Research is a vital service that we offer the community. By providing accurate, timely, and readily available information, our members are able to make informed decisions, uncover new business leads, find lost relatives, or even discover the missing piece of history to complete their book.
Below are our featured sources of information, accessible at any time with your New Canaan Library card. Should you not find what you are looking for or need additional assistance, please contact us via phone or email ([email protected].) The librarians are here to help.
Premier Job Search and Reference database, ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, and much more! This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on businesses and households within the U.S. Did you know you can search for full-time or part-time jobs and internships anywhere in the country?
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources, including unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more. Access to Ancestry Library Edition has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders working remotely, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry. You may access this database remotely with your library barcode until March 31, 2020.
Publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research center. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that works side by side with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world. They do it by fighting to put consumers’ needs first in the marketplace and by empowering them with the trusted knowledge they depend on to make better, more informed choices.
Experience the joy of making with thousands of award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists. Keep your hands active and your mind engaged with inspiration, ideas, and daily practice exercises all accessed from home with your library card barcode! Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Watch classes anytime, anywhere. Since classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace on an easy-to-use, personalized platform.
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Discover the amazing history of you. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
LearningExpress® Job & Career Accelerator gives job seekers the tools they need to explore careers, find open positions, apply for jobs and get hired. This innovative job-hunting platform has everything job seekers need to create professional and competitive resumes and cover letters, search for jobs that fit their needs, gain interview tips, and more.
Mango Languages offers a dynamic language-learning experience. With your library card, you’ll have access to over 70 foreign-language courses and 21 English courses taught in the native language of the user. Each Mango lesson incorporates the four key conversational components crucial for successful communication: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture.
In addition to a daily digital issue of The New York Times, the Library provides access to digital issues of this newspaper from 1851-1922 and 1981- present. This database provides high resolution PDFs of all original articles and images.
Value Line is an investment research tool covering 3,500 stocks across 100 industries. It is a powerful database with a Stock Screener, hundreds of data fields for analysis, model portfolios, and printable PDF reports. You can create custom reports and build a robust screener with access to data, news, and analysis.
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Premier Job Search and Reference database, ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, and much more! This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on businesses and households within the U.S. Did you know you can search for full-time or part-time jobs and internships anywhere in the country? Check out this video:
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Library of Congress: Digital Collections
Enjoy free and open online access to 328 digitized collections created by the Library of Congress (LOC). These digital collections are representative of the national library’s physical holdings and artifacts. Holdings include photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and more. Refine your search with keywords or by subject, Library of Congress division/collection, or original format of the artifact.
Ancestry.com
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources, including unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more.
Access to Ancestry Library Edition has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders working remotely, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry. You may access this database with your library barcode until March 31, 2020.
Biography Reference Bank
Combines the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). Biography Reference Bank covers over 600,000 people with links to over 300,000 related full-text articles, as well as abstracts and images from thousands of periodicals and over 35,000 images.
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies. This resource provides superior coverage for several of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).
The CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.
CT Business & Industry Association
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association is the voice of business in Connecticut, with thousands of member companies championing change at the State Capitol, shaping debate about economic competitiveness, and fighting for a better future for all.
Connecticut Digital Collections
Contains Central Connecticut State University’s (CCSU) Digital Collections, Connecticut History Online (CHO), Connecticut State Library’s Digital Collections, Newspapers of Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State University’s Digital Collections, and Treasures of Connecticut Libraries. Our digital collections feature materials from the State Library, the Museum of Connecticut History, and the Connecticut State Archives.
CT Economic Resource Center
The Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Inc. (CERC) is a nonprofit corporation and public-private partnership that provides economic development services, working with state, local and utility partners to leverage Connecticut’s unique advantages as a premier business location.
Connecticut History Illustrated
This digital collection of over 15,000 digital primary sources, together with associated interpretive and educational material. Resources provided by collaborative effort of the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut Libraries and the Connecticut State Library.
Consumer Reports
Publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research center. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that works side by side with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world. They do it by fighting to put consumers’ needs first in the marketplace and by empowering them with the trusted knowledge they depend on to make better, more informed choices.
Creativebug
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Experience the joy of making with thousands of award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists. Keep your hands active and your mind engaged with inspiration, ideas, and daily practice exercises all accessed from home with your library card barcode! Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Watch classes anytime, anywhere. Since classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace on an easy-to-use, personalized platform.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Discover the amazing history of you. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
Historic Hartford Courant
This database provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Includes issues from 1764-1922. For current issues of the Hartford Courant (1992-present), please visit the “News and Newspaper Sources” in the Newspapers & Journals heading of the Research page.
History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
LearningExpress®
LearningExpress® Job & Career Accelerator gives job seekers the tools they need to explore careers, find open positions, apply for jobs and get hired. This innovative job-hunting platform has everything job seekers need to create professional and competitive resumes and cover letters, search for jobs that fit their needs, gain interview tips, and more.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more.
MainFile covers a variety of topics, including health, education, technology and business. It includes full-text magazines, journals, newspapers and newswires. Additionally, this databases includes full-text reference books and encyclopedias, providing a broad variety of source material.
Mango Languages offers a dynamic language-learning experience. With your library card, you’ll have access to over 70 foreign-language courses and 21 English courses taught in the native language of the user. Each Mango lesson incorporates the four key conversational components crucial for successful communication: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture.
To Get Started
To gain full access to Mango using the Library’s subscription, you first need to create a Mango profile linked to your library card number. This association happens by following our portal link: Create your Mango profile here>>
Returning Users
Once your profile is connected with New Canaan Library, you can access Mango by directly visiting their website or by logging into their mobile app (Apple | Android). There is no need to access Mango via our website once your profile has been created.
MAS Ultra School Edition
This comprehensive database contains full text for top high-school magazines including America’s Civil War, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Civil War Times, CollegeXpress Magazine, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, and much more. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues.
Provided by the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents and reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Animals. Full-text magazines include Sports Illustrated Kids, Scholastic News,National Geographic and dozens more.
All full-text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles) that provide educators with an estimate of the result’s reading difficulty and the approximate grade-level reading ability required for comprehension. Lexiles help teachers meet the needs of students with varying reading abilities and interests and allow students to read along at their own pace.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is using PubMed Central (PMC) to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. PMC is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine. Explore!
The New York Times
In addition to a daily digital issue of The New York Times, the Library provides access to digital issues of this newspaper from 1851-1922 and 1981- present. This database provides high resolution PDFs of all original articles and images.
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes.
If you are outside the Libraryattempting to access the NYT, please follow these instructions:
Click on the green the ‘Login’ button below to get started.
Please enter your 14-digit New Canaan Library barcode number and click “Submit.”
Next “Create An Account” using your email address and a password of your choice (write this down, you will need it for future logins).
You will then be able to access a 24-hour group pass to the New York Times by clicking “Go to NYTimes.com”. For the next 24-hours, you can go directly to nytimes.com to enjoy full digital access.
During future visits you will follow steps 1-4 and then instead of creating a new account simply “Log-In” with the email address and password of the account you created. This will then reactivate a 24 hour group pass.
If you are inside the Library attempting to access the NYT, please follow these instructions:
This newspaper database includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Professional Development Collection includes full text for high-quality education journals including Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal and more.
PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Information provided by the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.
Referencia LATINA
This comprehensive database offers content from a variety of sources, including an inclusive collection of images, health reports, and full text for reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas. Additionally, the resource covers a full spectrum of Spanish-language scholarships inside and outside academia.
Referencia Latina‘s intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed to make content readily accessible to non-English users with limited online research experience.
The collected papers of Richard Salant journalist and president of the CBS news division.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy full text access to nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides many subjects for teachers needs, including: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School AdministrationScience & MathematicsTeacher Education.
Contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Learn to design for 3D printing with easy to follow video lessons on Udemy. The course is geared for beginners. No prior knowledge in 3D design necessary.
Description
The real magic in 3D printing happens when you are able to create your own designs. We will learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to design ten practical and functional products that can be 3D printed. Each lesson will build on the prior to introduce design concepts and best practices when when designing for desktop 3D printers. Fusion 360 is free for students and hobbyists and is a very powerful designing tool. By the end of the course you will have the skills and confidence to begin creating your own designs and start turning your ideas into physical objects.
Universal Class
Learn new skills with Universal Class! Over 500 courses taught by experts via high-quality video, classes can be taken just for fun, or for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credit. There is something for everyone to learn!
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Click the Register Now button to create a new account, and enter your library card details and click Go. Then enter your information to create the account.
Start learning! Need help? Ask a Librarian today!
Value Line
Value Line is an investment research tool covering 3,500 stocks across 100 industries. It is a powerful database with a Stock Screener, hundreds of data fields for analysis, model portfolios, and printable PDF reports. You can create custom reports and build a robust screener with access to data, news, and analysis.
The Washington Post
This database provides digital access to The Washington Post issues from 1987-present.
The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877
Wall Street Journal
This database provides access to digital issues of the Wall Street Journal from 1984-present.
The Wall Street Journal is a business-focused, English-language international newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.