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These databases are free for patrons of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. You can use them from home with your DBRL card number. Tips for accessing library databases.

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Arts & Entertainment | Books & Authors | Business & Investing | Culture & Religion | Directories | Education & Learning | Encyclopedias | Genealogy | Health & Medicine | History | Home, Garden & Auto | Language | Legal | Periodicals | Science | Social Issues | Students | Travel

Arts & Entertainment

  • Dance in Video
    See streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
  • Fine Arts and Music Collection
    Do research on drama, music, art history, filmmaking with this collection of magazine and journal articles.
  • Opera in Video
    See important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

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Books & Authors

  • Books & Authors
    Find a new author or a whole new series tailored to your reading taste.
  • Books in Print
    Search for books, audios and videos currently available or about to be released. Includes book reviews and a directory of publishers.
  • Literature Resource Center
    Critical essays and biographical/bibliographical information on more than 120,000 authors.
  • LitFINDER
    Search poetry, stories, essays, plays and speeches.
  • NetLibrary
    Online collection of 22,500 eBooks through NetLibrary. To use this service, you will need to set up a free NetLibrary account at one of the DBRL libraries in Ashland, Columbia or Fulton.
  • Novelist Plus
    Search for works by a favorite author, readalikes and book discussion guides. Includes a tutorial on how to use the many features.
  • Show-Me the World Interlibrary Loan
    Search for books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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Business & Investing

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Culture & Religion

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Directories

  • Reference USA
    Search 14 million U.S. businesses and 135 million U.S. residents for up to date information. The U.S. Business database may be searched by business type, size and geographic location.

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Education & Learning

  • Educator's Reference Complete
    This resource has articles and government reports useful for teachers, administrators and college or graduate students in the education field.
  • LearningExpressLibrary
    Learning Express provides test preparation materials for elementary through adult level. Includes the ACT, ASVAB, Civil Service, Cosmetology, EMS, Firefighter, GED, GMAT, GRE, Law Enforcement, Paramedic, PPST, Real Estate, SAT, United States Citizenship and more.

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Encyclopedias

  • World Book Online Reference Center
    Every article from the print encyclopedia enhanced with state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed web sites, and more. Includes Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids and World Book Reference Center.

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Genealogy

  • Ancestry.com
    Census data, genealogy and family research. (Due to license restrictions, this resource is only available for use within the library.)
  • Heritage Quest Online
    Search the US census 1790-1930, selected Revolutionary War Records, a variety of local and family histories plus articles of interest to genealogy researchers.

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Health & Medicine

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History

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Home, Garden & Auto

  • Auto Repair Reference Center
    Car and truck maintenance and repair for vehicles 1945 to the present. Includes wiring diagrams, service bulletins and recall information.
  • Culinary Arts Collection
    Read articles from major cooking and nutrition magazines and reference sources, with thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews and industry information.
  • Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
    Read and search articles for gardeners and landscapers, both amateur and professional.
  • Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
    Read articles from more than 500 magazines and books about crafts, hobbies and recreation activities. You can also watch hundreds of how-to videos on various hobbies.
  • Home Improvement Collection
    This collection of articles covers architectural techniques, tools, building materials, zoning requirements, and many other topics for hobbyists and professionals.
  • Home Improvement Reference Center
    Search or browse through the contents of 26 major reference texts, full-text magazines, and videos about home maintenance, electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, decorating, landscaping and more.
  • Small Engine Repair Reference Center
    Find assistance with maintaining and repairing motorcycles, boats, mowers, tractors, tillers, generators and other small engines with the contents of more than 410 reference texts with original photos and illustrations.

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Language

  • Byki
    Byki (Before You Know It) gives you the tools to learn any of 70 languages as well as English for non-native speakers.

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Legal

  • Criminal Justice Collection
    Search journal articles on criminal justice with this useful too for those studying to become a lawyers, police officers, paralegals, forensic scientists or for a career in Homeland Security.
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
    eBook, 2nd edition, 2v, 2006
  • U.S. Legal Forms
    Search a wide selection of Missouri legal forms by category or title. Provides an attorney directory and a dictionary of legal definitions.

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Periodicals

  • Academic OneFile
    A comprehensive access to nearly 13,000 indexed journals and major reference sets, including Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Encyclopedia of World Biography. Strong coverage of sciences, medicine, engineering and business.
  • Consumer Reports
    Get unbiased ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services like appliances, cars, electronics, computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel. Read selections from the latest issue of the magazine or search through four years of archives.
  • Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
    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
  • EBSCO MasterFILE Premier
    Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an image collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
  • General OneFile (Infotrac)
    Access to periodical and news information on the complete range of general interest topics; includes nearly 12,000 titles; full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present; also, 500 travel guides including every Fodor's title; more than 20 acclaimed reference sets; and more.
  • Historical New York Times
    The New York Times 1851-2005 offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
  • Informe
    Offers access to the most popular titles among Hispanic library users. Full-text of more than 420 Spanish-language and bilingual products, covering a wide range of subjects. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
  • NewsBank
    Full text articles from over 600 American newspapers including the Columbia Daily Tribune, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, New York Post and The New York Times. Updated daily.
  • Popular Magazines
    Find articles in 1000 of the most-searched magazines like Business Week, Consumer Reports, Cosmopolitan, Fortune, National Geographic, National Review, Newsweek, The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report and Vogue.

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Science

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Social Issues

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Students

  • CultureGrams Online
    CultureGrams Online offers World, Kids, Canadian Provinces and U.S. States editions in which you'll find maps, statistics, photo galleries, famous people and recipe collections. Plus, you can create customizable data tables to help put dozens of facts into perspective.
  • Discovering Collection
    Search reference works and magazines on a wide range of topics relevant to student research.
  • InfoTrac Junior Edition
    Designed for junior high and middle school students, this database features full-text titles that support school curriculum, includes more than 300 indexed and 230 full-text general interest titles; dictionaries; World Almanac; the Columbia Encyclopedia; etc.
  • InfoTrac Student Edition
    Designed for secondary school students, this database, with more than 1,200 titles and nearly 9 million articles, covers a wide range of subjects, from science, history and literature to political science, sports, environmental studies and more.
  • Kids InfoBits
    Includes more than 100 full-text age-appropriate magazines; dictionary; maps, flags and seals; more than 6,400 searchable images.
  • Tumble Book Library
    TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks--animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

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Travel

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