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The AtoZ Business Database of 30 million U.S. businesses is multi-sourced to ensure maximum coverage. Our business database is compiled from data sources’ including new telephone connects, Secretary of State Filings, national directory assistance data, annual reports, SEC filings, corporate registers, public records, thousands of yellow and white page directories and specialty business directories.

The AtoZ Residential Database of 215 million U.S. residents is multi-sourced to ensure maximum coverage. Our residential database is compiled from data sources including thousands of white pages, national directory assistance data, real estate deed and tax information, voter registration data, mail order data, warranty cards, and many other sources.

 iPad App (coming soon to iPhone)

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Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) is dedicated to supplying all Kentuckians with a comprehensive and dynamic collection of information resources. The databases supplied through KYVL are paid for by collaborative efforts of state, public, academic and school libraries.  To access KYVL, visit one of the Library’s branches – OR *contact the Reference librarians for a password (cardholder status must be verified to receive current username and password).

The mission of KYVL is to provide all Kentuckians with equitable access to library resources and to a common foundation of quality online information for lifelong learning, working and living.

KYVL databases include:

EBSCOhost Databases (follow link for full details)

Elementary School Portal:
The Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning.	Kid’s Search
Amazing Animals of the WorldAmazing Animals of the World is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc. It is based on the print series of the same title. Amazing Animals was engineered by Grolier Interactive. It supports Netscape 4.5 and above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.	Searchasaurus
New Book of KnowledgeThe New Book of Knowledge is published by Scholastic Inc. from The New Book of Knowledge database, a 7-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia’s editorial staff. NBK was engineered by Grolier Interactive. It supports Netscape 4.5 and above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.

Middle School Portal:
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Middle – High School)The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is published by Grolier Online, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia’s editorial and technical staff.	Student Research Center
Proquest - 2 Databases Alt-PressWatch - This database provides full-text articles for over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses, from 1970 to current. Proquest Career and Technical Eduation - ProQuest Career & Technical Education is 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.	Kid’s Search
Worldcat - Search for books and other media from libraries around the world.  Find something you’d like that the Library doesn’t have? Try requesting it through Interlibrary Loan.

High School Portal:
Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic.	EBSCOhost Databases
Student Research Center	NoveList
Proquest	Worldcat

College/University Students/Adult Learners Portal:
Encyclopedia Americana	EBSCOhost Databases
Business Source Premier	Proquest
Worldcat

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 Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.

Science in Context delivers delivers integrated content through 150+ comprehensive reference sets from Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, Science in Disputeand Macmillan Science Library, as well as:

• More than 22,000 topic overviews
• 7,000 biographies
• 1.5 million periodical articles from noted publications like Science Weekly, Science News and The Science Teacher
• 16,000 images and videos
• 170+ detailed experiments
• 8,100 biographies
• Two dictionaries

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Navigating the Homepage (1:13)
• Searching (1:29)
• Topic Pages and Documents (2:46)

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Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.

Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

And, with ongoing updates and new content always being added, you’ll keep coming back to discover more. Popular and recently added collections include:

U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.

U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more.

Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.

Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere; and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.

Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.

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Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers.  Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections.  This comprehensive resource offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 U.S. news sources and news video clips.

• Ability to search a single newspaper, a select group of titles or the entire collection
• An intuitive, map-based interface and powerful, user-friendly search options
• Complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 full-text newspapers nationwide and searchable news video clips
• Comprehensive news coverage at the local, state, regional and national levels
• Provides 24/7 online access to tens of millions of fully searchable current and archived articles
• New content added daily
• New enhancements to explore timelines and maximize results

Download a comprehensive search tutorial (Powerpoint format)

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 NoveList, a readers’ advisory service, not only provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles, but it will provide you with similar authors to those you already love (read alikes), reviews, reading level appropriateness and so much more!

NoveList^® Plus includes:

Guided Video Tutorials:

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EBSCOhost web features a variety of databases brought to you by the vendor, EBSCOhost.\

Databases included in EBSCOhost web are (click on each database for a detailed description):

EBSCOhost web is also available in three foreign languages:

1. EBSCOhost Espanol
2. EBSCOhost Deutsch
3. EBSCOhost Francais

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Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 290 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.

Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. Each of the main essays includes links to related full-text articles hand-picked by the editor.

The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Points of View Reference Center provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. Critical Thinking Guides for every topic covered helps the student judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances the student’s ability to read and think critically.

Coverage List:    Primary Source Documents:

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Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more.

In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism(six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.

Guided Video Tutorial:

Literary Reference Center

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