Our online databases & reference eBooks provide access to thousands of respected magazines, newspapers, and professional journals—plus business and investment, science, history, literature, and genealogy sources. They provide information you can’t find by simply doing a Google search. So whether you need to do business research or a homework assignment, this page should be your first stop.

Most of these databases are also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from your own home or office!

• Academic OneFile - Search thousands of periodical, news content and journals.
• Ancestry Library Edition (In Library use only) - Largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy.
• ArticleFirst - Articles from the contents pages of journals.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical compilations.
• Biography Resource Center - 432,000+ biographies on more than 340,000 people gathered from more than 980 volumes of more than 135 award-winning Thomson Gale reference sources.
• Bookletters - Provides eNewsletters and RSS feeds.
• Business and Company ASAP - Provides access to all the business and management journals, trade journals, newspapers and directories needed for in-depth research on companies, products, markets, industries, economics and management disciplines.
• Business and Company Resource Center - Comprehensive database offers a dynamic research opportunity, providing accurate, up-to-date company and industry intelligence for thousands of firms.
•  BYKI- Foreign Languages Online - a powerful language learning system that uses flashcards to teach you a set of words or phrases. It is the fastest possible way to lock foreign words and phrases in your long term memory.
• Career Library - Offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research.
  
• Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - Is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.
• Chilton's - Reference sources for Do-It-Yourself automotive enthusiasts and professionals. 
• CINAHL Basic - CINAHL Basic is an authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers.  This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.  The databases contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.  It has limited full text.
• Computer Database - Comprehensive information about the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
• Cross Search Databases (InfoTrac) - Search all of InfoTrac databases at once.
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - Comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature.
• Educator's Reference Complete - Academic journals, reports, and reference sources for teachers and school administrators and more.
• Electronic Collections Online - Collection of more than 6,200 titles in a wide range of subject areas, from over 70 publishers of academic and professional journals.
• eLibrary Elementary - Recommended for: K-12. All full text. Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.
• ERIC - 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.
• Expanded Academic ASAP - Fulltext articles of every academic concentration journals in a large database.
• Fiction Connection - Online resource with information on authors and books.
• Gale Legal Forms - Do-it-yourself resource for legal assistance.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Takes eBooks to the next level of usability — delivering reference content in a database format.
• General BusinessFile ASAP - Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directories.
• General OneFile - Online periodicals and newspapers.
• General Reference Center Gold - General interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles.
• GPO Monthly Catalog - U.S. government publications.
• Grolier Online - It includes 4 encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, and Lands and Peoples.
• Hand Press Book - A collection of more than 2 million catalog records from libraries representing items of European printing from the 15th century through the 1830s, the hand-press period, integrated into one database.
• Health Reference Center Academic - Health-related research.
• Health & Wellness Resource Center - Electronic resource center for all levels of health research.
• Heritage Quest - Resource site for census data, family records, and local histories.
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) - Recommended for: Colleges and universities. HSTM integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and citations from the Wellcome Library) to create an international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine.
• History Resource Center - USA - Integrated collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents.
• History Resource Center - World - World History, American History, Civics and other historical links and information.
•  Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center - Content in the database includes a collection of core, proprietary articles covering over 140 topics, as well as licensed periodicals, books and video that focus on categories commonly referred to as hobbies and crafts and is available in high-quality PDF format.
•  Home Improvement Reference Center - Designed to assist homeowners in do-it-yourself home repair, maintenance, and remodeling projects. Step-by-step instructions for thousands of projects in the areas of plumbing, outdoor, woodworking, electrical, and decorating are provided in high-quality PDF files.
• Informe - 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.
• Infotrac Custom Newspapers - Collection of full-text newspapers from around the United States and the world.
• InfoTrac Junior Edition - Magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
• InfoTrac Student Edition - Quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions.
• Kids InfoBits - Curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.
• Learning Express Library (Learn A Test) - Learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
• LegalTrac - All major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law
  publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles.
• LitFinder - 135,000+ full-text poems, stories, plays and more.
• Literature Resource Center - Comprehensive literary collection.
• MEDLINE - Database of all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
• MEL - Michigan Electronic Library
• Michigan Authors & Illustrators - Authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have written books about or set in Michigan.
• New York Times - Full text newspaper.
• Newsbank Michigan Newspaper - Full text of the Detroit News (1/1/1999-Current), Grand Rapids Press (2002-Current, and Lansing State Journal)
• Novelist - Electronic readers’ advisory resource that helps fiction readers find new authors and titles.
• OAIster - A union catalog of digital resources.
• Opposing Viewpoints - Designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.
• Patron Books in Print - Patron-based online book, audio book, video, and publisher information source.
• Prices 4 Antiques - International prices for antiques and collectibles and early American antique furniture.
• Reference USA - 10.5 million businesses with the ability to search by company name, type of business, geography, business size and more.
• Science Resource Center - Research process: speed, power, flexibility, depth, reliability and answers.
• SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs - General user and Colleges and universities. Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence.
• SIRS Discoverer Deluxe - This interactive tool strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability.
•  Small Engine Repair Reference Center - Reference and instructional information about small engine machinery maintenance and repair.
• Something About the Author Online - Illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 75 children's authors and artists.
• Turfgrass Information File - Comprehensive publicly available collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world.
• What Do I Read Next - Uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles.
• Wilson Select Plus - Articles in science, humanities, education and business.
• World Almanacs - Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.
• WorldCat on FirstSearch - This version has a different interface and additional search capabilities, and does not automatically include journal articles.
• WorldCat.org - Books, journals, videos, music scores and recordings, maps, and other materials in over 10,000 libraries around the world. Also includes about 30 million journal and magazine articles.
• WorldCat Dissertations - Over 5 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.