ESL for 50 non-English languages.
Literature Research
Literature Criticism OnlineThe largest curated online collection of literary criticism in the world, this resource brings together 10 acclaimed multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
* Includes the New Haven Register from October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900.
** Only available at Ives Main. You may need a librarian to log you in.
*** Only available at Ives Main and branches. You may need a librarian to log you in.