Troy Public Library
Databases and Electronic Resources
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The following electronic
resources are available only from the computers inside the Library:
ALLDATA Automotive Repair - Science and
Technology
Ancestry Library Edition - History and Genealogy
Generations Online - History and Genealogy
Grolier Online Encyclopedia - Encyclopedias and Reference
New England Ancestors - History and Genealogy
The Catalog of Art
Museum Images Online (CAMIO) is collection of high-quality images and
descriptions of works of art from museums around the world.
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.
Provides
information on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music,
performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts from more than 1,200
domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by
full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.
Full-text,
full-image edition of the current week’s business and financial magazine. Back
issues for the previous 12 months can be found here.
Provides information on companies, markets and industries, from market
trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company
overviews. Includes business and trade journals, newspapers and company
directory profile
Company
profiles and histories, industry news, brand information, rankings, and
investment reports.
Contains over 2 million U.S.
companies, with sales over $1 million and/or total employee size of 20 or more.
Analyze
company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the
latest in management, economics and politics. Includes broker research reports,
trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Community Website
Whether you’re a small business or a self-employed individual, being able to get your hands on sound, accurate tax rules and regulations and how they affect your business is critical. This IRS web site offers industry specific information and links to provide answers and guidance on common business tax questions.
Provides information on U.S. and
international public corporation, including annual reports, institutional
holdings, insider trading data, summary equity reports, and SEC filings. Mid-1980s
to present.
Comprehensive
investment information. Whether you're looking for tips for choosing mutual
funds, stocks, or the definition of an investment term, you'll find it all here.
Provides
current industry research, competitive intelligence, market research commentary
and statistics.
Reference
USA
Contains
directory information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses and 102 million
U.S. residents.
Small
Business Resource Center
Offers users
complete small business management resources, including industry research,
financial planning tools, and marketing and franchising information.
Standard
& Poor’s Net Advantage
Includes
information from many of Standard and Poor’s most popular titles: the Bond
Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys,
The OUTLOOK, Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Stock Guide,
and Stock Reports.
Evaluates
the financial strength of institutions such as life, health, and annuity
insurers; property and casualty insurers; HMOs; Blue Cross Blue Shield plans;
banks; and savings and loans. Also, tracks the performance of over 12,000 mutual
funds and more than 9,000 stocks.
A
complete, up-to-date directory of global industrial suppliers and product
information.
Value
Line stock reports.
Offers
full text coverage of national and international finance from 1982 to present.
Live homework help in math, science, English, and social studies available for students in 3rd through 12th grades. Tutors are available 7 days a week from 2pm-11pm. If you are a first time user, click
here to download the Brainfuse Quick Connect software. For Brainfuse frequently asked questions, click
here.
Britannica
Online for Kids
Dictionary, atlases, timelines, learning materials and videos for elementary and
middle school students.
Reference
information from select magazines, books, newspapers, TV transcripts, pictures,
and maps for K-6 students.
Variety
of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events,
the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports
and more. For students in junior high and middle school.
Variety
of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events,
the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports
and more. For high-school students.
Magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the
arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and
more. For elementary students.
Covers
geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government,
history, sports and more. For elementary students.
Articles for children selected from more than 1000 magazines, newspapers, and
government documents. Click on the Discoverer Webfind link to find web sites
suitable for children in grades 1-9.
Covers core curriculum areas including history, literature, science, social
studies, and provides reference material, more than 680 periodicals and
newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia.
Covers
core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies,
and provides reference material, more than 340 periodicals and newspapers,
primary sources, creative works, and multimedia. For middle school students.
Designed to help students explore careers and plan their future. Includes
assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary
education information.
Guide to two and four year schools in the U.S. and Canada, including detailed
descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education
programs.
Complete college catalogs from institutions throughout the world.
More than 450
academic journals, hundreds of reports, and many premier reference sources which
focus on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best
practices in education.
Contains references to
non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to
journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
Comprehensive practice tests and tutorial course preparation for academic or
licensing tests. Provides immediate scoring and complete answer explanations.
Michigan Teacher
Network
Provides easy access to K-12 education related Web resources that have been
carefully evaluated for quality, relevance, and effectiveness.
Records for over 5 million
dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations.
On-line version of the popular encyclopedia, with more than 72,000 articles,
photos, maps, and Internet links.
Online reference library featuring
over 250 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries available 24/7
with keyword searching.
Search all the Gale databases in one convenient step.
Encyclopedias,
almanacs, and specialized reference sources
for multidisciplinary research.
Access to The
World Almanac and Book of Facts, 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.
Online catalog of books and other
materials available at libraries worldwide.
The GPO Monthly Catalog
includes citations to thousands of U.S. government documents, including
Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and
documents issued by executive department. Note: this database is not full-text.
Forms
for real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce,
landlord tenant and many others. Also includes a comprehensive attorney state
directory and a dictionary of legal definitions.
Provides
legal information from more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal
newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
Descriptions
of leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons
involved with the law and important documents.
Medical
information from health journals, general interest publications, pamphlets, and
videos.
Provides information from professional and personal health magazines, journals
and reference sources.
Covers all
areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. From the National Library of
Medicine.
A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from major and regional
newspapers in the United States.
Citations
for over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased,
from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Includes
biographies from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and reference sources, as
well as tens of thousands of images and links to websites. Search for people –
both current and historic – by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity,
birth/death dates and places, gender, and keyword.
Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers
This
site allows you to search and view newspaper
pages
from 1897-1910 and find information
about American newspapers
published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National
Digital Newspaper Program.
Authoritative American history reference
work for students, scholars and general readers.
Searchable images of U.S. federal census
records and popular genealogy and local history collection books and
collections.
Features
opinions and analysis regarding controversial events throughout American
history. It includes presidential election coverage, timelines, photographs,
charts, maps, and more.
Lists
dates of death for Macomb County residents after 1960.
Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers,
oral histories and genealogical materials.
This collection contains 428 digitized
reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases published before 1923, as
a resource for historical and genealogical research.
Sanborn
fire insurance maps provide detailed property and land-use records of Michigan
towns and cities from 1867-1970.
Historical and genealogical
materials in digital form. View old pictures, maps, and documents from
Macomb County, Troy, and Harper Woods
Access
to computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as
hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application
of technology.
Mango
Languages
Learn a language online! This foreign language learning tool offers 12 different
language courses: German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese,
Greek, French, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, as well as ESL programs for
Polish, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Over
10,000 reviews of fiction and non-fiction books for children, young adults and
adults from 1983 to present.
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.
Biographical
information, overviews, literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers
in all disciplines, from all time periods around the world.
Poems, short stories, essay, speeches and plays covering all time periods
and nationalities.
Critical
analyses and plot summaries of the most studied works in literature along with
information on authors of long and short fiction, poetry, drama and philosophy.
A database of Michigan
authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information.
Indicates whether person will do library presentations.
Reader's
advisory service that helps users locate new fiction books based on books they
have read or topics in which they are interested. Includes reviews from
1996-present, book discussion guides, book talks and web links.
Novelist
Plus
Reader's
advisory service that helps users locate new, readable (narrative) non-fiction books based on books they
have read or topics in which they are interested. Includes reviews from
1996-present, book discussion guides, book talks and web links.
Signed
essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres.
Signed
essays on the works of American, English and world authors.
Online
guide to Books in Series from Kent District Library
Search
by genre, subject, author, title or series to help uncover new reading
adventures, find long-remembered favorites and discover award-winning titles.
Magazines,
Journals and Newspapers
Academic
OneFile
Authoritative
and comprehensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine,
social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated
daily.
Access
to articles from 1,100 newspapers world-wide.
Articles
from 850 newspapers from the United States and Puerto Rico.
Index
of articles contained in various journals. Some full-text articles are
available.
Local
newspaper with articles from 1982 to present.
Local
newspaper with articles from 1999 to present.
Information
from scholarly journals in the fields of agriculture, anthropology, business,
economics, education, fine arts, geography, library science, language, law,
literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion,
history, science, social science, and
technology.
Meets
research needs across all academic disciplines with access to scholarly
journals, news magazines and newspapers.
News
and periodical articles on business, computers, current events, economics,
education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law,
literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and
many general interest topics.
Find
articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the
arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Newspaper
with articles from the past 12 months.
A
collection of Spanish-language magazines with information on businesses, health,
technology, culture, and other topics. Una colección de revistas hispánicas
con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de
actualidad y otras materias.
A
collection of newspapers from around World.
Articles
from 25 Michigan newspapers across the state.
Articles
from 1995.
Full-text,
full-image edition of the book review supplement to the New York Times.
Full-text,
full-image edition of the current New York edition of the New York Times. Back
issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
Full-text,
full-image edition of the current Sunday magazine supplement to the New York
Times. Back issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
Advance
preview of Sunday sections of the New York Times. Full-text, full-image edition. Back issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
All full text articles in science,
humanities, education and business. Recommended for high school and college
students.
Brainfuse
Live homework help in math, science, English, and social studies available for students in 3rd through 12th grades. Tutors are available 7 days a week from 2pm-11pm. If you are a first time user, click
here to download the Brainfuse Quick Connect software. For Brainfuse frequently asked questions, click
here.
An
on-line version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, this
database has articles, dictionary terms, in-depth biographies, and hundreds of
reviewed links to Web sites and research updates on all science and technology
subjects.
Animal-related
information including life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology, and
much more.
An international
bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding
for interdisciplinary research. Records include journal articles, conference
proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all scientific disciplines
and related fields.
Presents
the latest developments in science and technology covering health, environment,
life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society
from September 1992-present.
Database of
printed information on turf and turfgrass research.
Information
on 12 of the Earth's major biomes and its many component ecosystems.
Covers climate, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations,
endangered species, human effects on the biome, and more.
Reports
on current and controversial issues from 1991 to present.
Information
on the cultures of the world, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of
the world's people.
Includes
600 articles, photographs and illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus,
timelines, and a comprehensive index.
70,000
articles from the Facts on File World News Digest dating from January 1980 to
present.
Features
over 800 controversial topics in the news since September 1995 combining
objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing viewpoints, chronologies,
illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, and bibliographies.
Features
magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, topic overviews, primary
source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.