Database List

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    • African American Heritage >  

      Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation records, Military Draft and Service records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank and More.

    • Akron Legal News >  

      The Akron Legal News is a daily publication devoted to legal, financial, real estate and general news. Designated by the Federal, County and Municipal Courts as the Official Law Journal of Summit County, Ohio.

    • Akron Beacon Journal >  

      Full text coverage of the newspaper from 02/27/1997 to present is available in this database.

    • Alt HealthWatch >  

      Provides complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

    • 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.

    • Ancestry Library Edition >   (Library Use Only)

      U. S. Census records; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; petitions for naturalization; passenger lists and more.

    • American Ancestors >   (Library Use Only )

      Online access to the resources of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The collection includes over 200 million records for New England, New York, and beyond.

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    • Business Source Premier >  

      Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, market research, industry reports, and SWOT analyses.

    • Business Plans Handbook >   (Library Card Required for Off Site Use)

      A collection of actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America.

    • Business Insights: Essentials >  

      Provides authoritative information and statistical data and enables researchers to explore real world application and develop analytical skills.

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    • CollegeNow >  

      Connect with a counselor to get application advice. Get live help identifying and applying for financial aid. Our live experts will help prepare you for your college admissions interview.

    • Comics Plus >  

      With Comics Plus®, you can have unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from a variety of library-friendly publishers. Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on your computer, tablet or phone—no holds or wait lists required.

    • CultureGrams >  

      Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.

    • Cypress Resume >  

      Welcome to Cypress Resume, the online resume builder that lets you create professional-quality resumes in three quick and simple steps.

    • Consumer Reports Online >  

      Full access to all of the valuable content on Consumer Reports. Also includes access to the Cars Best Deals Plus with bottom line pricing, unlimited price reports on new and used cars, test track notes from expert engineers, enhanced side by side model comparisons, and "best deal" negotiation advice.

    • Computer Source >  

      Provides the latest information and current trends in high technology, including full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications

    • Contemporary Poets >  

      Biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition.

    • Contemporary Novelists >  

      Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

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    • DataOhio >  

      The DataOhio catalog is a single source for the most critical and relevant datasets from state agencies and entities. Use the comprehensive self-service search and filter capabilities to easily browse the data catalog. Select individual results to view more details and to access the library of downloads and visualizations. Agencies continually add new datasets to the DataOhio Portal on a regular basis so check back often.

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    • Early World of Learning (World Book) >  

      Early World of Learning comprises six different components: Know It, Read, Play, Watch, Print & Do, and Classics. Content is correlated to Common Core, state, and International Baccalaureate standards.

    • Encyclopedia of Global Warming >  

      Comprehensive coverage of the questions of global warming and climate change, including scientific descriptions and explanations of all factors, from carbon dioxide to sunspots.

    • EBSCOhost Databases >  

      Access to: Academic Search Premier, Alt Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Computer Source: Consume 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.

    • Explora >  

      Designed with public library patrons in mind, Explora Public Libraries provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories.

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    • Fiero Code >  

      Fiero Code empowers public and school libraries to offer coding as a remote-access digital resource, after-school code clubs, and coding competitions.

    • Freading >  

      Downloadable eBooks to read on your computer or mobile device.

    • Fold3 >  

      Convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

    • Flipster >  

      Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine solution that makes it easy for you to read your favorite magazines on your computer or mobile device.

    • First Research >  

      Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key

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    • Gale eBooks >   (Access Code = clevnet)

      A collection of educational and informative e-textbooks.

    • Gale Legal Forms >  

      Ohio legal forms across the most popular legal areas, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others explained in laymen's language.

    • Gale Virtual Reference Library >   (Temporary Remote Access during the National Health Crisis-- Library Card Number Password: clevnet)

      Provides full-text of Drama for Students, Epics for Students, Literary Movements for Students, Literary Newsmakers for Students, Literary Themes for Students, Nonfiction Classics for Students, Novel for Students, Poetry for Students, Shakespeare for Students, and Short Stories for Students.

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    • HeinOnline >  

      HeinOnline is a premier online research platform that provides more than 193 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.

    • HelpNow >  

      HelpNow's features include: Homework Help Interact with live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests. Skills-Building Choose your topic to receive real-time help. Personalized eLearning Tools My File Sharing, My Session Replay, My Tutoring Archive, My Tests Archive, and more! 24-Hour Writing Lab Submit essays and other forms of writing for constructive feedback. Homework Send Question Submit homework questions for expert guidance. Adult Learning Center Access a library of rich adult learning content (GED) and live, professional assistance in resume/cover letter writing, U.S. citizenship prep, MS Office Essential Skills Series, and more! Foreign Language Lab /Spanish-Speaking Support

    • Home Improvement Source >  

      This full text database is designed to assist homeowners in do-it-yourself home repair, maintenance, and remodeling projects. Step-by-step instructions for thousands of projects in the areas of plumbing, outdoor, woodworking, electrical, and decorating.

    • Hobbies & Crafts Source >  

      Full text database that includes a collection of articles covering over 140 topics, as well as licensed periodicals, books and video that focus on categories commonly referred to as hobbies and crafts.

    • Health Source: Consumer Edition >  

      This comprehensive database provides a variety of full text articles on general health information for consumers from leading information providers.

    • Hoopla >  

      A digital media service which offers a selection of movies, television, educational/instructional videos, documentaries, music, and audiobooks via your browser, smartphone or tablet.

    • HeritageQuest Online >  

      Provides access to primary documents, unpublished manuscripts (census indexes, family and local histories, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications), and access to Freedman's Bank for African-American genealogical research. Also includes access to the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), which features more than 1.6 million citations from 6,500 genealogy periodicals and a fully searchable collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books and city directories.

    • Hoover's >  

      D&B Hoovers delivers insightful information on more than 162 million businesses, both public and private, around the world; including the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Search by Company Name, Executives, Industry or by using Conceptual Search and Business Signals. Business data includes Annual Revenues, Employee Counts, Corporate Family Tree, Key Contacts, Analyst Reports, SWOT reports, stock data, financials and other vital information. USE THIS LINK TO ACCESS WHEN IN LIBRARY: https://www.mergentonline.com/Hoovers

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    • JobNow >  

      JobNow, powered by Brainfuse, provides live interactive online help combined with online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job.

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    • Kanopy >  

      Kanopy streams thoughtful entertainment to your preferred device with no fees and no commercials by partnering with public libraries and universities. Everyone from film scholars to casual viewers will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy. Log in with your library membership and enjoy our diverse catalog with new titles added every month.

    • Kids InfoBits (Gale) >  

      A content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.

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    • Literary Reference Source >  

      Full text of literary journals and literary reference works. Contains plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies and interviews, and the full text of thousands of poems and short stories.

    • LearningExpress Library >  

      LearningExpress Library helps libraries improve the lives of their patrons every day through a highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.

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    • Middle Search Plus >  

      Full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Also includes an image collection of photographs, maps, and flags.

    • MAS Ultra School Edition >  

      Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. Also includes an image collection of photographs, maps, and flags.

    • MEDLINE >  

      Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

    • MasterFile Premier >  

      Provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.

    • Morningstar >  

      Detailed, independent information on more than 20,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds.

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    • Newspapers.com Ohio Collection >  

      The largest online newspaper archive, established in 2012. Used by millions for genealogy and family history, historical research, crime investigations, journalism, and entertainment. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more. Everything you’d expect in the paper—and maybe something you didn't!

    • Nonfiction Classics for Students >  

      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.

    • New York Times >  

      Access to the most current electronic edition of the New York Times.

    • Novelist K-8 Plus >  

      Novelist K-8 helps librarians, teachers, parents, and other adults help children in grades K-8 find fiction and non-fiction books to read tailored to their reading level and interests. Or, kids can try it themselves to help them select books they will enjoy

    • Newspaper Source >  

      Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers as well as full text television & radio news transcripts.

    • Novelist Plus >  

      Novelist Plus helps readers of all ages or those who help readers find fiction and non-fiction books they will enjoy.

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    • O'Reilly for Public Libraries >  

      O’Reilly for Public Libraries give on-demand access to a vast collection of titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), courses, videos, case studies, expert playlists, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 other publishers.

    • Ohio Web Library >  

      An evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more.

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    • PressReader >   (Select "Library or Group" in Sign In menu)

      Top newspapers and magazines from more than 120 countries.

    • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection >  

      Covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

    • Professional Development Collection >  

      Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

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    • Rosetta Stone >  

      Rosetta Stone's award-winning interactive approach has been used by millions of learners around the world and now is accessible through the library — anytime, from anywhere. With Rosetta Stone Library Solution, patrons get access to lessons and focused activities in 30 languages. A Mobile app that enables learners to reinforce language on the go is also available (mobile instructions)

    • Religion and Philosophy Collection >  

      Coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

    • Regional Business News >  

      Full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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    • Sociological Collection >  

      Information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.

    • STAT+ >   (Request access via the email form provided by link)

      STAT delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Millions of new readers turned to us as we sounded the alarm early on about the Covid-19 pandemic. Our journalists go deep in tough-minded coverage of the business of making medicines, health tech, science, and public health. We take you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms. We cast a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinize corporate strategies, and chronicle roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. We examine controversies and puncture hype. With an award-winning newsroom, STAT gives you indispensable insights and exclusive stories on the technologies, personalities, power brokers, and political forces driving massive changes in the life science industry — and a revolution in human health. These are the stories that matter to us all.

    • Small Business Source >  

      Nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books of up-to-date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business.

    • Science Reference Source >  

      Easy access to science-oriented content, including full text for science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources, designed to meet every student's science research needs.

    • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps >  

      Large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. Used by local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments.

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    • Teachables >  

      Worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! Formerly known as Scholastic Printables, they offer printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade.

    • The Wall Street Journal >   (As of Jan. 2023, this resource is temporarily unavailable. )

      The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

    • TOPICSearch >  

      Full text articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

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    • Very Short Introductions >  

      Discover a new topic or subject with these intelligent and serious introductions written by authors who are experts in their field.

    • Valueline Investment Survey >   (Library Card Needed to Log In)

      Advice on approximately 1700 stocks, more than 90 industries, stock market and the economy.

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    • Washington Post >  

      The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most-widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area, and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

    • World Book Kids >  

      A colorful and engaging online learning environment for elementary-aged students.

    • World Book Online >  

      Encyclopedic content, a dictionary, e-books, multimedia, a vast collection of primary source documents, and a wealth of research tools.