Databases A-Z

Find high-quality, scholarly articles about academic subjects. This site contains full text articles for more than 2,100 journals and over 1,700 peer-reviewed, full-text journals.

Read newspapers from all over the United States. Papers can be selected and searched individually or all at once.

Research the history of your family with online access to historical records provided by Ancestry.com. Discover where and when your ancestors lived. Read actual historical documents that refer to members of your family. Perfect for building family trees and other genealogical research.

2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.

This resource for high school students contains nonfiction books on topics such as careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, and more.

Book reviews from the American Library Association

Find profiles, statistics, and articles about industries and specific companies. Formerly called Business and Company Resource Center.

Searchable database that contains citations to materials collected by the Foundation Center's five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources.

Online automobile repair manuals provide instructions, diagrams, and pictures about fixing cars of any make and model.

Health information for patients covering mainstream medicine to holistic and integrated medicine.

Produce comprehensive business and residential lists as well as detailed demographic reports. Assess business viability, perform market and site location analysis, create sales leads and/or marketing mailing lists, find potential sponsors and donors to grow a non-profit, prepare a small business plan and much more.

A collection of databases covering a wide range of subjects. Databases include Business Source Premier, NoveList, GreenFILE, Teacher Reference Center, and more.

Find and view over 7,000 eBooks online.

Search worldwide publications and multimedia related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Content ranges from the scholarly to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.

Find grant money for your organization or research project. Search for foundations and other granting agencies in your field.

Freegal Music is a downloadable music service that gives patrons access to about 3 million songs in MP3 format, including Sony Music’s catalog of artists. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 10,000 labels with music that originates in over 60 countries.

Access thousands of downloadable legal forms, including state, federal, business, real estate and personal forms. Also use an attorney directory, arranged by state and practice area. A new feature is their Law Digest -containing summaries of all 50 state statutory laws, arranged in easy-to-use alphabetical topics and subheadings. Note: This resource used to be called Thomson Gale Legal Forms.

Find references to high-quality, scholarly books and articles on the web. Generally, only summaries and excerpts of the articles are available for free, though sometimes the full text is available.

Find up-to-date editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Search this database to find marriage licenses issued in Jackson County, Missouri.

JobNow provides live help combined with online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job, including acing the interview, building a resume, and personality & career assessments.

Read entire articles from the Kansas City Star newspaper. All issues since 1991 are available.

Prepare for entrance exams and certification tests by taking practice tests and tutorials.

Find high-quality, scholarly articles about libraries and information science.

Read entire magazine and encyclopedia articles online. Contains full text articles for popular high school magazines, biographies, primary source documents, and reference books. It also includes an image collection of photos, maps and flags. Ideal for high school students.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical citations on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.

This online collection contains abstracts of Missouri birth, stillbirth, and death records recorded before 1910 that are available on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives.

Read newspapers from across Missouri, including Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, St. Joseph, Columbia and more.

NetLibrary is now EBSCOhost eBook Collection and EBSCOhost Audiobook Collection.

Includes the Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Newsbank Special Reports. It also provides access to popular magazines, such as Sports Illustrated, Time, and Fortune.

Read newspapers from all over the world. Papers can be searched individually or all at once. Radio and television news transcripts are also available.

Browse, checkout and download Digital Audiobooks and eBooks using your library card. Once downloaded, you can transfer titles to a supported device or, if the publisher allows, burn them to CD to listen anywhere.

Content and commentary commissioned by Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito, and developed by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.

Read current newspapers from all over the world in their original full-color, full-page format. Just like reading a familiar print edition, you can browse articles, pictures, advertisements, and classifieds. It includes access to the current edition and up to a 60-day backfile for nearly 1,000 newspapers from 84 countries in 40 languages. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.

Find references to conference proceedings that have been published worldwide since 1993.

Read articles from newspapers, magazines, and business journals.

Find summaries of professional and academic articles about medical topics.

Listing of over 12 million businesses and 120 million residences in the United States. Businesses can be searched by name, line of business, geographic area and a number of other parameters. Both the Business database and the Residence database can be searched by entering a specific phone number or street address.

This science resource for students provides access to hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, articles, and other sources.

Read entire articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. All issues since 1991 are available.

Designed just for students in grades 6-12, students can read articles from magazines and newspapers, search the online dictionary and encyclopedia, or locate photographs.

Teen Health & Wellness provides teens with information and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.

Full-image newspaper scans. 2008 - Present.