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Magazine & Newspaper Indexes
ACADEMIC ONEFILE
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
ARTICLEFIRST DATABASE 
Citations from science, technology, medicine, social science, business and humanities journals from 1990.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Full Text of this local newspaper from 1982 to the present.  Includes other MediaStream newspapers.
DETROIT NEWS
Full text of this local newspaper from 1999.
ELIBRARY ELEMENTARY
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.
GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
Full text of this newspaper from 2000.
INFOTRAC CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS
This database provides full text coverage from 1996-current of 120 of the most prolific newspapers in the U.S. and the world.
INFOTRAC GENERAL REFERENCE CENTER 
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 JUNIOR EDITION
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. 
LANSING STATE JOURNAL
Full text of this newspaper from 1999.
NEW YORK TIMES
Full text of this newspaper for the past 12 months.  Updated daily.
READERS' GUIDE ABSTRACTS
Citations and abstracts of popular periodicals in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage from 1983 in all subject areas.
SIRS DISCOVERER
This database, geared towards kids, contains thousands of full-text articles selected from more than 1000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents.
WILSON SELECT 
Full text articles from more than 439 periodical titles. 
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Arts & Humanities
CAMIO® - CATALOG OF ART MUSEUM IMAGES ONLINE
CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—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. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.
MICHIGAN AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS DATABASE
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 labelled "Search MIAI Database Only" to begin searching. 
NOVELIST
Online reader's advisory service that helps users locate new fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested.  This database includes full text reviews from 1996-current, book discussion guides, book talks and web links.
SIRS RENAISSANCE
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.
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Business & Economics
BUSINESS & COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER
Business & Company Resource Center, produced by the Gale Group, brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
FOUNDATION GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS ONLINE
INFOTRAC GENERAL BUSINESSFILE
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.
REFERENCE USA
ReferenceUSA the No. 1 source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students, job seekers and government agencies.Use ReferenceUSA to find news articles; research company structure, corporate families, and company descriptions; and it can provide market research items such as finding comparable businesses in a geographic area.
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Conference & Proceedings
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Education
EDUCATOR'S REFERENCE COMPLETE
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. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
ERIC
Citations and abstracts of educational resources from 1966. Includes journal articles, theses, conference papers and curriculum.
EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP
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 K12 PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION
InfoTrac K12 Professional includes more than 300 full text journals for educators. Resources are updated daily.
LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY.COM : LEARNATEST
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. 
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Government & Law
GPO MONTHLY CATALOG
Citations of documents printed by the United States in all subject areas. Coverage from 1976. Produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
LEGALTRAC
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.
TAX FORMS - STATE & U.S.
Link to the Michigan Electronic Library tax forms page.
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Health & Medical
CINAHL BASIC
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 
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.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (HSTM)
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.
MEDLINE
Citations and abstracts from 1985 to articles in all areas of medicine. International coverage of 3,500 journals. 
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Internet & Computers
COMPUTER DATABASE
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.
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People
BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER
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.
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
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. 
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Reference
ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION
This database offers full-text information on genealogy resources.
GALE POWERSEARCH
This link allows users to search in one convenient step all of the Gale databases provided by the Michigan ELibrary ( MeL ).
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
This link will take you to a list of reference books available electronically.  Titles range from subjects as broad as alternative energy, business and finance, American history, and religion.
HERITAGEQUEST ONLINE
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.
HAND PRESS BOOK
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.
INFOTRAC JUNIOR EDITION
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
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 ONEFILE
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.
INFOTRAC STUDENT EDITION
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
Geared towards juvenile patrons, this new database from Gale contains full text articles, charts, graphs and maps from periodicals and encyclopedias.
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
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.
THE MAKING OF MODERN MICHIGAN
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.
MAKING THE RIGHT CONNECTION
A user-friendly directory for Macomb County school personnel to help link students and their families with community services.
NETLIBRARY
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.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press as well as content from other Gale sources.  The database is a dynamic online library of current event topics – the facts and arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
SCIPIO: ART AND RARE BOOK SALES CATALOGS
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.
SLC DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVE
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.
STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER - JUNIOR
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 100 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
UNION LIST OF PERIODICALS
Holdings of 7 million journals throughout the United States of America. Useful to determine if a library owns a specific journal issue.
WHAT DO I READ NEXT?
A reader's advisory database featuring more than 70,000 recommended titles.
WORLD ALMANAC
Full text access to the folliwng 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.
WORLDCAT
Over 36 million citations of all types of materials owned by libraries throughout the United States of America. 
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Science & Technology
CHILTONLIBRARY.COM
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. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
COMPUTER DATABASE
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.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (HSTM)
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.
SCIENCE RESOURCE CENTER
The Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. This product reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including earth science, history of science, life science, physical science, science and technology, space science, and much more.
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Social Sciences
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Romeo District Library
65821 Van Dyke
Washington MI. 48095
(586)752-0603
romeo@libcoop.net
 

 

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