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Databases marked ** are available only to users on PC's in our Branches.
(If you are having trouble
accessing any of these databases please visit our FAQ pages for help)
- African American Experience (Greenwood)
Research resource for African American history and culture (based primarily on Greenwood Press reference works). Includes primary sources, timeline, audio clips, photographs, maps, and other images. (Remote access available.)
- Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest)**
Genealogical and local history information. Includes the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, and slave narratives. (available only to users on PC's in our Branches.)
- Heritage Quest (ProQuest)
Resources in this genealogy database include the US Federal Census 1790-1930; the Periodical Source Index, covering genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800; and the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Remote access available.)
- Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford)
More than 7,500 articles (primarily from Oxford University Press reference works) focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes primary sources, timelines, images, maps, and charts. (Remote access available.)
- p4A
Antiques Reference
Price values, photos, and descriptive information for antiques
and collectibles. (Remote access available.)
- Auto
Repair Reference Center
Chilton’s information for domestic and foreign vehicles
from 1954 to the present. (Remote access available.)
- Mitchell
1 OnDemand **
Mitchell’s information for domestic and foreign vehicles
from 1983 to the present. (Available only using Internet Explorer
in the library.)
- Biography
Resource Center
Biographical articles from reference books and periodicals.
For grade 4 and up. (Remote access available.)
- BIG Onlline
(Metasoft)
For funding research. Information on grantmakers across the
country. (Remote access available.)
- Business
& Company Resource Center
Company profiles and histories, brand information, rankings,
investment reports, chronologies, and industry news. (Remote
access available.)
- Business
Directory (InfoUSA)
Information on over 12 million U.S. businesses. (Remote access
available.)
- Dun
& Bradstreet Million Dollar Database
Company and ownership information on over one million (mostly
private) North American companies.(Remote
access available.)
- Foundation Directory Online Professional **
The most comprehensive resource for private funding research on the Web, including the ability to search over 90,000 grantmakers, 900,000 grants, Foundation news and other useful features. (Available only at the Hyattsville Branch)
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online **
An online database of more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. (Available only at the Hyattsville Branch)
- Mergent
Online
Detailed financial and narrative information on U.S. and international
public companies. (Remote access available.)
- Morningstar.com
Library Edition
Investment information resource. (Remote access available.)
- Standard
& Poor’s Net Advantage**
S & P’s Corporation Records, Stock Reports, Industry
Surveys, Dividend Record, Mutual Fund Reports, Register, Outlook,
Earnings Guide, Bond Guide, and Stock Guide.
- Small Business Resource Center
Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. (Remote
access available.)
- EBSCO Business Source Elite
Provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications, dating back to 1985. Updated on a daily basis.
- Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)**
Indexing and full-text coverage beginning with 1984.
- Associations
Unlimited (Gale)
International and U.S. national, regional, state, and local
nonprofit membership organizations. (Remote access available.)
- Publications
and Broadcast Media Directory(Gale)
Television stations, radio stations, and cable television companies
in the U.S. and Canada. (Remote access available.)
- Ready
Reference Shelf(Gale)
Directories of associations, research centers, publishers, publications,
television and radio stations, and databases. (Remote access
available.)
- Telephone Directory Residential(InfoUSA)
Residential data from the most recent U.S. census. (Remote
access available.)
- BIG Online
(Metasoft)
For funding research. Information on grantmakers across the
country. (Remote access available.)
- Foundation Directory Online Professional The most comprehensive resource for private funding research on the Web, including the ability to search over 90,000 grantmakers, 900,000 grants, Foundation news and other useful features. (Available only at the Hyattsville Branch)
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online An online database of more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. (Available only at the Hyattsville Branch)
- America’s
Obituaries and Death Notices(NewsBank)
Full-text newspaper obituaries and death notices, searchable
by name, date, or text within the notice. (Remote access
available.)
- Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) **
Genealogical and local history information. Includes the digitized
images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930, the American
Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists
Index, and slave narratives.
- Heritage
Quest (ProQuest)
Resources in this genealogy database include the US Federal
Census 1790-1930; the Periodical Source Index, covering genealogy
and local history periodicals written in English and French
(Canada) since 1800; and the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty
Land Warrant Application Files. (Remote access available.)
- GPO
Access
Documents produced by the Federal Government. (Remote access
available.)
- Stat-USA **
Economic data produced by the U.S. Government.
- CultureGrams (ProQuest)
Geographic and cultural information for students and travelers. (Remote access available.)
- Lands
and Peoples (Grolier)
Encyclopedia of countries, cultures and geography for middle
school and up. (Remote access available.)
- World
Atlas (Facts on File)
Includes a graphing tool which allows comparison of up to four
countries or four U.S. states. For grade 3 and up. (Remote
access available.)
- History Reference Center
A comprehensive full text history reference database containing information from books, encyclopedias, and periodicals as well as historical documents, maps, photos and video. Focus is on US History and World History from prehistoric times to the recent past. (Remote
access available.)
- Tell Me More
is a comprehensive foreign language learning program that combines educational content with the interactive features of multimedia. Through different types of activities, the program addresses the four major components required for learning and mastering a language: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
We strongly recommend that you review the following before using TELL ME MORE:
Please sign up for no more than one account per library card. (Remote access only at this time).
- Rosetta Stone
Simple language exercises guide you in learning to read, write, and understand a foreign language. 29 languages available. If using in the library, you must use headphones. (Rosetta Stone is no longer allowing remote access after October 31, 2007. Currently available at Largo-Kettering branch Computer Lab.)
- LegalForms (Gale)
Legal forms for Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia – wills, name changes, contracts, and more. (Remote access available).
- BookFlix
Preschoolers through 3rd graders can read along with or listen to and watch videos of many all-time favorite picture books. Many titles are available in Spanish. (Remote
access available.)
- Essays
in LitFinder (Gale)
Full-text essays that focus on the humanities and social sciences. (Remote access available.)
- Literature
Resource Center (Gale)
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline. For high school and up.(Remote
access available.)
- Novelist (EBSCO)
For fiction lovers. Includes searchable fiction reviews, read-alike
lists, award winners, and reading group guides. (Remote access
available.)
- Novelist
K-8 (EBSCO)
Reading suggestions for children in grades K-8.(Remote
access available.)
- Plays
in LitFinder. (Gale)
Over 1,000 complete plays in English or English translations. (Remote access available.)
- Poems
in LitFinder (Gale)
Thousands of full-text poems plus explanations, biographies
and pictures. (Remote access available.)
- Short
Stories in LitFinder (Gale)
Thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies
and pictures. (Remote access available.)
- Speeches
in LitFinder. (Gale)
Speeches from antiquity to modern times. (Remote access available.)
- Literary Reference Center (EBSCO).
Plot summaries; literary criticism; author biographies and interviews; book reviews; more. Includes Masterplots and Bloom Series. For high school and up. (Remote access available.)
- African American Experience (Greenwood)
Research resource for African American history and culture (based primarily on Greenwood Press reference works). Includes primary sources, timeline, audio clips, photographs, maps, and other images. (Remote access available.)
- American Mosaic (Greenwood)
Combines The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience, focusing on the history and culture of African and Latino Americans from the earliest origins of Africans and Latinos in North America to the present today. (Remote access available.)
- Latino American Experience (Greenwood)
Research resource focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the present-day. Includes timeline, primary documents, images, links, and some Spanish-language content. (Remote access available.)
- Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford)
More than 7,500 articles (primarily from Oxford University Press reference works) focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes primary sources, timelines, images, maps, and charts. (Remote
access available.)
- African American Songbook
Streaming music: historical jazz, blues, gospel with recordings by more than 2,300 performers. Features recordings from the first half of the 20th century, including 16,000 tracks from Document Records. (Remote access available.)
- Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning, with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. (Remote access available.)
- Smithsonian Global Sound
35,000 tracks of animal/nature sounds, dramatic performances, poetry, political speeches, war and protest songs, and traditional music performances from around the world. Includes recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other labels. (Remote access available.)
- Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. (Remote access available.)
- A
to Z (EBSCO)
Alphabetical listing of and access to the magazines and newspapers
available through the library’s electronic resources. (Remote
access available.)
- America’s
Newspapers and Newspapers of the World (NewsBank)
Full-text articles from U.S. and world newspapers. (Remote access
available for all but a few of these newspapers.)
- Baltimore
SUN Archives
Indexing and complete text of articles, stories, letters and
editorials from 1990 to present. (Remote access available.)
- Magazine
Index (EBSCO)
MasterFILE Premier provides abstracts and/or full text articles from periodicals and reference books, with coverage as far back as 1975. (Remote access
available.)
- ERIC (EBSCO)
The Educational Resource Information Center. Search educational
digests and journals. (Remote access available.)
- Magazine
Index (Gale)
Abstracts and /or full text articles from periodicals and reference
books, with coverage as far back as 1980. (Remote access
available.)
- Middle
Search Plus (EBSCO)
Full text for magazines covering general topics appropriate
for middle school students. (Remote access available.)
- New
York Times (ProQuest)**
Full text of articles for the current rolling 90 days. Indexing
and abstracts from 1986. (Note that America’s Newspapers
carries full text for this paper from 2000 to present.)
- Searchasaurus
Children's Magazine Database (EBSCO)
Children’s magazines, encyclopedias, dictionary, and picture
file. For grades K-8. (Remote access available.)
- Wall
Street Journal(ProQuest)**
Indexing and full-text coverage beginning with 1984.
- The
Washington Post (NewsBank)
Indexing and full-text coverage beginning with 1977. (Remote
access available.)
- Washington
Times (NewsBank)
Indexing and full-text coverage beginning with 1990. (Remote
access available.)
- Encyclopedia
Americana (Grolier)
General-reference encyclopedia for grade 4 and up. (Remote
access available.)
- Encyclopedia
Britannica
General-reference encyclopedia. Includes Compton’s Encyclopedia
and an Elementary Encyclopedia in “Britannica Online for
Kids.” (Click on “Jump to Britannica Kids,”
in the top right corner.) (Remote access available.)
- Facts
for Learning (Facts on File News Services)
Scholastic information for grades 2-8; includes the Weekly Reader
and World Almanac. (Remote access available.)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Electronic reference books on many subjects. (Remote access
available.)
- Kids
Search (EBSCO)
General reference for grades K-5. (Remote access available.)
- New
Book of Knowledge (Grolier)
Reference and current events for grade 4 and up. (Remote
access available.)
- Student
Research Center (EBSCO)
General reference for grades 6-12. (Remote access available.)
- World
Book
World Book Encyclopedia, dictionary and atlas. For grade 3 and
up. (Remote access available.)
- LearnATest (LearningExpress)
Practice tests for college entrance, employment, and citizenship.
Tutorials in basic skills for math, reading, and writing. (Remote
access available.)
- Testing and Education Reference Center (Gale)
Practice tests for college entrance, employment, and citizenship, plus college and career search help. (Remote access available.)
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