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• Address & Telephone Information
  • AT&T Real Pages Live - Evansville Metropolitan Area: An exact copy of the "The Real Yellow Pages", available online. Browse or search for businesses, residences, government agencies, even coupons!
  • Encyclopedia of Associations: A comprehensive guide to International, National, and State associations, with brief histories, addresses, and current contact information, current membership numbers and annual meeting information.
  • Gale Directory Library: Search, sort, and export information from several Gale directories.
  • Million Dollar Database: Instant access to comprehensive information on nearly 250,000 U.S. public & private businesses with $9 million+ in sales or 180+ total employees, plus branch locations with 900+ employees. Find detailed company information, search for jobs, and perform research quickly and with ease.
  • ReferenceUSA: The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.
• African-American Studies
  • African American Song Database: This service documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service and contains a diverse range of genres.
  • Contemporary World Music: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment, online through speakers or headsets. Scholars & students will enjoy a rich & deeply indexed source for research in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, and performance studies.
• Art
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center: Provides comprehensive full-text content for popular hobbies, crafts, & recreation activities. Including full-text for more than 740 magazines & books, as well as more than 720 videos & 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions & creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Theatre in Video: From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video, when complete, will offer more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time.
• Automotive
  • Auto Repair Reference Center: This database contains information on auto repairs and recalls from almost every manufacturer, make, and model.
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
  • Small Engine Repair Reference Center: The definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine boats, outdoor power equipment, personal watercraft, snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers, and other small engines. This comprehensive resource contains 410 reference books in full-text with original photos & illustrations that guide the user through every job.
• Biography
  • Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Biography Resource Center: The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Literature Criticism Online: For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there's no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on their favorite books and plays by the scholars of the day. How did the politics, religion and mores of centuries past influence literary critique? Draw comparisons and see how classic works have fared over the centuries via this resource's easy-searching capabilities.
  • MasterFILE Premier: MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
  • Something About the Author Online: Providing biographical information about children's and young adult authors and illustrators, users can search an author's name to display the writer's profile in Something About the Author's familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also includes photographs and other illustrated material. Pronunciation guide for many author names provided.
• Books Online - Audiobooks
• Books Online - eBooks
  • Evansville Electronic Books: The Evansville Electronic Books database contains the full text of public domain books from the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Indiana Collection related to Evansville.
  • Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search): Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search) is a collection of historical books and pamphlets about Evansville people and places. The original images are from the Indiana Collection.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: A completely revised and updated version of the original work published in Germany in 1960, this edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community.
  • Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource: This resource book offers broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. Animals are grouped by major classifications: sponges; corals; jellyfishes; segmented worms; crustaceans and mollusks; insects; fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; and mammals.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
• Business
  • Business & Company Resource Center: Brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career & investment opportunities. Now with Reuters Research on Demand, plus additional coverage & multimedia features in the new Financials Dashboard.
  • Business Source Premier: Business Source Premier, is the most used business research database in the industry, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
  • Corporate ResourceNet: EBSCOhost database which provides publication information and abstracts of corporate related topics.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • DemographicsNow for Libraries: With DemographicsNow you can analyze the demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S.
  • Encyclopedia of Associations: A comprehensive guide to International, National, and State associations, with brief histories, addresses, and current contact information, current membership numbers and annual meeting information.
  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Detailed database of jobs, skills, and resources for over 2,000 jobs in 93 industries.
  • Gale Directory Library: Search, sort, and export information from several Gale directories.
  • Global Road Warrior: 175 countries - from A to Z...it's all at your fingertips from your own private corner of the world. Whether you've got a backpack, briefcase, laptop, or a desk, the Global Road Warrior lets you circle the globe in the blink of a clear blue sky.
  • Indiana Legal Forms: The most extensive free forms site available to library patrons, including Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
  • Mergent Online: Business database containing comprehensive financial, stock, and other information on corporations.
  • Million Dollar Database: Instant access to comprehensive information on nearly 250,000 U.S. public & private businesses with $9 million+ in sales or 180+ total employees, plus branch locations with 900+ employees. Find detailed company information, search for jobs, and perform research quickly and with ease.
  • Plunkett Research Online: A better business and industry research system that's much more than just a database! Features 32 vital industry sectors organized in convenient Industry Research Centers.
  • ReferenceUSA: The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.
  • Regional Business News: Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Value Line Research Center: The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
• Career Guidance
  • Career Transitions : Career Transitions walks users through the job-search process from beginning to end. Users can return to their profile in their library — or remotely — to track and update their progress. Career Transitions employs a step-by-step approach to help people: 1) explore new career possibilities; 2) assess their interests and experience; 3) identify ways to improve their prospects, including networking and education; 4) prepare for a job search; and 5) search and apply for jobs.
  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Detailed database of jobs, skills, and resources for over 2,000 jobs in 93 industries.
  • Testing & Education Reference Center : A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Includes High School Tools, College Prep Tools, and Career Tools.
• Children's Sources
  • America The Beautiful: A Grolier Online interactive map of the United States that contains informative information about each state.
  • EBSCO Animals: EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
  • Grolier Online: Grolier Online Encyclopedia provides searchable access to seven comprehensive informational databases.
  • Kids Search: Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
  • Lands and Peoples: Lands and Peoples is a Grolier Online database containing information about countries, their people, and their culture.
  • Middle Search Plus: Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines, as well as thousands of biographies and historical essays.
  • Primary Search: Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
  • Searchasaurus: Three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction) can be accessed via Searchasaurus, EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools.
  • Something About the Author Online: Providing biographical information about children's and young adult authors and illustrators, users can search an author's name to display the writer's profile in Something About the Author's familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also includes photographs and other illustrated material. Pronunciation guide for many author names provided.
• Consumer Information
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
  • Value Line Research Center: The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
• Cooking/Food
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
• Drama
  • Theatre in Video: From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video, when complete, will offer more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time.
• Education
  • Education Research Complete: Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the largest and most complete collection of full text education journals.
  • ERIC: ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.
  • LitFinder : International in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
  • Professional Development Collection: This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world.
  • Something About the Author Online: Providing biographical information about children's and young adult authors and illustrators, users can search an author's name to display the writer's profile in Something About the Author's familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also includes photographs and other illustrated material. Pronunciation guide for many author names provided.
  • Testing & Education Reference Center : A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Includes High School Tools, College Prep Tools, and Career Tools.
• Encyclopedias
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Encyclopedia Americana: Encyclopedia Americana is a searchable database of recent and past news and research articles.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Grolier Online: Grolier Online Encyclopedia provides searchable access to seven comprehensive informational databases.
  • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: A completely revised and updated version of the original work published in Germany in 1960, this edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community.
  • Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource: This resource book offers broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. Animals are grouped by major classifications: sponges; corals; jellyfishes; segmented worms; crustaceans and mollusks; insects; fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; and mammals.
  • New Book of Knowledge: A Grolier Online database for browsing and searching articles in The New Book of Knowledge.
• Evansville Information/Government
  • AT&T Real Pages Live - Evansville Metropolitan Area: An exact copy of the "The Real Yellow Pages", available online. Browse or search for businesses, residences, government agencies, even coupons!
  • Browning Genealogy Database: The Browning Genealogy Database is the lifetime work of Charles Browning, who compiled the obituary records of Vanderburgh County and surrounding southwestern Indiana from Evansville newspapers.
  • Evansville Electronic Books: The Evansville Electronic Books database contains the full text of public domain books from the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Indiana Collection related to Evansville.
  • Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search): Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search) is a collection of historical books and pamphlets about Evansville people and places. The original images are from the Indiana Collection.
  • Evansville Local History Database: The Evansville local history database contains newspaper clippings of local value from the Evansville Press.
  • Evansville Media: In the Evansville Media Database, you will find digital media about the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library and the Evansville area.
  • GIS - Vanderburgh County: Evansville and Vanderburgh County GIS website, containing information on properties, elections, and other community topics.
  • NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers; all in one easy-to-search database.
  • Periodicals Available in Evansville Libraries: This is a list of the periodicals and holdings in area libraries.
• Government/Politics
  • Global Issues in Context: This electronic resource offers global perspectives on issues of international importance, current world events, and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro & con database, it ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science, health, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
  • History Resource Center: U.S.: Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
  • History Resource Center: World: A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Military & Government Collection: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: You will find a variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
  • Points of View Reference Center: A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, stem cell research, voting machines, and many more.
• Health/Medicine
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Designed for doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists, this medical database provides over 100 full text journals, including full text for many peer-reviewed publications.
  • Consumer Health Complete: Consumer Health Complete is an EBSCOhost interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information, providing convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Health Business FullTEXT: Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration, and much more.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition: A rich collection of consumer health information, with full text consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets, and health reference books.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Medline: Medline provides authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
  • Salud en Español: Salud en Español es la interfase de EBSCO diseñada para el usuario cotidiano de información sobre el cuidado de la salud en Español. Salud provee un acceso conveniente a información médica y de salud de fácil comprensión.
• History/Geography
  • A to Z Maps Online: A rich, well-organized database of maps. World maps, country maps, state maps, antique maps, geologic maps, topographic maps, and more! Over sixty thousand maps, well organized for easy access, including some NASA Earth Observatory maps that can be viewed in Google Earth.
  • America The Beautiful: A Grolier Online interactive map of the United States that contains informative information about each state.
  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the information—not just place-names—and segment it.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Global Road Warrior: 175 countries - from A to Z...it's all at your fingertips from your own private corner of the world. Whether you've got a backpack, briefcase, laptop, or a desk, the Global Road Warrior lets you circle the globe in the blink of a clear blue sky.
  • History Reference Center: History Reference Center is the most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research.
  • History Resource Center: U.S.: Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
  • History Resource Center: World: A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Survivors of the Shoah: Searchable local database of Holocaust survivors with information about them and interview recordings.
• Homeschool Resources
  • Searchasaurus: Three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction) can be accessed via Searchasaurus, EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools.
• Homework Help
  • A to Z Maps Online: A rich, well-organized database of maps. World maps, country maps, state maps, antique maps, geologic maps, topographic maps, and more! Over sixty thousand maps, well organized for easy access, including some NASA Earth Observatory maps that can be viewed in Google Earth.
  • America The Beautiful: A Grolier Online interactive map of the United States that contains informative information about each state.
  • EBSCO Animals: EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
  • Issues and Controversies: Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
  • Kids Search: Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
  • Lands and Peoples: Lands and Peoples is a Grolier Online database containing information about countries, their people, and their culture.
  • LitFinder : International in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
  • Middle Search Plus: Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines, as well as thousands of biographies and historical essays.
  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: You will find a variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
  • Points of View Reference Center: A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, stem cell research, voting machines, and many more.
  • Primary Search: Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
  • Searchasaurus: Three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction) can be accessed via Searchasaurus, EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools.
  • Testing & Education Reference Center : A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Includes High School Tools, College Prep Tools, and Career Tools.
• How-To
  • Auto Repair Reference Center: This database contains information on auto repairs and recalls from almost every manufacturer, make, and model.
  • Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center: Provides comprehensive full-text content for popular hobbies, crafts, & recreation activities. Including full-text for more than 740 magazines & books, as well as more than 720 videos & 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions & creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
  • Home Improvement Reference Center: The definitive online tool for home improvement assistance. Includes maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, and more! This comprehensive resource contains 27 major reference works in full-text with more than 10,000 images, nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House).
  • Small Engine Repair Reference Center: The definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine boats, outdoor power equipment, personal watercraft, snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers, and other small engines. This comprehensive resource contains 410 reference books in full-text with original photos & illustrations that guide the user through every job.
• Indiana
  • DemographicsNow for Libraries: With DemographicsNow you can analyze the demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S.
• International
  • A to Z Maps Online: A rich, well-organized database of maps. World maps, country maps, state maps, antique maps, geologic maps, topographic maps, and more! Over sixty thousand maps, well organized for easy access, including some NASA Earth Observatory maps that can be viewed in Google Earth.
  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the information—not just place-names—and segment it.
  • Contemporary World Music: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment, online through speakers or headsets. Scholars & students will enjoy a rich & deeply indexed source for research in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, and performance studies.
  • Global Issues in Context: This electronic resource offers global perspectives on issues of international importance, current world events, and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro & con database, it ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science, health, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
  • Global Road Warrior: 175 countries - from A to Z...it's all at your fingertips from your own private corner of the world. Whether you've got a backpack, briefcase, laptop, or a desk, the Global Road Warrior lets you circle the globe in the blink of a clear blue sky.
  • History Resource Center: World: A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
  • World News Digest: This archival record of domestic and international news across seven decades is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks.
• Language Learning - Chinese
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - English as Second Language
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - French
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - German
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Greek
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Italian
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Japanese
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Portuguese
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Russian
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
• Language Learning - Spanish
  • Informe! - en Español: Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
  • Mango Languages: Mango Languages has utilized advanced technologies to make learning a foreign language fun, simple, effective, & accessible. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.
  • Salud en Español: Salud en Español es la interfase de EBSCO diseñada para el usuario cotidiano de información sobre el cuidado de la salud en Español. Salud provee un acceso conveniente a información médica y de salud de fácil comprensión.
• Law & Legal Sources
  • Indiana Legal Forms: The most extensive free forms site available to library patrons, including Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
• Libraries/Literacy
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings, covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
• Literature
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Evansville Electronic Books: The Evansville Electronic Books database contains the full text of public domain books from the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Indiana Collection related to Evansville.
  • Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search): Evansville Electronic Books (Full-Text Search) is a collection of historical books and pamphlets about Evansville people and places. The original images are from the Indiana Collection.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Literary Reference Center: Literary Reference Center is a graphical interface designed to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.
  • Literature Criticism Online: For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there's no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on their favorite books and plays by the scholars of the day. How did the politics, religion and mores of centuries past influence literary critique? Draw comparisons and see how classic works have fared over the centuries via this resource's easy-searching capabilities.
  • LitFinder : International in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
  • NoveList Plus: NoveList provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and more for over 150,000 fiction & 50,000 nonfiction titles.
  • Something About the Author Online: Providing biographical information about children's and young adult authors and illustrators, users can search an author's name to display the writer's profile in Something About the Author's familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also includes photographs and other illustrated material. Pronunciation guide for many author names provided.
  • Theatre in Video: From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video, when complete, will offer more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time.
• Magazine & Newspaper Articles
  • Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Business Source Premier: Business Source Premier, is the most used business research database in the industry, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
  • EBSCOhost: List of searchable EBSCOhost databases containing information on a wide variety of topics.
  • Informe! - en Español: Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
  • Inspire - Indiana's Virtual Library: INSPIRE offers magazines, books, encyclopedias, and other resources to all Indiana residents.
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition: This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents and 360 reference books.
  • MasterFILE Premier: MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
  • McClatchy-Tribune Collection: The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.
  • New York Times Current (1999 - current): Database of full text articles from the New York Times.
  • NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers; all in one easy-to-search database.
  • Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers and selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers.
  • Periodicals Available in Evansville Libraries: This is a list of the periodicals and holdings in area libraries.
  • Primary Search: Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
  • Topic Search: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
• Music
  • African American Song Database: This service documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service and contains a diverse range of genres.
  • Classical Music Library: A database which contains information on classical composers and their works, as well as streaming audio of those works.
  • Contemporary World Music: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment, online through speakers or headsets. Scholars & students will enjoy a rich & deeply indexed source for research in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, and performance studies.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center: Provides comprehensive full-text content for popular hobbies, crafts, & recreation activities. Including full-text for more than 740 magazines & books, as well as more than 720 videos & 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions & creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
  • Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the musical and aural traditions of the world.
• News & Current Events
  • Global Issues in Context: This electronic resource offers global perspectives on issues of international importance, current world events, and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro & con database, it ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science, health, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
  • Issues and Controversies: Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
  • McClatchy-Tribune Collection: The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.
  • New York Times Current (1999 - current): Database of full text articles from the New York Times.
  • NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers; all in one easy-to-search database.
  • Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers and selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers.
  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: You will find a variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
  • Points of View Reference Center: A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, stem cell research, voting machines, and many more.
  • Topic Search: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
  • World News Digest: This archival record of domestic and international news across seven decades is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks.
• Reference Sources
  • AccessScience: The premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the information—not just place-names—and segment it.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Encyclopedia Americana: Encyclopedia Americana is a searchable database of recent and past news and research articles.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Grolier Online: Grolier Online Encyclopedia provides searchable access to seven comprehensive informational databases.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Inspire - Indiana's Virtual Library: INSPIRE offers magazines, books, encyclopedias, and other resources to all Indiana residents.
  • LitFinder : International in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
• Science
  • AccessScience: The premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • EBSCO Animals: EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
  • GreenFILE: A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming, recycling, alternate fuel sources, and beyond!
  • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: A completely revised and updated version of the original work published in Germany in 1960, this edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community.
  • Grzimek's Animals Online : Grzimek's acclaimed 17-volume Animal Life Encyclopedia is the print standard for conventional animal reference collections. But students and researchers today need dynamic resources that foster discussion and critical thinking. Grzimek's Animal Life is just that...and more!
  • Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource: This resource book offers broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. Animals are grouped by major classifications: sponges; corals; jellyfishes; segmented worms; crustaceans and mollusks; insects; fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; and mammals.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Today's Science: Today's Science features science news written especially for students. Updated weekly, Today's Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.
• Shopping
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
• Statistics
  • Business & Company Resource Center: Brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career & investment opportunities. Now with Reuters Research on Demand, plus additional coverage & multimedia features in the new Financials Dashboard.
  • DemographicsNow for Libraries: With DemographicsNow you can analyze the demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S.
  • Global Road Warrior: 175 countries - from A to Z...it's all at your fingertips from your own private corner of the world. Whether you've got a backpack, briefcase, laptop, or a desk, the Global Road Warrior lets you circle the globe in the blink of a clear blue sky.
  • Value Line Research Center: The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
• Technology
  • AccessScience: The premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
  • Credo Reference: A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.
  • Indiana Shared eBook Collection: An extensive collection of eBooks, on subjects including psychology, history, social & political science, fine arts, language, medicine, and technology, available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE. Click the "NetLibrary" logo in the lower left-hand corner of the INSPIRE homepage.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings, covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
• Television
  • ConsumerReports.org: One of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
• Tests
  • Learning Express Library: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
  • Testing & Education Reference Center : A start-to-finish resource with all the information and support materials needed to make informed, confident decisions to shape the rest of your life. Includes High School Tools, College Prep Tools, and Career Tools.