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.
Small
Engine Repair Database - Repair help for ATVs, motorcycles,
personal watercraft, snowmobiles and snow machines, tractors, generators
and more.
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.
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.
Small Business Resource Center - 
Find
information in books and magazines as well as sample business plans
and business forms in this new database.
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.
Today's Science Science news written especially for students.
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.
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.
World
Almanac - Search Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia as well
as 4 almanacs. From OCLC First Search.
World Book On-Line Full-text articles, maps & graphics
are included in this encyclopedia.
Genealogy
Ancestry Library Edition With
over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, AncestryPlus is
the most comprehensive online source of information for genealogy
and local history.
HeritageQuest Online Over
25,000 local and family history books full-text online as well as
U.S. Federal Census images.
New England Ancestors.Org Search over 78 million names contained
in town and church records, land records, military records, court
records, diaries & journals, immigration records and more.
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.
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
Detroit News & Detroit
Free Press Archives Search Detroit Free Press archives from
1982 and Detroit News from 1999.
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.
