Research Databases

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Connect Now	Newsbank Articles cover social, economic, environmental, government, sports, people, the arts, health, and science issues and events. Sources: U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.

Connect Now	EBSCOHost Indexes academic, general interest, business and health magazines with many full text articles. Includes two full-text Spanish language databases. Now includes History Reference Center and Alternative Health Watch! Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to EBSCOHost

Connect Now	Wilson Web Full-text database of business, education, science and the arts magazines and journals from 1994 to the present. Also includes Current Biography™ 1940-present Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	SIRS Researcher A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from 1,600 domestic and international publications and are indexed. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	eLibrary eLibrary contains more than 1,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links and audio/video files. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	eLibrary Elementary eLibrary Elementary tailors all the media types and search functionality of eLibrary for the young reader. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	LearningExpress Library LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to Learning Express Library

Connect Now	Downloadable Audiobooks with Netlibrary/Recorded Books Library users will be able to search for, preview, download and listen to eAudiobooks through the NetLibrary platform via the Internet. Library users can download up to 10 high-quality, portable eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	Help with Connecting & Downloading

Connect Now	NoveList If you've ever wondered "What do I read next?", or tried to find another book like one by your favorite author, this database will help you just as a favorite librarian. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to NoveList

Connect Now	NoveList K - 8 NoveList K-8, a fiction database, is designed especially for elementary and middle schools. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to NoveList K - 8

Connect Now	Encyclopædia Britannica Online Complete encyclopedia, a dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. More information than on the "free" site. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	Literature Resource Center Biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about literature and literary figures. Includes the contents of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Find analyses of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. More than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. Paid with funding provided by the Wyoming State Legislature.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to CQ Researcher

Connect Now	Ancestry Library Edition A collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names. In-library use only. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	More about this database

Connect Now	HeritageQuest Online HeritageQuest Online provides a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	Digital Sanborn Maps Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides digital access to Sanborn fire insurance maps for Wyoming cities and towns. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas. Purchased by the University of Wyoming Libraries for statewide use.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	Hein Online Online resource covering four centuries of legal research which includes history, law, political science, business, public policy, government, and criminal justice. Access is available within participating public library buildings only. Contact your local public library to learn more about this service.	Help with Connecting Quick Guide to HeinOnline

Connect Now	The Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	Help with Connecting Search Tips

Connect Now	MEDLINEPlus The National Library of Medicine's site for quality, up-to-date, and totally private consumer health information. Clinical trials, MEDLINE searches, drug information, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories and news are included.	Quick Guide to Medline Plus

Connect Now	Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

Connect Now	GPO Access Link to GPO Access for access to government publications previously in print that are now available in digital format.

Connect Now	WULP Search magazine holdings in Wyoming libraries	Quick Guide to the WULP

Connect Now	WYLDCAT Access to more than a million titles in over 80 libraries in the Wyoming Libraries Database, other library catalogs, magazine articles, and readers' assistance.	Quick Guide to WYLDCat

Connect Now	WorldCat WorldCat is the world's foremost bibliographic database, with over 54 million bibliographic records. Paid with LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.	Help with Connecting

Connect Now	Prospector Prospector is a unified catalog of sixteen academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.

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