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The City Library is pleased to provide these subscription databases to our patrons in all City Libraries. In addition, if you have a City Library card, and internet access, you are provided access to many of these resources from your home.
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Auto Repair Reference Center (via Pioneer) contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for many vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. This database features diagrams and procedures from the popular Chilton automotive products.
Biography Resource Center
contains narrative biographies and full-text articles on any person of note throughout the world. Search by name, occupation, nationality, gender or other personal facts.
Books and Authors is the new database that includes What Do I Read Next. Search by genre, character, subject, location, time period and then use My Reading Room to keep track of your own reading lists and favorites.
BusinessDecision allows business owners to access accurate and reliable consumer and demographic information. The powerful mapping capability will reveal trends, patterns, and opportunities; the reports define market penetration, evaluate potential sites and segment the residential consumer marketplace.
College Source a virtual library representing 29,535 college catalogs
in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Culturegrams provides concise and up-to-date country reports on 187 cultures of the world. Each report provides an insider's perspective on daily life, customs, and history with sections covering population, their national symbols and anthem, and even a sample recipe. Also featured are sections for kids covering 68 countries and reports on each of the 50 U. S. states and the District of Columbia.
Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 provides digital access to large-scale maps of all the available towns and cities in Utah. Sanborn maps were created to assist fire insurance companies and are drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch.
EBSCOhost Research Databases (via Pioneer) | EBSCOhost Tutorials | these powerful tools index millions of full-text articles across all subject areas. Includes: Academic Search Premier, Agricola, Alt Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Clinical Phamacology, Computer Science, EBSCO Animals, ERIC, Fuente Academica, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Health Source, Legal Collection, MAS Ultra - School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MedicLatina, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, Religion and Philosophy Collection, TOPICsearch, and Vocational and Career Collection.
Expanded Academic ASAP (aka Infotrac) meets research needs across all academic subjects with over 13 million scholarly articles.
E-Library is a reference tool with access to more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts - plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files.
Factiva (via Pioneer) a powerful tool for researching and monitoring companies, news and business information. Produced by Dow Jones & Reuters it includes content from over 8,000 sources and 9,000 key Web sites.
Facts On File World News Digest includes the complete archive of this publication of record back to 1940, which is updated every week. It also features a live Reuters® newsfeed, updated hourly. Special "Top Stories" timelines deliver, decade by decade, listings linked to original coverage of top news stories back to October 1940.
The Foundation Center Directory Online (available from Main Library only) search progam details for 78,000 grantmakers and over 450,000 grants.
Foundation Center Website the Foundation Finder can be used to search by name for more than 70,000 private and community foundations. The 990-PF section allows searching of a foundation's tax return.
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. The City Library's collection currently includes Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, and U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science.
General Reference Center Gold (aka Infotrac) is a general interest database for articles from newspapers, reference books and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Covers all subject areas with sources back to 1980.
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
HeritageQuest Online is a genealogy resource that contains census data, family records, local histories and documentary collections. Currently it contains more than 20,000 monographs and 1.6 million genealogical and local history articles.
Historical New York Times is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images-from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements covering 1851-2001.
LearningExpressLibrary provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your results. Categories include GED, TOEFL, college entrance exams, nursing, law enforcement, firefighter, cosmetology and skill improvement courses for all levels of students.
Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive online literary site, with extensive reference material including biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on more than 120,000 authors and their works.
Los Angeles Times (via ProQuest Nespapers) covers 1985 to the present.
Mango Languages uses a unique teaching method that quickly engages you in real conversations between two native speakers. Your instructor will take you through every step of the process! Each lesson revisits previously learned material, but you have complete control over your learning experience. Select a course to begin learning! Includes:
Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Angielski dla polskich rozmówców
(English for Polish Speakers), Inglés para hispanoparlantes
(English for Spanish Speakers), Ingles para falantes do portugues brasileiro
(English for Brazilian Portuguese Speakers)
Marquis Who's Who brings together both personal and professional facts on leaders and achievers from all walks of life, whose contributions have made a lasting impact on the political, cultural, business and academic frameworks of America, and around the world.
With an exhaustive process of information collection, Marquis Who's Who offers a level of accuracy and up-to-date biographical information that no other single resource has ever offered. In most cases, the Listees themselves furnish, update, and proofread their own biographies.
Medline Plus | Tutorials | a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
Mitchell1 (in library use only - works best with Internet Explorer as browser) the Mitchell repair, estimating and service information system provides detailed coverage back to 1974.
Morningstar.com | Morningstar Help & Education | is a database of stock and mutual fund ratings and analyses that allows the investor to research thousands of investment possibilities. Included is a superb "Investing Classroom".
Newsbank (via Pioneer) provides full-text information and perspectives from over 170 U.S. and international news sources including both The Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune.
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, Book Talks, and Feature Articles.
NoveList K-8 allows young readers (as well as parents, librarians, and teachers) to explore the fiction that is of interest to them.
Oxford English Dictionary is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, illustrating their usage through 2.5 million quotations. Over 4,000 new and revised entries are added each year.
Pioneer is a virtual library created by the Utah State Library in cooperation with Utah's public libraries. It offers a portal to many different research tools and databases.
Price It! Price It! Antiques & Collectibles is powered by GoAntiques.com and is the most comprehensive pricing tool in the world, containing data from eBay, antique dealer sites (GoAntiques & TIAS) plus over 50 antique auction houses. It is a database with over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles, combined with over 10 million images, providing the ultimate identification, research and pricing tool for collectors, dealers, appraisers and anyone in between. Covers all major antiques and collectibles categories: art, books, clocks, furniture, glass, jewelry, porcelain-pottery, sports memorabilia, watches, and much more.
Recorded Books / Netlibrary The City Library now offers Salt Lake residents the ability to download audio books to their home computer or mp3 player. Working with Recorded Books and NetLibrary, The City Library offers more than 1600 titles, with 40 titles added each month. Also included are 162 of the Pimsleur brand language learning materials. To use downloadable audiobooks, you will need to set up an account: after typing your name and library card number and entering the Netlibrary / Recorded Books page, click on "Create a Free Account" (in the upper right-hand corner box). Once your account is created, you may log in from any computer, anywhere, anytime by going directly to http://www.netlibrary.com/recordedbooks. Once in the Recorded Books site, go to "Help", "Hardware and Software Tips" for a chart of "Tested Players".
ReferenceUSA | Tutorial | contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses. Advanced searching makes it possible to compile a list of companies that meet criteria by industry, size, geographical area and combinations of criteria.
SIRS (via Pioneer) a highly-acclaimed general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from over 1,500 domestic and international publications.
Thompson Gale LegalForms provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. This database includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, name change, landlord tenant and many others. Also included are a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, TumbleQuizzes and TumbleResources for Teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
Value Line Research Center Online | Value Line University | includes access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This service includes full subscriptions to: The Value Line Investment Survey (1,700 companies), The Value Line Investment Survey - Small& Mid Cap Edition (1,800 companies), The Value Line Database Companies (4,000 companies), The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey, and The Value Line ETF Survey.
What Do I Read Next? includes over 117,000 recommended titles, more than 63,700 plot summaries, and awards information from 561 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
Pioneer Databases A-Z Databases for Business Databases for Car Repair Databases for Directory Information Databases for Home Schoolers Databases for the College Bound Databases for the Investor Databases for the Student Databases of Magazines and Newspapers