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- AllData
- A comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. Includes TSB's, diagnostic trouble codes, printable diagrams and a conversion calculator.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- American National Biography
- Full text biographies on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.
- Berg Fashion Library
- The Berg Fashion Library includes reference materials on costume, textiles and the history of costume. This collection is valuable to a variety of disciplines such as Fashion, History, Anthropology, Textiles, Sociology, Theater and other disciplines that study the human experience.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- Biography And Genealogy Master Index
- Index to sources of biographical information.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- Credo Reference
- Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Pages from the Credo Collection books can be both emailed and printed. Credo books are not downloadable in their entirety to read off-line.
- Discovering Collection
- Comprised of several Discovering Program titles such as Discovering Authors, U.S. History, Science and Biography, and the entire contents of the Junior Reference Collection. Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Online version of the classic Encyclopedia Britannica that also includes web links, select articles and access to Webster's Dictionary.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
- GVRL is a collection of online reference books on a variety of topics including Business, History, Literature, Medicine, Social Science, Technology and many more. Pages and chapters from this collection can be printed and emailed.
- HAZMAT Zone
- Online full text access to MSDS Data Sheets, tutorials working with chemical hazards in the workplace and a MSDS glossary.
User Name: codlib
Password: library
- Learning Express Library
- Learning Express Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed in the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Features include immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results. Includes tests such as GRE, TOEFL, ASE and GED.
- Morningstar Investment Research Center
- Morningstar Investment Research Center offers access to research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds.
- Music Online
- Music Online includes:
Classical Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
American Song (include African American Song)
Contemporary World Music
Jazz Music Library
- Novelist Plus
- An electronic readers' advisory resource which contains materials for all ages. In addition to non-fiction titles for adults and children, Novelist Plus includes picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and fiction for adult readers.
- Oxford Art Online
- This resource includes the full-text of:
Grove Art Online
Oxford Companion to Western Art
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
OED ONLINE offers unprecedented access to the 20-volume Second Edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus between one and two thousand new and revised entries every quarter
- Oxford Music Online
- This resource includes the full-text of:
The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Grove Music Online
Oxford Companion to Music
- Plunkett Research Online
- Plunkett Research provides information about a variety of industries including Advertising, Alternative and Renewable Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care, Entertainment and many more. Each industry area contains information on trends, statistics, major companies, contacts and other types of critical industry information. Use the Build-A-Report feature to develop custom reports. Also included are services for job seekers. *Historical Data (Archives) is not available*
- ReferenceUSA
- U.S. company information searchable by name, address, ZIP code, SIC code, and yellow page directory listing. Allows 50 prints or downloads per search.
- Sanborn Digital Insurance Maps
- Digitized maps of historical geographic locations and structures in Illinois
- Standard & Poors Net Advantage
- Search this database by company or ticker symbol to locate information in the following S&P publications: Register Public Co., Register Private Co., Bond reports, Stock reports, Register Executives. This database also includes the text of Standard and Poors's Industry Surveys.
- Statistical Abstract Of The United States
- The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
- Westlaw Campus Research
- Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.
- World Almanac
- Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States—current and historical; The World Almanac of US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia
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