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Academic Search Premier
Description: Contains academic articles on a broad range of topics. Highly recommended resource for beginning any research - academic, professional, recreational, or consumer driven.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Agricola
Description: Contains citations for articles on agriculture.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Alt-Press Watch
Description: Contains articles from alternative press publications.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
America the Beautiful
Description: Contains historical, geographical, cultural, and statistical information on American states and territories. Includes some maps and pictures.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
American Physical Society Journals
Description: Archive of publications in physics from the American Physical Society.
(APS)
Audience: High School & Above
Ancestry.com
Description: Contains census, immigration, military, birth, marriage & death records. This resource is only available within the library.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
AnnualCreditReport.com
Description: Obtain a copy of your credit report from one or more the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Auto Repair Reference Center
Description: Contains the complete automotive repair manuals that were originally published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Biography Resource Center
Description: Contains biographical articles from reference books and journals.
(Gale)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Business First of Louisville
Description: Contains local business news articles. The online archive goes back to June 1996. Not all print articles and supplements, such as the Book of Lists, are included on the website. Print editions and supplements can be found at the Main Library.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Business Insights: Essentials
Description: (Formerly known as the Gale Business & Company Resource Center.) Contains company profiles, histories, rankings, and news articles.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Business ReferenceUSA
Description: Contains company profiles, company directory information, and newsfeeds about companies.
(InfoUSA)
Audience: High School & Above
Business Source Premier
Description: Contains general business and academic journal articles on business, management, and economic topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Career and Technical Education
Description: The definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
CINAHL (with Full Text)
Description: Contains citations for articles in nursing and allied health journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Cincinnati Enquirer Historical
Description: The Cincinnati Enquirer (1841 - 1922). This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
Consumer Reports
Description: Search full text content of Consumer Reports from 1991 - present.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Consumer Search
Description: Contains analysis of and citations to product reviews. Recommends best picks on a wide variety of appliances and other products.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Courier-Journal
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Courier-Journal Historical
Description: The Louisville Courier-Journal (1830 - 1922). This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
CultureGrams
Description: Contains state and country profiles, photographs, biographical articles, and recipes from around the world.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
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Edmunds.com
Description: Contains price values for new and used cars, as well as, reviews, tips and advice.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Encyclopedia Americana
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
ERIC
Description: Contains digests of popular educational topics and citations to educational resources.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Federal Government Tax Forms
Description: Contains IRS tax forms and publications.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
Description: Contains MP3s of language learning audio tapes and PDFs of student textbooks that have entered the public domain. Over twenty languages are represented.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
FuelEconomy.gov
Description: Find and compare the gas mileage, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution ratings of different cars. This site also includes fuel economy guide, ratings, and tips as well as links to gasoline price data in cities across the US.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Grolier Kids Online
Description: Allows you to search six databases simultaneously: The New Book of Knowledge, Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples and the New Book of Popular Science.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Description: Contains reference and journal articles on health topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
HeritageQuest Online
Description: Contains census records, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's bank records, and citations for genealogy books and journals.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
Hospital Compare
Description: Compare hospitals based upon quality measures for treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgery. Produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and by the Hospital Quality Alliance.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac Culinary Arts Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on culinary arts topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac Fine Arts and Music Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on fine arts and music topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac Gardening, Landscape, and Horticulture Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on gardening, lanscaping, and horticulture topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac General OneFile
Description: Contains reference, journal, and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Highly recommended resource for beginning any research - academic, professional, recreational, or consumer driven.
(Gale)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Infotrac Home Improvement Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on home improvement topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac K-12 Student Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on a wide range of topics of interest to K-12 students.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac Pop Culture Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on popular culture and related topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Infotrac Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Collection
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on tourism, hospitality, and leisure related topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
JSTOR
Description: Contains academic journal articles on a broad range of topics.
(JSTOR)
Audience: High School & Above
Kelley Blue Book
Description: Contains blue book values for new and used cars, motorcycles, personal watercraft, and snowmobiles, as well as, car reviews and ratings.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentuckiana Digital Library
Description: Contains oral histories, photographs, maps, and digitized primary documents from Kentucky archive collections.
(Kentucky Digital Library)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentucky Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of Kentucky topics: places, people, events, and more.
(University of Kentucky Press)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Kentucky Forms Center
Description: Contains a wide variety of Kentucky forms, including forms for taxes, worker claims, professional licenses, and vital record requests.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentucky Virtual Library
Description: Contains links to research tools on a broad range of topics.
(KYVL)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Lands and Peoples Online
Description: Contains maps, flags, and reference articles about the land, people, economy, and history of countries around the world.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Learning Express Library.com
Description: Contains practice exams for academic and career tests (SAT, ACT, GED, ASVAB, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, Postal Exam, etc.)
(LearningExpressLibrary.com)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Legal Forms
Description: Contains KY and US legal forms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy forms, divorce forms, landlord tenant contracts and more.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
LibriVox
Description: Contains public domain books, poetry, and dramatic works read by volunteers.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
LINCS
Description: Contains website links to online resources on adult education and family literacy.
(National Institute for Literacy)
Audience: High School & Above
Literature Resource Center
Description: Contains literary criticism, writer biographies, and reference and journal articles on literary topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
MAS Ultra
Description: Contains reference, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
MasterFILE Premier
Description: Contains reference, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Medline
Description: Contains articles on health topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Middle Search Plus
Description: Contains articles from middle school magazines on a broad range of topics and the text of important historical US documents.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Description: Contains stock and mutual fund analysis and reports.
(Morningstar)
Audience: High School & Above
Multimedia Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
NADA Price Guide
Description: Contains price values for new and used cars, classic cars, motorcycles/ATVs, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, boats, and recreation vehicles.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Nashville Tennessean Historical
Description: The Nashville Tennessean (1812-1922). This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
New Book of Knowledge
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics, world history timelines, science experiments, and more.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
New Book of Popular Science
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on science topics, biographies of scientists, suggested science projects, science news, and sky maps.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
New York Times
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a comprehensive range of topics.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
New York Times Historical
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Includes articles between 1851 and 2008.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Newspaper Source
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Includes national newspapers, such as USA Today, and regional newspapers, like the Bowling Green Daily News.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Novelist
Description: Contains reader's advisory aids, such as, author read-alike suggestions, book discussion guides, awards lists, genre lists, and author bibliographies.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
OneClickdigital
Description: Louisville Free Public Library now provides free, unabridged, downloadable audio books via OneClickdigital. These are high quality recordings. Many new and popular audio books are available.
(Recorded Books)
Audience: High School & Above
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Description: Reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.
(Oxford Press)
Audience: High School & Above
Podiobooks.com
Description: Contains serialized audiobooks available through direct download or RSS feeds.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Primary Search
Description: Contains articles from elementary school reference books and magazines on a broad range of topics and the text of important historical US documents.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Project Gutenberg
Description: Contains public domain books that have been digitized, also human read and computer generated audio books.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Description: Contains articles from psychology, anthropology, and behavioral science journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
PsycInfo
Description: Contains citations to articles from psychology and behavioral science journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
PVA Property Search (Jefferson County)
Description: Contains information about properties in Jefferson County, including information about the owners, the assessed value, the building characteristics, the sales history and more. It is only available for use at the library.
(Property Valuation Administrator)
Audience: High School & Above
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Regional Business News
Description: Contains articles from regional business magazines and newspapers.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Safercar.gov
Description: Find crash test and rollover ratings for vehicles, tire ratings and safety information, air bag and rollover safety information. File a safety complaint. Check for recalls and find information on ongoing investigations.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Searchasaurus
Description: Contains reference, magazine, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Small Business Reference Center
Description: Comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Description: These manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Sociological Collection
Description: Contains articles from sociology journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Description: The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
TOPICSearch
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on current events and popular issues.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
TumbleBooks
Description: TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love.
(TumbleBooks)
Audience: Preschool and Elementary School
TumbleBooks en Español
Description: TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love.
(TumbleBooks)
Audience: Preschool and Elementary School
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Value Line Research Center
Description: "The Value Line Investment Survey" is a stock analysis newsletter serves as a comprehensive, multifaceted investment management solution.
(Value Line)
Audience: High School & Above
Wall Street Journal
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
WorldCat
Description: Contains library catalog records from around the world.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
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