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Articles & Databases
You
will need your library card to access most of these free databases from any computer outside
of the library. Need homework facts? Check out our children's
databases at the bottom of the page.
Associations Unlimited
-- Addresses of Organizations
Use this database to get contact information and basic facts
about approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional,
state, and local nonprofit membership organizations.
Biography Resource Center
Get full text articles about the lives of famous
people from reference books, magazines, and other reliable sources. This
database allows you to search for people by name, occupation, nationality,
ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, and gender. You can then read
or print the article.
Biography and Genealogy Master
Index is an online index. It tells you where to find more
information in books, and is especially helpful when you need to do in-depth
research on someone who is hard to find out about. It covers
more than 1,000 important
biographical reference sources.
California
Digital Newspaper Collection, 1849 - 1911
Historic articles from newspapers across California can be
searched by keyword with this helpful tool from the University of California
at Riverside.
Career Library --
College and career information
Career Library offers a comprehensive information resource
for career and college research. Search
for occupations, colleges and college majors, financial aid information,
apprenticeships, military occupations, and state-specific data.
You will also find:
a video library (career
videos in English and Spanish) a resume builder, college and career planning
checklists sample proficiency & standardized job test questions, GED sample
tests, ASVAB, SAT and more.
ChiltonLibrary.com
--
Auto repair
information
ChiltonLibrary provides detailed auto repair information. This
database covers the most popular vehicles of the past 30
years, and has additional coverage of specialty models. Information on
service and repair for virtually any system on your vehicle is available
here.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library --
eBooks
Our e-book reference collection currently includes West's Encyclopedia of
American Law (general legal concepts), Grzimek's Animal Life
Encyclopedia (great for learning about any kind of animal, fish, bird,
etc.), and Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body
Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. Note:
Because
each library creates its own e-book collection, the content you see in the
Gale Virtual Reference Library may vary if you use the database at different
libraries.
General
Reference Center Gold
-- News & Articles
Use General Reference Center Gold to find
articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text
and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and
industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
GreenFILE,
a Bibliographic Database of Environmental
Concerns
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles as well as government documents
and reports.
MEDLINEplus -- Medical information in
English
MEDLINEplus
en Espanol -- Informacion medica en espanol
MEDLINEplus is a database you
can use to help answer health questions. This database brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the National
Library of Medicine, the
National Institutes of Health, and other government, non-profit and health-related organizations. It
includes drug information and an illustrated medical
encyclopedia. Health
Reference Center Academic is another multi-source database with access to the full text of nursing and
allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information
sources. The material contained in these databases is intended for
informational purposes only.
NetLibrary
eBooks The
library subscribes to NetLibrary to offer patrons free access to eBooks on a
variety of topics. To see the current list of eBooks available through
NetLibrary, use the link above.
Testing
& Education Reference Center
-- School
& job test
practice, e-books, scholarships, and colleges Online
test practice available here! This database helps you practice for all
sorts of state and national tests, including education-related, civil service,
licensing and job-related exams. E-books for test preparation are also
included. Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding
scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of entries to find
the information you need. ---------------------------------------------------------- Children's
and Teen
Resources
Kids
InfoBits --
Facts &
articles for kids in grades K - 5
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in
the early grades. It includes appropriate facts and articles from elementary
reference sources and children's magazines. This database covers geography,
current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports
and more.
Kid's
Edition
Facts
& articles for elementary students Easy
access to facts and articles from magazines, newspapers and reference
books. Includes information on current events, the arts, science,
popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and many other
topics. Junior
Edition -- Middle school,
junior high, high school
Designed for older students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers
and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science,
popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Student Edition
- High school
Designed for high-school
students, this database gives access to a variety of magazines,
newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events,
the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history,
sports and more. |
