eResources: Alphabetical List
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Academic OneFile
Authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily.
Access World News
Access to articles from 1,100 newspapers world-wide.
ALLDATA Automotive Repair (available in Library only)
Comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.
America's Newspapers
Articles from 850 newspapers from the United States and Puerto Rico.
America's Obituaries & Death Notices
A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from major and regional newspapers in the United States.
Ancestry Library Edition (available in Library only)
A comprehensive source for genealogical and local history research that includues the U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790-1930, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, passenger lists, and much more. Click here for a brief introductory video.
ArchiveGrid
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
ArticleFirst
Index of articles contained in various journals. Some full-text articles are available.
Barron's Magazine-Image Edition
Full-text, full-image edition of the current week's business and financial magazine. Back issues for the previous 12 months can be found here.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Citations for over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Biography Resource Center
Includes biographies from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and reference sources, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to websites. Search for people - both current and historic - by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, and keyword.
Books & Authors
Help discover your next book to read with Books & Authors. Read book reviews, find read-a-likes, create reading lists, get book suggestions from experts, read author biographies and more.
Brainfuse
Live homework help in math, science, English, and social studies available for students in 3rd through 12th grades. Tutors are available 7 days a week from 2pm-11pm. If you are a first time user, click here to download the Brainfuse Quick Connect software. For Brainfuse frequently asked questions, click here.
Business & Company ASAP
Provides information on companies, markets and industries, from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Includes business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.
Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles and histories, industry news, brand information, rankings, and investment reports.
Career Cruising
Designed to help students explore careers and plan their future. Includes assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information.
Career Transitions
This self-paced eResource guides you through every step of the job seeking process. Explore occupational interests and careers, find educational opportunities, prepare a resume, and search for and apply for jobs directly through Career Transitions.
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO) is collection of high-quality images and descriptions of works of art from museums around the world.
Chilton Auto Repair Online
Repair information on thousands of the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
CINAHL Basic
Provides information from journals, health care books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and educational material, on the subjects of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
College Blue Book
Guide to two and four year schools in the U.S. and Canada, including detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs.
Computer Database
Access to computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
ConsumerReports.org
Access subscription-level content from the website of this leading consumer products review magazine. You can also browse issues from the current year. To search previous years, click here.
CQ Researcher
Reports on current and controversial issues from 1991 to present.
Culturegrams
Information on the cultures of the world, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
D & B Million Dollar Premier Database
Contains over 2 million U.S. companies, with sales over $1 million and/or total employee size of 20 or more.
Detroit News
Local newspaper with articles from 1999 to present.
Dictionary of American History
Authoritative American history reference work for students, scholars and general readers.
Educator's Reference Complete
More than 450 academic journals, hundreds of reports, and many premier reference sources which focus on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Electronic Collections Online
Information from scholarly journals in the fields of agriculture, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, library science, language, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, history, science, social science, and technology.
eLibrary Elementary
Reference information from select magazines, books, newspapers, TV transcripts, pictures, and maps for K-6 students.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
Includes 600 articles, photographs and illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, timelines, and a comprehensive index.
ERIC
Contains references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
Expanded Academic ASAP
Meets research needs across all academic disciplines with access to scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers.
Facts on File
70,000 articles from the Facts on File World News Digest dating from January 1980 to present.
Gale Power Search
Search all the Gale databases in one convenient step.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
General Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Includes broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
General OneFile
News and periodical articles on business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
General Reference Center Gold
Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Generations Online (available in Library only)
This site provides an easy to use step-by-step introduction to navigating the Internet customized for senior citizens. Four skills are taught: e-mail, chat, searching, and links to popular sites. Generations Online includes Memories: Generation to Generation, designed to link school children to elders, trapping their wisdom, experiences, and knowledge in an oral history and cultural exchange.
GPO Monthly Catalog
The GPO Monthly Catalog includes citations to thousands of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive department. Note: this database is not full-text.
Grand Rapids Press
Newspaper with articles from the past 12 months.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Animal-related information including life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology, and much more.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Medical information from health journals, general interest publications, pamphlets, and videos.
Health Reference Center Academic
Provides information from professional and personal health magazines, journals and reference sources.
Heritage of the Printed Book
Catalog of European printing in the early modern era or "hand-press period" (15th century to the 1830s). This resource integrates descriptive records for major European national, university and research library holdings. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history and transmission of thought-as well as the history of printing and the history of the book.
Heritage Quest Online
Searchable images of U.S. federal census records and popular genealogy and local history collection books and collections. Click here for a brief introductory video.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
An international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding for interdisciplinary research. Records include journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields.
Informe
A collection of Spanish-language magazines with information on businesses, health, technology, culture, and other topics. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoTrac Junior Edition
Variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. For students in junior high and middle school.
InfoTrac Newsstand
With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can easily search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers from around the world, translate articles into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your search options and results format. All articles are full-text.
InfoTrac Student Edition
Variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. For high-school students.
IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Community Website
Whether you're a small business or a self-employed individual, being able to get your hands on sound, accurate tax rules and regulations and how they affect your business is critical. This IRS web site offers industry specific information and links to provide answers and guidance on common business tax questions.
Issues & Controversies
Features over 800 controversial topics in the news since September 1995 combining objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing viewpoints, chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, and bibliographies.
Issues & Controversies in American History
Features opinions and analysis regarding controversial events throughout American history. It includes presidential election coverage, timelines, photographs, charts, maps, and more.
Kelly Blue Books
Price guide for new and used vehicles.
Kids Edition
Magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. For elementary students.
Kids InfoBits
Covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. For elementary students.
Learning Express Library
Comprehensive practice tests and tutorial course preparation for academic or licensing tests. Provides immediate scoring and complete answer explanations.
Legal Forms
Forms for real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also includes a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions.
LegalTrac
Provides legal information from more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods around the world.
Macomb County Death Records Database
Lists dates of death for Macomb County residents after 1960.
The Making of Modern Michigan
Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories and genealogical materials.
Mango Languages
Learn a language online! This foreign language learning tool offers 12 different language courses: German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Greek, French, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, as well as ESL programs for Polish, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Medline
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. From the National Library of Medicine.
Mergent Online
Provides information on U.S. and international public corporation, including annual reports, institutional holdings, insider trading data, summary equity reports, and SEC filings. Mid-1980s to present.
Michigan Authors and Illustrators
A database of Michigan authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information. Indicates whether person will do library presentations.
Michigan County Histories and Atlases
This collection contains 428 digitized reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases published before 1923, as a resource for historical and genealogical research.
Michigan Newspapers
Articles from 25 Michigan newspapers across the state.
Michigan Online Resources for Educators
Provides easy access to K-12 education related Web resources that have been carefully evaluated for quality, relevance, and effectiveness.
Michigana (Sabin Collection): 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.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Comprehensive investment information. Whether you're looking for tips for choosing mutual funds, stocks, or the definition of an investment term, you'll find it all here.
NADA Guides
Price guide information for new and used cars, motorcycles, boats, and more.
New England Ancestors (available in Library only)
Records of the New England Historic Genealogical Society containing millions of names, cemetery transcriptions, family genealogies, probate records, vital records, and more.
New York Times
Full -text articles from 1985 to present.
New York Times Book Review-Image Edition
Full-text, full-image edition of the book review supplement to the New York Times.
New York Times-Image Edition
Full-text, full-image edition of the current New York edition of the New York Times. Back issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
New York Times Magazine -Image Edition
Full-text, full-image edition of the current Sunday magazine supplement to the New York Times. Back issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
New York Times Sunday Advance-Image Edition
Advance preview of Sunday sections of the New York Times. Full-text, full-image edition. Back issues from the previous 12 months can be found here.
Novelist
Reader's advisory service that helps users locate new fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested. Includes reviews from 1996-present, book discussion guides, book talks and web links.
Novelist Plus
Reader's advisory service that helps users locate fiction and readable (narrative) non- fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested. Includes reviews from 1996-present, book discussion guides, book talks and web links.
NoveList K-8 Plus
Use this comprehensive reading resource to find information about fiction and non-fiction titles for younger readers.
OAIster
This catalog of digitized materials includes books, articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide.
OmniFile Full Text Select
All full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Recommended for high school and college students.
Opposing Viewpoints
Features magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.
Plunkett Research Online
Provides current industry research, competitive intelligence, market research commentary and statistics.
Reference USA
Contains directory information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses and 220 million U.S. residents.
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
This database provides bibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as private sales - valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends.
Scribner Writers Series
Signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres.
SIRS Discoverer
Articles for children selected from more than 1000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents. Click on the Discoverer Webfind link to find web sites suitable for children in grades 1-9.
SIRS Renaissance
Provides information on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts from more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.
SLC Digital Media Archives
Historical and genealogical materials in digital form. View old pictures, maps, and documents from Macomb County, Troy, and Harper Woods
Small Business Resource Center
Offers users complete small business management resources, including industry research, financial planning tools, and marketing and franchising information.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Includes information from many of Standard and Poor's most popular titles: the Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, The OUTLOOK, Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Stock Guide, and Stock Reports.
Student Resource Center - Junior
Covers core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and provides reference material, more than 340 periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia. For middle school students.
TheStreet.com
Evaluates the financial strength of institutions such as life, health, and annuity insurers; property and casualty insurers; HMOs; Blue Cross Blue Shield plans; banks; and savings and loans. Also, tracks the performance of over 12,000 mutual funds and more than 9,000 stocks.
ThomasNet
A complete, up-to-date directory of global industrial suppliers and product information.
Today's Science
Presents the latest developments in science and technology covering health, environment, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society from September 1992-present.
Turfgrass Information File
Database of printed information on turf and turfgrass research.
Twayne's Authors Series
Signed essays on the works of American, English and world authors.
UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
Information on 12 of the Earth's major biomes and its many component ecosystems. Covers climate, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on the biome, and more.
ValueLine
Value Line stock reports.
Wall Street Journal
Offers full text coverage of national and international finance from 1982 to present.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Descriptions of leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law and important documents.
What's Next
Online guide to Books in Series from Kent District Library
World Almanac
Access to The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids. Coverage of the arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.
World Book Online Reference Center
Contains every article from the 22-volume print edition, plus thousands more. Also includes World Book Advanced, World Book Student, World Book Kids, and the Spanish language Estudiantil Hallazhgos en Linea.
WorldCat
Online catalog of books and other materials available at libraries worldwide.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Records for over 5 million dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations.