Almanacs, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

MAS Ultra - School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines.

Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.

World Book Advanced Includes all of the text of the print set.

Arts and Entertainment

ART Collection OhioLINK art and architecture database.

Biography

Biography in Context A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biography Reference Bank More than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects.

Contemporary Novelists Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets.

Business & Consumer Information

Business Leader Profiles Profiles of significant contributors to business and industry, past and present, written especially for high school students.

Business Source Premier This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials.

Chilton's Auto Repair NOTE: This replaced our subscription to ALLDATA Online on July 1, 2011. Home access to this database is available.

Morningstar Investment Research Center Independent, in-depth research and recommendations on 11,000 stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and 950 exchange traded funds.

ReferenceUSA Directory information for 11 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households.

Regional Business News This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.

Careers

Business Leader Profiles Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry.

LearningExpress Library LearningExpress Library provides an interactive online collection of practice tests and tutorial courses to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

Vocational and Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

Education

ERIC Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines.

LearningExpress Library LearningExpress Library provides an interactive online collection of practice tests and tutorial courses to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

Vocational and Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition Ancestry Library Edition features more than 1.2 billion records of interest to genealogy researchers, including digitized images of the U.S. Census from 1790 forward and the Social Security Death Index. No home access.

Cincinnati Post Full text from 04/01/1990-12/31/2007.

Cleveland Necrology File The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975.

Cleveland News Index The online Cleveland News Index lists citation information for local news stories, feature articles and reviews from The Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-present), and Ohio Magazine (Oct.1990 -present). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present.

Cleveland Plain Dealer Full text from 06/01/1991-Current.

Columbus Dispatch Full text from 07/16/1985-Current.

Dayton Daily News Full text from 01/01/1990-Current.

HeritageQuest Online HeritageQuest features the U. S. Census, 1790-1930 (1850-60 Slave Census Schedules not included), The Periodical Source Index (PERSI), A digitized collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books, Records from the Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files and Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874).

Ohio Historical Society Searchable Database This collection of searchable databases includes: Online Documents, Online Research Tools, Online Services, and On-location Services.

Ohio's Newspapers Full text of several Ohio newspapers including the Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, and Toledo Blade.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Ohio A treasure trove of information, detailed maps at building level for more than 400 Ohio communities from 1868 to the 1960s.

Toledo Blade Full text from 01/01/1996-Current.

Government & Legal

Gale Legal Forms Provides a wide selection of Ohio legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. 

Ohio.gov Web portal for the State of Ohio.

Health

Alt HealthWatch This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals.

HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

MEDLINE Plus The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre clinical sciences.

Netwellness Includes periodicals (indexing to over 150 titles with selective indexing and full text of health-related articles from over 2500 general interest periodicals), pamphlets (full text coverage of over 500 medical education pamphlets) and reference books (full text coverage of Mosby's Medical Dictionary, The People's Book of Medical Texts, Oryx Press Consumer Health Information Source Book, USPDI Drug Information in Lay Language, and Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide.

History & Geography

Biography Reference Bank More than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects.

Biography in Context A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Cleveland News Index The online Cleveland News Index lists citation information for local news stories, feature articles and reviews from The Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-present), and Ohio Magazine (Oct.1990 -present). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Ohio A treasure trove of information, detailed maps at building level for more than 400 Ohio communities from 1868 to the 1960s.

Homework Help

Biography Reference Bank More than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects.

Biography in Context A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Black History Resource Center Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

CultureGrams This resource includes: worldwide photo gallery, slideshows, video clips, famous people collection, and a recipe collection that offers five homegrown recipes from all countries in the database. Plus, sortable (create-your-own) data tables help put dozens of facts into perspective.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

LearningExpress Library LearningExpress Library provides an interactive online collection of practice tests and tutorial courses to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Literature Resource Center Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

MAS Ultra - School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines.

Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research.

Nonfiction Classics for Students Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format.

Student Research Center EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.

World Book Encyclopedia Includes all of the text of the print set.

Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

Academic Search Premier The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

America's News Magazines Full text electronic editions of valuable national U.S. magazines.

Cleveland News Index The online Cleveland News Index lists citation information for local news stories, feature articles and reviews from The Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-present), and Ohio Magazine (Oct.1990 -present). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present.

EBSCOHost Masterfile Full text articles from nearly 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals.

Humanities International Index Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.

Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research.

Ohio's Newspapers Full text of several Ohio newspapers including the Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, and Toledo Blade.

TopicSearch This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.

Literature & Books

American and English Full Text Collections A fully searchable library of more than 260,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.

Books & Authors Readers can use Books & Authors to enhance the experience of the book they are reading; dig deeper into its themes and origins; or learn how the author's life and times contributed to the work.

Contemporary Novelists Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition.

Literature Resource Center Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Nonfiction Classics for Students Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format.

Novelist K-8 Plus Novelist K-8 helps librarians, teachers, parents, and other adults who care about children in grades K-8 find fiction and non-fiction books to read tailored to their reading level and interests. Or, kids can try it themselves to help them select books they will enjoy. Find helpful resources such as expert reading recommendations, read-alikes, book discussion guides, thematic book lists and more.

Novelist Plus Novelist Plus helps readers of all ages or those who help readers find fiction and non-fiction books they will enjoy. Find helpful resources such as expert reading recommendations, read-alikes, book discussion guides, thematic book lists and more.

Worldcat The world's most comprehensive bibliography with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Search results will list materials in libraries in your area.

Multilingual

Mango Languages - Mango is a language learning program teaching practical conversation and cultural awareness for the world's most popular languages. It's so fast and easy, you'll be able to have a real conversation in your new language in just minutes!

World Book - Hispanica An online encyclopedia for older students and adults in Spanish.

Science

Ohioline Resources from The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Science Online Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Social Sciences

Humanities International Index Important reference sources in the humanities.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Religion and Philosophy Collection This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Sociological Collection This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles.

Technology

Chilton's Auto Repair NOTE: This replaced our subscription to ALLDATA Online on July 1, 2011. Home access is available.

Computer Source Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.