Research Tools
Research Tools Listed A to Z
Academic Search Premier
Description: Contains academic articles on a broad range of topics. Highly recommended resource for beginning any research - academic, professional, recreational, or consumer driven.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Agricola
Description: Contains citations for articles on agriculture.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Alt-Press Watch
Description: Contains articles from alternative press publications.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Amazing Animals
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a variety of animals. Browsable by category (mammals, birds, fish,reptiles, etc.) and then by class, order and species. Articles include information on territory, size, diet and more.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
America the Beautiful
Description: Contains historical, geographical, cultural, and statistical information on American states and territories. Includes some maps and pictures.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
American FactFinder
Description: Contains demographic/census data for zipcodes, cities, states, and other geographic entities.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
AnnualCreditReport.com
Description: Obtain a copy of your credit report from one or more the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
ArticleFirst
Description: Contains citations for articles on a broad range of topics.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Auto Repair Reference Center
Description: Contains the complete automotive repair manuals that were originally published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
BiographiesPlus
Description: Contains biographical articles from reference books and journals.
(Wilson)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Description: Contains citations for biographical and genealogical books and articles.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Biography Resource Center
Description: Contains biographical articles from reference books and journals.
(Gale)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Business and Company Resource Center
Description: Contains company profiles, histories, rankings, and news articles.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
Business First of Louisville
Description: Contains local business news articles. The online archive goes back to June 1996. Not all print articles and supplements, such as the Book of Lists, are included on the website. Print editions and supplements can be found at the Main Library.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Business ReferenceUSA
Description: Contains company profiles, company directory information, and newsfeeds about companies.
(InfoUSA)
Audience: High School & Above
Business Source Premier
Description: Contains general business and academic journal articles on business, management, and economic topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Career and Technical Education
Description: Contains articles on technical trades.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
CINAHL
Description: Contains citations for articles in nursing and allied health journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Clase and Periodica
Description: Contains citations for articles published in Latin America.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Clinical Pharmacology
Description: Contains drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal & nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, new & investigational drugs. Searchable by generic or brand names. Includes information about each drug.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Community Resource Network
Description: Contains profiles of nonprofit and service organizations in Kentuckiana.
(Community Resource Center)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Computing
Description: Contains articles on computers and technology.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
Consumer Search
Description: Contains analysis of and citations to product reviews. Recommends best picks on a wide variety of appliances and other products.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Courier-Journal
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(NewsBank)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
CQ Researcher
Description: Contains comprehensive reports on controversial issues, such as abortion, capital punishment, stem cell research and universal health care.
(CQPress)
Audience: Middle School & Above
CultureGrams
Description: Contains state and country profiles, photographs, biographical articles, and recipes from around the world.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
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Edmunds.com
Description: Contains price values for new and used cars, as well as, reviews, tips and advice.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Electronic Theses and Dissertations - UK
Description: Contains electronic theses and dissertations by University of Kentucky students.
(University of Kentucky)
Audience: High School & Above
Encyclopedia Americana
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Encyclopedia of Animals
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on animals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
ERIC
Description: Contains digests of popular educational topics and citations to educational resources.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Federal Government Tax Forms
Description: Contains IRS tax forms and publications.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
Description: Contains MP3s of language learning audio tapes and PDFs of student textbooks that have entered the public domain. Over twenty languages are represented.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
FuelEconomy.gov
Description: Find and compare the gas mileage, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution ratings of different cars. This site also includes fuel economy guide, ratings, and tips as well as links to gasoline price data in cities across the US.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Government Printing Office
Description: Contains citations to U.S. government documents from the congressional, judiciary, and executive branches.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Grolier Kids Online
Description:
Allows you to search seven databases simultaneously: The New Book of Knowledge, Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Amazing Animals of the World, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples and the New Book of Popular Science.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Description: Contains reference and journal articles, pamphlets, and videos on health topics.
(Gale)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Description: Contains reference and journal articles on health topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Description: Contains articles from scholarly medical journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
HeritageQuest Online
Description: Contains census records, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's bank records, and citations for genealogy books and journals.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
History Resource Center: US
Description: Contains maps, timelines, primary documents, and reference and journal articles on American history topics.
(Gale)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Hospital Compare
Description: Compare hospitals based upon quality measures for treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgery. Produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and by the Hospital Quality Alliance.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
InfoTrac OneFile
Description: Contains reference, journal, and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Highly recommended resource for beginning any research - academic, professional, recreational, or consumer driven.
(Gale)
Audience: Middle School & Above
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Description: Contains articles from music journals and magazines.
(ProQuest)
Audience: High School & Above
JSTOR
Description: Contains academic journal articles on a broad range of topics.
(JSTOR)
Audience: High School & Above
Kelley Blue Book
Description: Contains blue book values for new and used cars, motorcycles, personal watercraft, and snowmobiles, as well as, car reviews and ratings.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentuckiana Digital Library
Description: Contains oral histories, photographs, maps, and digitized primary documents from Kentucky archive collections.
(Kentucky Digital Library)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentucky Adult Education Resources
Description: Contains website links to online resources to support Kentucky educators.
(KYVL)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentucky Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of Kentucky topics: places, people, events, and more.
(University of Kentucky Press)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Kentucky Forms Center
Description: Contains a wide variety of Kentucky forms, including forms for taxes, worker claims, professional licenses, and vital record requests.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Kentucky Virtual Library
Description: Contains links to research tools on a broad range of topics.
(KYVL)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Lands and Peoples Online
Description: Contains maps, flags, and reference articles about the land, people, economy, and history of countries around the world.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Learning Express Library.com
Description: Contains practice exams for academic and career tests (SAT, ACT, GED, ASVAB, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, Postal Exam, etc.)
(LearningExpressLibrary.com)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Legal Forms
Description: Contains KY and US legal forms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy forms, divorce forms, landlord tenant contracts and more.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
LibriVox
Description: Contains public domain books, poetry, and dramatic works read by volunteers.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
LINCS
Description: Contains website links to online resources on adult education and family literacy.
(National Institute for Literacy)
Audience: High School & Above
Literature Resource Center
Description: Contains literary criticism, writer biographies, and reference and journal articles on literary topics.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
MAS Ultra
Description: Contains reference, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
MasterFILE Premier
Description: Contains reference, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Medline
Description: Contains articles on health topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Middle Search Plus
Description: Contains articles from middle school magazines on a broad range of topics and the text of important historical US documents.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Military and Government Collection
Description: Contains weapon profiles, country profiles, and articles from military and government magazines, journals, and references. Includes pictures of flags, animals, and news events.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Description: Contains stock and mutual fund analysis and reports.
(Morningstar)
Audience: High School & Above
Multimedia Encyclopedia
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
NADA Price Guide
Description: Contains price values for new and used cars, classic cars, motorcycles/ATVs, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, boats, and recreation vehicles.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
NetLibrary
Description: Contains electronic books (readable online) and downloadable audio books on a broad range of topics. Audio book recordings are of high quality.
(NetLibrary)
Audience: Middle School & Above
New Book of Knowledge
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on a broad range of topics, world history timelines, science experiments, and more.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
New Book of Popular Science
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on science topics, biographies of scientists, suggested science projects, science news, and sky maps.
(Grolier)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
New York Times
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
New York Times Historical
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Includes articles between 1851 and 2003.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Newspaper Source
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics. Includes national newspapers, like the USA Today, and regional newspapers, like the Lexington Herald-Leader.
(NewsBank)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Novelist
Description: Contains reader's advisory aids, such as, author read-alike suggestions, book discussion guides, awards lists, genre lists, and author bibliographies.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
OCLC FirstSearch
Description: Contains citations to articles on a broad range of topics.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Overdrive
Description: Contains digital audiobooks that can be checked out and downloaded. Audio book recordings are of high quality.
(Overdrive)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Oxford Art Online
Description: Contains encyclopedia articles on art topics, biographies of artists, and art images.
(Oxford Press)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Oxford English Dictionary
Description: Contains the definition, pronunciation, and evolution of words in English.
(Oxford Press)
Audience: High School & Above
PaperFirst
Description: Contains citations to papers presented at conferences.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Podiobooks.com
Description: Contains serialized audiobooks available through direct download or RSS feeds.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Pre-CINAHL
Description: Contains citations to recently published articles on health topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Primary Search
Description: Contains articles from elementary school reference books and magazines on a broad range of topics and the text of important historical US documents.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
ProceedingsFirst
Description: Contains citations to articles presented at conferences.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
Professional Development Collection
Description: Contains education reports and articles from education journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Project Gutenberg
Description: Contains public domain books that have been digitized, also human read and computer generated audio books.
(Web)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Description: Contains articles from psychology, anthropology, and behavioral science journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
PsycInfo
Description: Contains citations to articles from psychology and behavioral science journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
PVA Property Search (Jefferson County)
Description: Contains information about properties in Jefferson County, including information about the owners, the assessed value, the building characteristics, the sales history and more. It is only available for use at the library.
(Property Valuation Administrator)
Audience: High School & Above
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Regional Business News
Description: Contains articles from regional business magazines and newspapers.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Description: Contains articles from religion and philosophy journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
Safercar.gov
Description: Find crash test and rollover ratings for vehicles, tire ratings and safety information, air bag and rollover safety information. File a safety complaint. Check for recalls and find information on ongoing investigations.
(Web)
Audience: High School & Above
Searchasaurus
Description: Contains reference, magazine, journal and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Elementary School & Above
Sociology Collection
Description: Contains articles from sociology journals.
(Ebsco)
Audience: High School & Above
TOPICSearch
Description: Contains newspaper and magazine articles on current events and popular issues.
(Ebsco)
Audience: Middle School & Above
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Description: Contains profiles of periodicals. Includes publishing, indexing, and ordering information.
(Ulrich)
Audience: High School & Above
Union List of Periodicals
Description: Contains periodical holdings records from libraries around the world.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
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Wall Street Journal
Description: Contains newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
(ProQuest)
Audience: Middle School & Above
What do I Read Next?
Description: Contains reader's advisory aids, such as awards and suggested reading lists, plot summaries, and the ability to search for books by character, setting, subject, and time period.
(Gale)
Audience: High School & Above
WilsonWeb Collection Tools
Description: Contains core collection information for fiction and non fiction as well as professional resources. Includes Children's Catalog, Fiction Catalog, Middle & Junior High School Library Catalog, and Senior High School Library Catalog.
(Wilson)
Audience: High School & Above
World Almanacs
Description: Contains statistics and reference articles on a broad range of topics.
(OCLC)
Audience: Middle School & Above
World of Poetry
Description: Contains full text poems and indexes, poems in printed anthologies and collected and selected works. Includes commentaries, quotations, biographies and bibliographies. Also includes an audio component.
(Columbia)
Audience: High School & Above
WorldCat
Description: Contains library catalog records from around the world.
(OCLC)
Audience: High School & Above
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