Find Info: Research Databases
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Authors, Books & Literature
BookNews
BookNews provides information about award winning books and bestsellers to you through a variety of newsletters with reading suggestions as well as email book clubs.
NoveList Plus
Provides subject headings, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes content such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. How-to videos: searching for a series · searching for genres · searching for read-alikes.
Novelist K-8 Plus
A comprehensive reading resource for children's and teen's fiction and nonfiction. Use it to discover new titles, series and authors to enjoy. Find Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles.
Books & Authors
Explore the latest genre fiction, essential non-fiction and the authors behind the titles. Browse these and other works, using tools that make finding them and remembering them easy.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
LitFinder
Contains a wealth of primary literature content, including thousands of full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, short stories, essays, speeches and plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
ProQuest Learning: Literature
Designed for middle and high school students. Includes KnowledgeNotes with author and plot overviews and summaries, as well as other resources that will help students with literature assignments.
Biography in Context
Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and books. Search for people based on personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a custom search. How-to video: searching by name · searching by facts of a person.
JSTOR
Full-text content for more than 1,300 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources. Suitable for high school and college students.
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Use ILLiad to request items not owned by FVRL.
Auto & Electronic Repair
Auto Repair Reference Center
Search by auto year and make to find information on recalls, repairs, specs and maintenance guides, wiring diagrams and more.
Chilton Auto Repair Library
Repair info by make and model combinations, covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Sams Photofacts
Provides over 4,800 manuals for after-market schematic service data on all kinds of consumer electronics such as radio, TV, car-radio, washers and dryers, etc.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Contains thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components. Engines types include: motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more.
Business Information & Directories
Business & Company Resource Center
BCRC brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and company & industry news from periodicals.
Reference USA Database & Telephone Directory
More than just white and yellow pages. Contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; and 1 million Canadian businesses. How-to videos: business name search · business facts search · residential search.
Small Business Reference Center
Provides up-to-date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.
Career, Job Search & Education
College Source
Catalogs from nearly 3000 U.S. colleges and universities.
Job and Career Accelerator
Job & Career Accelerator integrates everything needed to conduct a successful job search. Interactive wizards guide you through the search process to find job postings based on career preferences. It also includes resume and cover letter builders, interview courses and tips and expert advice to help make your job search more effective.
Learning Express Library.com
Prepare for GED, US Citizenship, ASVAB or SAT and many civil service tests online. New courses on writing resumes and preparing for interviews have been added. First-time users need to register.
WOIS/The Career Information System
Identify your strengths and explore career choices with four survey options including a self-assessment questionnaire that matches your skills and preferences with occupations. Find detailed info on 500+ civilian and military occupations and learn which educational programs and schools will help get you there. Store your information to help you create the right resume and cover letter for each situation. More information.
Do-It-Yourself
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Including full text for more than 740 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and over 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercrafts.
Home Improvement Reference Center
Thousands of repairs are available in the areas of outdoor projects, electrical projects, remodeling projects, plumbing projects, wood projects, decorating projects and maintenance. In addition to the repair information, other magazines and reference books focusing on home improvement are included.
Sams Photofacts
Provides over 4,800 manuals for after-market schematic service data on all kinds of consumer electronics such as radio, TV, car-radio, washers and dryers, etc.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Contains thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components. Engines types include: motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more.
Genealogy
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
An index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. It indexes books that include biographical information on multiple persons and can be used as an index to other indexes.
HeritageQuest
Search the digital US Census records from 1790-1930. It also contains the full-text of 25,000 family and local history books.
Sanborn Maps
Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of cities and towns in Oregon and Washington. They were created for fire insurance purposes but are used today by genealogists.
Health
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Use this database to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on all health related topics. The materials contained in this Resource Center are intended for informational purposes only.
Rosen Teen Health and Wellness
Provides students with nonjudgmental, straightforward information and support on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy and more.
Homework Help & General Knowledge
Britannica Online
Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features.
Britannica Online for Kids
The kids version of Britannica Online, designed for elementary and middle school students. Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features.
World Book Online For Kids
Especially for young public library patrons, this site offers easy-to-read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities.
World Book Online Info Finder
Contains content and features designed for school-aged patrons' homework and research needs. Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the site features rich collections of multimedia on a variety of topics, science fair projects; a Biography Center; links to world newspapers, correlations to curriculum standards, 21st century research guides, and much more.
World Almanac and World Almanac Online for Kids
Explore a variety of topics including animals, countries, books, and science.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is an online reference service that includes over 500 research titles. Whether you're working on a research paper, trying to win trivia or just curious, Credo Reference has something for you.
eLibrary
Suitable for middle school and high school students to research on various topics. Sources include magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
JSTOR
Full-text content for more than 1,300 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources. Suitable for high school and college students.
SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Discoverer is designed with the young researcher in mind and includes articles from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents on middle and elementary school curriculum topics which have been selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability.
Science Online
Includes science experiments and activities, articles highlighting recent scientific events and discoveries, images and videos covering a range of science areas.
Grzimek's Animal Database
Grzimek's Animal Life covers more than 4,000 species including information on physical characteristics, distribution, habitat, behavior and more. It includes thousands of photos, maps and videos and offers translation into 11 languages.
ProQuest Learning: Literature
Has KnowledgeNotes with author and plot overviews and summaries, as well as other resources that will help students with literature assignments.
Biography in Context
Includes nearly a million biographical entries of people throughout history and around the globe.
History Study Center
Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Study Units offer material on over 500 historical topics.
Daily Life Through History
Discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.
CultureGrams Online
Information on the peoples and cultures of over 185 countries and all 50 states in the U.S. How-to video.
World Geography and Culture Online
A global approach to facilitate the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data on social issues. It includes over 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays and 5,000+ topic overviews with images and podcasts as well as thousands of magazine articles and tables, charts and graphs.
SIRS Issues Researcher
Understand the pros, cons, and everything in-between on thousands of issues using relevant, credible resources that tell the whole story on today's tough topics. Perfect for debate planning and overall research on the most talked-about issues.
Issues & Controversies in American History
Builds a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
Investing
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Track stocks and mutual funds. Read in-depth, independent stock and fund reports. We've prepared a Help Guide to assist you with this database.
Language Learning
Byki Online Languages
Byki is a powerful language learning system that uses flashcards to teach you a set of words or phrases. Over 70 languages are available.
Powerspeak Languages
Powerspeak Languages is an entertaining and effective way to learn a new language. It offers highly engaging courses using stories, games and activities. Languages available include Spanish, French, Chinese (Mandarin), German and English for Spanish speakers.
Legal Information
Legal Information Reference Center
Offers tools and detailed “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues including business law, financial planning, family law, property & real estate and rights & disputes. Provides online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books.
Magazines, Newspapers & People
ProQuest
Provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily. Contains full text of the Columbian and other national newspapers.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics and disciplines. Contains millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
eLibrary
Suitable for middle school and high school students to research on various topics. Sources include magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
Wilson Web Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online access to full text of the following sources:
American Decades Primary Sources
Career Information Center
Chemical Elements
Colonial America Reference Library
Crusades Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments
Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression
Middle Ages Reference Library
How Products are Made, volumes 1-7
Milestone Documents in American History
Milestone Documents of American Leaders
UXL American Decades
UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
World War II Reference Library
Biography in Context
Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and books. Search for people based on personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a custom search. How-to video: searching by name searching by facts of a person.
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