Henderson County Public Library

Research Center Resources

Tap into the "Hidden Web" to reveal a wealth of answers to your research questions. The "Hidden Web" is comprised of information stored in thousands of web pages, many of which are fee-based and not available to the ordinary consumer. The Library offers access to a large selection of the "Hidden Web" to all of its library users absolutely free. Read More!

Free Web	Library Online Resources
Shallow information on many topics	In-depth research on many subjects
Long, unorganized lists of links	Well-organized by topics
Often biased, unreliable, or inaccurate	Authoritative, accurate, checked by experts
Best information is proprietary and often fee-based	All database information free to patrons
Do-it-yourself searches only	Professional library assistance

Interactive Services

Live Homework Help

One-to-one tutoring for students in grades 4-12 in math, science, social studies, and English. Available daily 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Live Homework Help is also available en Espanol Sunday-Thursday, from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. in math and science.
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Learn a Language

Rosetta Stone is the #1 language-learning program in the world used successfully by millions of people in 150 countries. With Rosetta Stone, learning a new language is easier than you ever imagined. Try Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, and English.
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Practice for a test

LearningExpressLibrary provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on the academic or licensing tests you must pass. Tests include, ACT, SAT, AP, GED, GRE, LSAT, and many more.
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Download Legal Forms

ThomsonGale Legal Forms
is a new eletronic resource that simplifies the way legal documents are prepared and utilized, removing the mystery, anxiety and expense from many legal transactions. Hundreds of Kentucky legal forms are available for download from this resource.
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Investment Analysis

Every investor should take advantage of the wealth of information included in Morningstar Investment Research Center.

Morningstar is highly respected for producing independent information on stocks and mutual funds. This resource takes you through the entire investing process: finding stocks and funds, evaluating them, and seeing how they work together in a portfolio. Research over 2,000 mutual funds and 1,000 stocks with Morningstar.
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Business & Residential Directory

ReferenceUSA provides instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 14 million businesses and 210 million consumers. Consumer information is gathered primarily from telephone white pages. Business information is gathered from a variety of reliable sources and the information is verified periodically to ensure accuracy.
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Good reads in your email

Find out about great books! Keep up-to-date on the latest books, whatever your interests. This free service allows you to view online newsletters and even sign up for e-mail newsletters or RSS feeds about your favorite books and authors.

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NoveList
is an online reader's advisory service aimed to help fiction readers find new authors and titles based on favorite authors and titles. Browse lists by genre (mysteries, horror, etc.), read reviews and explore author read-alikes.
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Business

Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
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Regional Business News incorporates 50 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

Biographies

Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately 500,000 people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.
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Encyclopedias

World Book Online

World Book Online is the premier online general encyclopedia and reference resource, composed of World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Kids, World Book Online Advanced, and World Book en Español. With a single search access primary source documents, e-books, encyclopedia articles, sound and pronunciation multimedia, images, periodical articles, atlas, dictionary, and much more!
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Grolier Online

Grolier Online is composed of the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and the New Book of Knowledge. Highly graphical and aimed at making research fun, Grolier Online and Grolier Kids can keep you occupied and interested for hours on end. With a daily news reel, feature stories, and games for the kids, this is an all-around excellent resource.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Access Science is the fully searchable online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. This fascinating science resource utilizes the latest technology to bring you information. You will find RSS feeds, Flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos, and more. Keep up-to-date with the latest science discoveries with Access Science.
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Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

Animal Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available.

Just for Kids

Searchasaurus

Don your packs and grab your binoculars, it's time to go on a trek through a jungle of information! Complete with erupting volcanoes, dinosaur guide and compass, Searchasaurus is a searching experience for elementary and middle school children. Search magazine articles, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and fun facts.
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Kids Search

Designed specifically for students in grades K-8, this is a great resource for kids to search by keyword or topic for that homework assignment or project. There is an online dictionary, encyclopedia, photo gallery, and hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and government documents.
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Student Research Center

Designed specifically for students in grades 6-12, this is a great resource for kids to search by keyword or topic for that homework assignment or project. There is an online dictionary and encyclopedia. There is easy access to many sources including magazines, newspapers, state/country reports, photos, flags, maps, and much more.
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TOPICsearch

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
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Current Events

Facts on File World News Digest

Find up-to-date news from around the world at Facts on File World News Digest. Delve into history and learn about key current events through the years since 1940. Other features include biographies, maps, photographs, historic documents, information about world leaders and U.S. government officials, and listings of key government officials from every country in the world.
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Genealogy Resources

Heritage Quest

This is a wonderful resource for those tracing their family trees. U.S. Census records from 1790-1930 are online and are searchable and browsable. There is also a Local History Collection that contains the entire contents from over 25,000 local and family history books. This collection is also searchable and downloadable.
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Henderson Obituary Index

In 2004, the library begin indexing obituaries that were printed in Henderson's local newspaper, The Gleaner. To date, the index includes 26,903 local obituaries and spans the years 1986 to present. Library staff are continually working to include obituaries from past years. Obituaries can yield family information important to genealogists.

Magazines/Journals/Newspapers

eLibrary

eLibrary is a complete online research library that is 100% full-text (no abstracts here!). You will find over 218 newspapers, nearly 1,500 magazine and journal titles, 2,000 complete works of literature, and over 28,000 photos, images and maps. This great database is updated daily and even includes a complete encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, and other fact books.
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EBSCOhost Research

Students and scholars from all disciplines will not be disappointed with the information available through EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier. Each boasts thousands of full-text journals as well as photos, maps and flags, biographies, reference books, and primary source documents.
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Newspaper Source

Search 25 national and international newspapers cover-to-cover as well as selected text for 335 regional U.S. newspapers. In addition, over 120,000 full text television and radio news transcripts are provided from ABC, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
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FirstSearch

FirstSearch is a database of mostly abstracts of scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines including science, technology, humanities, medicine, education, law, history, business, and social sciences. Latin American journals in the sciences and humanites are also abstracted in FirstSearch. The full-text version of the World Almanac is also included for both adults and children.
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Nursing Journals

Search 3 valuable databases for nursing and allied health references. CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature), CINAHL with Full-text, and Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition.
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MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Abstracts and full-text searching are available.
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Consumer Health Information

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. This database is updated on a weekly basis.
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Education Journals

Search 3 great resources for teachers and educators at once. The Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals and also contains more than 200 educational reports. ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC. The Teacher Reference Center is an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books.
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Psychology Journals

Search 2 psych databases at once. PsycINFO® contains more than 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the early 1800s. The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection™ contains full text for nearly 600 journals and covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Sociology Journals

The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database provides complete full text for more than 500 important journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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Religion and Philosophy Journals

The Religion and Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas listed above, the Religion & Philosophy Collection™ is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
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Agriculture Journals

AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. This database contains more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
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Military and Government Journals

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, the Military and Government Collection offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military and Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals.
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GreenFILE

GreenFILE is a research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
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Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), more than 400 literary journals, more than 569,000 book reviews, 57,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,700 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.
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Career & Technical Education

ProQuest® Career and Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes over 545 titles, with more than 460 available in full text.
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Technology Journals

ProQuest Computing™ is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes over 375 titles, with nearly 300 available in full text.
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Alternative Press

Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable source of alternative viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream media coverage. Many of these publications are difficult to locate and acquire in their printed format. The independent and critical sources presented offer a unique perspective in the pursuit of freedom of the press.
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Library and Information Science Journals

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a world-class bibliographic database that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
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Music Journals

The International Index to Music Periodicals gives scholars, enthusiasts, and media industry professionals a single source for music research. The scope is wide ... from liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.
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Other Resources

The Library has subscriptions to other high-quality resources, however the companies that provide those resources do not allow the Library to give its patrons full access outside of the Library. Patrons are welcome to use any of the following in-house resources during regular library hours.

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