Research Databases - Alphabetical List
- Academic Search Premier
Academic and professional journals.
- 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.
Access to this database is provided through Ebscohost. Click on "EBSCOhost Web" after accessing to view a list of available databases.
- 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
- American and English Literature Databases
Search a number of drama, poetry and literature database collections.
- 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.
- Business Source Premier
A full text business database.
- Chilton Online Auto Repair
Photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks.
- 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.
- Fold3
- username: massllon
password: password
Fold3 will be adding millions of U.S. military records to continue to help you discover and share stories about everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. You will still be able to search all the informative records, including non-military records, previously found on Footnote. We have already begun expanding Fold3's robust military collection to include the following new titles:
- Word War II "Old Man's Draft" Cards
- War of 1812 Pension Files
- Mexican War Service Records
- World War I Officer Experience Reports - AEF
- Confederate Casualty Reports
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.
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.
Designed especially for children in grades K-8.
A collection of 330 articles form the site's central core, or Encyclopedia.
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
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.
Extensive reference material for literary study, including: biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works.
- LitFinder
Access full text poems, stories, speeches, essays and plays.
- Mango Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. A Massillon Public Library card is required to use this 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.
A gateway to selected resources available in the Local History Collection at the Massillon Public Library. Includes: the Obituary Index, the Rotch-Wales Papers and the Massillon Business and Industry Database.
A non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality health information and education services.
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.
A collection of over 400 articles form the site's hub, or SciClopedia
To access this database with a library card, click HERE.
A full text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from 17 Ohio newspapers and 13 national newspapers.
Provides full text from 194 full text newspapers and other sources.
Historical newspaper database. View, save and print full-page newspapers dating from 1759 to 1977.
An index to the obituary records of Massillon'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.
username: masspl
password: ohiocis03
A computer-based career information system containing a wealth of educational and occupational data.
Downloadable digital collection including eBooks, audio books, music and movies.
Includes Ohio-based information, Ohio Fundamental Documents, Ohio Newspaper Index, and more.
A free and fully searchable online archive of Ohio History's issues spanning from 1887 through 2004.
An online scrapbook of Ohio history.
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.
One-stop source for information on social issues.
Brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works.
Contains detailed information on nearly 12 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households.
Contains personal and business correspondence, diaries, documents, accounts, ledgers, and daybooks of Thomas Rotch and Arvine Wales I.
Provides a searchable interface for locating historical Maps of Ohio towns and cities.
Overview of the sciences, including diagrams and illustrations.
A search tool designed for children.
A tool for students to customize a search of EBSCOhost databases by topic, age level and choice of information resource.
- Picture books with animation and music
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.
TumbleBooks are an online collection of read-along, animated titles for children.Hundreds of titles are available through the Tumble Library including:
- Early readers with highlighted text
- Chapter books with suggested reading levels
- Puzzles & games that compliment the selected texts, with lesson plan suggestions for educators
- Selections in English, French and Spanish
The World Book Online Reference Center includes encyclopedia and reference articles, photographs, maps, videos, animations and audio clips.
Early World of Learning offers an interactive learning environment for children in preschool and early elementary grades, which includes resources to help them grasp critical early childhood themes while developing reading and oral language skills.
The Student Discovery Encyclopedia includes learning activities, illustrations, diagrams and maps.
