Databases – full-text, searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, journal articles and more, that are not available on the free web.

DATABASES AVAILABLE FROM HOME OR THE LIBRARY

Historic Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ – the definitive digital archive-offers full-textand full-image articles of the New York Times dating back to 1851.

iCONN, the Connecticut Digital Library, offers access to full-text articles from magazines, journals, newswire services, newspapers, the Associated PressArchive of Photographs, and much more. reQuest searches over 400 Connecticut library catalogs. The interface allows youto search both iCONN and reQuest at the same time to find the same topic in many resources.

Cheshire-area Newspaper Archives
The Newsbank database provides full-text articles from electronic editions in one easy-to-search database with coverage of local and regional news from the Meriden Record-Journal (12/7/1997 – current) and the New Haven Register (1/1/1988 – current).

ReferenceUSA Business
A directory of over 14 million businesses that can be sorted by type, size and geography.Find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business, and location.Find news articles, company descriptions, and executive biographies.

ReferenceUSA Residential White Pages
Use this database of 89 Million U.S. Households to conduct market research, and locate friends and relatives. Search by name, address, median home value, median home income, and more.

Accessed through iCONN, the Connecticut Digital Library, Heritage Quest offers over 22,000 titles of local and family history books, and an index of over 2 million articles on genealogy and local history. Search the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930. Search Revolutionary War records and the Freedman’s Bank records.

NoveList will help fiction readers find authors, titles, award winners, and author biographies for over 73,000 titles.

DATABASES AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE LIBRARY

AncestryLibrary provides access to more than one billion names, 3,000+ databases, federal, state and city censuses, and primary-source documents for the genealogy researcher.

New England Historic Genealogical Society -
Over 90 million names in 2,000 databases, covering New England and regions of New York and Eastern Canada.