| 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) |
| AudioBooks (LibriVox) |
| LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. (more info) |
| Birmingham City Schools Reading List |
| "I gotta read a book from this book list…" Look no further. (more info) |
| Book Collection: Nonfiction |
| A rich research database for public libraries, it contains informative abstracts and full text for more than 2,000 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on social studies and science, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology. (more info) |
| BookTest Online |
| Don't let reading quizzes get you down, study up with BookTest Online. With BookTest Online you can test your knowledge and develop memory recall for your favorite books. Click on "Book Search" to get started. Come to any BPL library to get free access to this great resource. (more info) |
| Britannica Online Reference Center Public Library Edition |
| Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains 4 full encyclopedias, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Compton’s by Britannica, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia each covering the research needs of a different age group. Along with this encyclopedia content, Public Library Edition contains full-text magazine articles, Web sites that have been reviewed and verified by Britannica editors, a homework help section for students, a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauri for children and adults, a Spanish-English dictionary, video and audio content, daily content updates, and more. (more info) |
| eBooks |
| JCLC offers eBooks that includes more than 200 CliffsNotes. To use the eBook collection, you will need a JCLC library card and you will need to create an account with NetLibrary. (more info) |
| 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) |
| Enciclopedia Juvenil |
| Enciclopedia Juvenil from Encyclopedia Britannica is a comprehensive reference resource for ages 6-12. The Elementary Encyclopedia, with more than 1,500 articles and 1,000 images, is age-appropriate and based on school curriculum needs. Audience: elementary school, middle school (more info) |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. It is a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, containing over 47,000 articles plus 8,300 photos and images. Audience: high school, college, general public (more info) |
| Encyclopedia Online Public Library Edition |
| Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains 4 full encyclopedias, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Compton’s by Britannica, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia each covering the research needs of a different age group. Along with this encyclopedia content, Public Library Edition contains full-text magazine articles, Web sites that have been reviewed and verified by Britannica editors, a homework help section for students, a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauri for children and adults, a Spanish-English dictionary, video and audio content, daily content updates, and more. (more info) |
| LibriVox |
| LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. (more info) |
| Literary Reference Center |
| Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else (more info) |
| Literature Resource Center |
| Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 120,000 literary figures from all time periods in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, etc. Full-text, excerpted, and commissioned essays. Explanations and overviews of prominent literary works. Links to about 5,000 Web sites on major authors and their works. Timeline placing literature within historical context. 2,300 author portraits. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or theme. (more info) |
| LitFinder |
| LitFinder provides the opportunity to study great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, and plays. (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) |
| netLibrary eBooks |
| JCLC offers eBooks that includes more than 200 CliffsNotes. To use the eBook collection, you will need a JCLC library card and you will need to create an account with NetLibrary. (more info) |
| NoveList |
| Helps readers find fiction authors and titles of interest by name, theme, subject, genre, or plot. Feature articles, book discussion guides, book talks, and lists of outstanding titles in fiction. Materials for all ages, including picture books. (more info) |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
| The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet (more info) |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the award-winning Core Collection. (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) |
| Project Gutenberg |
| Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. (more info) |
| Read the Books |
| Browse, search, and find books for Preschool to Eighth grade readers. See and hear reviews, ratings and more. (more info) |
| Reading Lists (Birmingham City Schools) |
| "I gotta read a book from this book list…" Look no further. (more info) |
| Spanish Reference Center |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. It is a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, containing over 47,000 articles plus 8,300 photos and images. Audience: high school, college, general public (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) |
