Database listing Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
Business & Company Resource Center offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies (company profiles, brands, rankings, histories, and investment reports).
CQ Researcher explores current issues in depth on topics ranging from teens to environmentalism as well as health, education, science, and technology. Every 12,000 word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments and analysis from experts, lawmakers, and citizens an all sides of an issue.
History Resource Center – U.S. has authoritative materials needed for the study of American history: selections from reference works; primary source materials; full-text magazine and journal articles; links to digitized special collections; and radio/television transcripts.
The Indianapolis Star includes full-text coverage of local and regional news from the Indianapolis Star back to 1999, including obituaries but excluding paid advertisements and free-lance writers.
Literature Resource Center designed for undergraduate and high school students, contains full-text journal articles, critical essays, biographies, plot summaries, some full-text of authors’ works, compare and contrast pages, and links to authoritative websites.
NetLibrary is a collection of over 76,000 selected e-books (electronic copies of print titles). Access provided for reading online, not available for downloading. Texts are searchable by keyword.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center contains information on social issues drawn from news articles, books, government and organizational statistics, reviewed websites and primary documents. Arranged to highlight the differences between contrasting viewpoints.
Oxford English Dictionary is an electronic version of the authoritative OED 2nd edition, plus material from the current project to update to a 3rd edition.
Oxford Reference Online offers full-text access to over 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works in many subject areas.
SIRS Discoverer is a kid-friendly general library resource for elementary/middle schools. Contains selected news/magazine stories on current topics, an encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids, school project guides, country facts, specialized monthly hot topics, 1000’s of color graphics, student workbooks, and an educator’s guide.
SIRS Knowledge Sourceis a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance® and SKS WebSelectTM. Updated daily, SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, and the arts and humanities. Full-text articles, gov’t documents, reference books, graphics and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations.
Student Resource Center is designed to be a single starting point for students at all levels, with a wide range of materials supporting classroom work: full-text articles from 1,200 magazines; 15,000 photos and graphics; newspapers, AV resources; reference books; 12,000 primary documents; pamphlets; links to selected & reviewed websites.
Wildflowers of Indiana & Birds of Indiana are reproductions in electronic format of unique resources for our state.
Marion County Internet Library
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resource on the web:
Thanks to a grant from the Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation, Marion County libraries have collectively purchased electronic access to a series of full-text databases on the Internet. They are available for the use of all residents of the county.
Your Indianapolis-Marion County library card gets you access to these and more than 50 other databases for your business, health, or personal research when you want them — 24 / 7!
How to connect from home:
- Type: http: in your browser’s location field.
- Type in your library card barcode number and PIN and click, “Login.”
- Click on the database you want to search.