Online Resources for College and Grad School

Archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields.

Academic Search Complete offers full-text articles in many areas of study.

E-books and e-audiobooks for your phone or tablet: fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens, and kids.

Borrow up to 5 items at a time in cloudLibrary. With no monthly limits, you can return a title that you aren’t enjoying and check something else out immediately! Use cloudLibrary on the web or download the app for Android, iOS, Kindle, or Nook.

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Journals, magazines, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary source documents, and more.

We offer many databases about specific topics. EBSCOhost is not about a specific topic. EBSCOhost lets you drink from a firehose of information.

If you want as many results as possible, you can search a wide variety of databases all at once by checking “Select / deselect all” and clicking Continue. When you get hundreds of thousands of results from your search, you can narrow them down by limiting to full text, choosing a publisher, subject, or time period, or in other ways.

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Arts and literature, biographies, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history and social science, science and math, and other subjects.

Explora for Public Libraries provides reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories. Explora provides research collections on thousands of topics to help you find the information you need quickly and easily. You can search hundreds of professional journals, popular magazines, reference books, images, primary sources, and more by keyword or by topic.

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Arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and other topics.

Includes Twayne’s Authors and Scribner Writers.

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Audiobooks, music albums, comics, movies, and television shows.

Stream for free on your computer or mobile device. You can borrow and download 7 items per calendar month, and you never have to wait for someone else to return it!

Apps available for Android and iOS.

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Kanopy lets you watch thoughtful and thought-provoking films with no ads. You can watch an unlimited number of The Great Courses videos featuring scholars teaching their favorite subjects in engaging lectures. Kanopy delivers a diverse collection of 30,000+ enriching films, available to stream anytime and anywhere — from desktop to TV to tablet. Parents can block their children from accessing the main (non-“Kids”) section. Apps are available for Android and iOS.

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Counseling, disabilities, learning and perception, research and theory, students, teachers, school personnel, tests and scales, bias and equity, measurement, and other topics in education.

ERIC is the largest education database in the world, covering journal articles, books, research reports, teaching guides, and more on the topic of education research and resources. Most entries in ERIC are citations and abstracts, and do not include full text, but the citations in ERIC can often be found as full articles through EBSCOhost.

Anxiety, attitude, behavior, child development, clinical trials, cognition, counseling, depression, diagnosis, emotions, genetics, interpersonal relations, interviewing, memory, mental illness, motivation, neurons, pathological psychology, perception, physiology, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, psychosis, psychotherapy, relationships, research methodology, schizophrenia, social psychology, socioeconomic factors, statistics, stress, substance abuse, and other topics.

Emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is the world’s largest full text psychology database.

Applied sciences, biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Science Reference Center contains the full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals. It also includes citation help, curriculum standards, lesson plans, a research guide, science experiments, and worksheets.

Reviews and publication information for books, movies, TV shows, and music.

Book Index with Reviews has information on more than 6 million titles, including full-text searchable book reviews from trusted sources like Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and others. You can search music reviews by artist, performer, and genre.

Authors, biographers, book collectors, correspondents, critics, dramatists, essayists, historians, humorists, illustrators, journalists, lyricists, novelists, philosophers, poets, publishers, rhetoricians, scholars, screenwriters, sportswriters, theorists, and other writers.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Author biographies, author interviews, book reviews, classic texts, essays, periodicals, plot summaries and work overviews, poems from hundreds of sources, reference books and monographs, and short stories.

Literary Reference Center Plus includes the Masterplots library of plot summaries, and also has dozens of character maps for Romeo and Juliet and other important works.

Learn more about Literary Reference Center here.

American history, including advertising, health, women’s issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.

The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (1684–1912) provides digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.

You can search the entire collection or choose a specific era:

Genealogy, family history, census records, immigration, marriage, birth, death, and other official information about your ancestors.

One of the most important genealogical collections available today, with unparalleled coverage of the United States.

Learn more about Ancestry Library Edition here.

Actors, artists, athletes, authors, current world leaders, explorers, scientists and many other big names in the news and in history.

A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies on popular and heavily-researched figures. Includes all issues of Biography Today and Biography Magazine.

African American History; American Enterprise, Industrialization and Development; Arts, Education, Culture, Crazes and Trends; Crimes and Trials of the Century; Natural Wonders, Disasters and the Environment; Politics, Government and World Leaders; Public Spirit, Exhibitions, and Celebrations; Science, Technology, and Innovation; Sports and American Pastimes; Struggle for Human Rights and Freedoms; War; Women’s History.

Chronicling America provides free access to millions of historic American newspaper pages, sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

History Reference Center covers both U.S. and world history topics and provides access to full-text historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents.

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Activism, architectural design, art exhibitions, climate change, economic development, government policy, higher education, housing, international law, labor, modernity, science, social conditions of women, social justice, urban planning, wages, and many other topics.

Humanities International Complete covers literature, philosophy, the arts, history, and all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. It contains the Humanities International Index and other information for students, researchers, and educators.

The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of over 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, etc., making unique historical treasures accessible to the general public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the LDL are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state’s history and culture. Ouachita Parish Public Library is happy to be a part of the Louisiana Digital Library.

Louisiana law requires that state agencies submit copies of their publications to the Recorder of Documents for distribution to the member libraries of the Louisiana State Document Depository Program. This program preserves and assures the availability of state publications for use by the public throughout the state.

Newspapers.com Southeast Collection is an extensive database with access to hundreds of historical newspapers published throughout the South. It contains full runs and portions of runs for well-known, regional and state titles.

Monroe newspapers: Daily Telegraph (1870–1886), Monroe Morning World (1931–1969), Monroe News-Star (1909–1977), Register (1859–1860), Weekly News-Star (1894–1920).

Northeast Louisiana newspapers include:

• Banner-Democrat [Lake Providence] (1887–1909)
• Caldwell Watchman (1881–1961)
• Comrade [Winnfield] (1894–1911)
• Cottonport Leader (1953–1962)
• Delhi Dispatch (1945–1963)
• East Carroll Democrat (1883–1888) / Carroll Democrat (1888–1892)
• Franklin Sun (1875–1894)
• Gazette [Farmerville] (1884–1922)
• Homer Guardian (1877–1890) / Louisiana Weekly Journal (1886–1890) / Guardian-Journal (1890–1923)
• Madison Times [Tallulah] (1884–1888) / Madison Journal (1889–1921)
• Morehouse Clarion (1880–1895)
• Richland Beacon (1872–1889) / Richland News (1889–1890) / Richland Beacon-News (1872–1963)
• Rising Star [Winnsboro] (1913)
• Ruston Leader (1930–1962) / Ruston Daily Leader (1932–1958)
• Southern Sentinel [Winnfield] (1861–1909)
• West Carroll Gazette (1930–1963)

Activism, architectural design, art exhibitions, climate change, economic development, government policy, higher education, housing, international law, labor, modernity, science, social conditions of women, social justice, urban planning, wages, and many other topics.

Humanities International Complete covers literature, philosophy, the arts, history, and all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. It contains the Humanities International Index and other information for students, researchers, and educators.

Academic libraries, archives, associations, awards, bibliometrics, book industry, cataloging and classification, children's books, copyright, databases, digital libraries, educational technology, information architecture, information literacy, information science, information technology, knowledge management, librarianship, library administration, library science, public libraries, research, school libraries and media centers, search engines, social media, and more.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts includes full text for about half its records. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Religious subjects include religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism; topics like the Bible, church and state, clergy, death, freedom of religion, God, rites and ceremonies, and theology.

Philosophical subjects include aesthetics, belief and doubt, causation, consciousness, epistemology, ethics and ethical theories, free will and determinism, hermeneutics, logic, medical ethics, metaphysics, natural law, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, political philosophy, pragmatism, realism, social theory, theory of knowledge, and truth.

Religion and Philosophy Collection offers full-text articles, videos, book reviews, and more on these topics.

SocINDEX with Full Text is a research database covering sociology and related disciplines, with topics including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

Global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, climate, education, law, health and technology. GreenFILE covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.

Academic libraries, archives, associations, awards, bibliometrics, book industry, cataloging and classification, children's books, copyright, databases, digital libraries, educational technology, information architecture, information literacy, information science, information technology, knowledge management, librarianship, library administration, library science, public libraries, research, school libraries and media centers, search engines, social media, and more.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts includes full text for about half its records. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Anxiety, attitude, behavior, child development, clinical trials, cognition, counseling, depression, diagnosis, emotions, genetics, interpersonal relations, interviewing, memory, mental illness, motivation, neurons, pathological psychology, perception, physiology, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, psychosis, psychotherapy, relationships, research methodology, schizophrenia, social psychology, socioeconomic factors, statistics, stress, substance abuse, and other topics.

Emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is the world’s largest full text psychology database.

Applied sciences, biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Science Reference Center contains the full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals. It also includes citation help, curriculum standards, lesson plans, a research guide, science experiments, and worksheets.

Learn more about Science Reference Center here.

Marketing, management, management information systems, production and operations management, accounting, finance and economics.

Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals. Includes indexing and abstracts for many important scholarly business journals as far back as 1886.

Awards, banking, business planning, economics, employees, executives, finance, government policy, investments, mergers and acquisitions, small business, stocks, and more.

Regional Business News provides extensive coverage for full-text regional business publications from the United States and Canadian provinces. This database also contains newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires and videos.

Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and people interested in starting a business. Learn how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Small Business Reference Center also offers business videos that include interviews, “lessons learned” features, lectures and tutorials.

Vocational and Career Collection provides the full text of trade and industry publications including American Machinist, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.

Anxiety, attitude, behavior, child development, clinical trials, cognition, counseling, depression, diagnosis, emotions, genetics, interpersonal relations, interviewing, memory, mental illness, motivation, neurons, pathological psychology, perception, physiology, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, psychosis, psychotherapy, relationships, research methodology, schizophrenia, social psychology, socioeconomic factors, statistics, stress, substance abuse, and other topics.

Emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is the world’s largest full text psychology database.

SocINDEX with Full Text is a research database covering sociology and related disciplines, with topics including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

Over-the-counter and prescription drug information, side effect, interactions, storage, dietary warnings, what to do if you forget a dose or in case of suspected overdose, cautions for people who are pregnant or nursing, and more.

Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, updated monthly.

Acupuncture, aromatherapy, childbirth, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, creative therapies, cross-cultural therapies, crystals, energy medicine, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, mind-body medicine, naturopathy, osteopathy, reflexology, reiki, reincarnation therapy, Tarot reading, and more​.

Alt HealthWatch focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, and case studies in nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles.

Clinical trials, comparative studies, data analysis, disease complications, epidemiology, genetics, health outcome assessment, medical policy, mental health services, psychology, public health, research methodology, risk factors, statistics, surgery, therapeutics, and more.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted source of nursing and allied health literature. It provides access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on such disciplines as pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management and medical law and includes a dictionary of medical terminology. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Scholarly journal articles covering sports, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sports law & legislation, college & university sports, athletes with disabilities, facility design & management, intramural & school sports, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sports & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.