Database by Subject

BIR Entertainment
Information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles, with more added regularly. Find music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Exclusive articles from the EBSCO databases covering over 140 topics, as well as many other periodicals, books and videos that focus on categories commonly referred to as hobbies and crafts; available in high-quality PDF format.

Humanities International Complete 
Full-text articles from nearly 1,200 journals, books and other published sources from around the world.

Biography Reference Center
EBSCO’s comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.

Salem History (In Library Use)- Salem History (Home Use – click link and enter library card number)
Search by 25 browseable categories, by geographical location, or by curriculum topics. Includes the full text of the following multi-volume encyclopedias:
Weapons and Warfare
The Eighties in America
Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages
Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Eighteenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century
NEW! Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
NEW! Great Lives from History: Latinos
—_ Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives
Milestone Documents in World History
Milestone Documents of World Religions

Scribner Writers Series 
The Scribner Writers Series includes more than 2,400 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods.

Twayne’s Authors Series
Contains nearly 600 entries from Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors. Good source of author biographies.

Book Collection – Nonfiction
Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full-text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

Book Index with Reviews 
Provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.

LoanSHARK
Search the catalogs of all the public libraries in Louisiana, and request books through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Library and Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

BlueCareer
Powered by BlueRecruit, BlueCareer by EBSCOlearning is an easy-to-use resource center for library users interested in learning more about the skilled trades and seeking to explore a career transition. The platform also supports local employers looking for talent or seeking insights into the labor market.

Business Plans Handbook
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Business Source Complete
Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886, as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,300 journals.

Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Small Business Reference Center
Provides up to date information from EBSCO on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

BlueCareer
Powered by BlueRecruit, BlueCareer by EBSCOlearning is an easy-to-use resource center for library users interested in learning more about the skilled trades and seeking to explore a career transition. The platform also supports local employers looking for talent or seeking insights into the labor market.

LearningExpress Library 3.0
An updated version of the classic LearningExpress Library. Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams,  and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.

Small Business Reference Center 
Provides up to date information from EBSCO on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

Tutor.com
Have a live tutor proofread your resume or help you prepare for an interview! Available Sunday through Thursday 2pm – 10pm.

Vocational & Career Collection
Provides full-text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related journals, magazines, and news publications.

LearningExpress Library 3.0
An updated version of the classic LearningExpress Library. Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams,  and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.

Tutor.com
Live tutors to help with 4th grade through college. Available Sunday through Thursday 2pm – 10pm.

Gale Directory Library
Contains three Encyclopedias of Associations, covering international organizations, national organizations, and state and local organizations. Also contains the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media and the National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.

Britannica E-Books
Get instant access to over 300 full-text books from the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica.  This collection offers a wide range of informative nonfiction books, for preschool to adult readers.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles and more than 200 educational reports.

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Udemy
Learn and improve skills across business, tech, design, and more. Includes 10,000+ on-demand video courses in multiple languages.

America’s Historical Newspapers
Searchable American newspapers enable you to explore America’s past.  Includes select newspapers from around the United States published between 1690-1922, including a backfile of 25,744 issues of the Times Picayune published between 1842 and 1915, as well as historic runs of 17 other Louisiana newspapers.

Ancestry.com Library Edition
Only available from within the library.

Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives Plus
Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. This continually-growing collection contains millions of records from world-class archives.

HeritageQuest Online
Digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records and other genealogy information. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. For remote use, please contact the library for login information.

Sanborn Maps
Access to large-scale Louisiana maps, 1867-1970. For remote use, please contact the library for login information.

USA.gov
Official information and services from the U.S. government. Whatever you want or need from the U.S. government, it’s here. You’ll find a rich treasure of online information, services, and resources.

Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

CINAHL
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. This database provides indexing for nearly 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.2 million records dating back to 1981.

Consumer Health Complete
EBSCO’s interface designed for the everyday consumer of healthcare information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

Health Source – Consumer Edition
Health information in plain English, here you will find nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines with information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition
Nearly 550 scholarly full-text medical journals, and access to the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which includes 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets for more than 4,700 brand name prescriptions.

Medline
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.

Salem Health (In Library Use) – Salem Health (Home Use – click link and enter library card number)
Easily search full-text versions of Magill’s Medical Guide, Sixth Edition (2011), Genetics & Inherited Conditions, Salem Health: Cancer, and Psychology and Mental Health.

Salud En Espanol
Salud en Espanol provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness.

SPORTDiscus
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,660,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.

America’s Historical Newspapers (News Bank)
Searchable American newspapers enable you to explore America’s past.  Includes select newspapers from around the United States published between 1690-1922, including a backfile of 25,744 issues of the Times Picayune published between 1842 and 1915, as well as historic runs of 17 other Louisiana newspapers.

Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives Plus
Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. This continually-growing collection contains millions of records from world-class archives.

History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Louisiana Digital Library
Provides over 144,000 digital materials from libraries, museums, and other institutions around the state.

Louisiana Historical Society
The Louisiana Historical Society “published 147 issues of the Quarterly between 1917 and 1972. In addition to the Quarterly, this site also contains the Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society, issued in two sets: I, from 1895 to 1916 and II, in 1973 and 1974.”  Call the Reference Department at 876-5861, ext. 2, for a password.

Salem History (In Library Use)- Salem History (Home Use – click link and enter library card number)
Search by 25 browseable categories, by geographical location, or by curriculum topics.  Includes the full text of the following multi-volume encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society
Weapons and Warfare
The Eighties in America
Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages
Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Eighteenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century
Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century
Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives
Milestone Documents in World History
Milestone Documents of World Religions

Homework Louisiana
HomeworkLouisiana offers FREE online tutoring and academic resources from Tutor.com for Louisiana residents. Get help in math, science, social studies or English from a live tutor. The service can be accessed from a Louisiana public library or from your home computer.

Tutors are available Sunday through Thursday 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. The SkillsCenter is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Peterson’s Test Prep
Peterson’s Test Prep is a valuable online tool learners can use for standardized test preparation, researching undergraduate and graduate programs, and finding tuition assistance. Additionally, users will find advice on resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and more.

All Grade Levels

• Britannica E-Books
  Get instant access to over 300 full-text books from the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica.  This collection offers a wide range of informative nonfiction books, for preschool to adult readers.
• LearningExpress Library 3.0
  An updated version of the classic LearningExpress Library. Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams,  and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.
• MasterFILE Premier
  Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
• Student Research Center
  EBSCO’s Student Research Center makes it easy for middle and high school students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type: magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
• World Book Discover
  For differentiated instruction, includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research tools, multimedia, and interactive video.
• World Book Student
  Contains content and features designed for school-aged patrons’ homework and research needs. Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the site features rich collections of multimedia on a variety of topics, science fair projects; a Biography Center; links to world newspapers, correlations to curriculum standards, 21st-century research guides, and much more.
• World Book Timeline
  Browse World Book’s timelines by category.

Elementary School

• Primary Search
  Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990.
• Searchasaurus
  Searchasaurus makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
• World Book Online Kids
  Developed especially for young public library patrons, this site offers easy-to-read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities.

Middle School/Junior High

• Middle Search Plus
  Provides full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.

High School

• History Reference Center
  Offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
• MAS Ultra – School Edition
  Designed specifically for high school students, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full-text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, an image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
• Science Reference Center
  Easy access to full-text articles from nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife.

L’Encyclopedie Decouverte
A French Language Encyclopedia from World Book

Mango Languages
Learn practical conversation and cultural awareness for 29 of the world’s most popular languages. It’s the fun, easy and incredibly effective way for English speakers to learn to speak another language. Mango also offers a complete set of ESL classes for students from a variety of countries to improve their English skills. Set up a free account to learn at your own pace, picking up where you left off each time you Mango!

Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Law”

Gale Legal Forms
Understand common legal procedures through access to authentic, professional legal documents for businesses.

Legal Information Reference Center
Provides online full text from EBSCO for many of the top consumer legal reference books and contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Louisiana State Law Search
Search Louisiana state laws.

United States Code
The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

USA.gov
Official information and services from the U.S. government. Whatever you want or need from the U.S. government, it’s here. You’ll find a rich treasure of online information, services, and resources.

Acronyms, Initialisms, & Abbreviations Dictionary
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “General Reference”

Literature Resources in Gale Virtual Reference Library
E-Book versions of Gale reference books. Click on “Literature”.

Salem Literature (In Library Use) – Salem Literature (Home Use – click link and enter library card number)
This new online resource contains updated versions of classic reference works that have long been staples of our library’s print collection:
     Critical Survey of Long Fiction
     Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays
     Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets
     Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets
     Critical Survey of Poetry: European Poets
     Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets
     Magill’s Literary Annual
     Masterplots, Fourth Edition

Scribner Writers Series
The Scribner Writers Series includes more than 2,400 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods.

Twayne’s Authors Series
Contains nearly 600 entries from Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors. Good source of author biographies.

Bayou State Periodical Index
Indexes popular Louisiana periodicals, going back to 1960.

Louisiana Digital Library
Provides over 144,000 digital materials from libraries, museums, and other institutions around the state.

Louisiana Historical Society
The Louisiana Historical Society “published 147 issues of the Quarterly between 1917 and 1972. In addition to the Quarterly, this site also contains the Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society, issued in two sets: I, from 1895 to 1916 and II, in 1973 and 1974.”  Call the Reference Department at 876-5861, ext. 2, for a password.

Louisiana Jobs and Career Center
Job search, career, and small business resources from the Louisiana State Library.

Louisiana Public Documents Digital Archive
Collection of more than 20,000 Louisiana born-digital public documents, most since 2002. Located in the digital resources repository of the State Library of Louisiana.

Sanborn Maps
Access to large-scale Louisiana maps, 1867-1970. For remote use, please call the reference desk for login information (985) 876-5861, option 2.

Sanborn Maps
Access to large-scale Louisiana maps, 1867-1970. For remote use, please contact the library for login information.

Bayou State Periodical Index
Indexes popular Louisiana periodicals, going back to 1960.

Explora Quick Search
Reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books in the EBSCO databases. Browse categories organized by popular topic, with overviews that provide a starting point for your research; or use the simple search that quickly delivers relevant results, including primary source documents, news articles, and Associated Press videos.

Gale Directory Library
Includes Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Religion”

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Religion”

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Religion”

Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full-text journals.

Salem History (In Library Use)- Salem History (Home Use – click link and enter library card number)
Search by 25 browseable categories, by geographical location, or by curriculum topics.  Includes the full text of      Milestone Documents of World Religions.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Religion”

GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Salem Science (In-Library Use) – Salem Science (Home Use – click the link and enter library card number)  – We’ve added a lot to Salem Science this fall, and it now contains all entries from the following multi-volume reference sets:
     Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society
     Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Revised Edition
     Forensic Science
     Encyclopedia of Global Resources
     Encyclopedia of Global Warming
     The Solar System

Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife.

World of Forensic Science
Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on “Science”

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
Maintained by the US Department of Education, ERIC contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full-text psychology database offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

SocINDEX with Full Text
Contains full text for more than 820 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs and full-text for 14,636 conference papers.