Research Databases

 


Automotive
AllData

Business
Business Source Premier
Reference USA
Regional Business News

Ebooks
netLibrary

Genealogy/History
Ancestry
Footnote
World Vital Records

General
Credo Reference
EbscoHost
MasterFILE Premier
OCLC Worldcat

Government
Military and Government Collection

Home Improvement
Home Improvement Reference Center

Magazine Articles
EbscoHost
Newsbank

Newspapers
Newsbank
Newspaper Source

Readers' Advisory
Novelist

Students
Discovering Collection
MAS Ultra School Edition
Opposing Viewpoints
Student Research Center

Test Preparation
Learning Express

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ALLDATA Online
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 service bulletins, parts and labor estimates, wiring diagrams, and more.
For Use At Northern Resource Center Only

Search Genealogy Records
Ancestry Library Edition

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

 
Business Source Premier
 
Scholarly business database, which includes many full-text resources in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
Library & Home Use


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

Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection

Essays and reference works on the subjects of literature, history, biography, science and social studies for K-12 students.
Library & Home Use


EbscoHost

Includes articles on a variety of topics, including business, health, education, social sciences, humanities, multi-cultural studies, general science and more.
Library & Home Use

Footnote
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

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Home Improvement Reference Center

Contains full text articles that show instructions, tips, and suggestions for a variety of home improvement projects.
Library & Home Use


Learning Express

Web-accessible. Interactive resource has over 300 online practice test including: SAT, ACT, GED, GMAT, Nursing, Fire Fighter, Police, Middle school & High school Math & Reading. Plus many tests in Spanish.
Library & Home Use


MAS Ultra; School Edition

Comprehensive database designed for high school libraries. Educational resource includes full-text periodicals, biographies and primary source documents. Over 230 full-text reference books, including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac & Book of Facts, and Our States reference book series from Great Neck Publishing.
Library & Home Use


MasterFILE Premier

Comprehensive array of resources geared toward the public library. Includes full-text journals, reference books, biographies and primary source documents covering a wide array of subjects. Searchable image library available, which includes photos, illustrations and maps.
Library & Home Use


Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of full-text military titles, trade publications, newsweeklies and scholarly journals.
Library & Home Use


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

NewsBank
Newsbank

NewsBank provides the full text of news articles from the following newspapers: Kansas City Star, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Springfield News Leader, Chicago Tribune, Wichita Eagle, Washington Post, Des Moines Register, Louisville Courier Journal, Tulsa World and Christian Science Monitor.
Library Use Only


Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Also includes full-text television and radio news transcripts provided from CBS News, Fox News, NPR, etc.
Library & Home Use


NoveList

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

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

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 text magazine and newspaper articles.
Library & Home Use


Reference USA

Over 12 million business listings with company profiles and over 120 million nationwide telephone listings gathered from telephone white pages and yellow pages.
Library & Home Use


Regional Business News

Supplementary news database for Business Source Premier. Provides an array of comprehensive, full-text, regional publications, updated daily.
Library & Home Use


Student Research Center

Search interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. Searches MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Health Source: Consumer Edition, American Heritage Dictionary and Columbia Encyclopedia. Includes Teacher Research interface, which searches Academic Search Elite.
Library & Home Use

© 1992-2008 OCLC
OCLC Worldcat (FirstSearch)

Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries for books, web resources, and other materials.
Library & Home Use

WorldVitalRecords.com
World Vital Records

Contains censuses, birth, marriage, and death records, the International Newspaper Collection, Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, and more. This collection includes over a billion names from the U.S. and around the world
.
For use at Northern Resource Center, Drexel & the Genealogy Branch


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