MRRL's Online Resources By Subject

Find Your Family History

HeritageQuest

Genealogical database with searchable US Census (1790 - 1930) and over 25,000 local histories

Ancestry

An online genealogical database

American History Online

Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

Find Online Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica

Online encyclopedia and Britannica-approved web links

World Book Encyclopedia

Online encyclopedia, atlas and dictionary plus more

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOHost)

Online encyclopedia provides over 25,000 entries covering a variety of subject areas

Find Books

MRRL Catalog

Searchable catalog of all of MRRL's materials

Mobius

Searchable catalog of Missouri's Academic Libraries

Novelist

Reviews, annotations and subject heading access for more then 125,000 fiction book titles

OCLC First Search

World-wide catalog of books and materials, many available through Interlibrary loan

Bloom's Literary Reference

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Find Homework Help

Learning Express Library

Online interactive tests, practice tests (including GED, college entrance exams, ASVAB) and much more.

Book Adventure

Online reading program for kids from K-8.

Student Research Center (EBSCOHost)

EBSCO's Student Research Center (SRC) makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Searchasaurus (EBSCOHost)

Seachasaurus makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.

Kid's Search (EBSCOHost)

Image-heavy searching allows even young students to search on topics that interest them.

Novelist

A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Online encyclopedia and Britannica-approved web links

World Book Encyclopedia

World Book Online Reference Center contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus more

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

American History Online (Facts on File)

American History Online Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

Science Online (Facts on File)

Science Online Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts on File)

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Find Articles

 

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOHost)

Find articles from more than 1,730 general interest magazines and journals

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOHost)

Full text articles from more than 2000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles, covering virtually every area of academic study

Newspaper Source (EBSCOHost)

Selected full-text for 25 national and international newspapers, including full-text television and radio news transcripts and selected full-text from more than 260 regional newspapers.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCOHost)

Contains a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content for all branches of the military and the government with full-text articles from nearly 300 titles

EBSCOHost

Search all the databases above at once, plus several others. Nearly 12,000 magazines and journals are available for searching.

Find Business Information

 

Business Source Premiere (EBSCOHost)

The Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides a way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.

Business Forms (Facts on File)

Find common forms for general office, sales, and real estate use as well as other business-related sources.

Kiplinger Forecasts

Electronic journal featuring financial advice and economic forecasts

Reference USA

Wall Street Journal Online

Economic and finance news from WSJ, includes the full print edition and more

Switchboard

Find personal and business phone numbers and addresses

Find Personal Research Sources

Medline

A medical database provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Teen Health and Wellness

A medical database that focuses on health issues for teens

Mitchell's Automotive Database

Complete automotive repair database, including foreign and domestic models from 1974 to present year

Personal Forms (Facts on File)

Locate forms that make applying for financial aid, naturalization, and other family and individual processes much simpler, along with links to numerous online college applications.