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  • Arts & Humanities

    • CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      This is a premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment.

    • HAND PRESS BOOK
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      The Hand Press Book Database is a unique and growing catalog of European printing in the early modern era or “hand-press period” (15th century to the 1830s). This resource integrates descriptive records for major European national, university and research library holdings. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history and transmission of thought—as well as the history of printing and the history of the book.

    • HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (HSTM)
       Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      HSTM integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and citations from the Wellcome Library) to create an international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. It reflects the influence of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research. Database records describe journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields. Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals.

    • SCIPIO: ART AND RARE BOOK SALES CATALOGS
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence. This database provides bibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as private sales—valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends.

    • SIRS RENAISSANCE
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.

  • Automotive & Small Engines

    • ALLDATA 
      Available in the Library only
      A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.

    • CHILTON LIBRARY
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.

    • SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Small Engine Repair Reference Center (SERRC) is a full text database accessible for public library patrons, as well as public school teachers and students, seeking reference and instructional information about small engine machinery maintenance and repair. These manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components.

  • Biography

    • BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      This is a comprehensive online biographical reference database that combines approximately 50 of the most frequently consulted Gale biographical databases with more than 250 full-text periodicals.

  • Business & Legal

    • BUSINESS AND COMPANY ASAP
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers, and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers, and company directory profiles with full text and images.

    • BUSINESS AND COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      This is fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information

    • CQ RESEARCHER
      Requires library's CQ researcher login and password
      CQ Researcher offers original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. Used to complete an assignment, prepare for a debate, or become a quick expert on a topic, each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

    • INFOTRAC VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
       Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      A collection of electronic books on various subjects, such as business, social studies, history, medicine, and science.

    • INFOTRAC GENERAL BUSINESSFILE
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      General Business File ASAP includes full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings, and newswire releases. Specific titles include: Crain's Detroit Business and Forbes, as well as listings from Ward's Business Directory. It covers 1980 to the present.

    • LEGALTRAC
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      LegalTrac includes indexing from 1,800 titles: major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Also included are law related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. It covers 1980 to the present.

    • STATE BAR OF MICHIGAN
      Available to everyone
      Links on the page direct users to general articles on finding legal help; locating Michigan law libraries; researching law; and to other general Michigan law websites. In addition, pages provide more detailed information and links in the areas of family law, elder law, criminal law, wills and trusts, and landlord-tenant law.

  • Careers

    • CAREER CRUISING
      Requires libraries Career Cruising Login and Password.
      Career Cruising has been designed with one goal in mind: to help students plan their future. With exceptional assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information, students move seamlessly through the career exploration and planning proce

    • CAREER ONE STOP
      is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals to foster talent development in a global economy. 

    • HELPING HAND
      This site helps Michigan citizens facing economic hardship find the services they need. Simply click on one of the five tabs below for links to information about jobs and training, unemployment benefits, health care, family support and housing. Then click on the particular links that describes the help you're seeking.

    • LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY
      Initial registration must be in the library. After that this is accessible from home.
      Learning Express Library contains test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.  Immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your score is provided. 
       

  • Community

    • MAKING THE RIGHT CONNECTION
      Available to everyone.
      A user-friendly directory for Macomb County school personnel to help link students and their families with community services.

  • Computers

    • COMPUTER DATABASE
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Computer Database provides full-text, index and image articles from periodicals on the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. This resource includes 150 indexed and 103 full-text titles. Time period covered is the current year plus 3 years.

  • Education

    • EDUCATOR'S REFERENCE COMPLETE
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database..

    • ERIC
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Citations and abstracts of educational resources from 1966. Includes journal articles, theses, conference papers and curriculum. 

    • INFOTRAC K12 PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      InfoTrac K12 Professional includes more than 300 full text journals for educators. Resources are updated daily.

    • LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY
      Initial registration must be in the library. After that this is accessible from home.
      LearnATest.com Library contains test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.  Immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your score is provided. 

  • Genealogy & History

    • AMERICA'S OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICES
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  An ideal resource for genealogical research.  Easily searchable by name of the deceased, date range, or text, such as residence, occupation, hobbies, family members or other personal information, contained in the obituary or death notice.  Covers major and regional newspapers in the United States.

    • ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION
      Available in the Library only
      This database offers full-text information on genealogy resources.

    • INFOTRAC VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
       Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      A collection of electronic books on various subjects, such as business, social studies, history, medicine, and science.

    • HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE
       Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images and extensive indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions.

    • HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (HSTM)
       Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      HSTM integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and citations from the Wellcome Library) to create an international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. It reflects the influence of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research. Database records describe journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields. Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals.

    • THE MAKING OF MODERN MICHIGAN
      Available to everyone.
      This database is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.

    • SLC DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVE
      Available to everyone.
      This resource gives users access to historical and genealogical materials in digital form.  View old pictures, maps, and documents from Macomb County, Troy, and Harper Woods.

     

  • General Information

    • INFOTRAC POWERSEARCH
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      This link allows users to search in one convenient step all of the Gale databases provided by the Michigan ELibrary (MeL).

    • INFOTRAC VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
       A collection of electronic books on various subjects, such as business, social studies, history, medicine, and science.

    • GPO MONTHLY CATALOG
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      Citations of documents printed by the United States in all subject areas. Coverage from 1976. Produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office. 

    • MEL INTERNET
      Available to everyone.
      Librarian-recommended websites, compiled by Michigan Electronic Library.

    • TURFGRASS INFORMATION FILE (TGIF)
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      A cooperative effort of Michigan State University Libraries and the United States Golf Association, this database contains the most comprehensive publicly available collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world, numbering over 100,000.

    • WORLD ALMANAC 
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Full text access to the following printed products: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids. Coverage of the arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.

  • Health & Medicine

    • CINAHL BASIC
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      CINAHL provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers indexing to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Contains only limited full text (70 journals).

    • HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER 
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Provides access to articles for the last five years on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, and more. 

    • HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      An integrated collection of general interest health and 

      fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
       

    • MEDLINE
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Citations and abstracts from 1985 to articles in all areas of medicine. International coverage of 3,500 journals. 
       

  • Kids/Homework

    • ELIBRARY ELEMENTARY
      Requires the library's Elibrary user name and password
      Reference information specially selected for K-6 school students. It includes complete full-text content from select magazines, books, newspapers, TV Transcripts, pictures, and maps. 

    • INFOTRAC JUNIOR EDITION
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      InfoTrac Junior Edition is designed for junior high and middle school students. Contents include more than 100 indexed and 90 full text magazines plus several basic reference titles, images, and maps.

    • INFOTRAC KID’S EDITION
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Kids Edition is a full text database for elementary school students (K-6). This database contains full text articles taken from over 35 magazines, along with several newspapers and reference books. The database covers the current year plus the previous three years.

    • INFOTRAC STUDENT EDITION
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      InfoTrac Student is designed for secondary school students and includes some of the topics students most often research. Includes newspapers, reference books, historical images and maps. Contents include over 330 indexed and 270 full text titles.

    • KIDS INFOBITS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Geared towards juvenile patrons, this new database from Gale contains full text articles, charts, graphs and maps from periodicals and encyclopedias.

    • SIRS DISCOVERER
      Requires library's SirsDiscover authorization number and password.
      This database, geared towards kids, contains thousands of full-text articles selected from more than 1000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents. 

  • Language

    • INFORME!
       Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

  • Literature & Books

    • LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Provides 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, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. 

    • MELCAT
      Available to everyone.
      A statewide catalog of items held in participating libraries, sponsored by Michigan Electronic Library.

    • MICHIGAN AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS DATABASE
      Available to everyone.
      Michigan Authors and Illustrators (MIAI) is a database of information on authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have written books about or set in Michigan. Each entry includes biographical information, lists of works by the person and lists of works about the person.  Click on the link labeled "Search MIAI Database Only" to begin searching.

    • NETLIBRARY
      Initial registration must be in the library. After that this is accessible from home.
      A collection of netLibrary electronic books funded by the AccessMichigan project. This collection, which includes more than 8,000 titles, has books on a wide variety of subjects including science, business, consumer law, self-help, and literary criticism.

    • NOVELIST
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
       NoveList lets users search for fiction books.  Find titles by author, plot, or series.  It even has topics for book discussion groups and lists of award-winning titles.

    • NOVELIST PLUS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      NoveList Plus lets users search for fiction and Non-fiction books.  Find titles by author, plot, or series.  It even has topics for book discussion groups and lists of award-winning titles.

    • NOVELIST K-8 PLUS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
       NoveList K-8 Plus is a comprehensive reading resource for fiction and nonfiction for younger readers.

    • WHAT DO I READ NEXT?
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      A reader's advisory database featuring more than 70,000 recommended titles.

    • WORLDCAT
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Citations to all types of materials owned by libraries throughout the United States of America.

  • Magazine Articles

    • ACADEMIC ONEFILE
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Articles from more than 8,000 scholarly journals covering a wide range of subjects.

    • EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Expanded Academic ASAP includes indexing, abstracts, full-text and images covering all academic disciplines. Included are over 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles.

    • INFOTRAC POWER SEARCH
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Use this general interest database to search magazines, journals, reference books, digital books and newspapers for information.

    • INFOTRAC GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER 
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, and more. 

    • INFOTRAC ONEFILE
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 25 million database records from nearly 8,000 titles, with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to the present. Topics include agriculture, anthropology, arts, business, communications, economics, engineering, health care, history, law, literature, psychology, political science, religion, sciences, technology, and more.

    • UNION LIST OF PERIODICALS
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Holdings of 7 million journals throughout the United States of America. Useful to determine if a library owns a specific journal issue. 

    • WILSON SELECT 
      Requires library's FirstSearch authorization number and password
      Full text articles from more than 439 periodical titles. 

  • Newspapers

    • AMERICA'S OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICES
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  An ideal resource for genealogical research.  Easily searchable by name of the deceased, date range, or text, such as residence, occupation, hobbies, family members or other personal information, contained in the obituary or death notice.  Covers major and regional newspapers in the United States.

    • DETROIT FREE PRESS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Full Text of this local newspaper from 1982 to the present.  Also includes other MediaStream newspapers.

    • DETROIT NEWS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number.
      Full text of this local newspaper from 1999.

    • INFOTRAC CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      This database provides full text coverage from 1996-current of 120 of the most prolific newspapers in the U.S. and the world.

    • GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number.
      Full text of this newspaper from 2000.

    • LANSING STATE JOURNAL
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number.
      Full text of this newspaper from 1999.

    • NEW YORK TIMES
      Requires your Chesterfield library card number
      Full text of this newspaper for the past 12 months.  Updated daily.

  • Science

    • INFOTRAC VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
       Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      A collection of electronic books on various subjects, such as business, social studies, history, medicine, and science.

  • Social Studies

    • INFOTRAC VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
      Requires a Michigan Driver's License or State ID number
      A collection of electronic books on various subjects, such as business, social studies, history, medicine, and science.
 

 

 

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