| Academic OneFile |
| Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. (more info) |
| Academic Search Premier |
| Full text and images from over 4,700 journals covering biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc. (more info) |
| African American Experience |
| The African American Experience is an electronic research tool for African American history and culture with the two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. (more info) |
| African American Studies Center |
| The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. (more info) |
| African-American History Online |
| African-American History Online covers topics such as affirmative action, Africa, black nationalism, civil rights, emancipation, free blacks, the Harlem Renaissance, migrations, racial violence and hate crimes, religion, slave living conditions, slave liberation strategies, social work and philanthropy, sports, and visual arts. (more info) |
| Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities, 1898 - 1938 |
| The Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities Database consists of 2188 records compiled by the staff of the Government Documents department using available annual reports of Alabama mine inspectors from 1898 through 1938. (more info) |
| Alabama Inventors Database |
| This database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library has compiled
these records and will add to and update them as information becomes available. (more info) |
| Ancestry Library Edition |
| Family name information. Over a billion names in more than 3,000 unique databases. Available in the Birmingham Public Library Southern History Department, the Five Points West Branch, the Springville Road Branch, the Avondale Branch, and the North Birmingham Branch. (more info) |
| Annals of American History Online |
| History, society, and everyday life come into focus through a variety of articles and media. You now have access to search the 5.2 million words, graphics, and multimedia from the Annals of American History Online, including: 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present, and original source documents such as speeches, essays, biographies, and editorials. (more info) |
| Birmingham News |
| Full text articles from The Birmingham News. The archives are paid for by the Jefferson County Library Cooperative and are available to our users free of charge. (more info) |
| BPL Digital Collections |
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| BPL SuperSearch |
| The Birmingham Public Library SuperSearch is a quick and easy to search many of BPL's electronic resources and online databases. (more info) |
| Congressional Publications |
| The U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. (more info) |
| Digital Collections (BPL) |
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| EBSCO MasterFILE Premier |
| Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 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 includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. (more info) |
| Expanded Academic ASAP |
| Full text of magazine and journal articles, citations for additional articles, and links to other relevant articles. Find articles by topic, relevance, or keyword. Features allow narrowing subjects with more specific subdivisions, limiting results by date or to a specific publication, broadening search to expanded subdivisions, or selecting only articles having full text. (more info) |
| FirstSearch |
| Worldwide library catalog identifies libraries that own items searched. Comprehensive reference service available only though libraries. Databases, links to the World Wide Web, over 10 million online full-text articles, full-image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals. Wide range of subject areas. Bibliographic and full-text databases, directories, almanacs and encyclopedias. (more info) |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
| For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. (more info) |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of eBook reference content in a database format, allowing libraries to choose exactly which titles to make available to their patrons. The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. (more info) |
| GPO Monthly Catalog |
| Index (not fulltext) of U.S. government publications (more info) |
| HeritageQuest Online |
| Census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. An ongoing project (new content is added weekly), HeritageQuest Online will grow to encompass obituaries, Freedman’s Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index and additional materials. (more info) |
| History Reference Center |
| History Reference Center features cover-to-cover full text for more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books. The database also includes full text for nearly 60 leading history periodicals; 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video. (more info) |
| History Resource Center: US |
| Themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. Over 1,000 historical documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journals. Citations for over 180 additional history journals. Search by subject, person, or period in the timeline. Search tips, dictionary, and research guides. Select from reference materials, periodicals, primary sources, maps and images. Links to related subjects. LegalTrac Index to articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers. Indexes articles on federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union, and International Law. (more info) |
| History Resource Center: World |
| History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals. (more info) |
| LexisNexis Congressional Collection |
| The U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. (more info) |
| MAS Ultra - School Edition |
| Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. (more info) |
| MasterFILE Premier |
| Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 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 includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. (more info) |
| New World Encyclopedia |
| For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. (more info) |
| News Library: The Birmingham News |
| Full text articles from The Birmingham News. The archives are paid for by the Jefferson County Library Cooperative and are available to our users free of charge. (more info) |
| Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers |
| The Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers database is an ongoing project of the Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library. Obituaries from three Birmingham area newspapers are included: the Birmingham News, the Birmingham World, and the Methodist Christian Advocate. (more info) |
| OCLC FirstSearch |
| Worldwide library catalog identifies libraries that own items searched. Comprehensive reference service available only though libraries. Databases, links to the World Wide Web, over 10 million online full-text articles, full-image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals. Wide range of subject areas. Bibliographic and full-text databases, directories, almanacs and encyclopedias. (more info) |
| Oxford African American Studies Center |
| The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. (more info) |
| Perseus Digital Library |
| The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. The project has expanded into other areas of the humanities adding tools for more languages, a variety of collections, and new types of materials. The classical foundation has paved the way for literary and historical collections ranging from the English Renaissance to the American Civil War, and Greek tools became a foundation for the development of resources in Latin, Italian, and Arabic. (more info) |
| Power Search (Thomson Gale) |
| A super-powered search engine featuring innovative cross-searching capabilities, users can access all the Thomson Gale content in the library's collection by exploring one, several or all available databases simultaneously. (more info) |
| Red Mountain Cemetery, Records of Interments, 1888-1906 |
| Red Mountain Cemetery, sometimes called Southside Cemetery, was used by the City of Birmingham from 1888 to 1906 as a place to bury the indigent dead. The cemetery contains 4,711 burials and was located south of the city on the site that is now Lane Park and the Birmingham Zoo. The graves were not removed, but decades after the cemetery ceased to be used, the park and zoo were built over the graves. (more info) |
| Sanborn Maps, 1867- 1970: Alabama |
| Digital versions of large-scale maps of Alabama towns and cities. Fire insurance maps with data on structures in use at the time the map was made. Includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heighheights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. Street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. (more info) |
| SIRS Knowledge Source |
| Updated daily. Information on social issues, economics, business, politics, global issues, scientific developments, health, history, government, culture, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles, primary source documents and Internet resources. Search tips for new users. Browsable by specific topics. Layout similar to Yahoo. Great for school assignments. (more info) |
| Student Research Center |
| Provides students with the most appropriate research tools for easily obaining the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Users can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. Audience: middle and high school. (more info) |
| SuperSearch |
| The Birmingham Public Library SuperSearch is a quick and easy to search many of BPL's electronic resources and online databases. (more info) |
| U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection |
| The U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. (more info) |
| USA.gov |
| Official information and services from the U.S. government organized by topic. (more info) |
