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Academic OneFile - A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, more than 5,000 journals in full-text and access to major Gale reference sets. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Alldata - Search for automotive repair information on car and truck models from 1982 to the present. Includes step-by-step part installation instructions with diagrams, technical servece bulletins, parts and labor estimates, wiring diagrams, and more. For Use At Northern Resource Center Only <Back to Top>
Ancestry - Research your family history with this enhanced library version of Ancestry.com. Contains over one billion names. Search the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward as well as immigration, vital, military, court, church, and ethnic records. Explore city directories, the Social Security Death Index, and more. Library Use Only <Back to Top>
Business and Company Profiles ASAP - Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Business & Company Resource Center - Source for business, company and industry information. Locate company profiles, periodical articles, financial data, market research as well as up-to-date stock and financial information. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Business Economic and Theory Collection - With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Credo Reference - Articles, images, maps and multimedia resources drawn from hundreds of reference books covering every major topic, including art, medicine, history, technology, literature and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Communications and Mass Media Collection - From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Computer Database - Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Criminal Justice Collection - Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Culinary Arts Collection - The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Custom Newspapers - Coverage of more than 150 cover-to-cover titles and selected full-text news and business coverage from another 280 sources. Search by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other fields. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Discovering Collections - Essays and references works on the subjects of literature, history, technology, literature and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Diversity Studies Collection - This collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 full-text journals. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Educator's Reference Complete - Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection - This largely full-text collection of 200 journals provides access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers and corporate interests. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Expanded Academic ASAP - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Fine Arts & Music Collection - With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Footnote - Includes documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. For Use At Harrisonville Branch Only <Back to Top>
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Collection - This collectionof nearly 40 largely full-text journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
General OneFile - Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of topics. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
General Science Collection - Composed of nearly 300 predominantly full-text academic journals and general science-focused magazines, this collection provides coverage of all scientific endeavor, including particle physics, quantum theory, advanced mathematics, and biotechnology. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health - Specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information to academic, medical and public libraries. Offers hundreds of health/medical journals, newsletters and thousands of pamphlets and hundreds of streaming videos from medical experts. Provides access to many encyclopedias including Clinical Reference Systems, PDR guides, Medical and Health Information Directory, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence and much more. Includes Alternative Health module which provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines on alternative and complimentary therapies. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Health Reference Center Academic - Integrates the full text of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters topical overviews; and reference books. It offers more than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Home Improvement Reference Center - Contains full text articles that show instructions, tips, and suggestions for a variety of home improvement projects. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Home Improvement Collection - Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection - With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Information Science and Library Issues Collection - This collection is comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals covering topics such as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Informe - Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this reference tool provides full-text of popular Hispanic magazines - not just translations. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
InfoTrac Junior Edition - Created for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features more than 100 titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With diverse perspectives andstrong full-text coverage, students will find the homework answers they need to all their general reference questions. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
InfoTrac Student Edition - Specifically designed for secondary school students, this database provides age-appropriate and reliable content from magazines, newspapers and reference books to meet student’s curriculum needs. Over 1,000 full-text titles, thousands of newspaper articles, hundreds of maps and images and full text content from 14 reference books including Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates and many others. Also search by Lexile reading levels. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Insurance and Liability Collection - This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of this multimillion dollar industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Kids InfoBits - Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age appropriate, curriculum related magazine and reference content. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Learning Express - Web accesible. Interactive resource has over 300 online pratice tests including: SAT, ACT, GED, GMAT, Nursing, Fire Fighter, Police, Middle School & High School Math & Reading. Plus many tests in Spanish. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
LegalTrac - Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Military and Intelligence Database - Over 500 titles and more than 7 million articles with links to related sources outside of the current article: reference books, magazine and newswire articles. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
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netLibrary - Access over 6000 eBooks. Cass County Library eBooks collection focuses on the areas of business, health, science, literature, career, test preparation and computer topics. You will also find an extensive selection of Cliff's Notes. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
NewsBank - NewsBank provides the full text of news articles from the following newspapers: Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Library Use Only <Back to Top>
NoveList - provides help for fiction readers in finding books that may be of interest. Search by title, author, genre, award lists, or by descriptive terms to find new books to read. NoveList adds about 10,000 new titles each year and provides full-text reviews from several journals. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Including nearly 400 titles, this predominantly full-text collection covers all aspects of the nursing profession from direct patient care to health care administration. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Opposing Viewpoints - A complete one-stop resource for information on today's controversial social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full magazine and newspaper articles. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Optimal Resume - A suite of online career tools helps job seekers build a better resume and cover letter, manage an online portfolio, hone interviewing skills, and develop a personal brand online. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine - This predominantly full-text collection includes over 60 titles in the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Topics include proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Pop Culture Collection - This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. The collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate periodicals, which are predominantly full-text. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Popular Magazines - Popular Magazines includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries". Titles like Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR and even Oprah are included in this database. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Psychology Collection - This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death by providing a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind evolves over time. Most of the 200 periodicals are full-text. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Reference USA - Over 12 million business listings with company profilesand over 120 million nationwide telephone listings gathered from telephone white pages and yellow pages. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Religion and Philosophy Collection - Users of this collection can research different religions and philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. The collection is comprised of 250 periodicals, many of which are full-text. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Small Business Collection - Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find over 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Small Business Resource Center - Covers areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources and franchising. Also includes business journals and a wide selection of sample business plans crated by real-life entrepreneurs. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Spanish Language Encyclopedia - A Spanish-language encyclopedia for elementary and middle grades, or beginning Spanish students. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
U.S. History Collection - This collection provides coverage of the current thinking and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of over 40 journals provides robust and balanced coverage of the field. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
Vocations, Careers and Technical Education Collection - Offering content from nearly 400 largely full-text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
War and Terrorism Collection - Researchers and students of history, social science, and current events will gain insight into conflicts: their causes, their impact, and how they are perceived on a global scale. Almost 100 full-text periodicals are included. Coverage begins in 1980. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
OCLC Worldcat (FirstSearch) - Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries for books, web resources, and other materials. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
World Book Kids - With content from the award winning World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, the site offers simpler navigation, thousands of colorful illistrations, diagrams, maps, and dozens of activities tied to national curriculum standards. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
World Book Online Reference Center - Contains thousands of articles, state-of-the-art multimedia, editor reviewed web sites, periodical content, and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
World History Collection - This collection of over 40 predominantly full-text journals provides balanced coverage of events in World History. It is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>
World Vital Records - Contains censuses, birth, marriage, death records, the International Newspaper Collection, Immigrant Ships Transcibers Guild, and more. This collection includes over a billion names from the U.S. and around the world. Library Use Only <Back to Top>
