MRRL's Online Resources By Subject (Outside of the Library)
Free resources available online
Resource only available from within the library
Library-subscribed resource available from home
- 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.
- MRRL Catalog
- Searchable catalog of all of MRRL's materials
- Mobius
- Searchable catalog of Missouri's Academic Libraries
- 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.
- Mango Language Learning
- Online language learning with Brazilian Portugese, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Greek, Japanese and Russian as the foreign languages offered, and with English as a Second Language lessons for Brazilian Portugese, Polish or Spanish speakers. A computer with speakers and a microphone (or headset) is recommended. This database cannot be used in the library.
- 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.
- InfoTrac Student Edition (Gale)
- Specifically designed for secondary school students, this database provides age-appropriate and reliable content from magazines, newspapers and reference books to meet student’s curriculum needs. Over 1,000 full-text titles, thousands of newspaper articles, hundreds of maps and images and full text content from 14 reference books including Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates and many others. Also search by Lexile reading levels.
- InfoTrac Junior Edition (Gale)
- Designed for junior high and middle school students, provides access to 300 full-text general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles, more than 300 maps and reference books including the Columbia Encyclopedia and World Almanac and Book of Facts and much more. Also search by Lexile reading level.
- Kids InfoBits (Gale)
- Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age appropriate, curriculum related magazine and reference content.
- Discovering Collection (Gale)
- Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements make it easy for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
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- 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.
- Cliff Notes
- Free, online literature and study guides.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Online access to the World Book Encyclopedia
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, more than 5,000 journals in full-text and access to major Gale reference sets.
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of topics.
- Popular Magazines (Gale Collection)
- InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Gale)
- Coverage of more than 150 cover-to-cover titles and selected full-text news and business coverage from another 280 sources. Search by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other fields.
- Gale Databases & Collections - All
- Informe (Gale)
- Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this reference tool provides full-text of popular Hispanic magazines - not just translations.
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- Business & Company Resource Center (Gale)
- Source for business, company and industry information. Locate company profiles, periodical articles, financial data, market research as well as up-to-date stock and financial information.
- Business and Company Profiles ASAP (Gale Collection)
- Small Business Resource Center (Gale)
- Covers areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources and franchising. Also includes business journals and a wide selection of sample business plans crated by real-life entrepreneurs
- Kiplinger Forecasts
- Electronic journal featuring financial advice and economic forecasts
- Reference USA
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- 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
- Mango Language Learning
- Online language learning with Brazilian Portugese, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Greek, Japanese and Russian as the foreign languages offered, and with English as a Second Language lessons for Brazilian Portugese, Polish or Spanish speakers. A computer with speakers and a microphone (or headset) is recommended. This database cannot be used in the library.
- Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)
- Integrates the full text of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters topical overviews; and reference books. It offers more than 2,000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
- Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health (Gale)
- Specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information to academic, medical and public libraries. Offers hundreds of health/medical journals, newsletters and thousands of pamphlets and hundreds of streaming videos from medical experts. Provides access to many encyclopedias including Clinical Reference Systems, PDR guides, Medical and Health Information Directory, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence and much more. Includes Alternative Health module which provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines on alternative and complimentary therapies.
- Magill's Medical Guide
- An online medical guide provided by Salem Press
- Medline
- A medical database provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
- Culinary Arts Collection (Gale Collection)
- Go Ask Alice
- A health question and answer Internet resource.
- Mitchell's Automotive Database
- Complete automotive repair database, including foreign and domestic models from 1974 to present year
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