Research Databases & Links
Use our free databases or pre-selected Web site links to help with your research.
Can't find the database you're seeking? Try our alphabetical listing!
Home Access = accessible online from home or work with a valid library card.
In-Library Access = accessible only from an Information Station within the Library buildings.
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Biography Reference Bank
Combined to bring in-depth, original profiles of Current Biography, World Authors series, plus other Wilson biographical resources with the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts. Biography Reference Bank draws from articles from over 550,000 individuals and features articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries..
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BBC History Check topics, resources, and practical history to find everything you'd want to know about world history reporting. Centering on British history, the BBC offers other worldly views of history. Best of History Web Sites Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. Biography Channel Discover information about people all over the world. Find people born on this day in history, deathiversaries, and other biographical information. The History Channel Official Web site of television's The History Channel. Find your favorite program, check "This Day in History," join a discussion forum, and more! Infoplease - Biography Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938 - first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac. PBS History Find featured history topics, quizzes, games, and many other things about history here. Not just for the history enthusiast, also included are helpful links for students and teachers. For more recommended Web sites, categorized by subject and age group, visit our Web Links section. |
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Literature Resource Center
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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Ohio Historical Society Database
Use this online portal to search several collections within the Ohio Historical Society Archives Collection. Full text resources include African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920, Civil War, Fundamental Documents, Military Rosters, and more. Additional online tools are available to help locate documents within the archives.
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Ohio Historical Society Journal
Ohio History was established in June 1887 as the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. For more than one hundred years, the journal has published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on topics spanning the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of our region. Search through over 53,000 pages of scanned text spanning from 1887 to 2004.
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Ohio History Central Online Encyclopedia
Peruse an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia from the Ohio Historical Society. Find information, images, timelines, maps, and documents about Ohio's history, geography, geology, animals, and American Indian populations.
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
from EBSCOhost A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the database. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
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