The following databases are provided for patrons of A.K. Smiley Public Library.
Select one of the databases below to connect.
Gale Databases (Remote user login: 14-digit library card number or temporary ID)
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General Reference Center: A database of more than 1700 general interest magazines, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles available 24 hours a day via the Internet. Records are available with a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats.
Use General Reference Center to find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find articles on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. |
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Kids Infobits: A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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Ebsco Database (Remote user login: smiley / password: smiley) |
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NoveList K-8® can help students find their next book to read. This database of over 64,000 fiction titles for kids of all ages lets them use a favorite book or author to link to other books they might enjoy.
The easy to use Find box enables students to quickly find books, authors, series, lists and more! For example, a search for Harry Potter provides all of the Harry Potter books as well as additional feature content to further enrich the reading experience such as BookTalks, Grab and Go Book Lists, and the Harry Potter series. |
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Proquest Database (Remote users: This database is only available at the library) |
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ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION provides unprecedented access to family history via documents that record the lineage of over 5 billion individuals. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource (The Generations Network’s Ancestry.com) to your library.
Answers await all your users—professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 4,000 databases of family
information. User-friendly search tools and comprehensive indexing make it easy to start discovering the story of you. |
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Renaissance Learning (Remote users: No login required) |
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ACCELERATED READER BOOK FINDER Searching for Accelerated Reader books
is fun and easy with this free online tool.
Renaissance Learning is the world's leading provider of computer-based assessment technology for pre-K-12 schools. Adopted by more than 75,000 North American schools, Renaissance Learning's tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic progress-monitoring technology to enhance the curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing, and math. Our products help educators make the practice component of their existing curriculum more effective by providing tools to personalize practice and easily manage the daily activities for students of all ability levels. |
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eBooks Online |
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Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts .
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Over 1 million books availabe online. Google Books was founded on the premise that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of history and culture. They recently made available over a million free public domain books for viewing and download from their web site. Browse books online If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy or use the "find in a library" link to search for the title in your local library. |
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Digital Book Index provides links to more than 145,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. |
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
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