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Use of licensed
databases is available for customers registered in the
Scott County Library System. Most are available to you from your home,
but a few are available only in the library (see notes).
See the bottom of page for more
information on the databases.
Academic Search Premier
Contains full text coverage in
biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics,
psychology, religion and theology, sociology, and more.
 AllData Online
AllData Online is only available for
use in the library. The world's most
comprehensive resource for
diagnostic and repair information for cars
and light trucks starting with the 1982 model year.
Alt
HealthWatch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and
integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Ancestry
Library Edition
The
complete version of Ancestry
Library Edition is only available for use in the library. This comprehensive source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research includes the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1920, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, and much more.
ArchiveGrid
Historical records, personal papers, and family histories
held in archives around the world.
Article
First
Describes items listed on the table of contents pages of
individual issues of over 12,000 journals.
Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical
information on more than 185,000
people
from throughout
history, around the world, and across all disciplines and
subject areas.
Britannica
Academic Edition
Aimed at College/University students, the database contains
the Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many
other research tools.
Britannica
Public Library Edition
You are able to search Encyclopædia Britannica and
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus in this database, which
also contains a Spanish-English dictionary, a notable quotations
search and more.
Britannica
School Edition
Aimed and K-12th grade and their teachers (the database contains
teacher resources). Contains four complete encyclopedias
that ensure consistency with classroom topics and
age-appropriate language
Business and Company Resource Center
Brings together company profiles, brand information,
rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business
Source Premier
Provides comprehensive
full text for regional business publications (including titles
from Crain Communications).
Byki
Byki language learning system uses flashcards to teach a set
of words or phrases to learn foreign languages.
It currently has around 80 languages- more are being added.
It also includes ESL (English as a Second Language) for
those who speak Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese,
Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Create an
account (this can be done at home) to get started.
CAMIO
The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online
collection documenting works of art from around the world,
representing the collections of prominent museums.
Clase/Periodica
Índices a los documentos y citas de artículos de revistas
especializadas en las ciencias sociales, humanidades, ciencia y
tecnología en América Latina y el Caribe.
Consumer
Health Complete
For consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to
support the information needs of patients, and to foster an
overall understanding of health-related topics.
Consumer
Reports Online: Direct access to the content of Consumer
Reports magazine by year and month. The PDF files have the
complete content, including ratings.
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Discovering Collection
Combines
thousands of biographies, topical overviews, critical analyses,
plot summaries, events, and media elements into a single,
easy-to-use database that supports classroom learning.
EBSCO MegaFILE
Save time and search four
databases at once: Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE
Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business
News.
Educator's
Reference Complete
More than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for educators, from
the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the
field at the collegiate and graduate level.
ERIC
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) provides access to
information from journals included in the Current Index of
Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
For University/College students, faculty and graduate
researchers, this database offers balanced coverage of every
academic concentration — from advertising and microbiology to
history and women's studies
General
Science Collection
Provides information on all aspects of the scientific
world and offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most
popular science publications.
GPO
Monthly Catalog
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including
Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary
materials; and documents issued by executive departments.
 Great
Athletes (from Salem Press/History)
When you select this database, enter
the name of the athlete you are looking for and click 'search
now.'
This
database contains shorter (around 3-4 pages) but thorough
biographies of over 1400 athletes from all over the globe in a
variety of sports (and not just the familiar ones).
Biographies discuss the early life, the road to their sport,
their participation in the sport, and what happened later in
life, plus a summary.
Grzimek's
Animal Life: Includes information on more than 4,000
species, covering topics such as evolution, habitat, behavior,
taxonomy, conservation status and more. Continuously updated
with image-rich content.
Health
Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health
magazines, searchable full text for current, health-related
pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including
books published by the People's Medical Society.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on
many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health
is particularly strong,
Historical
Minneapolis Tribune
A searchable version of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune from the years 1867-1922,
with full page images, headlines and full citations (and possibly
an abstract).
Subscription purchased with funds provided to
Minnesota State Library Services under the provisions of the
Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) through the Institute of
Museums and Library Services.
Historical New York Times
The New York Times
complete back issues from their first issue in 1851 through 2005. The database includes full-text and full-image
articles.
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Informe
(English Interface)
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers
business, health, technology, culture, current topics and
other subjects.
Informe (en Español)
Usted necesitará su número de tarjeta de biblioteca para usar la
base de datos. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con
textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología,
cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias
Issues
and Controversies
Issues and Controversies delivers carefully researched essays written to give students a thorough review of all sides of a
topical issue or controversy in today's news.
Junior Edition
Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers
and reference books
(most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Junior Reference Collection
Includes documents, photographs and illustrations, video and audio clips, and Merriam-Webster's dictionaries (Collegiate, Biographical, and
Geographical).
Kids InfoBits
Meets the research
needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and it
includes information on current events, the arts, science,
health, people, government, history, sports and more.
LearningExpress
Library
(Formerly Learn A Test) Test Preparation that works. The Learn a Test database
from Learning Express Library includes practice test in many areas including ASVAB,
the ACT, the GRE, Postal Worker, U.S. Citizenship, Praxis/PPST, Civil Service careers, basic skills, and many more.
LegalForms
A library of legal forms for
every stage of life. After downloading, forms can be printed as
is or filled in electronically.
Literature Resource Center
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students, the
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Mango Languages
This premier online program is a unique way to learn another language.
The web site interface will let you create a user profile to track your
progress in the courses. Mango Languages currently offers complete
courses for Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German,
Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and specific complete ESL
courses for speakers of Polish, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese
speakers. Basic courses are offered for Arabic (Leventine), Farsi,
Pashto, Urdu, Turkish, Hebrew, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Hindi,
Irish and specific basic ESL courses for speakers of French, Italian,
German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Japanese, Greek,
Arabic, Korean, and Vietnamese.
MasterFILE Premier
Contains full text for
2,053 magazines covering general reference, business, health,
education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
Minnesota
Digital Library- Reflections
The Minnesota Grantmaker's database
is only available for use in the library. The first online project
of the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition- a collection of more
than 31,000 images and documents depicting the history of
Minnesota.
Minnesota
Grantmakers
From the Minnesota Council on Foundations "the
web's largest, most up-to-date database of Minnesota grantmakers
and grants."
and
Minnesota Newspapers: State
and Local
Full text searchable papers, from local sources including the
Jordan Independent, Prior Lake American, Savage Pacer and
Shakopee Valley News, the Pioneer Press, and the Image Edition
of the Star Tribune. (Image Edition back issues run from
1/1/2006-11/14/2008. Please note that not all images appear, and
syndicated articles will not appear full-text, please contact
your library for assistance if you are searching for a
syndicated article.)
MnLink Gateway
Log in with your Scott County library card to request older
materials from around the state be delivered to your branch
library.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Get data and guidance on mutual funds, stocks, and
exchange-traded funds; determine how their investments fit into
a portfolio; or obtain data on a particular industry. Contains
23,000+ mutual funds, 600+ ETFs, 7,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX,
Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges, 250 screenable fund datapoints, 450
screenable stock datapoints, 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports, and
2,000+ Stock Analyst Reports that are updated continuously
throughout the day.
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NetLibrary
Downloadable Audio Books:
You must create an account in one of our library branches (or
call to create one) before you
start. Audio books that will work on
most MP3 players (including many that will work on iPods).
You download books only at home (not on library computers). .
NetLibrary eBooks
Contains the full text
of electronic books, including CliffsNotes.
New
York Times Image Edition
Today's edition of "all the news
that's fit to print," today's issue viewed as the printed
edition, pictures included. (Please note you should
have high speed Internet to view.) This includes back issues of the Image Edition.
Newsstand
Complete
Citations and
abstracts from over 350
newspapers, including the Star Tribune,
The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the New York
Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Barron's, and
USA Today.
NoveList
K-8
Helps kids locate age-appropriate books. There's
fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the
school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of
students.
NoveList
Plus
Novelist is a database where
you can search for your next great read by reading level (from
kids on up), subject, title or
author. There's also lists of read-alikes and award
winners. You can even search by plot keywords. For
you book group people, there'd also a list of discussion guides.
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Access to these
digital resources is provided by "harvesting" their descriptive
metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
OCLC
Electronic Collections Online
Provides bibliographic information for a growing collection of
more than 6,200 electronic journals from over 70 publishers in a
wide range of subject areas, with article citations and full
text available through several options.
OCLC
PapersFirst
An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Covers every published congress, symposium, conference,
exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library
Document Supply Centre
OCLC
ProceedingsFirst
Worldwide conference proceedings from every published
congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and
meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
OCLC
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
A catalog of dissertations and theses available in OCLC
member libraries
Oxford
Art Online
(Formerly Grove Art Online) Covers
every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present
day, with over 45,000 articles on fine arts, decorative arts,
and architecture. Explore over 21,000 biographies -
everything from artists, architects, photographers and designers
to patrons, dealers, theorists and writers.
Professional
Collection
Designed for the
educator, this database has full text for education journals
across a variety of
fields
such as child and adolescent psychology, drug and alcohol abuse,
learning disabilities, sports/athletic training etc. Updated
daily.
Professional
Development Collection
Provides a specialized collection for professional educators,
professional librarians and education researchers on everything
from children's health and development to cutting-edge
pedagogical theory and practice.
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Reference Books Online
A
database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research.
ReferenceUSA
Reference USA contains information on 11 million U.S. businesses. Information available
includes company
name, industry, geographic location, business size, executives, number
of employees, and sales volume.
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive
full text for regional business publications (including titles
from Crain Communications).
Salem Press Health
Covers diseases, disorders,
treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology,
and issues. To use the database, scroll to the bottom of
the first screen, click on the 'Remote Access' button and enter
your Scott County Library card barcode.
Salem Press History
Contains Milestone Documents in American
History, The Eighties in America, The
Seventies
in America, The Sixties in America, and The Fifties in America.
To use the database, scroll to the bottom of the first screen,
click on the 'Remote Access' button and enter your Scott County
Library card barcode.
Science
Reference Center
A multitude of full text science-oriented content designed to
meet every student's science research needs.
Science Resource Center
Topic
overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations
and the latest scientific developments in articles from over 200
magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers
teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly
correlated to state and national standards.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Small
engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers,
farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power
equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snow blowers,
snowmobiles, tillers and other small
engines. Over 400 books with photos and illustrations,
searchable by type of product, specific brand, specific
model/engine type, and specific area of that model/engine type.
Student
Edition
Designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books
for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Value Line Investment Survey
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
World
Almanac/Book of Facts
Contains thousands of authoritative facts and statistics that
aren’t publicly available (including entertainment, reference
and learning) which are sourced and double-checked by the staff
of World Almanac experts.
WorldCat
An
online catalog of
books and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Updated
daily.
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Database Information
Databases with this symbol are purchased by the Scott County Library System for
the use of Scott County residents. They are available to anyone
visiting these Scott County branch libraries, and they are
available from locations outside the library (home, school,
work, etc.) with a valid Scott County Library Card.
Databases
with this symbol are purchased by MELSA for use by residents of
the member libraries, including Scott County
The databases with this symbol is a part of the
Electronic Library of
Minnesota. ELM resources are licensed by the MINITEX Library
Information Network with state appropriations to the Minnesota
Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota
Department of Education.
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