Research Databases

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Academic Search Elite - Provides core resource of scholarly information for academic Institutions.  Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals and over 1,700 peer-reviewed, full-text journals. 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>

Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary Edition

Research databases for school libraries that provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. It contains searchable full text for thousands of popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

Business Source Premier - Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. 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>

Consumer Health Complete - A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. 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>

eBooks on EBSCOhost - Search EBSCOhost's extensive collection of eBooks and download to your computer or eReader. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

ERIC - The Education Resource Information Center provides citations to education literature and resources. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

 

Fold3 - 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. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

Kids Search - This search interface is designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. The Kids Search interface provides a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that is fun to use. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

Learning Express - Interactive resource has over 300 online practice 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>

Legal Forms - Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contract, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in layman's language. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

Mango Languages - Mango's language learning system focuses on teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Each lesson combines real-life situations and audio from native speakers with an easy-to-follow interface and simple, clear instructions. Mango Basic offers Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, ESL French, ESL Italian, ESL German, ESL Russian, ESL Mandarin Chinese, ESL Cantonese Chinese, ESL Japanese, ESL Greek, ESL Arabic, ESL Korean, and ESL Vietnamese. Mango Complete, for students who want to learn beyond the basics, offers Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

MAS Ultra School Edition - This database is designed specifically for high school libraries and contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, etc. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents and more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts); an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

MEDLINE - MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical citations on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

Middle Search Plus - Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). 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 & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin; Encyclopedia of Animals™; and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

Missouri Libraries 2 Go: Download audiobooks and eBooks to your computer, eReader, or mp3 player. 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 & Home Use (to use outside the library, enter username casscolib and password news) <Back to Top>

Newspaper Source - Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. Library & Home Use  <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>

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>

Primary Search - Primary Search®, designed specifically for elementary school students contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

Professional Development Collection - Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for nearly 520 high-quality education journals. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

ReferenceUSA is the leading provider in busines and consumer research. Access over 20 million businesses for use in market research or for job seeking to locate and reasearch companies you may want to work for.

Science Reference Center - Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources. Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center also satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

Searchasaurus - Designed for users in elementary or middle schools. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

Student Research Center - A search interface designed specifically for secondary school students, according to their needs and search abilities. Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos Library & Home Use  <Back to Top>

World Book Kids - The site offers easy-to-read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

World Book Online Info Finder - Designed for school-aged patrons’ homework and research needs. Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the site features rich collections of multimedia on a variety of topics, science fair projects; a Biography Center; links to world newspapers, correlations to curriculum standards, 21st century research guides, and much more. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

World Book Online Reference Center -  A powerful reference tool for advanced researchers and information seekers. The site features thousands of e-books, tens of thousands of articles, and hundreds of thousands of primary source documents and features developed especially for public library patrons such as Computer and Web Tutorials, How To... documents, and Government Resources. Library & Home Use <Back to Top>

WorldCat - Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries for books, web resources, and other materials. 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>