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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including full text for nearly 2,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Search records, books, serials, and other historical records specific to African Americans to trace your genealogy or to do research.
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Access electronic books of American and English literature: poetry, drama, fiction, biographies and autobiographies, and the Bible.
Trace your genealogy using a wide variety of historical records. You must be in the library to access this database.
Access biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
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Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content designed to support patients' health-related information needs.
Search thousands of magazines, academic journals, newspapers, reference books, photos and maps on millions of topics.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research.
Search for full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics to support educator professional development.
Explora Primary Schools is a trustworthy environment for students and educators in grades K through 5 to look up facts for class projects or homework.
Explora Public Libraries provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories.
Explora Secondary Schools is a far better alternative to websites and search engines for students in grades 6-12 to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework.
Fold3 is a premier collection of historical U.S. military records that brings to life the details of America’s military veterans with stories, photos, and personal documents.
Gale In Context: Elementary (formerly Kids Infobits) is an easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content on a broad range of educational topics.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Search HeritageQuest Online for census records, books, serials, and other historical records to trace your genealogy.
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Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines, images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects.
INFOhio supports teaching and learning by providing equitable access to quality resources for Ohio's PreK-12 community of students, educators and parents.
Literary Reference Center provides you with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across time and literary discipline.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, the MAS Ultra – School Edition database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines.
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for periodicals, reference books, and primary source documents on a range of subject areas, as well as large collection of photos, maps, and flags.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Middle Search Plus provides full text articles for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines as well as thousands of biographies and historical essays.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers, as well as selective full text for 389 regional U.S. newspapers.
Access thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, and videos from your local library. Best-selling authors, new releases, classics and crowd-pleasers––your local public library’s digital collection has it all!
Ohio Historical Society's online encyclopedia of Ohio history. This continually evolving site features over 2,000 entries related to Ohio's natural history, prehistory, and history.
The Ohio Means Jobs website helps employers find great employees, provides resources to help job seekers find great careers, and provides resources for students to plan for their futures.
Ohio.org is the official source of Ohio travel information from the State of Ohio. Browse the site to find travel inspiration for your next trip.
The Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources provided by Ohio libraries to all Ohio residents.
Oxford University Press provides new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and science.
Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.
Designed for professional educators, Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Topics include world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Find large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970.
Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources.
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Learn to speak a new language with the help of Transparent Language Online. Over 100 foreign language courses and an ESL component for more than 25 first languages are available.
Browsing Very Short Introductions is an excellent way to get a quick authoritative and accessible overview of a subject.
Vocational & Career Collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Early Learning by World Book is the premier online resource for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades.
The World Book Kids online encyclopedia features thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps that enrich thousands of easy-to-read articles developed for elementary students.
L'Encyclopédie Découverte is a full-featured, reference site for French-language beginners that is written at basic French reading levels.
World Book Online is an engaging, verified, and trustworthy digital resource for grades pre-K through high school.
This dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary.
World Book Student includes thousands of articles, learning resources, and research tools to meet the research needs of middle school students.