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

• EBSCO Business Source Premier
  A business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals in marketing, management and other business related topics.
• OneSource Business Browser
  Get detailed profiles and in-depth information on US and international companies. (This link goes to the Reference USA main page. You must click on "International Businesses Search" in the left menu to get to this resource.)
• Regional Business News
  Full text coverage for 75 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.
• Value Line Investment Survey
  See full-page reports, analyst commentaries and Value Line's trademark rankings of all stocks covered by the print edition. (There is a limit of five concurrent users, so please try again later if you can't connect. Be sure to click "log off" when you are done.)

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Encyclopedias

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  An online encyclopedia with over 25,000 entries. Updated annually.
• 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 licence 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.
• Auto Repair Reference Center
  Car and truck maintenance and repair for vehicles 1945 to the present. Includes wiring diagrams, service bulletins and recall information.
• Biography Resource Center
  Biographies on more than 340,000 people from key reference sources plus full-text articles from magazines and newspapers.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Alt HealthWatch
  In-depth coverage to full text articles from over 180 peer-reviewed journals, reports, pamphlets and book excerpts on the many perspectives of complementary and alternative medicine.
• Health Source - Consumer Edition
  Consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It provides access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  Provides coverage from nearly 550 scholarly full text journals. It features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education fact sheets on 4,700 + brand name drugs.

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Periodicals

• Academic Search Elite
  Full text for more than 2,000 academic journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Updated on a daily basis.
• EBSCO
  Full text periodicals database and encyclopedia.
• 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.
• Historical New York Times
  The New York Times 1851-2004 offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• InfoTrac
  General Reference Center Gold Database provides full text and images from a wide range of general interest magazines back to 1980. Over 3,500 titles are full text.
• Military & Government Collection
  Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government from periodicals, academic journals, books and primary source documents.
• 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.
• Newspaper Source
  Provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers. 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.
• EBSCO Animals
  Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
• EBSCO Kids Search
  An easy-to-use learning source for students K-12 with lots of images and icons. Includes a dictionary and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
• EBSCO Searchasaurus
  Full text magazine articles for elementary school research. Results may be selected by reading level or Lexile.
• EBSCO Student Research Center
  Multiple database student search in magazine and newspaper articles, reference books, photos, flags etc. Incorporates the American Heritage dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
• 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.
• MAS Ultra - School Edition
  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags.
• Primary Search
  Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research with assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles) dating back to 1990.
• 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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