Book Connections
Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books. It empowers all readers to find great books to read, connect deeply with books and gain insights from authors and illustrators, engage with a diverse collection from other cultures and perspectives, and cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Educators and students can find homework help, homeschool support, lesson plans, discussion guides, and more.
Core Collections (H.W. Wilson)
Includes Children's Core Collection, Graphic Novels Core Collection, Middle and Junior High Core Collection, Fiction Core Collection, Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, and Senior High Core Collection; created with the input of librarians, each catalog is a guide to thousands of books, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists.
Dorothy
Named for prominent Dorothys, this database collects production details for films and television programs mainly produced since 2010. Projects directed or created by women and key topics in gender and women's studies are central to this expanding resource curated for diversity. Updated regularly, Dorothy incorporates comprehensive options for researching documentaries, dramas and comedies, television shows, and educational films.
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Search the full text of over 4,200 fiction and nonfiction ebook titles. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
FirstSearch
Provides access to MOGroupCatalog and WorldCat.
Gale Literature
Searches across Literature Resource Center and Literature Criticism Online to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes and abstracts library and information science periodicals, monographs, selected state library journals, conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets. Some full text available.
LISTA [EBSCOhost]
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) covers magazine articles, books entries, reports, and proceedings addressing subjects in library and information science.
Literature Criticism Online
Full text access to the substantial literary series Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Literature Resource Center
Contains biographical information about 120,000 authors and critical analysis of their works, including Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, and Ntozake Shange. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
NoveList Plus
A searchable database of fiction and nonfiction titles. Contains book reviews, recommended reading lists and book discussion guides. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Oxford Reference Online: Literature
More than 177,000 definitions and encyclopedic entries on writers, works, movements and literary theories from national and international literature, poetry and plays.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a digital self-publishing tool that you can use to create professional-quality eBook files that are ready to print and to distribute commercially. Save money on book production services and control the entire design process yourself - Pressbooks makes it easy! Users will need to create a free profile to log in. Click here for a video tutorial on how to get started with Pressbooks. Read the Pressbooks User Guide here.
Salem Literature
Online access to Magill's Literary Annuals.
Sylvia
Inspired by Sylvia Plath's tenacity and curiosity, this growing resource of hand-selected entries identifies recent books for researchers, scholarly editions, selected memoirs, and notable works for a general audience. Records include citations that can be copied and inclusive subject categories linked to related material.
TeachingBooks
TeachingBooks is an easy-to-use resource that offers thousands of multimedia resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors. Easily find resources by grade, curricular area, genre, and cultural experience. Readers can find books they might like, build reading lists,and look for homework help. Educators can find teaching ideas, lesson plans, text complexity, book readings, activities, author interviews and insights, and more.
WorldCat Discovery
Search for books, ebooks, periodicals, government documents, manuscripts, maps, audiovisual materials, music scores, and collections of digital items in libraries around the World.
WorldCat [FirstSearch]
Searches the library catalog holdings for libraries located in your area and around the World. Contains catalog records for books, web resources, maps, musical scores, video tapes and journals.
Access World News
Provides searchable full text and indexing of many U.S. and international newspapers, including print and online-only resources. Provides comprehensive news and information on differing perspectives for a variety of topics, including economics, business, political science, environmental issues, health and welfare topics, social problems, consumer affairs, education, international affairs and defense, sports and much more. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Ethnic NewsWatch [ProQuest]
Full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Factiva
Provides the latest news and information from nearly every industry and region, with access to popular resources such as The Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The New York Times, and more! Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
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General OneFile
Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs, and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of topics.
Independent News
Searchable full text access to this weekly newspaper featuring community news, events, and announcements for the Florissant Valley area, including Black Jack, Florissant, Hazelwood, and Spanish Lake. Includes access from October 2006 to present.
News For You
News for You provides adult ESL students and struggling readers with news and human interest stories that are easy to read and understand. These engaging, timely stories will help students build language, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, listening and speaking skills.
Use the password 0EEEB7 to enter.
NewsBank
Provides searchable full text and indexing of many U.S. and international newspapers, including print and online-only resources. Provides comprehensive news and information on differing perspectives for a variety of topics, including economics, business, political science, environmental issues, health and welfare topics, social problems, consumer affairs, education, international affairs and defense, sports and much more. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Newspaper Source
Cover-to-cover full-text for hundreds of national, international and regional newspapers as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Newspapers.com
The Newspapers.com database offers more than 10,000 digitized newspaper titles for large and small communities in the U.S. as well as newspapers in Canada, Australia, Ireland, the British Isles and Panama. Date range varies by publication. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
North Side Journal
Searchable full text coverage of local news and community-submitted content from North County, including births, engagements, and community events. Falls under the Suburban Journals of Greater Saint Louis. Includes access from 2004 to 2008.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm™ - New York Times
Online access to microfilmed versions of the New York Times. Allows the user to retrieve, view, print and email specially digitized images from ProQuest microfilm. Note that access is only available for 2008 to 3 months ago.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm™ - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Online access to microfilmed versions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Allows the user to retrieve, view, print and email specially digitized images from ProQuest microfilm. Note that access is only available for 2008 to 3 months ago.
ProQuest US Newsstream
Full text access to the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, St. Louis Post–Dispatch, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and so many more newspapers in the United States and other countries.
South County Journal
Searchable full text coverage of local news and community-submitted content from South County, including births, engagements, and community events. Falls under the Suburban Journals of Greater Saint Louis. Includes access from 2004 to 2013.
Southwest County Journal
Searchable full text database of local news and community-submitted content from South and West St. Louis County, including births, engagements, and community events. Falls under the Suburban Journals of Greater Saint Louis. Includes access from October 2004 to January 2009.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Collection [Newsbank]
Explore St.Louis history through local news, events and people with St. Louis Post-Dispatch Collection. Search current and archived issues from 1988 to present with full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device. Now featuring full-color newspaper pages of daily issues from 2020 to present!
General OneFile
Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs, and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of topics.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Full-text database for popular high school magazines covering a wide range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
National Geographic Kids
Read full issues of National Geographic Kids online going back to 2009. Click Explore Topics for simple, kid-friendly browsing to learn more about the world around us. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
National Geographic Virtual Library
Read full issues National Geographic online going back to 1995. In addition to reading entire issues, you can also search for images and make charts showing the frequency of terms over time.
Primary Search
Full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.
Qikan
Collection of Chinese language journals appealing to adults, teens, and children. The journals cover a variety of topics, including current events, literature, women's issues, and education. Special software must be installed on your computer to view written Chinese characters.
RB Digital
Current issues of popular magazines, available immediately. Unlimited downloads, no late fees, no need to return. Works with PC, Mac and most mobile devices.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is an online reference collection. It contains over 900 online encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, biographical sources, and reference tools. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Search the full text of over 4,200 fiction and nonfiction ebook titles. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Merck Manual - Professional
The Merck Manual for Professionals website provides you with thousands of medical topics and chapters. Find images, symptoms and signs, diagnoses, treatment, and prevention options for many types of medical concerns.
Oxford Reference Online
Full text access to dictionaries covering broad range of subjects including Literature, the Arts, the Classics, Folklore and Mythology, and Languages. Also, English language resources and bilingual dictionaries. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.