LICENSED RESOURCES: available to every North Dakota citizen
Ancestry Plus
- Source for Family History Online - (only available from within a library)
Auto Repair Reference Center
More than 33,800 vehicles, from 1945 to present. Nearly 800,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs. Specifications & maintenance schedules, Labor Time Guide & Estimator and more.
eLibrary
Within eLibrary, you will find general reference material consisting of newspapers, magazines, books, websites and transcripts.
eLibrary Elementary
General reference material consisting of newspapers, magazines, books, websites and transcripts with an interface designed for the elementry school level. Displays reading level for each article.
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition
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The Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition contains over 73,000 articles. Britannica's multimedia database includes thousands of photographs, illustrations, sound files, and hundreds of video clips. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Notable Quotations with more than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women. Gateway to the Classics with a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world.
Encyclopedia Britannica Public Library Edition
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The Encyclopedia Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains over 73,000 articles. Britannica's multimedia database includes thousands of photographs, illustrations, sound files, and hundreds of video clips. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Notable Quotations with more than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women. Gateway to the Classics with a selection of 225 works by 140 authors. Includes a Spanish-English Dictionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica School Edition
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Includes Encyclopedia Britannica, Compton's by Britannica, OR Britannica Elementary articles as well as magazines, Web sites, and videos. There are dictionaries and thesauri for the appropriate grade level. High School comes with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Middle School and Elementary School come with Merriam-Webster's Student Dictionary. In all cases, you can switch instantly from the dictionary to the corresponding thesaurus
GreenFILE
GreenFILE research database focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Also included in GreenFILE is a 6,800-term Thesaurus.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
This Resource Center includes magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Learning Express
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Includes eBook Titles, Courses and Tests by Learning Center, GED Preparation, Job Search & Workplace Skills, Job & Careers, Skill Building for Adults, Elementary, Middle, & High School Skill Tools, College Prep, including ACT, SAT, CLEP, College Student Skill Tools including GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT
LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free resource covering the fields of library and information management. This database covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more and indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage is back to the mid-1960s.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other
Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the
arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVRC's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks which allow students to explore each topic's many facets --
and exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information Plus reference program of statistics, government data, legislation and more.
WorldCat (See the "Databases" tab for the new databases. Individual links for the new databases coming soon.)
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions.
Additional Databases from OCLC: ArchiveGrid
, * CAMIO
, * OAISter
, * OCLC ArticleFirst
, * OCLC Electronic Collections Online A&I
, * OCLC PapersFirst
, * OCLCP ProceedingsFirst
, * Clase/Periodica
, * ERIC (OCLC FirstSearch)
, * GPO Monthly Catalog
, * MEDLINE
, * World Almanac/Book of Facts
, OCLC Electronic Books
, * OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Teacher Reference Center
Indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
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The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
LICENSED RESOURCES: available to patrons of libraries who license through LaND - check with your local librarian
EBSCOhost Research Databases
Use this link to see all EBSCO products licensed by your library.
* Academic Search Premier, * Alt HealthWatch
, * Business Source Premier, * Consumer Health Complete
, * ERIC
, * Health Source: Consumer Edition
, * Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
, * MAS Ultra - School Edition
, * MasterFILE Premier, * Middle Search Plus
, * Points of View Reference Center
, * Primary Search
, * Professional Development Collection
, * Regional Business News, * Science Reference Center
(includes General Science Collection)
EBSCO MegaFILE
Combines Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News into a single database.
EBSCO Academic Search Premier - The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
EBSCO Business Source Premier - As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
EBSCO MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
EBSCO Regional Business News - This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Cengage
/ Gale Databases
* Discovering Collection, * InfoTrac Student Edition, * InfoTrac Junior Edition, * Junior Reference Collection, * Kids InfoBits
* Expanded Academic ASAP
, * Educator's Reference Complete
, * General Science Collection
, * Student Resource Center Gold ![]()
ProQuest
Newspapers & Databases
* Newspaper and magazines from thousands of sources around the world for professionals, students, researchers, and the public.