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Databases requiring an Orcas Island Library Card

Gale Cengage Learning

Gale Cengage offers databases featuring a wide variety of content from academic journals and general magazines.

  • Associations Unlimited
  • Biography in Context
  • Books & Authors
  • Business & Company Resource Center
  • Career Transitions
  • GREENR Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resouces
  • General OneFile
  • General Reference Center Gold
  • Global Issues in Context
  • Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
  • InfoTrac Military & Intelligence Custom Database
  • InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy Custom Database
  • ¡Informe! [Español]
  • LegalTrac
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  • Powerspeak Languages
  • U. S. History in Context
  • What Do I Read Next?
  • World History in Context

Livemocha

Livemocha is the world’s largest online language learning community, offering free and paid online language courses in 35 languages to more than 9 million members from 195 countries around the world.
To access this web site please enter the last 6 digits of your library card barcode.

OAIster

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide — OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.
To access this web site please enter the last 6 digits of your library card barcode.

ProQuest

ProQuest provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types.
To access this web site please enter the last 6 digits of your library card barcode.

Auto Repair Reference Center

The Auto Repair Reference Center database includes automotive repair information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. Database content includes more than 33,800 vehicles covered from 1945 to present.
To access this web site please enter your entire 14-digit library card barcode

Consumer Reports

The online site for Consumer Reports magazine.
To access this web site please enter your entire 14-digit library card barcode.

Global Road Warrior

Global Road Warrior's mission is to promote understanding for the earth and her people by providing educational products that lower informational barriers.
To access this web site please enter your entire 14-digit library card barcode.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.
To access this web site please enter the last 6 digits of your library card barcode.

Inside Library Use Only Databases

These databases can only be accessed using a Library computer or through the Library's wireless network.

American Physical Society Journals [In Library Use Only]

The journals of the APS embody the mission of the Society "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics."

Ancestry.com [In Library Use Only]

Ancestry.com is the world's largest online resource for family history.

Free Public-access Databases

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Homework Help page

A page full of links to internet resources that will help students complete school assignments.

Hoover's Business Information

Hoover's is a Dun & Bradstreet Company product that puts you on the fastest path to business.

Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library is a global information community.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends; produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Orcas Island Historical Museum

The Orcas Island Historical Museum is unique in being the only object-based, interpretive heritage facility for the island, with a permanent collection comprised of approximately 6000 objects, paper documents and photographs.

ThomasNet

ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier quickly and efficiently.

Washington Rural Heritage

Washington Rural Heritage is a collection of historic materials documenting the early culture, industry, and community life of Washington State. The collection is an ongoing project of small, rural libraries and partnering cultural institutions, guided by an initiative of the Washington State Library. The initiative provides the infrastructure and training to both digitize and serve unique collections to a widespread audience.

Visit the Orcas Island Heritage page here.