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Alphabetical Listing of Resources

Databases and subscription resources available from the library

Take advantage of the library's subscription online resources that you won't find on the web. Browse the complete alphabetical list below. Click on a title to view a resource.

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Academic One File

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.

Agriculture Collection

With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge.

Search current and archived state and national full-text articles on issues, events, business, government, sports and more with newspapers, news videos, and web-only content including The Bulletin (7/1/05-Current) and The Oregonian (9/1/85-Current).

American Decades - Gale Virtual Reference

Covers everything from monumental events and groundbreaking individuals to the fascinating details of Americans' daily lives. Supports historical research in disciplines from the arts and business to law, medicine, technology and social trends.

Ancestry Library Edition

(In-library use only) Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

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BarBooks

A valuable research tool and time-saver for any Oregon lawyer, and with BarBooks™ you can explore, search, or download all titles published by the OSB Legal Publications Department.

Biography in Context

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 180,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Business Economics and Theory Collection

With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.

Business Insights: Global

Business Insights: Global is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

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Chilton Online Repairs Manuals

Repair, maintenance and specification tables provide critical data on thousands of domestic and imported models of cars and light trucks from 1940 onward.

Communications and Mass Media Collection

From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field.

Computer Database

Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Consumer Reports

Make better purchasing decisions using product reviews, ratings, news and comparisons from Consumer Reports magazine.

Criminal Justice Collection

Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.

Culinary Arts Collection

The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Cypress Resume

With Cypress Resume, you can effortlessly create professional resumes in minutes!

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Demographics Now

DEMOGRAPHICSNOW is the ideal resource for those in need of a comprehensive business and residential reference and research tool.

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Educators Reference Complete

Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources.

Environmental Studies Policy Collection

Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

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Fine Arts and Music Collection

With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

First Reseach

Industry profiles which include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial information, industry ratio's, industry forecast and rating, web links and acronyms.

Foundation Directory Online

(Downtown Bend and Redmond – in-library use only) Connect with funding opportunities for nonprofits.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

(Downtown Bend and Redmond – in-library use only) Find funders that provide scholarships, fellowships, and more for individuals.

Foundation Maps

(Downtown Bend and Redmond – in-library use only) Map philanthropy's impact around the world.

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Gale Courses

Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.

Gale Power Search

Search over 25 of the Gale resources that the library subscribes to from one place. Enter a term and find articles from thousands of magazines, journals, and books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Virtual Reference Library is a multidisciplinary collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other specialized reference sources available to you from home, school or work.

Gardening, Landscape, and Horticulture Collection

Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.

General OneFile

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

The Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, a new, authoritative online resource that focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment.”

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Health and Wellness Resource Center

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Health Reference Center Academic

Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.

Heritage Quest Online

Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. With more than 4.4 billion records, it delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help you find your ancestors and discover a place’s past.

Historic Oregon Newspapers

View historic Oregon newspapers published between 1846 and 1922.

Home Improvement Collection

Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection

With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

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Informe Academico

Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

InfoTrac Newsstand

InfoTrac Newsstand is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.

International Wildlife

Use this resource to explore the physical features and lifestyles of species from every branch of the animal family. Find articles, photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps.

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Job & Career Accelerator

Powerful tools and expert guidance to help you find a great job.

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Kids InfoBits

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree.

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Learning Express

Access a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on the academic or licensing tests you need to pass.

Legal Forms - Oregon

Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.

Lexis Advance

Wide-ranging Lexis Advance sources include annotated federal and state codes, case law and public records, plus court-cited treatises, legislation, administrative codes, agency materials, forms, law reviews and journals, company and financial information.

LexisNexis Library Express

Get your information quickly and easily from over 10,000 of the most trusted and authoritative sources available.

LitFinder

LitFinder provides access to a broad span of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history.

Lynda.com

Select from a broad range of technology, business, and professional video tutorials ranging from one to thirty minutes long. In addition, self-paced learning paths guide students through courses with a comprehensive goal.

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Mango Languages

Mango Languages' conversation and film-based digital resources help you learn over 70 languages (including English) from just about anywhere.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is a service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This site offers a wealth of health-related information.

Morningstar Investment Research Center

Morningstar Investment Research Center helps you make smart investment decisions. Find a stock or fund to meet your needs, research current or prospective holdings, or see how your investments fit together.

My Heritage

MyHeritage Library Edition™ is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind in the world.

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National Geographic Kids

Go on amazing adventures in science, nature, cultures, and space.

Next Reads

Get great book suggestions by email! NextReads will deliver reading lists right to your Inbox.

Novelist Plus

NoveList Plus is your one-stop guide to great reading. Browse lists of recommended reads and award-winning books that cover both fiction and nonfiction titles for all ages from the youngest readers to adults.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Nursing Resource Center

Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier database covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control.

Oregon Encyclopedia, The

The Oregon Encyclopedia, a partnership of Portland State University, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society, and a project of the Oregon Sesquicentennial Celebration, is a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of information about Oregon's history and culture.

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Popular Magazines

Popular Magazines includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons.

Psychology Collection

This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time.

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Reference USA

Directory information for businesses and residents. The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.

Research In Context

Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

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Small Business Resource Center

Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Student Edition

Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Student Resources in Context

Student Resources in Context offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

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U.S. Department of State

Travel information and advisories from the US Department of State.

U.S. History In Context

U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media - rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.