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General Resources
 Chilton Library.Com - How to use (pdf)
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This online Automotive Repair Database provides the detailed information you need to tackle both simple and complex auto repair jobs. Do-it-yourselfers can count on reliable auto repair answers to topics such as, general information and maintenance, troubleshooting, engine performance & tune-up, brakes, emission control, chassis, electrical and more.
- CQ Researcher - How to use (pdf)
The CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today’s most important controversial issues. This database is perfect for debates, reports, or research. Each weekly 12,000-word report is on a single topic and includes extensive bibliographies, charts and graphs. CQ Researcher was awarded the Silver Gavel from the American Bar Association awarded for its legal issue reporting.
- eLibrary - How To Use (pdf)
Full-text articles from various sources -- magazines, newspapers and books. Excellent for homework assignments. You can search by images, maps, TV & radio scripts, magazines, and books.
- Facts On File World News Digest
Contains more than 200,000 full-text articles dating back to 1940, top story timelines, links to newspapers around the world, and hundreds of photos, maps, charts, and graphs.
- Ferguson Career Guidance Center
The Ferguson Career Guidance Center provides information on 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, advice on applying for a job, acing an interview, behaving professionally in the work environment, more than 90 sample resumes and cover letters, and over 51,000 entries on scholarships, internships, and more.
- GrantSelect
GrantSelect, the online version of the GRANTS Database, will help you find funding opportunities from pure research grants to arts programs, biomedical and health care research, community services programs, children and youth programs, K-12 education funding, international programs, and operating grants for nonprofit organizations.
 INSPIRE - How To Use (pdf)
INSPIRE stands for INdiana SPectrum of INformation REsources. It is a collection of databases used to access newspaper and magazine articles, many in full text. Also available are Biography Resource Center, LitFinder, Informe! (Spanish language magazines and pamphlets) and What Tree is it?
- Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies analyzes and explains hundreds of controversial topics, provides links to editorials, photos and graphics, pro and con essays, and statistics, all in a language and format that you can understand.
- LearningExpress Library - How to use (pdf)
LearningExpress Library is an online learning program of practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Program covers: GED, Advance Placement, SAT, ACT, Reading Comprehension, Grammar for Writing, Vocabulary and Spelling, Practical Math, Civil Service Careers, Cosmetology, Law Enforcement, Praxis/PPST, Nursing, US Citizenship, and more. First-time users will be asked to create a username and a password before beginning the program.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - How To Use (pdf)
This is a dynamic online library of current events topics, which like the print series, includes facts and informed opinions. In addition to the viewpoints articles, there are statistics, related web sites, and magazine and newspaper articles.
- Price It! Antiques & Collectibles - How To Use (pdf)
Price It! Antiques & Collectibles is a comprehensive database for identifying, researching and pricing art, antiques and collectibles. The database is an up-to-date and easy-to-use tool – whether the user is a professional art appraiser or a budding collector. Pricing information is provided from GoAntiques, eBay and TIAS.
- SJCPL Subject Guides
These guides can point you to internet, library and community resources on topics that interest you. If you don't see a page that you'd like, tell us and we may add it! Use the menu to jump to the guide you need.
- The World Almanac
The quickest way to find what you’re looking for. Includes "Born This Day," "This Day in History," "Did You Know?," as well as biographies, country profiles, and much more.
- Today's Science
Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science now with overview articles and links to detailed news coverage, glossaries, and science related biographies, all in an easy to understand language and format.
- Thomson Gale Legal Forms - How To Use (pdf)
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The Thomson Gale Legal Form database provides a selection of printable forms covering a wide variety of the most popular legal areas. This includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included in this database is a directory of lawyers and a dictionary of legal terms.
- TumbleBookLibrary
An online database of animated, talking picture books which you can read, or have read to you.
Biography Resources
- Biography Resource Center - How To Use (pdf) Video Tour
This database combines biographies from Gale Group sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on birth or death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a custom search.
Business Resources
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Business & Company Resource Center - How To Use (pdf)
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news. This resource brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals
- Morningstar.Com Library Edition - How To Use (pdf)
This Internet-based investing resource provides premium information to help you make smart investment decisions. Find Morningstar Ratings for top-rated stocks and mutual funds. It offers accurate, up-to-date data on 20,000 stocks and funds. Find current and prospective investment ideas and let Morningstar's analyst help you build a portfolio with stocks and funds to meet your needs. Search by ticker or name of the fund or stock, find investment terms and use Morningstar Portfolio X Ray feature to find unexpected risks.
- Reference USA - How To Use (pdf)
A huge database of USA public and private companies. Allows you to search by company name, location, type of business or size. Also included is a residential search feature to conduct market research and locate friends and relatives.
- Tribune Business Weekly
A searchable database of the weekly business publication of the South Bend Tribune back to 1992.
Community Information
Literature
- NoveList
An electronic reader’s advisory resource. Search by an author, title or plot and find similar books. Author interviews and book discussion guides are also featured.
- Pearl's Picks
Pearl's Picks delivers reading suggestions from the most-widely known librarian of our time-Nancy Pearl. You hear her regularly on National Public Radio, read about her in the papers, and now each month, you can see Nancy's suggestions for good reading @ SJCPL.
Local & Family History
- 1875 St. Joseph County Atlas
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1875 Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana, including plat maps, biographies, and engravings.
- 1910 South Bend and Mishawaka Elks Convention Book
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1910 Official Souvenir, 9th Annual Convention, Indiana State Association, B.P.O.E., South Bend, Indiana, featuring text and illustrations of people, businesses, and the community.
- ca. 1910 South Bend YMCA Book
A searchable, browsable digital version of the ca. 1910 A Manhood Factory in the Center of South Bend's Greatest Industries, featuring text
and illustrations of people, the YMCA, and the community.
- 1936 St. Joseph County Platbook
A searchable, browsable digital version of the 1936 Index Map of St. Joseph County, Indiana, showing all landowners in the unincorporated areas of the county at that time.
 Ancestry Library Edition - How To Use (pdf)
This site contains U.S. Federal Census images and indexes, indexes for military records, immigration and vital statistics.
- Digital Sanborn Maps 1867 - 1970 - How to use (pdf)
View, navigate, print, and download historic maps of Indiana.
- Genealogy Links
Genealogy resources selected by SJCPL librarians.
- HeritageQuest Online - How to use (pdf)
This site contains U.S. Federal Census images and indexes; searchable Genealogy & Local History publications and PERSI, The Periodical Source Index.
- New England Ancestors - How to use (pdf)
From the New England Historic Genealogical Society, more than 250 databases of town, church, family Bible, vital, land, tax, and other records pertaining to New England as well as New York, Ireland, England, and eastern Canada.
- Obituary Index - How to use (pdf)
An index to obituaries that appeared in the South Bend Tribune, from 1913 through the present, for people with ties to St. Joseph County.
- Service Notes Index
A database from the South Bend Tribune that lists names of local people who served during World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars.
Magazines
- Magazines through INSPIRE
Indiana's INSPIRE provides full text for over 1,820 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. Full text back files go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract back files go as far back as January of 1984.
Newspapers
- The Chicago Tribune (current)
A searchable database of articles and pages from the Chicago Tribune, going back to 1985.
- The Chicago Tribune (historical)
A searchable database of articles and pages from the Chicago Tribune, going back as far as the 1850s and continuing through 1985.
- Indiana Newspapers - How to Use (pdf)
Includes the past decade of newspaper articles from the Evansville Courier & Press, Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, the Gary Post-Tribune, the South Bend Tribune, and the South Bend Tribune Business Weekly.
- The New York Times
A searchable database of articles going back to 1980. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are also provided in PDF format.
- NewspaperARCHIVE
A searchable database and actual images of millions of American newspaper pages from many areas and time periods.
- Newspaper Subscriptions
SJCPL's newspaper and microfilm holdings are listed here alphabetically.
- South Bend Tribune Online Archive
A searchable database of full-text articles from the South Bend Tribune, going back to March 1998
- The Wall Street Journal
Provides comprehensive coverage with a searchable database going back to 1984.
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