Research Databases

SPOTLIGHT DATABASE

• The ReferenceUSA databases contain detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses and 115 million households. Business listings can be searched by name, address, phone number, company name, industry, geography, and other special selections. Details on businesses include toll free and fax numbers, sales volume, number of employees, ticker symbols, and owner/executive names. The Custom Search feature allows user to create and download customized lists. 

  The Lifestyles option is a useful marketing tool, offering 19 categories with subheadings to identify consumers based on their lifestyles, hobbies, and interests. Users may search specific geographic areas for potential customers who have interests in your products or services. Economic factors such as median home income and median home value can also be incorporated into the search. 

  Accessible from your home or business with your Lawrence Public Library card. 

SPECIAL INTEREST

• Chilton Auto Repair - Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
• ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.
• Gale Legal Forms - Legal Forms provides access to thousands of customizable state-specific legal forms. Legal subject areas include bankruptcy, bill of sale, contracts, divorce, employment, living wills, name change and much more.
• LegalTrac (InfoTrac) - Law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, international legal journals, plus law-related articles from business and general interest journals.
• Military and Intelligence Database (InfoTrac) - Journals that are related to military and intelligence topics.
• Professional Collection (InfoTrac) - A collection of custom journals for today's educators, librarians and parents.
• Religion and Philosophy Database (InfoTrac) - Journals that are related to religion and philosophy.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

• Audio Books, Music & More - You can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn onto a CD for your reading and listening pleasure anywhere, anytime.
• Kansas Library Catalog - Search holdings of 900 Kansas libraries.
• Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) - Biographies, bibliographies, & critical analyses of authors from every age & literary discipline including fiction, poetry, essays, & journalism.
• NoveList - Readers' advisory resource, providing subject access to fiction titles, authors, reading lists, read-alikes and more.
• Talking Book Catalog - Books, magazines and other materials available to qualified patrons through the Talking Books program.
• WorldCat (FirstSearch) - OCLC catalog of books & other materials in libraries worldwide.

BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT

• Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac) - Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies & periodicals. [full text and images]
• Business & Company ASAP (InfoTrac) - Information on companies, markets & industries, market trends, mergers & acquisitions, current management theory & company overviews.
• Computer Database (InfoTrac) - Computer-related product introductions, news & reviews on hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications & the application of technology.
• Valueline Online - Investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles; offers a family of no-load mutual funds. [library access only]

GENEALOGY

• Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - Genealogy database with over 1.2 billion records, including the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index and much more. [Library access only]
• Heritage Quest (ProQuest) - Research materials for tracing family history & American culture.
• Historical Newspapers: New York Times (Proquest) - Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (1851-2003). [full text and images]
• Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 (ProQuest) - Digital access to Sanborn fire insurance maps for Missouri and Kansas. Useful for urban specialists, social historians, architects, genealogists, environmentalists and planners. [text and images]

GENERAL REFERENCE

• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) - Peer-reviewed articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, including the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
• Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac) - Full-text articles from New York Times Book Review; New York Times Magazine, Christian Science Monitor and more.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) - Scholarly journals, news magazines, & newspapers on the arts, humanities, social sciences, and more.
• General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac) - General interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) - Encyclopedias, almanacs, & specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Historical Newspapers - New York Times (Proquest) - Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. [1851-2003]
• Lawrence Journal-World Archives - Full-text articles from the LJW, 1989 to current. Full text, no photographs or graphics.
• Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) - Biographies, bibliographies, & critical analyses of authors from every age & literary discipline including fiction, poetry, essays, & journalism.
• Topic Search - Current events database of social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
• OneFile (InfoTrac) - News & periodical articles on business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, humanities, law, literature, art, politics, science, social science, sports, & technology. [full-text, updated daily]
• World Book Advanced - For secondary and college students, integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search.
• WorldBook Online Reference Center - Based on the World Book Encyclopedia & edited to suit educational levels from grades 4-12.

CHILDREN

• Encyclopedia of Animals - Help your students discover the wild world of animals through this Encyclopedia of Animals.
• Kid Search: - Kid-friendly searches for elementary and middle school students.
• Middle Search Plus - Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
• Novelist - NoveList -Your Guide to Fiction. Search by title, author, reading level, reviews, awards, curriculum.
• Primary Search - Full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
• Searchasaurus: - Searches EBSCO databases, with a dinosaur theme!
• World Book Kids - Designed especially for younger users, English-language learners, and reluctant readers. Offers simple navigation, easy-to-read content and a graphical design.
• WorldBook Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente.
• World Book Advanced - Based on the World Book Encyclopedia & edited to suit educational levels from grades 4-12.
• World Book Student - Entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (InfoTrac) - Information on health & wellness from magazines, journals, newspapers & directories.
• Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac) - Articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.
• Health Source Consumer Edition - A rich collection of consumer health information.
• Kansas Health Online - Tools to compare hospitals, find doctors and information about healthy lifestyles to help you make healthful choices.
• Nursing & Allied Health Source (Proquest) - Full text articles and abstracts from leading nursing publications and many other medical periodicals, for professional and consumer research.