Academic Search Complete

Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals; indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals; monographs, reports and conference proceedings

Admissions Test Preparation

Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and eBooks to help prepare for AP, SAT, ACT and TOEFL exams, as well as college essay writing practice.

Adult Core Skills

Adult Core Skills helps adults achieve their personal, education and career goals by offering resources to help them improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, and prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam.

Agricola

Citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library journal articles, book chapters, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports to support agricultural research.

AHFS Consumer Medication Information

Patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish, including more than one thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.

Alt-Press Watch

The database features over 670,000 articles from more than 230 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news. All of these varied alternative and independent presses are presented in 100% full text, allowing researchers total access to regional, rural, and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues.

Ancestry Library Edition

Genealogy research tool that provides patrons access to a wide range of primary resources for genealogical and historical research. Includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more.

APA PsycInfo®

Behavioral science and mental health index with abstracts for more than 2,000 peer-reviewed journals.

Britannica Academic Edition

Combines Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, plus magazines and periodicals, an atlas, biographies, e-books, and other tools.

Britannica Escolar Online

For native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Includes Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school.

Britannica Fundamentals

Britannica Fundamentals, an early learning product for students in grade levels kindergarten through second grade. Formerly the Learning Zone, the updated platform will improve utilization of Britannica School by providing content designed and written specifically for early learners.

Britannica Library

Includes articles and magazines, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and more.

Britannica Library Children

Age-appropriate features start building key research skills. Photos, videos, diagrams, and maps help students learn to compare text and multimedia resources as they collect their evidence. “Chunked” text helps young patrons focus on content.

Britannica Library Young Adults

Supports young adult learners with more complex articles, primary source documents, e-books, maps, and videos to help students analyze and evaluate multiple sources of evidence.

Britannica Moderna

Spanish language reference center for more advanced users, featuring articles, images, a dictionary, an atlas, and timelines.

Britannica School

Select Elementary, Middle, or High for built-in differentiation for thousands of curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, editor-recommended websites, and more for student research..

Britannica School – Elementary

Thousands of curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, editor-recommended websites.

Britannica School – High

Features biographies, country content, encyclopedia articles, STEM and Social Studies content.

Britannica School – Middle

Articles, primary source documents, e-books, maps, and videos help students analyze and evaluate multiple sources of evidence.

Business Searching Interface

Business Searching Interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. Since this interface was designed exclusively for the Business Source suite of databases, users should be directed to Business Searching Interface when they are searching for business information.

Business Source Premier

Full text for more than 2,300 journals covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics

Career and Technical Education

More than 500 full text titles on vocational and technical topics, including: computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

Career Preparation

Prepare for a career exam, explore occupations, and improve workplace skills here.

CINAHL with Full Text

Full text for many of the most-used nursing & allied health journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo.

College Students

This center provides valuable resources that help college students strengthen their academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

Computer Skills Center

Video courses are the fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer. Use the materials in this center to learn the basics of computers, from searching the Internet to using popular programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design, and more.

Consumer Health Complete

Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine plus the Clinical Reference System and drug monographs.

Coronavirus Research Database

Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses.

DMV Permit Practice Test

Searching for the best online study tools for the Kentucky driver’s permit and motorcycle permit exams? Everything you need is right here on this page!

eBooks K-8 Collection

Ebooks covering topics such as agriculture, American history, anthropology, education, geography, history of the Americas, language, leisure, literature, recreation, science and technology.

EBSCO databases

ERIC

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

Explora Educator’s Edition

Educator’s Edition Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Explora for Elementary Schools

Explora combines results from encyclopedias, magazines, biographies, and more. For students and educators.

Explora for High Schools

Explora combines results from encyclopedias, magazines, biographies, and more. For students and educators.

Explora for Middle Schools

Explora combines results from encyclopedias, magazines, biographies, and more. For students and educators.

Explora for Public Libraries

Search interface for public libraries which combines encyclopedias, magazines, journals, newspapers, biographies, primary sources and more.

FirstSearch

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings, including all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. It is the world’s most comprehensive bibliography. WorldCat covers information on materials created earlier than 1000 B.C. It contains records from more than 50,000 libraries all over the world.

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

GED® Test Prep Center

Earning a high school equivalency credential can open the door to better income, a more fulfilling job, and a college education. If you are preparing for the GED test, these practice tests, interactive tutorials, and eBooks will help you reach your goal.

Grades 4-8 Educator Resources

Elementary and middle school teachers: Supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies.

GreenFILE

Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment with indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.

Health Source – Consumer Edition

Nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines covering Information on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

High School Students

Find resources to help you build classroom and homework skills in math, English language arts, social studies, science and technology.

Job & Career Accelerator

Job & Career Accelerator provides tools and resources for resume and cover letter writing, as well as easy job search and application steps.

Kentucky Digital Library

The Kentucky Digital Library (KDL) is a collaborative initiative of the Kentucky Virtual Library and other Kentucky institutions, built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning by providing access to shared digital archival collections in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Kentucky Virtual Library

Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) is dedicated to supplying all Kentuckians with a comprehensive and dynamic collection of information resources.

KYVL Information Literacy Gallery

A DRAFT collection of shareable information literacy instruction based on resources available through KYVL, particularly as it applies to students transitioning from K12 to postsecondary education. Resources are tied to state and national information literacy standards.

LearningExpress Library

LearningExpress Library features online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.

LISTA – Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

Indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books and research reports for library and information science studies.

MAS Ultra – School Edition

Full-text reference database of 456 popular magazines and 160 e-books covering many subjects, including history, science and health plus thousands of full-text primary source documents and videos from the Associated Press.

MasterFILE Premier

Full text for 1,589 general reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues plus an extensive image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE

Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.

Middle Search Plus

Full-text database providing 175 popular middle school magazines and 380 reference e-books covering subjects such as history, current events, science and sports plus thousands of primary source documents and videos.

Newspaper Source

Cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers plus television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

NoveList

Novelist is an electronic readers’ advisory resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. In includes 90,000 full text reviews, over 36,000 subject headings and a complete spectrum of searching options, including searching by title, by author or simply by describing pertinent plot details.

Open Dissertations

Database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world and includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations.

Primary Search

Full-text database including full text for 54 of the most popular children’s magazines and easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.

Psychology + Behavioral Sciences Collection

Full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students providing 470 full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo.

Recursos para hispanohablantes

“Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadanía en español. Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.

(English Translation – This center provides learning tools as well as career and citizenship resources to help busy adults improve their basic skills, earn a GED® credential, or become a U.S. citizen.)”

Regional Business News

40 full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces.

Small Business Reference Center

Full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business.

Sociological Collection

Full-text source of sociology for sociology and social work researchers, professionals and students covering more than 190 active full-text non-open access scholarly journals.

Teacher Reference Center

Research database for teachers with indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.

TeenBookCloud

TBC is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks (Shakespeare, poetry, non-fiction, science, history, geography, etc.), Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books.

TOPICsearch

Database of 90,000 full-text articles from diverse sources to explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.

TumbleBookLibrary

K-6 children’s ebook database.

VIN Decoder

WorldCat

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online catalog. It contains over 380 million records describing library holdings, including all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. It is the world’s most comprehensive bibliography. WorldCat covers information on materials created earlier than 1000 B.C. It contains records from more than 50,000 libraries all over the world.