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back to top- Agriculture Collection (Onefile)*: Current and authoritative content that spans the agriculture industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
- America the Beautiful: State by State history and current events for elementary and middle school students.
- Ancestry Library Edition: The ultimate source for genealogy, family trees and family history records online.
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back to top- Biography and Genealogy Master Index*: Indexes current, readily available reference sources. Bibliographic citations only.
- Biography in Context: Contains more than 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people
- Books and Authors*: A database to help you decide what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre, title, author, and series.
- Business and Company Resource Center*: A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
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back to top- Chilton Library*: Covers authoritative automotive repair information on thousands of year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years.
- Communications and Mass Media Collection (Onefile)*: Provides current and accurate information in full-text from journals focused on all aspects of the communications field
- Computer Database*: Has over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines and popular computing magazines.
- Criminal Justice Collection (Onefile)*: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection covers it all.
- Culinary Arts Collection (Onefile)*: Coverage includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles.
- CultureGrams*: A leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe.
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back to top- Diversity Studies Collection (Onefile)*: This collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
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back to top- Ebsco eBooks (was Netlibrary)*: Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. New username and password can be acquired at the Reference desk.
- eLibrary*: Find over 2000 articles, ebooks, transcripts, photos, websites, focused multi-media, maps and reference sources such as almanacs and encyclopedias. For upper Elementary through High School.
- eLibrary Elementary*: Just for kids in grades K-6. Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of tv and radio shows.
- Encyclopedia Americana: In-depth information for older students and adults.
- Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Onefile)*: Includes perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
- Expanded Academic ASAP*: Magazine, newspaper and journal articles appropriate to college and university-level research. All topics and mostly full-text.
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back to top- Fine Arts and Music Collection (Onefile)*: Resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
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back to top- Gale Virtual Reference Library*: A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection (Onefile)*: This collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
- General Business File ASAP*: Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
- General Reference Center Gold*: One-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles. Mostly full-text.
- General Science Collection (Onefile)*: A collection of over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments.
- GLBT Life and Issues (Onefile)*: Covers such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
- GreenFILE: Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: Quick reference with rich media for middle school and higher.
- Grolier Online: Contains Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Lands and People, Encyclopedia Americana, America the Beautiful, New Book of Popular Science and New Book of World Knowledge.
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back to top- Health and Wellness Resource Center*: Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.
- Health Reference Center Academic*: Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals.
- HeritageQuest Online*: Includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions.
- Home Improvement Collection (Onefile)*: Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.
- Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection (Onefile)*: Includes current and relevant content from travel industry journals, travel guides and magazines.
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back to top- Information Science and Library Issues Collection (Onefile)*: Comprehensive content for information professionals and other knowledge workers.
- Informe!*: Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
- Infotrac Junior Edition (Jr High)*: This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
- Infotrac Student Edition (High School)*: This periodical database designed for high-school students has information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Insurance and Liability Collection (Onefile)*: This collection takes a broad view of the asset protection industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.
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back to top- Kids InfoBits*: A database developed especially for beginning researchers featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface
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back to top- Lands and Peoples: An encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for middle and high school.
- Lansing State Journal: Comprehensive coverage (2002-Present) of articles, stories, columns, commentaries, reviews and more for the newspaper from the state capital of Michigan.
- LearningExpress Library*: Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help test takers succeed on academic or licensing tests.
- LegalTrac*: Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
- Legal Forms: Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
- 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.
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back to top- Making of Modern Michigan: Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials and much more from local history collections around the state.
- MeLCat*: A catalog of materials available through Michigan libraries. Patrons of participating libraries can order items from other statewide participating libraries and have them delivered to their local library branch.
- Military and Intelligence (Onefile)*: Includes content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.
- Michigan Authors and Illustrators*: A searchable database of Michigan authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information.
- Michigana - Sources in U.S. History Online*: This digital archive documents state history. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, the archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books.
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back to top- New Book of Popular Science: Science and technology, plus science in the news for middle and high school.
- New Book of World Knowledge: Reference and current events for elementary school and higher.
- New York Times (12 months full text)*: The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present.
- Newstand*: A collection of more than 1,000 newspapers from around the country and the world. Includes the New York Times (1985-current). All full text.
- Nursing Resource Center*: Brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.
- Nursing and Allied Health (Onefile)*: Information to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
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back to top- OneFile (Academic)*: The premiere source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
- OneFile (General)*: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
- Opposing Viewpoints: A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues organized by reading level.
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back to top- Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection (Onefile)*: Includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine for both the researcher and practitioner alike.
- Pop Culture Collection (Onefile)*: This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course.
- Psychology Collection (Onefile)*: Researchers will have access to hundreds of subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.
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back to top- Reference USA: Contains 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.
- Religion & Philosophy Collection (Onefile)*: Resources covering all aspects of religion and philosophy.
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back to top- SIRS Discoverer*: A children's database with full-text of articles, books, video, audio on all topics.
- SIRS Renaissance*: Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.
- Small Business Resource Center: Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.
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back to top- Tutor.com: Get a live tutor to help you with writing, Science, Math, History and more! Help is available for students from grade school through college, as well as adults who need help with resumes, GED prep and more. Now available only to Westland residents.
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back to top- U.S. History Collection (Onefile)*: Resources for both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
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back to top*MeL Databases
These databases are part of MeL which is a project of the Library of Michigan, an agency of the state government. The Library of Michigan contracts with MCLS and partners with a number of Michigan organizations and institutions to provide MeL services. This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.