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Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Tags: Magazines, Newspapers, Journal Articles, Research
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Biography Reference Bank (formerly Biographies Plus Illustrated)
(© H. W. Wilson) -- More than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
Tags: Biography, History
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Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 165,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Provided by CLEVNET. Must use a Clevnet library card to access from home.
Tags: Biography, History
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Biography Resource Center - African Americans
A database of biographical information on more than 25,000 people from more than 60 volumes of 6 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Black Biography, Notable Black American Men, Notable Black American Scientists, and Who's Who among African Americans, with over 42,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, Essence, Jet, and U.S. News & World Report.
Tags: Biography, History, African American
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Black History Month Resource Center
Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.
Tags: History, Documents, African American
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CIA Factbook
Up-to-date cultural, historical, political, economic and geographic information on countries around the world.
Tags: World, Cultures, Politics
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Cleveland Necrology File
The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975. This database was produced from a microfilmed copy of an alphabetical card file containing local cemetery records
Tags: Cleveland, Obituaries
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CultureGrams
There are four different CultureGrams editions: World, Kids, Provinces, and States. This resource includes, a worldwide photo gallery, slideshows, video clips, a famous people collection, five homegrown recipes from all countries in the database, and create-your-own data tables to help put dozens of facts into perspective.
Tags: world history, United States history
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Explore Ohio
ExploreOhio staff search the Internet for links to information about Ohio arts, business, education, history, government, travel, attractions, jobs, science, sports, and much more. These links are then organized to make browsing and searching easy. It's a great way to explore Ohio!
Tags: Ohio, Arts, Travel, History, Science, Business, Education, Government, Sports, Local
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Find a Grave
Find A Grave is a resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family members.
Tags: Genealogy, History
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Global Road Warrior
The Global Road Warrior is an international resource for social, cultural, travel, and business information. The database covers 175 countries and territories and includes information on demographics, economy, holidays, currencies, visas, climate, passports, immunization, entry and departure, emergencies, internal travel information, country and regional maps, airports, international dialing guides, and more. Research a country for a report, or plan to travel internationally.
Tags: Travel, Country Project, Geography, Cultures, Maps,
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HeritageQuest Online
Use HeritageQuest Online to find ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. Provided by CLEVNET. Must have a Clevnet library card to access from home.
Tags: Genealogy
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Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a completely new, visually appealing look and feel; the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; the ability to sort results by relevance, as well as by date; the option of filtering search results by source type; and the ability to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to the Folder.
Tags: Research, Search
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MasterFILE Premier
Full text articles from nearly 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstracts backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.
Tags: Business, Newspapers, Magazines, Health, Science, Social Science, Arts, History
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MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Tags: Biography, History, Research, Primary Documents, Articles, Images
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Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Tags: Biography, History, Research, Primary Documents, Articles, Images
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National Atlas
Want to find out how much wheat is harvested in America, or the amount of crime that occurred in 1995? You can add layers to the map and view the results.
Tags: History, Statistics
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National Portrait Gallery
This website, run by the Smithsonian Institute, has over 80,000 portrait records and collections of 12,000 searchable records of sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs.
Tags: History, Arts
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National Women's History Project
National group that coordinates and organizes women's history month and events all year. Site includes short biographies, links and news about women's history.
Tags: History, Historical Societies
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Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases
Access to primary and original sources including Civil War documents and military rosters as well as death and newspaper indexes.
Tags: Ohio, History
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Ohio History
Researchers can browse the complete text of the journal, including footnotes and images, from the premier issue released in June 1887 through the Winter-Spring 2000 issue. You may select individual volumes and thumb through articles page by page, or you c
Tags: Ohio, History, Magazines
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Our Documents
You can view primary documents from America’s history up close, and also read them full-text and learn about their history and impact.
Tags: Documents, History, Politics
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Outline Maps
Looking for a simple map of Iowa or China? You can find any map here to print and use.
Tags: Maps
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Picture History
This digital collection offers photographs and footage spanning 200 years of American history.
Tags: Photography, History, Documents
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Rails and Trails
Rails and Trails shares primary source materials and research on the history of transportation in Ohio and North America. Although its emphasis is on railroads, a comprehensive study includes other transportation modes that compete with railroads.
Tags: History, Maps
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Ohio
A treasure trove of information, detailed maps at building level for more than 400 Ohio communities from 1868 to the 1960s. Provided by OPLIN. Must have an Ohio library card to access at home.
Tags: Maps, Documents, Ohio, History
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Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Tags: Children's, Research, Encyclopedias, Magazines, Dictionaries
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Timeline of Art History
Explore this fascinating website from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which provides timelines, maps and digital images of art throughout world history.
Tags: Arts, History
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U.S. National Archives
The National Archives houses the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and other important U.S. documents. Their website provides informative and fun online exhibits and further information about our history.
Tags: History, Documents
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Wardmaps.com
Company offers reproduction plat books of historical maps. View these maps online for free.
Tags: Maps, Documents, Ohio, History
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World Book Kids
Intended for grades K-8, World Book Kids is a fun and interactive way to introduce younger students to the world of online learning. Searching is simple and can be done by keyword or by choosing a general subject that breaks down into specific topics. The encyclopedia also provides images, diagrams, maps and activities tied to national curriculum standards.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Children's
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World Book Reference Center
World Book Encyclopedia articles form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.
Tags: Encyclopedias, Primary Documents, Reference
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World Mapper
Check out this amazing site that presents data from around the world into a visual map, distorted to reflect the statistics.
Tags: Maps, Statistics
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