Electronic Databases
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Databases by Name
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ABI/INFORM Dateline
Covers over 140 local and regional business publications across the U.S. and Canada including Ingram's and the Kansas City Business Journal. Research employment opportunities, track business and industries in a particular location, research marketing trends and products. Library and home use.
ABI/INFORM Global
Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal. Library and home use.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus.
Provides users withthe latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics.
Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many more. Library and home use.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources, with coverage of the physical sciences,
technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Library and home use.
America's Newspapers
America's Newspapers provides the electronic editions or record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers, including the Kansas City Star and the Olathe News. Library and home use.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices
A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices searchable by name of the deceased. In addition, the database is searchable by date range, or text contained in the obituary or death notice, such as residence, occupation, hobbies, family members or other personal information. Library and home use.
Ancestry Library Edition
Powered by the Ancestry.com web site, Ancestry Library Edition provides instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. Library use only.
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Search for biographies of individuals in a wide range of subjects, including business, politics, government, history, science, sports, the arts, and entertainment. The database also allows you to retrieve biographies based on specific sets of criteria such as ethnic background, nationality, and gender. Library and home use.
Books In Print
The industry's largest web-based resource of books and materials currently in print. Find what you're looking for quickly and easily, using a comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Library Use Only.
Business and Company ASAP
Provides current information on companies, markets and trends, industries, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory and company overviews. Library and home use.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
A database of business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on Finance, Trade, New Technologies, Trends and more. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images. Library and home use.
Chilton Library
Supplies automotive repair information. Covers the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years. Library and home use.
Computer Database (Gale)
Indexes several hundred computer, telecommunications, and electronics magazines with access to product news and reviews, industry status reports, company profiles, and more. Library and home use.
Custom Newspapers (Gale)
Over 160 U.S. and international (English-language) newspapers. Search specific sections - e.g., business, lifestyle, sports - and retrieve full-text articles arranged by section. Library and home use.
Daily Life Through History
A resource for information on the daily lives of people through the ages. Library use only.
EBSCO Animals
The library no longer has a subscription to Ebsco Animals. As an alternative please try, Searchasaurus, World Book Online or the Science Resource Center.
EBSCOhost Espanol
Provee texto completo para publicaciones periódicas que cubren casi todos los asuntos incluyendo referencia general, negocios, salud, y mucho más. (Por favor note que el contenido de esta base de datos está en inglés.) Library and home use.
Educator's Reference Complete
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many reference sources. The content focuses on educational principles, child development, psychology, and best practices in education. Library and home use.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center. Library and home use.
FirstSearch
Access to business, general news, education, medicine, academic magazines and newspaper databases, plus library holdings worldwide. Library use only.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
For students and adults, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, covers an array of topics. The database also contains various images and brief biographies. This database is updated annually Library and home use.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: 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. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily. Library and home use.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Access to medical, health, and wellness information through the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and full-text articles from journals, pamphlets and a variety of medical sources. Additionally Internet resources have been selected. Library and home use.
Health Reference Center Academic
Provides access to full-text nursing and allied health journals.Library and home use.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 165 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Library and home use.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online provides a growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Included are images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1930, plus over 25,000 family and local histories, all full-text and searchable. Library and Home Use.
Homework Help(Live)
Live Homework help connects 4th through 12th grade students with real, live tutors online. Receive help in math, science, social studies or English. The online tutors may be accessed on library and home computers.Library and Home use.
How to Do It Index
A guide to locating magazine articles that contain how-to information, instructions, plans, suggestions and tips on how to solve and prevent problems, construct projects, pursue an art, craft, hobby, etc.Library and home use.
Informe (Spanish search screen)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Users can search in Spanish and find articles from bilingual publications. Help pages appear in both Spanish and English. Library and home use.
JoCoHistory.net
A collaborative effort to provide greater access to historical materials related to Johnson County, Kansas. A wealth of photos, biographical information, maps, teacher curriculum ideas, and much more.Library and home use.
Kansas City Business Journal
The online version of the Kansas City Business Journal with breaking news and popular news stories from the print. Library and home use.
Kansas City Star plus Kansas Newspapers
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, politics and government, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements excluded. Newspapers in the collection are Kansas City Star, Emporia Gazette, Lawrence Journal-World, Manhattan Mercury, Topeka Capital-Journal, and Wichita Eagle. Library and Home Use.
Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Library and home use.
LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. Library and home use.
Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale)
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Library and home use.
Mango Languages
An online language learning program that focuses on teaching actual conversational skills in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Library and home use.
MAS Ultra
Provides full text from publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. The database also includes charts, tables and graphs, book reviews, pamphlets, reference books, photos, maps and flags. Full text backfiles date as far back as January of 1985. This database is designed for high school students. Library and home use.
MEDLINE Plus
MEDLINEplus is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information and is composed of a selective list of authoritative health information sources from The National Institute of Health and other organizations. The core of MEDLINEplus is the health topics, but the site also has drug information, current health news, dictionaries, directories, and a list of other resources. Library and home use.
Mergent Online
Offers in-depth business and financial information for public U.S. and international companies. Research a company's history, financial data, annual reports, current news and more. Also included are in-depth country profiles. Library and home use.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 150 popular, middle school and junior high magazines. The database also includes biographies, historical essays, primary source documents and an image collection. Backfiles date as far back as 1989. This database is designed for middle school and junior high students. Library and home use.
Mitchell on Demand
Automobile repair information made easy to find on computer. Library use only.
Morningstar
Morningstar is a comprehensive online investing database. It provides independent opinion and data on more than 20,000 stocks and mutual funds as well as other screening tools. Users can build and analyze an investing portfolio.Library and home use.
Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, and The Washington Post. Also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including, The Chicago Tribune, and The Kansas City Star. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc Library and home use.
Novelist
A reader's tool for finding books to match your reading interests. Library and home use.
Nursing and Allied Health Collections
This collection covers all aspects of the nursing profession from patient care to hospital administration. Library and home use.
Olathe Municipal Code
Code of Regulations for Olathe. Library and home use.
Olathe News
Full-text coverage of the Olathe News from December 2006 to current. Library and home use.
Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is designed for elementary school students. Library and home use.
Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators and provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals and more than 200 educational reports. Library and home use.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
This database provides full-text information from leading nursing and related publications. It is designed to meet the needs of researchers, as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions. Library and home use.
ReferenceUSA
Over 12 million business listings with company profiles, over 120 million nationwide telephone listings gathered from telephone white pages, and over 680,000 listings for physicians and dentists nationwide. Library and home use.
Research Library
A general magazine database for searching a variety of popular academic subjects. Library and home use.
Science Resource Center
Research science topics with the Science Resource Center, covering thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify correlated to state and national standards.Library and home use.
Searchasaurus
A dinosaur-themed page that provides access to several student-oriented databases. Here students can search the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, the Middle Search Plus, the Primary Search and an image database. This database is designed for elementary and middle school students. Library and home use.
Sorkin's Directories
Sorkin's provides directory and profile information for regional businesses in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinios. Library use only.
Statesman's Yearbook
Reference tool for information on countries all over the world. Stateman's specialty is information for diplomatsand politicians, but in reality the scope is much broader to include history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure. Library use only.
Student Research Center
Search for articles from magazines, newspapers, biographies. encyclopedias, country and state reports, and radio and TV news transcripts. Student Research Center also includes photos, maps, films, videos and primary source documents. Designed for students in junior high and high school. Library and home use.
Thomas Register
This database provides access to industrial companies. Seach by company, product, or service. Library and home use.
TOPICsearch
This current events database allows students to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Library and home use.
Value Line
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.Library and home use.
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). Library and home use.
Wall Street Journal
Full-text online from the world's leading financial newspaper. Library and home use.
World Book Advanced
High school and college students can search encyclopedia articles, primary documents, e-books, and images. Library and home use.
World Book Online
The classic encyclopedia available in an online format. Library and home use.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Library and home use.