Research Databases & Resources

Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
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AtoZMapsOnline.com is the world’s largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
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Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook.
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Academic Search Premier was designed for the premier researcher, rich with the most valuable, comprehensive multidisciplinary content available. As a leading scholarly database, it encompasses the expansive academic disciplines now being offered in colleges and universities. Users accessing this resource will be provided with comprehensive content right at their fingertips, including PDF backfiles to 1975 or further for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,050 titles.
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Perform genealogy research with census records, ships’ passenger logs and more.
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This database contains do-it-yourself repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All of the content has been created by ASE certified technicians.
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A comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia designed for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and ESL/ELL program participants.
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Business Source Premier is the industry’s most popular business research database, featuring the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
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Fast Background Checks. Search Public Records, Find Contact Information, Criminal Arrest Records, Information on Properties, and More
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is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
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Consumer Reports enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions on the products they are shopping for. Whether a user is looking to find the best deal on an LCD TV, or researching the top-recommended used vehicles, ConsumerReports.org provides ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web designed for young Spanish speaking students or those learning Spanish as a second language.
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A powerful search and discovery engine. Ideal for research assignments or general curiosity.
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Find a Book or Journal Article by Searching WorldCat; WilsonSelect; ArticlesFirst; WorldAlmanac and GPO
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A Collection of more than 300 online reference books covering a wide range of subjects such as art, business, health, history, science, religion, and more.
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For elementary and middle school teachers to supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies.

U.S. Census Records from 1790 – 1930 and from over 25,000 family and local histories.
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Resources for high school students to help build classroom and homework skills in math, English language arts, social studies, science and technology.

features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, magazines, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
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his database offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.
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Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.
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Build Academic & Workplace Skills with Easy-to-Use Online Resources. Improve your basic skills with Math, reading, and writing tutorials. Learn about in-demand careers. Prepare for occupational exams as well as the ACT®, SAT®, AP®, GED®, HiSET®, and TASC tests. Tutorials, practice tests, eBooks and more.
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Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms.
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A leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
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is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC is a full text database that combines content from major respected reference works, monographs, classic books and anthologies, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO.
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MasterFile provides full text for thousands of general reference magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags, and covers a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
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contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books such as the Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia; New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Encyclopedia of Animals; and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags. This database contains full text for a variety of 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.
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Use this database to find good reads for elementary-aged children.
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Helps you find books that you are interested in reading. Search by subject, title, or genre and find a variety of books as well as suggested readalikes for your favorite authors.
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Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
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Containing full-text for more than 80 of the most popular elementary school magazines, Primary Search is designed specifically for elementary school children.
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Illinois Public Records provided by Record Information Services, Scroll through Chicagoland’s public records. Real estate transactions, mortgages, foreclosures, and more. Keep an eye on housing values in your community and help safeguard your biggest investment – your home. Sort by name, city, zip code, and more. Record Information Services is a 18 year old data compiler of public records serving the Chicagoland area.
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contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, magazines and other sources. Topics covered in Science Reference Center include biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
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Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.
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Empower learners to explore a new language at the library, at home, or on the go using any Internet-connected device. Available in 110+ languages, including ESL, learners have the flexibility they need to learn a new language anytime, anywhere.

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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web for grades 9+.
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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web for PreK children.
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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web for grades K+.
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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web for grades 5+.
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Investigate the chronological significance of world events and the lives of notable historical figures.
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The WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA reference on the Web.
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