Newspaper Source Plus
Provides coverage from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. TV, radio transcripts, and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources are also included. Primary full coverage newspapers are The Washington Post and USA Today.
NoveList K-8 Plus
Find your next great book! Covers children’s fiction and nonfiction. This resources offers extensive reader’s advisory services including read-alike titles, series, and authors as well as professional reviews, reader reviews, articles, lists, genre overviews, discussion guides and more. Books are also tagged with appeal factors.
NoveList Plus
Find your next great book! Covers both fiction and nonfiction. This resources offers extensive reader’s advisory services including read-alike titles, series, and authors as well as professional reviews, reader reviews, articles, lists, genre overviews, discussion guides and more. Books are also tagged with appeal factors.
Oakland County Historical Resources
This full-text, searchable digital collection is composed of a variety of original documents, death notices, maps, and photos in various formats contributed or reviewed and approved by OCHR members. Each item is documented with the citation or source. The focus is on pre 1930’s copyright free materials.
Opposing Viewpoints: Gale in Context
Designed to aid students in researching both sides of a social issue, while making it simple, fast and rewarding, the Center includes over 60 topics from key reference sources, including full-text articles from over 30 major newspapers and newsmagazines, making researching both sides of an issue simple, fast and rewarding.
PebbleGo
Focus on animals and social studies and learn foundational research skills with clear text, videos and fun games. For Preschool – Grade 3.
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
Coverage includes classic and contemporary poems as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays.
Points of View Reference Center
Presents multiple sides of an issue. Helps students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Political Science Complete
Covers political topics with a worldwide focus. Designed for students, researchers and government institutions.
PrepSTEP
Offers over 1,300 tests, eBooks, articles, and tutorials. Practice tests include GED, NCLEX, TOEFL, LSAT, GMAT, and CLEP. A series of courses and practice tests to help build math and reading skills are also included.
Primary Search
Children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedia entries, and an image collection designed for elementary school libraries.
Professional Development
Specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Covers a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. For psychologists, counselors, researchers and students.
Read It!
Designed for middle and high school students who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects.
ReferenceUSA
Reference USA consists of two databases: a business database and a residential database. The business database provides contact information, contact names, estimated sales, number of employees, SIC and line of business for 12 million U.S. businesses. This is an excellent source for creating custom marketing lists. The residential database contains data on 120 million households. This is an excellent source for creating custom marketing lists. The residential database contains data on over 200 million households.
Referencia Latina
Theme-based Spanish-language interface designed to make content readily accessible to non-English users. This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports. Daily updates ensure availability of the most current articles from a dozen prominent newspapers from 10 Latin American countries.
Regional Business News
Provides coverage from regional business publications for the U.S. and Canada.
Resume Builder
Build a Resume in minutes with this free and easy-to-use tool. Download your resume in PDF or Word formats.
Scholastic GO!
Global, current and historic information presented in videos, encyclopedias, newspapers, an atlas and dictionary with Lexile ranges and citation information.
Science Reference Center
Full-text science magazines, encyclopedias, reference books, and a collection of images.
Small Business Reference Center
Offers coverage that addresses many small business topics from consumer small business reference books, business videos, help and advice section and how to create business plans.
Small Engine Repair
Detailed yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines. All of the content is organized in an easy-to-use manner so that users can quickly find the information they need.
