Online Research
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Arts & Humanities
Information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles, with more being added regularly. Find music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center
Exclusive articles from the EBSCO databases covering over 140 topics, as well as many other periodicals, books and videos that focus on categories commonly referred to as hobbies and crafts; available in high-quality PDF format.
Humanities International Complete
Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Biography & Genealogy
Access to thousands of databases of genealogical and historical information.
Digital, searchable archive.
EBSCO’s comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records and other genealogy information. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s.
Books & Literature
The world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.
Full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
Provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.
Union Catalog of all Louisiana Public Libraries. Access to the statewide Inter-Library Loan system.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Business & Financial
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research in the EBSCO databases.
Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886, as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,300 journals.
This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Small Business Reference Center
Provides up to date information from EBSCO on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management, and sales to growing or rescuing a business.
Careers & Jobs
Basic instruction in computers, email, social media and more!
Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams, and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.
Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
Small Business Reference Center
Provides up to date information from EBSCO on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management, and sales to growing or rescuing a business.
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Vocational & Career Collection
Provides full-text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related journals, magazines, and news publications.
General Interest
Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,100 peer-reviewed journals.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
Health, Science & Medicine
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. This database provides indexing for nearly 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.2 million records dating back to 1981.
Convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information from EBSCO. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
Health Source – Consumer Edition
The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition
Nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. This database also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Consumer Health Complete – Spanish Edition
Comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,557,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
History
America’s Historical Newspapers
Searchable American newspapers enable you to explore America’s past. Includes select newspapers from around the United States published between 1690-1922, including a backfile of 25,744 issues of the Times Picayune published between 1842 and 1915, as well as historic runs of 17 other Louisiana newspapers.
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
An online library of over 144,000 digital materials about Louisiana’s history, culture, places, and people.
Louisiana Public Documents Digital Archive
Collection of more than 20,000 Louisiana born-digital public documents, most since 2002. Located in the digital resources repository of the State Library of Louisiana.
Homework Help (K-12)
HomeworkLouisiana offers FREE online tutoring and academic resources from Tutor.com for Louisiana residents. Get help in math, science, social studies or English from a live tutor. The service can be accessed from a Louisiana public library or from your home computer. Tutors are available Sunday through Thursday 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. The SkillsCenter is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Free practice tests for LA DMV exams including motorcycle and CDL.
Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
An updated version of the classic Learning Express Library. Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams, and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Learn one of 80 languages, practice English as a Second Language or study for the citizenship test.
World Book Online is an engaging, verified, and trustworthy digital resource for grades pre-K through high school.
Reference
The world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.
Full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
Hundreds of full color and black and white non-fiction downloadable e-books for ages preschool to 18.
Dictionary.com provides reliable access to millions of word definitions, synonyms, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and translations; as well as offering brain building games, crossword help, and other tools designed to entertain and educate.
Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Literary criticism, author biographies and business resources. Includes Twayne’s and Scribner.
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Literary Reference Center (Advanced)
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
Religion & Philosophy
Humanities International Complete
Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Test Preparation
Free practice tests for LA DMV exams including motorcycle and CDL.
HomeworkLouisiana offers FREE online tutoring and academic resources from Tutor.com for Louisiana residents. Get help in math, science, social studies or English from a live tutor. The service can be accessed from a Louisiana public library or from your home computer. Tutors are available Sunday through Thursday 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. The SkillsCenter is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Practice Tests show what each part, or session, of the real LEAP and GEE tests is like. Practice Tests look similar to the real tests.
An updated version of the classic LearningExpress Library. Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams, and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.