Research Resources—
Subscription Databases
Alphabetically by Name
Important Notice: From May 9–14, 2008, our Subscription Databases may be unavailable to users outside the Library building as we make the transition to our new Polaris Library Automation System. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Please Note: If you are coming in from the web at home or outside the Library and its subscription modem pool, most titles on this list will require either your Farmington Community Library Card bar code number and the last 4 digits of your home phone number or your Metro Net subscription username and password for access . Titles marked with a blue square (
) are available courtesy of the Michigan eLibrary (MeL), and may require your Michigan Driver's License number to login from outside the Library. Follow the link to the Database page of the MeL, and scroll down to the database you want to use.
A few databases are available only from within the library, and these are marked with a red arrow (
).
This tool enables you to search simultaneously : New York Times, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, General Reference Center Gold, Health Reference Center Academic, Grand Rapids Press, Computer Database, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Business File ASAP, InfoTrac OneFile, LegalTrac, Junior Edition, Student Edition, Professional Collection, and Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Academic OneFile
- AllData
Auto Repair
(Description / Details) - America's GenealogyBank(Description / Details)
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Ancestry Library Edition (Description / Details)
- ArticleFirst—(An index of articles from the contents pages of journals available via FirstSearch)
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Biography Resource Ctr. (Description / Details)
- BookNook (BookLetters) (Description / Details)
- Business & Co. ASAP
- Business & Co. Resource Ctr. w/ Investext Plus (Description / Details)
- CAMIO©—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
- ChiltonLibrary.com
- CINAHL Basic
- CollegeSource Online (Description / Details)
- Computer Database (Description / Details)
- CultureGrams (Description / Details)
- Discovering Collection (Description / Details)
- Electronic Books—(a catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide Via FirstSearch)
- ECO Electronic Collections Online—A collection of scholarly journals available via FirstSearch
- Educators Reference Complete (Description / Details)
- eLibrary Elementary
- ERIC—Journal articles and reports in education available via FirstSearch
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Facts.com (Description / Details)
- Facts on File Science Online (Description / Details)
- FirstSearch
Foundation Directory (Description / Details) - Foundation Grants to Individuals (Description / Details)
(Use the above link to see detailed descriptions, subject categories and links to each title below.)—Search through all titles simultaneously
- Chemistry: Foundations and Applications.
- Colonial America Reference Library.
- Countries and their Cultures
- Data Warehouses and OLAP Concepts, Architectures & Solutions
- Dictionary of American History
- Encyclopedia of American Religions
- Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents and the Media
- Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
- Encyclopedia of European Social History
- Encyclopedia of India
- Encyclopedia of Irish History & Culture
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
- Encyclopedia of Russian History
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
- Encyclopedia of Religion
- Encyclopedia of Small Business 3d ed. (2v, 2007)
- Europe—1450 to 1789
- Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction:
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
- Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History 2v, 1999
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
- History Behind the Headlines
- History of World Trade Since 1450
- New Catholic Encyclopedia
- People's Chronology
- Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
- St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 5v, 2000
- Web Services Security and E-Busines
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- World of Earth Science 2v, 2003
- General Business File ASAP (Description / Details)
- General OneFile (Description / Details)
- General Reference Center Gold (Description / Details)
- GPO Monthly Catalog—U.S. government publications via FirstSearch
- Greenwood Daily Life Through History Online (Description / Details)
- Grolier Online
- America The Beautiful
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Lands And Peoples
- New Book of Knowledge
- New Book of Popular Science
- HandPress Books—A Union catalog of European printing from the 15th century to the 1830s via FirstSearch
- Health & Wellness Resource Ctr ( with Alternative Health Module) (Description / Details)
- Health Reference Ctr Academic (Description / Details)
- HeritageQuest Online (Description / Details)
- History of Science, Technology & Medicine—An international bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine via FirstSearch.
- Informe—Electronic equivalent of the Canadian Periodicals Index
- InfoTrac Custom Full-Text Newspapers or Grand Rapids Press only (Description / Details)
- InfoTrac Junior Edition (Description / Details)
- InfoTrac Student Edition (Description / Details)
- Kids InfoBits (Description / Details)
- Learning Express Library
- LegalTrac (Description / Details)
- Literature Resource Center (Description / Details)
- Litfinder (Description / Details)
- Live Homework Help (Tutor.com) Available daily 4pm to 10pm. Requires Windows 2000 / XP
- Making of Modern Michigan
- MEDLINE—A database encompassing all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing, searchable via FirstSearch
- MELCAT
- Mergent Online (Description / Details)
- Michigan Authors & Illustrators
- Michigan Newspapers (Grand Rapids Press)
(Description / Details) - Morningstar Investment Research Center
(Description / Details) - NetLibrary
- NewsBank (Description / Details)
- America's GenealogyBank
- Chicago Tribune (1985–Current)
- Detroit Free Press (1982–Current)
- Detroit News (1999–Current)
- Grand Rapids Press (2002–Current)
- Lansing State Journal (1999–Current)
- Washington Post (1977–Current)
- New York Times (Searchable Full text 1995— ) (Description / Details)
- NoveList (Description / Details)
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Description / Details)
- ReferenceUSA (Description / Details)
- SCIPIO: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs—Searchable via FirstSearch
- SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
- SIRS Renaissance
- Turfgrass Information File
- ValueLine Investment Survey (Description / Details)
- WestLaw (with ResultsPlus) (Description / Details)
- What Do I Read Next? (Description / Details)
- Wilson SelectPlus—Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business accessible via FirstSearch
- World Almanacs—A searchable database of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.
- WorldCAT—A searchable catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
- World Book Encyclopedia (Description / Details)
- World Dissertations and Theses—A searchable database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.
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