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E-Source Home  >  Alphabetical Listing of E-Sources

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Academic Search Complete (Login required - click here)
    A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,200 journals and a total of more than 11,700 publications

Ancestry Library Available from within the library only.
    This is a resource that both the beginner and the advanced researcher can use to explore history and their own family’s history. It includes coverage of the U.S. and the U.K., plus record collections from Canada and other areas. It contains more than 4,000 databases. The overall dates of coverage are 1300 to the present. Available within the library only due to licensing issues.

Alt HealthWatch (Login required - click here)
    In-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text articles for more than 180 journals going back as far as 1990.

Auto Repair Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.

Bibliography of Native North Americans (Login required - click here)
    A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. BNNA contains more than 132,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

Biography Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.

Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 1,290 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, civics and more.

Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,440 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more.

Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more.

Books And Authors (Login required - click here)
    Books & Authors offers ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors and topics to help you find your next book.

Business Source Complete (Login required - click here)
    A scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

ChiltonLibrary - Automotive (Login required - click here)
    ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.

Consumer Health Complete (Login required - click here)
    Content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Digital Catalog & Download Center--Overdrive
    Hundreds of popular titles available for download. Book formats include text and audio. Downloads are available to your personal PC, laptop, PDA, smart phones, MP3 devices, or burned onto CD. You will be prompted for your library card number and PIN once you start to download the book.

EBSCOhost Web (Login required - click here)
    Search across up to 25 EBSCO databases: Literary Reference Center, Science Reference Center, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, MasterFILE Premier, Academic Search Complete, Academic Source Complete, Alt HealthWatch, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition, Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition, Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition, Regional Business News, Business Source Complete, Education Research Complete, Environment Complete, ERIC, Health Source - Consumer Edition, History Reference Center, Humanities International Complete, Newspaper Source Plus, Professional Development Collection, TOPICsearch,

Education Research Complete (Login required - click here)
    A resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education and all educational specialties. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Environment Complete (Login required - click here)
    Deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.

Elementary School Research - Kid Search (Login required - click here)
    Primary Search contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, which provides easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags.

Elementary School Research - Searchasaurus (Login required - click here)
    Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies.

ERIC (Login required - click here)
    ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Login required - click here)
    This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

HeritageQuest Online (Login required - click here)
    This is a collection of material for both genealogical hobbyists and professionals with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. You can search for family names and localities to find ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. Included are nearly 8,000 family histories, 12,000+ local histories, more than 250 primary source documents (tax lists, city directories, probate records, etc.), over 25,000 titles (ex.: Periodical Source Index [PSI], Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, Freedman Bank Records ), important resources for African-American genealogical research, plus more than 20 million images (digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records (1790 to 1930). The overall dates of coverage are 1700 to the present.

Health Source - Consumer Edition (Login required - click here)
    Consumer health information on many topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

High School Research - MAS Ultra (Login required - click here)
    This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents and more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts).

History Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 960 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and more than 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.

Home Improvement Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    A resource for home improvement assistance including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. It contains 27 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images. Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines

Humanities International Complete (Login required - click here)
    Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.

Interlibrary Loan FirstSearch
There is a nonrefundable $5 fee for Interlibrary Loan Requests

    Complete articles and access to more than 75 databases.

Interlibrary Loan FirstSearch (Remote Access)
There is a nonrefundable $5 fee for Interlibrary Loan Requests. (Login required - click here)
    Complete articles and access to more than 75 databases.

Literary Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Magazines: MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) (Login required - click here)
    Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.

Middle School Research - Middle Search Plus (Login required - click here)
    Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of over 400,000 photos, maps and flags.

Newspaper Source Plus (Login required - click here)
    Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 1,530 full-text newspapers, providing more than 30 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 684,000 television and radio news transcripts.

NoveList (Login required - click here)
    A readers' advisory service providing access to information on 155,000 fiction titles including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.

Points of View Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

Professional Development Collection (Login required - click here)
    Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

ProQuest Obituaries (Login required - click here)
    ProQuest Obituaries offers more than 10.5 million obituaries and death notices in full-image format from uninterrupted historical archives of top newspapers.

Regional Business News (Login required - click here)
    This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Science Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines.

Testing & Education Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    Test preparation for entrance, certification and professional license exams. Information on careers, colleges, technical schools and executive programs.

Thomas Register (Login required - click here)
    More than 170,000 manufacturers with extensive company and product information. CAD drawing, catalogs and company websites.

TOPICsearch (Login required - click here)
    TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

World Book (Login required - click here)
    Includes World Book Online For Kids, World Book Online Info Finder, World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Discover, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos and Gran Enciclopedia Hispánica

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