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General Reference & Articles

General Reference Center
1980 - Current

• Full-text magazines, newspapers and reference book articles

• Full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books articles
• A one-stop source for news and periodical articles

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

• A collection of full text newspapers from around the USA and the World
• Includes Detroit News, March 2000 - present (selected articles)
• Includes Grand Rapids Press, March 1996 - present

Midland Daily News Index (2003 - present)

• Find citations for Midland area information and local obituaries from the Midland Daily News

New York Times

• Full-Text 1995 - present
• Indexing only 1980 - 1995

• Midland Daily News, June 17, 2002 - Present
• America's Newsmagazines
• All full text

Michigan Newspapers Web Pages

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Research

• Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers
• Includes Computer Database, Educator's Reference Complete, LegalTrac and more

CINAHL

• Indexing for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
• Limited Full-text.  Request inter-library loan at the library reference desk.

• Computer-related product articles, news, and reviews

• Resource for academic articles in education

• Online versions of reference books
• Find information for the following subjects: Business, Environment, History, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, and Science

OCLC First Search (Academic Articles)

• Journal Articles and subject specific databases
• Some useful databases on FirstSearch:
  WilsonSelectPlus Full Text articles
  WorldCat shows materials owned by other libraries

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Homework -- for more specific homework topics, click on subject at top

World Book Kids

• Preschool through Grade 4
• Fun, games, and education

Kids InfoBits

• Kindergarten through Grade 5
• Full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books articles

eLibrary Elementary

• Kindergarten through Grade 9
• Reference books, journal articles, newspapers, photographs, maps, and radio and television news transcripts
• All articles are full text.

SIRS Discoverer

• Kindergarten through Grade 9
• World Almanac for Kids, Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia, Topic of the Month
• Magazine and newspaper articles, maps, government documents, and photographs

InfoTrac Junior Edition

• Grades 6 - 9
• Full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books

Marshall Cavendish Digital Reference

• Grades 6 - 12
• Geography
• Health
• Social Studies
• Science
• World Cultures

SIRS Renaissance

• Grade 6 and up
• Arts & Humanities Resources

InfoTrac Student Edition

• Grade 9 and up
• Full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books

• All Ages
• City and country maps
• Earth Science maps
• History maps
• Geography in the news

World Book Online

• All Ages
• Encyclopedia Articles
• Magazine Articles
• Reliable Web Sites

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Animals, Birds & Plants

AccessScience

• McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
• Excellent resource for high school and up.

Birds of North America

• From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
  the American Ornithologists' Union

Endangered Species of North America e-book

• Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

• 4th Grade through High School
• Animals & Plants

• Search for Michigan Animals or Plants that are Endangered
• View Endangered Status
• View Michigan Counties where Species has been Observed

Science Online

• Great for high school & college biology students

Antiques Resources

• Estimate the value of antiques and collectables
• View information taken from auction houses
• Search by category, type, origin, year or keyword

PriceIt! Antiques & Collectibles

• Data from ebay, GoAntiques, Tias.com, and Select Auction Houses
• Articles on many subjects related to antiques & collectibles
• Collecting Clubs Directory

Art, Pictures and Images

Art Museum Image Gallery

• art images from distinguished museums around the world
• rights-cleared for educational use

AP Photo Archive

• The Associated Press' photo library

SIRS Renaissance

• Arts & Humanities Resources
• Full-text

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Auto & Small Engine Repair

Auto Repair Reference Center -- this resource is being cancelled by the library.  It will no longer be available as of June 30, 2008.

ChiltonLibrary.com -- this is the new auto repair resource. 

• Automotive Repair Information for Do-It-Yourself People
• Look up and print instructions for repairing your automobile
• Service Bulletins and Recall Notices

Small Engine Repair  

• ATVs, Boats, Personal Watercraft
• Motorcycles
• Snowmobiles
• Tractors, Lawn mowers, Generators

Biography

• biographical sketches
• portraits

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

• index to published biographical information

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Business and Investment

Business & Company Resource Center

• Fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

• Stocks & mutual funds
• Analysis of investments
• Compare fund holdings

Reference USA

• Locate addresses, phone numbers and brief company information for 12 million U.S. businesses
• Search Residential Database of 120 million households by name, location and phone number

Small Business e-Reference

• Actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

• Comprehensive Investment Information
• Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, EFT's, and Company Profiles
• Replaces S&P print products

Value Line
Available for in-Library use only.

• Online version of the popular investment resource
• Reports on companies industries
• Selection & Opinion resources

Small Business Web Guide

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College Catalogs

• College catalogs
• Search for schools by region, tuition, enrollment, and majors

Consumer Information

Consumer Reports

• Search Consumer Reports online for full text-articles 1999 - present
• Full-text does not appear online until 3 months past the publication date of the issue

e-books

• eBooks: Digital full-text versions of reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction.
• Downloadable Audiobooks: Recorded books you can download and listen to on your computer or portable listening device.
• This resource requires free registration to use. Come into the library to register and then the resource can be used from home.

• Online versions of reference books
• Find information for the following subjects: Business, Environment, History, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, and Science

• 4th Grade through High School
• Geography
• Health
• Social Studies
• Science
• World Cultures

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Encyclopedias

• 4th Grade through High School
• Geography
• Health
• Social Studies
• Science
• World Cultures

World Book Online

• Encyclopedia Articles
• Magazine Articles
• Reliable Web Sites

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition
Available for in-Library use only.

• U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward
• American Genealogical Biographical Index
• Immigration Lists Index
• Much more

America's Genealogy Bank & America's Obituaries

• Historical Newspapers, 1690 - 1977
• Historical Books 1801 - 1900
• Historical Documents, 1789 - 1980
• America's Obituaries, 1977 - present
• Social Security Death Index, 1937 - current

• US Census from 1790 - 1930
• Family and local history books and articles
• Revolutionary War Records
  Having Problems? Click Here.

Web Guide for Genealogy

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Health & Wellness

 CINAHL Basic

• Authoritative resource for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. 
• More than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
• Limited full text.  Request inter-library loan at the library reference desk.

• Medical and health information for the general public
• Includes pamphlets and information sheets
• The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only

• Medical and health information
• The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only

Historical Newspapers

Historical Midland Newspapers

• Search Help
• Bartram's Cheek, 1870
• The Midland Times, 1872-1875
• The Midland Republican, 1881-1922
• The Midland Sun, 1881-1922

Historical New York Times, 1851-2004

New York Times Historical Extra Edition

History, Government & Global Issues

• Cultural information on 182 countries and territories including maps, statistics and recipes
• Basic information on the United States including facts, symbols, time-lines, famous residents and more

• City and country maps
• Earth Science maps
• History maps
• Geography in the news

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

• Arguments for each side of social issues
• Newspaper and magazine articles
• Statistics

• History topics
• Reproductions of historic documents

U.S. Popular Culture e-Reference

World History & Culture e-Reference

Web Guide for Current Issues

Web Guide for History

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Legal Information

• Law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers
• Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation

• Michigan Compiled Laws
• Michigan State Cases
• Michigan Court Rules
• Michigan Administrative Code

Web Guide for Legal Information

Literature and Reading

Bookletters offers book reviews and information on hundreds of authors, all easily accessible online. To receive regular updates on books in special areas of interest, simply sign up for BookLetters’ email newsletter service. Reviews of recommended books in your favorite genres will be delivered right to your inbox.

Literature Resource Center

• Information on novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers

• Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Plays, and Speeches
• Biographical information

• Information on authors in the areas of long and short fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophy

Novelist

• Fiction reader's resource
• Includes children's books
• Search by subject
• Find similar authors
• Browse booklists and book award lists

Join our Online Book Clubs and every weekday morning, we’ll email you a portion of a book that takes about five minutes to read. After reading two or three chapters, you can finish a book by checking it out of the library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

• Plot summaries, award citations, recommended reading lists
• Search book titles, by subject, genre, time period, geographic location, character, reading level and more
• Find similar books by different authors

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AccessScience

• McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online

Birds of North America

• From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
  the American Ornithologists' Union

• 4th Grade through High School
• Geography
• Health
• Social Studies
• Science
• World Cultures

• Search for Michigan Animals or Plants that are Endangered
• View Endangered Status
• View Michigan Counties where Species has been Observed

Science Online

• Diagrams
• Definitions
• Biographies
• Essays
• Experiments

Science & Technology for Students

• e-books for middle & high school students

Science & Technology e-Reference

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Teaching Resources

Educator's Reference Complete

ERIC (OCLC)

• alternate link to ERIC

Kids Infobits Teacher Toolbox

Michigan Educators' Resources

• eBooks: Digital full-text versions of reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction.
• Downloadable Audiobooks: Recorded books you can download and listen to on your computer or portable listening device.
• This resource requires free registration to use. Come into the library to register and then the resource can be used from home.

Test Prep

Practice with tests based on such official exams as the ACT, SAT, GED, GRE, ASVAB, Civil Service, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U. S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, Real Estate Agent and Broker Exams. English as a second language testing.

Web Guide for Employment

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