Daniel Boone Regional Library

Arts & Entertainment

• Dance in Video
  See streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
• 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

• Business and Company Resource Center
  Brings together a wide variety of global business information, including company profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, industry statistics, financial ratios and more.
• Small Business Resource Center
  Includes information on all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, taxes, business plans and more.
• Value Line Investment Survey
  See full-page reports, analyst commentaries and Value Line's trademark rankings of all stocks covered by the print edition.

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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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General

• Access Science
  McGraw-Hills Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
• Biography Resource Center
  Biographies on more than 340,000 people from key reference sources plus full-text articles from magazines and newspapers.
• Global Road Warrior
  Global Road Warrior offers maps, photos and information about 175 nations and territories, primarily intended for travelers and students.
• 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.
• 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.
• SIRS Researcher
  General reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
• 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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Health

• Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health
  Includes articles from hundreds of health/medical journals, newsletters and thousands of pamphlets; health-related articles from 3,000+ general interest publications; full-text articles from major reference sources; access to trusted health web sites; etc.
• Health Reference Center Academic
  Includes more than 2000 full-text sources and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries with current, scholarly and comprehensive answers to health care questions.

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Home & 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.
• 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 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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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
  ConsumerReports.org, published by Consumers Union, features unbiased ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel. It includes selections from the latest issue of Consumer Reports, a searchable archive of the past four years of Ratings, Consumer Reports' exclusive product- and car-reliability reports, comprehensive decision guides, access to consumer/user reviews, and much more
• 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.
• Facts on File
  Archival record of domestic and international news events since November 1940 including top news stories of each decade, historic documents, a listing of current world leaders and prospective research topics for students. Updated weekly.
• 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.

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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.
• eLibrary
  An easy to use learning source for students K-12 with full text and multi-media content from news & magazine articles, maps, TV & radio transcripts etc.
• 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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