Databases By Subject Area

Art:

Camio - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - A premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums.

Automotive and Small Engine Repair:

ChiltonLibrary.com - Represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners.

Biography:

Biography Resource Center - Full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - 13.6 millions names indexed. Includes individuals both living and deceased from every field of activity and every area of the world. No Full-Text!

Dictionary of Literary Biography - Nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Business and investing:

Business Magazines - Search Business Reference on-line by keyword or subject. Over 38 million articles, many with full-text and may be printed or e-mailed.

Business and Company Resource Center - This database includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Gale Directory Library - Includes Encyclopedia of Associations and Brands and their Companies.

Morningstar Library Edition Find a stock or mutual fund to meet your needs, research current or prospective holdings, or see how your investments fit together.

Reference USA - Company Information Information on U.S. & Canadian businesses.

Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage - One stop source for comprehensive financial & business information including stocks, bonds & corporate info.

Career Preparation and Testing

Career Cruising Explore careers and find careers that suit your interests using the Career Matchmaker. Also info on colleges and universities.

Learn-a-Test On-line test preparation materials for ACT, SAT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, ESL, GED, AP tests, Civil Service Exams, High School Entrance Exam and more.

Children and Young Adult Resources

CultureGrams Experience the cultures of 182 countries and territories. Also included is information on our 50 states.

Curriculum Resource Center Two databases - one for K-5 and the other grades 6 - 12 are included. Topics cover school related information such as science projects, biographies, maps, timelines and images.

Daily Life through History Through images, articles, and timelines, explore how earlier people lived around the world. This information is for middle and high school students.

eLibrary Elementary Full text database geared toward elementary school students.

Junior Edition Database of magazine and newspaper articles designed for jr. high and middle school students.

Kids InfoBits Designed for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, this features articles from 100 popular children's magazines and much morel. From Gale Publishing.

Opposing Viewpoints One-stop source for information on social issues using articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe Research information for middle school & high school students.

SIRS Renaissance For high school & college students ~ Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.

Student Edition Database of magazine and newspaper articles designed for high school students.

Student Resource Center Bronze Thousands of primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses & full-text magazine articles.

Computers

Computer Database Magazine articles on computer hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Consumers

Consumer Reports: Online version with all reviews and articles included in print version.

Encyclopedias and other Materials for Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Electronic reference books dealing with medicine, history,science, environment, business, and multicultural studies.

First Search Data Bases Wide variety of databases relating to health, business, education etc. Use WorldCat to search for books in libraries across the U.S.

Gale Directory Library Includes Encyclopedia of Associations and Brands and their Companies.

World Almanac - Search Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia as well as 4 almanacs. From OCLC First Search.

Genealogy

Footnote.com - Historical document, and genealogical research site with over 41 million primary documents online.

HeritageQuest Online Over 25,000 local and family history books full-text online as well as U.S. Federal Census images.

Health and Wellness

CINAHL - Provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. 70 journals are full-text.

Health & Wellness Resource Center Search the Health & Wellness database for drug information, medical dictionary, health news and much more.

Health Reference Center Academic Search magazines for topics dealing with Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Coverage is from 1980.

Language Learning

Mango Languages - Learn languages such as French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, there are also courses in ESL Polish, ESL Spanish and ESL Brazilian Portuguese. You must first create a profile on the Mango Login Page if you wish to track your progress!

Law

Legal Forms Online Forms to be used in Michigan that cover topics such as Bankruptcy, Divorce, Name Change, Power of Attorney, Real Estate, Wills and more.

Legal Trac Find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.

Literature and Reader's Advisory

Literature Resource Center This database covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

NoveList This program allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest.

Tumblereadables : This is a collection of electronic books for all age groups, featuring online text, narration, line highlighting, and auto page turning.

What Do I Read Next? This database includes more than 100,000 recommended titles and 58,000 plot summaries. Use this to find books by series, author, or reading level.

Magazines and Scholarly Journals

Academic OneFile Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, the arts, literature, medicine and more in scholarly journals, many with full text.

Article First From OCLC, an index of articles from the content pages of journals. Many fulltext.

Educator's Reference Complete - A collection of educational journals for K-12 teachers.

General OneFile - A one-stop source for news and popular magazine articles on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

WilsonSelect Plus - Part of OCLC First Search, this database has full-text magazine articles.

Newspapers

Michigan Newspapers - Search Detroit News (archives to 1999) and over 60 other Michigan newspapers.

Newspapers Search 150 U.S. and world newspapers including New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Times of London, and Grand Rapids Press over the past 365 days for full-text articles.

New York Times Historic Newspaper Search the New York Times newspaper full-text from 1851 through 2004.

Detroit Free Press Historic Newspaper

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