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Plunkett Research Online
Market research, industry analysis and company profiles; Job seeker resources
To learn more about using this resource, check out this video tutorial.
Library card required
Population Reference Bureau Data Center
A data searching tool from the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau, including information on income, housing prices, health, and labor force.
Free & accessible anywhere
PowerMyLearning
Online learning activities curated by educators and organized by subject, grade and Common Core standard. Educators can create playlists of activities tailored to their lessons and invite students to a "class" with a code and track their students' progress. Students can create an avatar and "level up" the more they play. Parents can also log in and connect with their children to set goals and rewards for them. Create a free login to get started.
Free & accessible anywhere
PressReader
Access to current newspaper editions from around the world in a full color readable online format.
Library card required
Professional Development Collection
Articles and abstracts from academic journals for professional educators.
Library card required
Project Muse
Humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
You may encounter locked content. When browsing or searching "All Muse", select "Only Content I have access to" to find subscription content. We apologize that some content is not available via Brooklyn Public Library's subscription.
Library card required
PropertyShark (New York City Only)
This site combines proprietary data with public data. View the comprehensive listing of a given property including its sale history, ownership information, zoning etc. Foreclosure listings and comparable sales along with phone numbers and maps are also available.(This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a librarian.)
Only at Central Library
PubMed
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Areas include medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and pre-clinical sciences.
Free & accessible anywhere