Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is accessed through EBSCOhost.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming 
For two decades, merely granting credence to the phenomena of global warming could be politically divisive. Though far from the visionary move toward neutralizing emissions that many delegates had hoped, the Copenhagen climate summit acknowledged a causal relationships between first-world industry and environmental degradation and warming. As the emissions doomsday date of 2050 looms, Salem Press' three-volume subject encyclopedia on global warming provides a number of ways for students to investigate the phenomena of climate change and greenhouse gases and their effects on many species and environments.

Ohio History Central Encyclopedia
© 1998 - 2005 Ohio Historical Society -- Ohio History Central is an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory and history. Each section contains written information, maps, timelines, and images. Many of these pages link with one another to form a complete and informative perspective.

World Book Online
Resources include encyclopedic content, e-books, multimedia, a vast collection of primary source documents, and a wealth of research tools that allow students to customize and save their work.

World Book Reference Center
The articles of the venerable World Book Encyclopedia form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.
This is only available at the library.

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Plus has been replaced by the publisher with Ancestry Library Edition (Proquest). The Passenger & Immigration Lists (P.I.L.I.) are no longer included in this database. New content includes: the Immigration Collection, which features New York and San Francisco Passenger Lists and the New York Petitions for Naturalization Index. Ancestry Library Edition features more than 1.2 billion records of interest to genealogy researchers, including digitized images of the U.S. Census from 1790 forward and the Social Security Death Index. This is only available at the library.

Cleveland Necrology File
The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975. A more complete description of the file’s contents can be found in the “About” section of the database. For necrology information after 1975, please use the Cleveland News Index.

Footnote
Source data is the foundation of academic research.  In the past, researching key American historical documents was expensive, time consuming and frustrating. Footnote has digitized and indexed over 50 million images of historical documents found nowhere else on the web and adds about 2 million new documents each month!  In addition, Footnote users can further enrich the data with information pertinent to the record through online tagging, and even uploading and adding their own content.

HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online features three significant genealogy resources: The complete U. S. Census, 1790-1930, features new and more accurate indexes (in progress), searchable by place of birth, age, ethnicity, etc. (Click on the "What's New" link in the database to determine which indexes have been completed.) The fully searchable Periodical Source Index (PERSI) features more than 1.6 million citations from 6,500 genealogy periodicals. HeritageQuest's online collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books are searchable by every word.

Ohio Death Certificate Index 1913-1944
This database indexes Death Certificates of persons that died in Ohio in the above years, useful for determining date of death and certificate number. Using the index information, a researcher can later obtain a copy of the certificate itself, which holds further information. More precise searching is now available using the Advanced Search that allows searching by certificate number, volume number and exact date of death.

Ohio Military Rosters - War of 1812
Search the full text of the roster from the Adjutant General records. Ohio furnished 1,759 Officers and 24,521 enlisted men for this war. Brought to you by the State Library of Ohio and OPLIN.

WorldCat
(© OCLC) -- The world's largest bibliographic database.  It contains information about more than 68 million items owned by 7,600 libraries around the world.  Constant growth makes WorldCat a rich resource for genealogists who seek primary source materials.

General Reference & Current Events

Bartleby
(© Bartleby) -- The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Black History Month Resource Center
Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

Discovering Collection
(© The Gale Group) -- This cross-curricular reference resource combines thousands of biographies, topical overviews, and critical analyses in the subjects of History, Science and Literature in a single database that supports classroom learning. This is only available at the library.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A virtual library of resources from Gale designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a flexible, comprehensive and beneficial search tool supporting high school and academic and public library research.

Footnote
Source data is the foundation of academic research.  In the past, researching key American historical documents was expensive, time consuming and frustrating. Footnote has digitized and indexed over 50 million images of historical documents found nowhere else on the web and adds about 2 million new documents each month!  In addition, Footnote users can further enrich the data with information pertinent to the record through online tagging, and even uploading and adding their own content.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is accessed through EBSCOhost.

Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Center
Includes over 50 biographies, a five-century-long historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as the Hispanic culture quiz or planning a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

INFOTRAC OneFile
(© The Gale Group) -- Search over 8 million articles by subject or keyword. The General Reference Center is a single point of access to full-text and image sources: periodicals, journals, reference books, investment reports, dictionaries, newsletters, pamphlets, maps, and more.

Lawyer
Find legal assistance by location or specialty. A resource and legal tool for those looking for legal information. 
 

Mango Languages 
All of the educational tools essential to learn foreign languages are available online now with Mango Languages. This database provides its users with remarkable conversational results after each and every lesson, and immerses them in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Remote access provided, 24-hours a day.
 

Morningstar 
Morningstar Investment Research features detailed, independent information on more than 20,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. In addition, library patrons have access to an online, interactive Investing Classroom, featuring hundreds of courses covering every aspect of stock and fund investing and portfolio building. Short quizzes, training seminars, and interactive investing courses teach you critical investing lessons and techniques you can immediately apply what you learn to your own portfolio. This is only available at the library.  
 

Ohio Legal Services
Guide to legal services for Ohioans; includes searchable directory of free and low cost legal assistance, law library materials, and more.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides full text access to the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other sources to provide a one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on over 100 controversial issues.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Search Help

P4A Antiques
The information in the p4a Antiques Reference database is routinely used to estimate the value of similar items for sale, for purchase or for insurance purposes, to substantiate a formal appraisal, to assist in a family division of property or to learn what was paid for a specific item listed in the database. This is only available at the library.  

Poetry Resource Center
Includes over 30 biographies, a historical timeline of events that traces the poetry movement and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on poets and their works. Numerous poems can be found here as well.

Proquest Entrepreneurship  Click Here for Remote Access
ProQuest Entrepreneurship provides unprecedented access to a wide array of resources and tools for starting your own business or supporting the study and practice of entrepreneurship. The database offers a vast collection of content types together in one product: business journal articles (updated weekly), video clips, market research, start-up plans, templates and forms, business cases, working papers,  conference proceedings, and full text dissertations. The interface for ProQuest Entrepreneurship was designed for entrepreneurs wanting quick access to the latest information on business topics and quick links to the most highly sought information, regardless of their research experience.Remote access provided, 24-hours a day.

ReferenceUSA
Directory information for 11 million U.S. businesses, 1 million Canadian businesses, 120 million U.S. households, 11 million Canadian residents, and 683,000 U.S. health care providers. Search for businesses by SIC code, sales volume number of employees and more. Help

Student Research Center
Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. 

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
(© The Gale Group) -- Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.

Women's History Month Resource Center
Includes over 65 biographies, a historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on women and their achievements.

World Book Online
Resources include encyclopedic content, e-books, multimedia, a vast collection of primary source documents, and a wealth of research tools that allow students to customize and save their work.

World Book Reference Center
The articles of the venerable World Book Encyclopedia form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.
This is only available at the library.

WorldCat
(© OCLC) -- The world's most comprehensive bibliography with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries.

Government and Law

Federal Government
The official U.S. gateway to all government information and services.

Gale Legal Forms
Provides a wide selection of Ohio legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, 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 laymen's language.

Lawyer
Find legal assistance by location or specialty. A resource and legal tool for those looking for legal information

Ohio Government
The official U.S. gateway to all government information for the State of Ohio departments, services and taxes

Ohio Legal Services
OSLSA is a nonprofit, publicly funded, legal services program with nine offices that provide civil representation to low-income Ohioans in 30 Ohio counties. Federal law defines low income for our eligibility as 125% of the Federal Poverty Level.
OSLSA acts as general counsel to Ohio's poor. It is committed to searching out the patterns, causes and solutions of the repetitive and fundamental legal problems facing our client community, and seeking legal recourse necessary to redress the grievances of our clients.

Ohio Revised Code
All statutes of a permanent and general nature of the state as revised and consolidated into general provisions, titles, chapters, and sections including all bills passed and filed through June 15, 2009.

Ohio Social Studies Resource Center
The Ohio Social Studies Resource Center (OSSRC) exists to enhance teaching and learning through the identification and posting of quality web-based resources that promote best teaching practices. The OSSRC has made steady progress to create and promote an effective delivery system that provides free access to peer-reviewed resources to all Ohio social studies educators. Twelve partnering agencies presently serve the OSSRC and have exemplified their commitment to working together to improve the teaching and learning resources available to Ohio social studies educators. Their mission is twofold; to ensure that students are armed with the knowledge they need in the global economy to be successful in the work force and higher education, and to endorse the value and importance of social studies education. Please explore the OSSRC to find information about how the Ohio Social Studies Resource Center can help you, along with information about how you can help with the development of the resource center.

Health and Medicine

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
(® U.S. National Library of Medicine) -- The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. Contains over 9 million records dating back to 1966.

MEDLINEPLUS
(© MedlinePlus) -- MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. FAQ

NetWellness
(© University of Cincinnati) -- Includes periodicals (indexing to over 150 titles with selective indexing and full text of health-related articles from over 2500 general interest periodicals), pamphlets (full text coverage of over 500 medical education pamphlets) and reference books (full text coverage of Mosby's Medical Dictionary, The People's Book of Medical Texts, Oryx Press Consumer Health Information Source Book, USPDI Drug Information in Lay Language, and Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide. Help

History and Geography

African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
This digital collection of historical documents is part of "American Memory", an online resource by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and was brought to you with the assistance of an award from The Library of Congress / Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. It provides an overview of Ohio's African-American experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them.

Biography Resource Center: African Americans
Biography is the fascinating and intriguing story of human life. It enriches our understanding of ourselves and others, the forces that make history, and the bonds that all of us share. Perhaps you have just seen a classic movie like Lilies of the Field and want to find out more about Sidney Poitier. Perhaps you have read stories by Toni Morrison and want to know what inspires her to write the way that she does. Or, perhaps you have just heard a National Public Radio presentation on explorers of the Amazon River and want to know why they devoted their lives to such a risky undertaking. The Biography Resource Center: African Americans will help you find the answers to questions like these and many more.

Black History Month Resource Center
Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

Global Road Warrior  
A comprehensive social/cultural, travel, and international business resource, covering 175 countries and territories. Content includes 11-million-plus words of editorial, over 6000 color photos, and 1575 country maps, all presented in a consistent 97-category framework for each country.  This database is proving valuable to several educational cross disciplines and promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies.

Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Center
Includes over 50 biographies, a five-century-long historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as the Hispanic culture quiz or planning a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Ohio Battle Flags
Explore the history of the Ohio Battle Flag Collection housed at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio.  Ohio soldiers carried the flags, known as colors, in the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I and World War II. There are more than five hundred flags in the collection, the majority of which are from the Civil War. There are 552 battle flags in the Adjutant General’s battleflag collection, including 434 from the Civil War. Learn more about the personal, military and historical significance of the flags. Behind the Lines section tells true stories of the soldiers and civilians who fought to preserve the colors both in war and in peace. Illustrating the featured stories are images and documents from the society's collections.  The Ohio Statehouse once had a room called the "Relic Room" where Ohio's military colors were first displayed. Take a virtual tour of this new Online Relic Room section and to browse or search the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. Gain more insight into the history and significance of the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. About the Flags section defines flag terminology, explains how the flags were acquired by the state, and provides information about the project to catalog and digitize them.
 

Ohio Historical Society
The main internet portal for everything offered by the Ohio Historical Society including: Events; Historical Sites and Museums in Ohio; the Archives/Library and Education Resources including Distance Learning.

Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases
This collection of searchable databases (many of which were created under the Ohio Vital Information for Libraries Center, a grant-funded project of OHS supported by the State Library of Ohio and OPLIN) includes: Online Documents, Online Research Tools, Online Services, and On-location Services.

Ohio History Central Encyclopedia
© 1998 - 2005 Ohio Historical Society -- Ohio History Central is an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory and history. Each section contains written information, maps, timelines, and images. Many of these pages link with one another to form a complete and informative perspective.

Ohio Social Studies Resource Center
The Ohio Social Studies Resource Center (OSSRC) exists to enhance teaching and learning through the identification and posting of quality web-based resources that promote best teaching practices. The OSSRC has made steady progress to create and promote an effective delivery system that provides free access to peer-reviewed resources to all Ohio social studies educators. Twelve partnering agencies presently serve the OSSRC and have exemplified their commitment to working together to improve the teaching and learning resources available to Ohio social studies educators. Their mission is twofold; to ensure that students are armed with the knowledge they need in the global economy to be successful in the work force and higher education, and to endorse the value and importance of social studies education. Please explore the OSSRC to find information about how the Ohio Social Studies Resource Center can help you, along with information about how you can help with the development of the resource center.

 Women's History Month Resource Center
Includes over 65 biographies, a historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on women and their achievements.

Homework and Tests

Academic Search Premier
Full text for scholarly and academic magazines and periodicals - covering nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more

Bartleby
(© Bartleby) -- The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Biography Resource Center
(© The Gale Group) -- A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by person, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. Search Tips

Biography Resource Center: African Americans
Biography is the fascinating and intriguing story of human life. It enriches our understanding of ourselves and others, the forces that make history, and the bonds that all of us share. Perhaps you have just seen a classic movie like Lilies of the Field and want to find out more about Sidney Poitier. Perhaps you have read stories by Toni Morrison and want to know what inspires her to write the way that she does. Or, perhaps you have just heard a National Public Radio presentation on explorers of the Amazon River and want to know why they devoted their lives to such a risky undertaking. The Biography Resource Center: African Americans will help you find the answers to questions like these and many more.

Black History Month Resource Center
Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

Business Leader Profiles for Students
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.

Contemporary Novelists
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition. Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Discovering Collection
(© The Gale Group) -- This cross-curricular reference resource combines thousands of biographies, topical overviews, and critical analyses in the subjects of History, Science and Literature in a single database that supports classroom learning. This is only available at the library.

Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Center
Includes over 50 biographies, a five-century-long historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as the Hispanic culture quiz or planning a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

INFOTRAC OneFile
(© The Gale Group) -- Search over 8 million articles by subject or keyword. The General Reference Center is a single point of access to full-text and image sources: periodicals, journals, reference books, investment reports, dictionaries, newsletters, pamphlets, maps, and more.

In the First Person
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories in English from around the world. Help

KidSpace
Homework Help, safe and educational links geared for kids are available.

Learning Express Library
Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers 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. Learning Centers Available: Elementary School; Middle School; High School;  College Preparation;College Students; Computer Skills; GED Preparation; Job Search & Workplace Skills; Jobs & Careers; Skill Building for Adults; U.S. Citizenship; Recursos para Hispanohablantes.  

Literature Resource Center
(© The Gale Group) -- Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Coverage of 2,000 of the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary theme. Combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and more.

Nonfiction Classics for Students
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format. Covering 15-20 works per volume, this reference series gives high-school and undergraduate students an ideal starting point for class assignments, term papers, and special projects.

Ohio Web Library
The Ohio Web Library has resources to help Ohioans of all ages and at all stages of life.
The Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers from Ohio and the nation, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more. The Ohio Web Library supports quality education, a skilled workforce, business growth, and lifelong learning in Ohio
Ohio Students -- Get help with your homework, find research sources for term papers, or explore topics of personal interest.
Teachers and Professors -- Use resources to support your teaching, engage students and enhance your professional development.
Employees and Business Owners -- Find reliable business information, access trade journals and keep current on industry trends.
All Ohio residents -- Stay current with world events, professional news and topics of personal interest.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides full text access to the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other sources to provide a one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on over 100 controversial issues.

Poetry Resource Center
Includes over 30 biographies, a historical timeline of events that traces the poetry movement and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on poets and their works. Numerous poems can be found here as well.

Student Research Center
Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. 

TeenSpace
Information about life after high school, real life issues, homework help, and entertainment are available.

What Tree Is It?
This web site will help identify unknown trees through the leaves and fruits from the common trees of Ohio. Identify trees by leaves, fruits or name. Created by OPLIN and the Ohio Historical Society.

What's That Snake?
Search for and find information on the 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio. Site Overview

What's The Point?
A program created by OPLIN and the Ohio Historical Society that is designed to help users identify flint artifacts, the archeological time periods and which of Ohio's prehistoric Native American peoples may have used the flint that is being searched for.

Women's History Month Resource Center
Includes over 65 biographies, a historical timeline and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on women and their achievements.

World Book Online
Resources include encyclopedic content, e-books, multimedia, a vast collection of primary source documents, and a wealth of research tools that allow students to customize and save their work.

Literature and Reader's Advisory

American & English Literature
(© Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.) -- A fully searchable library of more than 260,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Quickstart Guide

Bartleby
(© Bartleby) -- The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Contemporary Novelists
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition. Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Dear Reader Online Book Club
Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. During the week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday we start new books. Sign up and start reading.

Literature Resource Center
(© The Gale Group) -- Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Coverage of 2,000 of the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary theme. Combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and more.

Nonfiction Classics for Students
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format. Covering 15-20 works per volume, this reference series gives high-school and undergraduate students an ideal starting point for class assignments, term papers, and special projects.

Novelist
NoveList allows readers of all ages to use a favorite author or title to discover new books to read. You can also search NoveList's 96,000 title database by subject or genre.

Poetry Resource Center
Includes over 30 biographies, a historical timeline of events that traces the poetry movement and an assortment of activities such as a quiz based on poets and their works. Numerous poems can be found here as well.

Music

Newspapers and Periodicals

America's News Magazines
America's News Magazines from NewsBank provides full-text articles from various familiar magazines in one easy-to-search database. These leading magazines provide coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Cincinnati Post 
Full text access to all content from 1990 to the present.

Cleveland News Index
(© Cleveland Public Library) -- The online Cleveland News Index lists citation information for local news stories, feature articles and reviews from The Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-present), and Ohio Magazine (Oct.1990 -present). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present. Please note that this index does not provide full text access to these sources.

Ebscohost
Academic Search Premier, Alt Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Computer Source: Consumer Edition, ERIC, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing & Academic, MAS FullTEXT Ultra, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection, Religion & Philosophy Collection, Sociological Collection and Vocational Search & Career Collection. EBSCOhost Databases - Help

INFOTRAC OneFile
(© The Gale Group) -- Search over 8 million articles by subject or keyword. The General Reference Center is a single point of access to full-text and image sources: periodicals, journals, reference books, investment reports, dictionaries, newsletters, pamphlets, maps, and more.

MasterFILE Premier  
MasterFILE Premier provides full text from over 1,900 magazines - general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural. It also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,510 other publications. For some titles, full text backfiles date from 1975. The database also contains full text for nearly 200 reference and travel books; 88,000 biographies; 60,000 primary source documents; and 91,000 photos, maps, and flags. Updated daily.

Ohio Newspapers
Search various Ohio newspapers.

Plain Dealer 
Full text access to all content from 1991 to the present.

Toledo Blade
Full text access to all content from 1997 to the present.

Ohio

African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
This digital collection of historical documents is part of "American Memory", an online resource by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and was brought to you with the assistance of an award from The Library of Congress / Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. It provides an overview of Ohio's African-American experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them.

Explore Ohio
Explore Ohio is the place to go to learn about anything you ever wanted to know about the Buckeye State. State symbols? How to get a driver's license? Population information? Fun places to visit? Explore Ohio has all of that and more!

Lawyer
Find legal assistance by location or specialty. A resource and legal tool for those looking for legal information

Ohio Battle Flags
Explore the history of the Ohio Battle Flag Collection housed at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio.  Ohio soldiers carried the flags, known as colors, in the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I and World War II. There are more than five hundred flags in the collection, the majority of which are from the Civil War. There are 552 battle flags in the Adjutant General’s battleflag collection, including 434 from the Civil War. Learn more about the personal, military and historical significance of the flags. Behind the Lines section tells true stories of the soldiers and civilians who fought to preserve the colors both in war and in peace. Illustrating the featured stories are images and documents from the society's collections.  The Ohio Statehouse once had a room called the "Relic Room" where Ohio's military colors were first displayed. Take a virtual tour of this new Online Relic Room section and to browse or search the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. Gain more insight into the history and significance of the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. About the Flags section defines flag terminology, explains how the flags were acquired by the state, and provides information about the project to catalog and digitize them.

Ohio Death Certificate Index 1913-1944
This database indexes Death Certificates of persons that died in Ohio in the above years, useful for determining date of death and certificate number. Using the index information, a researcher can later obtain a copy of the certificate itself, which holds further information. More precise searching is now available using the Advanced Search that allows searching by certificate number, volume number and exact date of death.

Ohio Government
The official U.S. gateway to all government information for the State of Ohio departments, services and taxes.

Ohio Historical Society
The main internet portal for everything offered by the Ohio Historical Society including: Events; Historical Sites and Museums in Ohio; the Archives/Library and Education Resources including Distance Learning.

Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases
This collection of searchable databases (many of which were created under the Ohio Vital Information for Libraries Center, a grant-funded project of OHS supported by the State Library of Ohio and OPLIN) includes: Online Documents, Online Research Tools, Online Services, and On-location Services.

Ohio History Central Encyclopedia
© 1998 - 2005 Ohio Historical Society -- Ohio History Central is an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory and history. Each section contains written information, maps, timelines, and images. Many of these pages link with one another to form a complete and informative perspective.

Ohio History Online
A compendium of links on Ohio history compiled by OPLIN.

Ohio Memory Online
Discover 26,000 primary sources from 330 archives, historical societies, libraries and museums that document Ohio's history from prehistory to present.

Ohio Legal Services
Guide to legal services for Ohioans; includes searchable directory of free and low cost legal assistance, law library materials, and more.

Ohio Military Rosters - War of 1812
Search the full text of the roster from the Adjutant General records. Ohio furnished 1,759 Officers and 24,521 enlisted men for this war.

Ohio Newspapers
Search various Ohio newspapers.

Ohio Web Library
The Ohio Web Library has resources to help Ohioans of all ages and at all stages of life.
The Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers from Ohio and the nation, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more. The Ohio Web Library supports quality education, a skilled workforce, business growth, and lifelong learning in Ohio
Ohio Students -- Get help with your homework, find research sources for term papers, or explore topics of personal interest.
Teachers and Professors -- Use resources to support your teaching, engage students and enhance your professional development.
Employees and Business Owners -- Find reliable business information, access trade journals and keep current on industry trends.
All Ohio residents -- Stay current with world events, professional news and topics of personal interest.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provides a searchable interface for locating historical Maps of Ohio towns and cities. These maps were digitized from microfilm copies by Chadwyck-Healey, a Bell & Howell Information and Learning company. The searchable database is a joint project of OPLIN and OhioLINK. Sanborn Maps Help

Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Global Warming 
For two decades, merely granting credence to the phenomena of global warming could be politically divisive. Though far from the visionary move toward neutralizing emissions that many delegates had hoped, the Copenhagen climate summit acknowledged a causal relationships between first-world industry and environmental degradation and warming. As the emissions doomsday date of 2050 looms, Salem Press' three-volume subject encyclopedia on global warming provides a number of ways for students to investigate the phenomena of climate change and greenhouse gases and their effects on many species and environments.
 

Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.