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Art, Automotive, Community Matters, Government, Science, Magazines
Academic Search Elite
Searchable full-text for more than 2,100 scholarly journals, including 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Ancestry Library Edition
Census records and indexes, vital, church, military, and many other types of records.
(in library use only)
Auto Repair Reference Center
Find repair information for all types of vehicles from 1945 to present.
Biography In Context
More than 600,000 biographies integrating material from reference works, magazines and multimedia sources. Students of all ages will benefit from specially created portal pages with hand-picked high-interest resources.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition
Searchable full-text for more than 1,300 popular nonfiction books covering high-interest subjects like animals, weather and sports.
Book Collection: Nonfiction – High School Edition
Searchable full-text for more than 2,450 popular nonfiction books covering high interest subjects like careers, technology and civics.
Book Collection: Nonfiction – Middle School Edition
Searchable full-text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books covering high interest subjects like sports, technology and biographies.
Business, Funding & Nonprofits
Business Decision
This database, reporting and mapping service combines extensive consumer household, market segmentation and demographic data with GIS mapping technology.
Business Insights: Essentials
Provides company, industry and investment reports as well as hundreds of business periodical articles, market share data and company histories. Formerly called Business & Company Resource Center.
Consumer Health Complete
Searchable full-text for journals, reference books and encyclopedias, as well as images, videos, and diagrams covering areas of health and wellness.
CultureGrams Kids Edition
Experience the cultures of over 190 countries that includes maps, statistics, recipes, and in-depth information. Also includes information on all 50 U.S. states.
CultureGrams Online
Experience the cultures of over 190 countries that includes maps, statistics, recipes, and in-depth information. Also includes information on all 50 U.S. states.
Books & Authors, Government, History & Biography, Science, Politics & Elections, Education
Discovering Collection
A database for students that is comprised of biographies and essays that cover literature, history, biography, science and social studies.
Downloadable Audiobooks
Digital versions of audiobooks available through the Internet.
E-audiobooks
Browse and check out electronic audiobooks using a wide variety of mobile devices.
E-books
Browse and check out electronic books using a wide variety of mobile devices.
E-video
Browse and check out electronic videos using a wide variety of mobile devices.
ERIC
Education Resource Information Center. 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from education literature and resources.
Genealogy, History & Biography
Fold3 History & Genealogy Archives
Census records, state records, city directories and historical primary source documents from pre-U.S. Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
This grantseeking research tool from the Foundation Center includes over 90,000 grantmakers and 900,000 grants. Search over 380,000 form 990s from private foundations, community foundations and grantmaking public charities. Available in the Funding Information Center at the Library Center only.
(in library use only)
Foundation Grants to Individuals
Online database of foundations that provide a variety of funding support for individuals. Sources include scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. It is intended to be both a grantseeker's guide and a reference tool for those interested in foundation giving to the individual. Available in the Funding Information Center at the Library Center only.
(in library use only)
Foundation Philanthropy In/Sight
In/Sight combines the Foundation Center’s rich data on grantmakers and their grants with familiar Google maps to tell the story of philanthropy.
(in library use only)
Government, History & Biography, Education
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Business, Funding & Nonprofits, Telephone & Addresses
Gale Directory Library
A full-text, keyword searchable version of the Gale Encyclopedia of Associations.
Business, History & Biography, Education
Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of printed reference resources that you can search online. The collection covers business, biographies, science, history and social issues.
HeritageQuest Online
A great resource for census data, family records, local histories and Revolutionary War pension records.
Business, Find a Job, Education
Job & Career Accelerator
Get detailed information on occupations that suit your interests. Access current job listings from over 5 million job postings collected from major job boards. Create professional resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, and more.
LearningExpress Library
An online resource for academic and employment test preparation. Includes the GED, ACT, SAT, Postal Worker, and Civil Service tests. The site also offers materials and courses to improve life, workplace and computer skills.
Library Literature Full-Text
Search hundreds of library science journals, many with full-text.
Books & Authors, History & Biography
Literature Resource Center
A wealth of information that offers literary criticism, biographies, work overviews, periodical articles, web sites and more.
Mango Languages
An online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective.
MAS Ultra School Edition
Full-text for popular high school magazines, biographies, primary source documents and reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts); an image collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Art, Automotive, Community Matters, Health & Wellness, Science, Magazines, Education
MasterFILE Premier
Full-text periodicals on subjects like business, health, education, science, and general reference. This database also contains full text of reference books, primary source documents and an image collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
MEDLINE
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE provides authoritative medical citations covering topics like medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system.
Middle Search Plus
Full-text for popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Provides access to data and analysis on stocks, mutual, exchange-traded, and closed-end funds or obtain data on a particular industry. Includes screening tools, portfolio analysis, and educational features.
History & Biography, Newspapers
New York Times Historical with Index
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)
Newspaper Source
Searchable full-text for national and international newspapers and television and radio news transcripts. The database also contains selective full-text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers
NoveList
Use this database to help you find information on thousands of adult and childrens fiction titles. Locate series information, awards, genre lists, reviews and more!
NoveList K-8
Need help finding a good book to read? Novelist can help you locate books for grades K to 8.
PERSI from HeritageQuest
An index of over 1.6 million genealogy and local history articles.
Primary Search
Searchable full-text for popular elementary school magazines and encyclopedias as well as a dictionary, photos, maps and flags. All full-text articles are assigned a Lexile reading level.
Professional Development Collection
Full-text for high-quality education journals including: Booklist, Education Digest, Journal of Education, Phi Delta Kappan, and School Library Journal. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Business, Find a Job, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA Business
This directory of nearly 14 million U.S. and Canadian businesses includes address, phone, contact person, sales and number of employees.
Business, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA Canadian Business
Search this database of 1.3 million Canadian businesses.
Business, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA Canadian Residential
Search this database of 12 million Canadian households.
Business, Health & Wellness, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA Health Care
Search this directory of 835,000 physicians and dentists in the United States.
Business, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA New Businesses
Find listings of the over 50,000 new businesses started in the United States each week.
Business, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA New Homeowners
Updated weekly, this database lists new homeowners across the United States.
Business, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA New Movers
With over 300,000 new movers each week, this database can help you locate movers by geography, moving distance and more.
Business, Funding & Nonprofits, Telephone & Addresses
Reference USA White Pages
A directory of over 120 million US households with listed phone numbers. Information is available 8 to 12 weeks after it appears in phone company records.
Science Reference Center
Searchable full-text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
Signing Savvy
A sign language dictionary containing thousands of videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada. Customize video playback, build custom wordlists and share with others, and create phrases, virtual flash cards and quizzes.
Genealogy, Missouri & Ozarks, Newspapers
Springfield News-Leader
Index and full-text of the Springfield News-Leader since 2002.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Full-text covering January 1, 1988 to the present.
Value Line
Access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities, as well as special situation stocks.
Business, Community Matters, Government, Politics & Elections, Newspapers
Wall Street Journal
(Eastern edition) Indexing and full-text articles from 1984 to the present. Excludes advertisements, digest of earnings table, dividends table, foreign currency exchange, futures prices and stock tables.
Worldcat
Search for books and other materials owned by libraries worldwide.
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Find the Historical, Serious and Quirky on Fold3
From census records to Civil War photos to UFO sightings -- students, genealogists and historians will love mining a new electronic resource, Fold3, for reliable historical documents.
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