Online Tools

Academic Search Premier

For the serious researcher, provides full-text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals.

African-American History Online Logo

Need a resource for Black History Month? This is an easy-to-use resource with biographies, major events coverage, primary sources, & maps.

American Indian History

Looking for information about an American Indian tribe or working on a Native American Heritage Month project? This is an easy-to-use resource with biographies, major events coverage, primary sources, & maps.

Collection of biographical resources in ebook format.

Business Source Premier

For the business researcher looking for information on marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Provides the full text for more than 2,100 journals.

CultureGrams logo

Start here to find out about people in other countries! Listen to the national anthem, look at pictures, and try recipes. Learn about each country’s history, customs, and government, and see what everyday life is like. 

World Book Early Peoples

For elementary, middle and high school students. Covers the origins and rise of each civilization; the role of women; methods of warfare; daily life and customs; diet; housing; legal system; religion, and holidays.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

What fun--you can listen to entries being read with an American, a British or an Australian accent! And you can listen to the entry being read quickly or slowly!

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search encyclopedias and specialized reference sources that once were accessible only in the library! Our collection ranges from art to technology resources.

Collection of history resources in ebook format.

History Reference Center

For high school and college students as well as the general public; features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.

World Book Inventions and Discoveries

For elementary, middle and high school students. Find out about objects and ideas that have changed how we live today from the steam engine to the toothbrush. Corresponds to science and social studies curriculums.

LearningExpress Library

Want to ace that test? Use these test preparation materials and interactive practice exams to get an A!

LexisNexis Express (legal module only available in-library)

Access over 6000 legal, business and news sources. News coverage includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcipts, and international news. The Company Dossier module provides detailed company and financial information. The legal collection, available only in-house, contains federal and state court cases back to 1789. 

Literary Reference Center

For high school and college students as well as the general public; a full-text database containing plot summaries and synopses, literary criticism, author biographies, literary journal articles, poems and short stories.

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