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Agriculture

  • Soil and Health Library - This website provides a large number of free e-books available for immediate download. The books are mainly about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living. There are secondary collections about social criticism and transformational psychology. No fees are collected for this service.

Business & Investments

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  • ABI/INFORM global through Proquest - Business periodicals and newspapers

  • Associations Unlimited through Gale - The premier source for associations - use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets.

  • Business and Company Resource Center with PROMPT through Gale - a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT database is fully integrated into this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

  • EDGAR database of corporate information - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis & Retrieval (Securities Exchange Commission)

  • Financial Trend Forecaster - Stock market trends, inflation and rates

  • General OneFile through Infotrac - News, periodicals, business, computers current events, economic; LegalTrac - includes over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles; General reference Center Gold - business & industry trends.

  • Hoover's Online - A one-stop reference for business directories, tools, and resources.

  • IPL Business & Economics - The Internet Public Library directory of commerce and industry, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and the management of economic systems. The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web. Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!

  • Morningstar Online - Morningstar offers stock market analysis; equity, mutual fund, and ETF research, ratings, and picks; portfolio tools; and option, hedge fund, IRA, 401k, and 529 plan research. Trusted and reliable data and analysis can help both experienced enthusiasts and newcomers.

Consumer Research

  • Consumer Reports - reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides, provides updates on product availability, and adds new products to previously published test results. In addition, the online data includes coverage that is not published in the magazine; for example, vehicle reliability (frequency of repair) tables online extend over the full 10 model years.

Education & Learning

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  • ERIC - Education Resources Information Center through OCLC - is the world's largest digital library of education literature. Used by parents, teachers, librarians, education policymakers, instructors and students in teacher-preparation programs.

  • Learn A Test - Learning Express Library - Offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want - at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you

General - Multi-Subjects

  • ArticleFirst through OCLC - OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

  • Associations Unlimited through Gale - The premier source for associations - use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets.

  • Discovery through Proquest - Comprehensive file of periodicals for a broad range of subject areas including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

  • ECO - Electronic Collections Online - through OCLC - Lets you view abstracts or full-text articles of scholarly journals. Subjects include agriculture, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, library science, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, social science, technology.

  • Expanded Academic ASAP through Gale - 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!

  • General OneFile through Gale - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

  • General Reference Center Gold 1980-Present through Gale - A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

  • OAIster through OCLC - a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster boasts more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. Includes digitized (scanned) books and journal articles; digital text; audio files (wav, mp3); video files (mp4, QuickTime); photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif); data sets (downloadable statistical information); theses and research papers.

  • PapersFirst through OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

  • What Do I Read Next? through Gale - What Do I Read Next? Includes over 134,300 recommended titles, more than 74,500 plot summaries, and awards information from 568 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

  • World Almanac through OCLC - Offers a fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike. Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. Sources include: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, World Almanac & Book of Facts, World Almanac of the USA, World Almanac of US Politics, World Almanac for Kids.

  • WorldCat through OCLC - Search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public.

 

Genealogy

  • Ancestry.com - Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more including immigration records, military records, etc. This database can be used from the library or grounds only. Questions? Call 468-2265.

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index through Gale - Enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

  • HeritageQuest Online - HeritageQuest Online is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

  • The Soldier in later Medieval England - An AHRC pilot research project which challenges assumptions about the emergence of professional soldiery between 1369 and 1453. Searchable resource for public use of immense value and interest to genealogists as well as social, political and military historians. The intention of the project is now to build upon and produce an integrated database of soldiers who fought for the English crown in the second and third phases of the Hundred Years War.

Government & Military

  • GPO - Government Publications Online through OCLC - Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)

  • Military & Intelligence through Gale Custom Database is designed to meet the periodical content needs of libraries serving military personnel.

Health & Medicine

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  • Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module through Gale - Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

  • Medline through OCLC - View journals in all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Subjects include: clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, psychiatry, toxicology, veterinary medicine.

History

  • HeritageQuest Online - HeritageQuest Online is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

  • History Resource Center: US through Gale - History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

  • History Resource Center: World through Gale - History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronological research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

  • Lopez Island History - An aggregated website featuring Lopez Island specific history links.

  • Washington Rural Heritage includes images, documents, paintings, and more that document the history of rural communities throughout the State of Washington.

Humanities

  • Religion and Philosophy through Gale - features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals - everything from American Atheist Magazine to Zygon - covering religion and the related areas of philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.

Legal

  • LegalTrac through Gale - 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.

Science & Technology

  • Computer Database through Gale - 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.

  • Soil and Health Library - This website provides a large number of free e-books available for immediate download. The books are mainly about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living. There are secondary collections about social criticism and transformational psychology. No fees are collected for this service.