Online databases by Subject
Subscriptions to quality indexes of magazines, newspaper articles as well as other research collections. A library card is needed to access most collections from outside the library.
- Biography - information on people
- Business - company profiles, industry information, market research, trade journal articles and more
- Digital Collection - full-content electronic books, collections of images: photographs, art, primary sources
- Education - articles on all aspects of education, teaching
- Encyclopedia/Reference Tools - online encyclopedias such as Grolier, Britannica and reference works like World Almanac, Stateman's Yearbook
- Foreign Language Instruction - online programs to learn languages, links to library holdings of books, CDs and DVDs on learning languages
- Genealogy/History - research families and individual through newspapers, archives, census information
- Grants - research foundations and grants
- Health - consumer and scholarly health information
- How To - indexes to projects, repairs
- Library Catalogs - search holdings at other libraries statewide and national
- Kids - articles and reference materials for children in grades K-8
- Literature - biographies, criticisms, reviews, annotations, discussion guides on authors and literature
- Local - Rochester and Olmsted County sites
- Magazines - mostly fulltext articles in general and academic publications like Consumer Reports, Sports Illustrated, JAMA, Harvard Business Review, Social Work
- Newspapers - full text of over 150 papers like Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, Washington Post
- Primary Resources - photographs, speeches, diaries, letters and other primary source documents
- Scholarly - includes resources for dissertations, thesis, academic journals, proceedings, publications from around the world
- Science - articles on biology, chemistry, general science, physics, and more.
- Spanish resources - many fulltext articles in Spanish and learning the Spanish language
- Study Guides - skills development in reading, writing, employment, and practice tests for many high school and college exams like ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, GRE
- Teens - mostly fulltext articles and research sources for high schoolers on a variety of topics like social issues, science, pros and cons, literature, biographies
Last updated: 7/15/09