- ALLDATA Online
Automotive diagnostic and repair information.
This database is only available inside the library.
- Alt HealthWatch
Complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Sources include full text articles, newsletters, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
- America The Beautiful Online
Inspired by the America The Beautiful book series published by Childrens Press, an imprint of Grolier Publishing, and developed for online publication by Grolier's technical and engineering staff.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE
- Ancestry Library
An enhanced edition of MyFamily.com's popular consumer genealogy database, Ancestry.com. This database replaces the Ancestry Plus database.
This database is only available inside the library.
- The ART Collection
Access more than 80,000 digital images from the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO).
- Biography Reference Bank
Includes 120,000+ biographies from over 60 reference titles, thousands of biographical magazine articles, and over 32,000 printable images.
- Books & Authors
Search for new books to read by author, title, genre, location, character traits and time eras. Create and save your own reading lists and book reviews.
- EBSCO MasterFILE Premier
Full text, indexing and abstracts for more than 2,050 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
- EBSCOhost Databases
Comprehensive group of databases ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.
- The Encyclopedia Americana
Provides 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,500 specialists in disciplines covering all academic fields and curriculum topics.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE
- ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
- Footnote History and Genealogy Archives
username: massllon
password: password
Footnote helps you find and share historic documents through partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions.
NOTE: In order to participate in the community and download or print documents, you will need to create your own unique account (with an email address) on the Footnote site after you access the database with the username and password provided above.
- Grolier Kids Online
A search portal designed for students in grades 3–5. It includes the following resources: The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
- HeritageQuest Online
A collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest.
To access this database from outside the library, enter your library card without spaces between the numbers.
- Job & Career Accelerator™
LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator™ provides personalized, step-by-step job search assistance—from exploring and matching suitable occupations from over 1,000 detailed occupation profiles to finding available jobs from a database of over 5 million up-to-date job postings. With Job & Career Accelerator, you can easily create professional and effective resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, improve your work skills, and prepare for occupation-related exams. It also helps you plan, tailor, and track your progress for multiple job searches while providing expert advice and tips at every step of the way.
- Kids Search
Designed especially for children in grades K-8.
- Lands and Peoples Online
A collection of 330 articles form the site's central core, or Encyclopedia.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
- LearningExpress Library
Access courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that can help you to prepare for many types of exams, including Advanced Placement (AP) tests, SAT, ACT, GED, Civil Service and ASVAB. There is also a series of courses that would help the job seeker, from resume preparation to business writing skills and specific career test prep courses such as those for EMT, nursing or cosmetology. This database also includes the new Job & Career Accelerator section, offering step-by-step job searching assistance.
- LitFinder
Access full text poems, stories, speeches, essays and plays.
- Massillon Business and Industry Database
Past and present businesses found in city directories and the library's newspaper clipping file have been gathered into this database which can be searched by business name, type of product, date, or by person affiliated with the business.
- NetWellness
A non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality health information and education services.
- The New Book of Knowledge Online
Wonder Questions, facts and figures, projects and experiments, literary selections, and Internet links to carefully evaluated related sites.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
- NewsBank
A full text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from 17 Ohio newspapers and 13 national newspapers.
- Newspaper Source
Provides full text from 194 full text newspapers and other sources.
- NewspaperARCHIVE
Historical newspaper database. View, save and print full-page newspapers dating from 1759 to 1977.
- Obituary Index
An index to the obituary records of Massilloln's newspaper, The Independent. Other newspapers included in the database are: Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton Weekly Times, The Holmes County Hub, Holmes County Journal, Loudonville Advocate, Loudonville Democrat, and Loudonville Times.
- Ohio Career Information System
username: masspl
password: ohiocis03
A computer-based career information system containing a wealth of educational and occupational data.
- Ohio History
A free and fully searchable online archive of Ohio History's issues spanning from 1887 through 2004.
- Ohioline
Factsheets, bulletins, and other educational materials from Ohio State University Extension Office; the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; and the Agricultural Technical Institute.
- ReferenceUSA
Contains detailed information on nearly 12 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households.
Note: Access to this database is sometimes not available in some versions of Internet Explorer. If you have trouble connecting to the database, try using the link on this page.
- Science Online
Overview of the sciences, including diagrams and illustrations.
- Student Research Center
A tool for students to customize a search of EBSCOhost databases by topic, age level and choice of information resource.
- Thomson Gale LegalForms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
- World Book
The World Book Online Reference Center includes encyclopedia and reference articles, photographs, maps, videos, animations and audio clips.
- World Book Kids
The Student Discovery Encyclopedia includes learning activities, illustrations, diagrams and maps.
