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A popular resource found in many scholarly settings worldwide. This leading multidisciplinary research database provides full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.

Search essential historical records for African-Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank and more.

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information.

Explore Akron history through local news, events and people with the Akron-Beacon Journal Collection.

A full-text alternative health research database focused on complimentary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

The American and English Literature Collection contains many works of poetry, drama and prose based on books and other sources originally published in print. 

Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more.

Ancestry is the #1 online source for family history information, including the web's largest collection of historical records. Available only in the library.

Includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals; ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, etc. Paid for by the Shirley A. Froebe and Jerry M. Froebe Endowment Fund.

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The industry's most widely used business research database. Features full-text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines.

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The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975.

Includes information for local news stories, feature articles and reviews from The Plain Dealer (1983-June 1999), Cleveland Magazine (1983-present), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-June 2009), and Ohio Magazine (Oct.1990 -present).

Community Legal Aid is a non-profit law firm serving the legal needs of low-income individuals and families in central northeast Ohio.

Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.

Designed for the everyday consumer of health care information,  convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information.

Search Consumer Reports magazine for full text articles from 1991 to the present.

Users can search within a wide range of relevant eBooks using the powerful EBSCOhost experience.

A powerful online reference system that offers a variety of full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research.

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Database for teachers and students (k - 5), with information covering animals, the arts, biographies, math, science, geography, and social studies.

Articles, essays, and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research.

Database for teachers and students (grades 9-12)

FamilySearch offers access to 400 million genealogical sources and digital records. You will need a free FamilySearch account.

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Featuring premier collections of original military records.

Provides a wide selection of Ohio legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.

A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Includes Business Plan Handbook and Gale Everyday Law.

This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries. Information on many health topics including medical sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Geneology and ancestor database.

This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.

This database provides users with detailed, user-friendly "how-to" information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.

2-1-1 helps people across Summit County find local resources when they don't know where to turn for help. 

Live, anytime, anywhere job assistance, including up-to-date nation-wide and local job search engines, professional resume critique, and proven interview techniques. Paid for by the Shirley A. Froebe and Jerry M. Froebe Endowment Fund.

The Juvenile Series and Sequels database contains over 36,000 books in 4,900 series titles that are classified into three audiences: Juvenile Easy (for birth - grade 2), Juvenile (grades 2 - 6), and Young Adult (grades 6 - 12).

Learn essential skills for the 21st century. From Microsoft classes and smartphones, to grammar, math, and more.

An e-learning platform featuring online tutorials, practice tests, quizzes, and eBooks to help you achieve your educational and professional goals. Register for an account using your library card.

LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) has more than 12,000 courses, ranging from computer programming to project management. Log in with your library card number and 4-digit PIN.

Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Language learning for kids

Learn a new language through real-life conversations with native-speaker audio.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.

Designed specifically for public libraries, this database provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. 

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. 

Designed for middle school libraries, this database contains full text for popular middle school magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays.

Morningstar provides independent, in-depth research and recommendations on 11,000 stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and 950 exchange traded funds.

Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers.  In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

Northstar Digital Literacy defines basic skills needed to perform tasks on computers and online.

Novelist K-8 helps librarians, teachers, parents, and other adults who care about children in grades K-8 find fiction and non-fiction books to read tailored to their reading level and interests. Or, kids can try it themselves to help them select books they will enjoy.

Looking for your next book? Want to find more authors like your favorites? NoveList Plus has all your reading answers. Find books that match your interests.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

A searchable index which includes Ohio Department of Health Certificates.

It offers full text historical documents online, as well as a searchable newspaper index and death certificate index.

Leveraging online innovation, Ohio Legal Help seeks to improve justice and fairness for all Ohioans by removing barriers to the law so that they can understand their legal options, make informed decisions and connect to local legal and community resources.

Ohio Memory is a statewide collaborative digital library.This freely available collection includes materials from more than 360 cultural heritage institutions representing all of Ohio's 88 counties.

Search Ohio news sources including full-color image editions of the Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Columbus Dispatch.

An index to over 3,500,000 obituaries, death and marriage notices, and other notices from Ohio from the 1810s to the present day.

Online access to the Ohio Revised Code. 

Gain access to hundreds of OSU Extension fact sheets covering a wide array of subjects such as agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, community develepment, and 4-H youth development.

This website allows job seekers to search for local opportunities, complete assessments to gauge level of interest/experience, and many other resources.

Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works.

Contains resources presenting multiple sides of issues.

Designed for elementary school libraries. Contains full text for popular children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.

A highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers.

This full-text database is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines.

Directory information for 11 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households. Search for businesses by SIC code, sales volume number of employees and more. Search for residence directory information by name, location or phone number.

Full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.

An essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies, providing a full-text source of content pertaining to the topics related to and discussed in disciplines of religion and philosophy.

The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provide a searchable interface for locating historical maps of Ohio towns and cities in the years 1867-1970.

For student researcher's needs, this database contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.

Offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books.

This full-text database offers a trusted source of sociology literature, making it an essential tool for sociology and social work researchers, professionals and students.

Contact information for mental health, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and other crisis assistance.

Instructions on accessing The New York Times.

Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere!

Expert reporting and analysis from Washington and around the world, including award-winning investigative coverage and editorial commentary

The official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government.

Discover a new topic or subject with these intelligent and serious introductions written by authors who are experts in their field.

This database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

Identify common trees of Ohio using this database, which walks users through qualities of leaves and fruits and other aspects of trees.

The What's Next^®: Books in Series database was developed and is maintained by the Kent District Library. 

This program includes 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio.

A program designed to help users identify flint artifacts.

Books, educational activities and games, designed for young children.

The site offers simpler navigation, thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps, and dozens of activities tied to national curriculum standards.

A comprehensive French-language encyclopedia. Designed for native speakers, bilingual students and ESL/ELL program participants.

La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente.

From A to Z, the world of knowledge unfolds. World Book articles are written clearly. They're concise and interesting;packed with facts.

A comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia. Designed for native speakers, bilingual students and ESL/ELL program participants.

Contains an extensive multimedia collection, including editor-selected websites, and correlations to state standards.

Build and share timelines. Use your own events and images or add content and images from World Book.