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| Name of Resource | Description of Resource |
| Academic OneFile | Peer-reviewed articles covering all academic disciplines including physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. (Library card required.) |
| American Kennel Club Library and Archives (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Ancestry.com LibraryEdition (Only available at the St. Helens Public Library.) | |
| Chat with a librarian! Oregon’s online reference service – a place to find answers to questions and receive research guidance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Welcome to the AtoZ World Food Database! Find recipes based on what you have or make a shopping list of needed ingredients. (Library card required.) | |
| Features primary source documents. Find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence & more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Reader’s advisory tool that includes plot summaries, reading recommendations for similar titles, and searchable information on genre, characters, subjects, and time period. (Library card required.) | |
| ¡Chatear con bibliotecarios! Answerland es el servicio de referencia en línea de Oregon en cual los bibliotecarios ayudan a los residentes de Oregon a encontrar respuestas a preguntas y aconsejan sobre el proceso de investigar durante las 24 horas del día, a los 7 días de la semana. (Sito web, tarjeta de biblioteca no es requerido.) | |
| Official webpage of the Chinook Indian Nation which is made up of the five western-most Chinookan speaking tribes at the mouth of the Columbia River. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| A GALILEO initiative based at the University of Georgia Libraries that collaborates with Georgia's Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key resources. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon includes over 30 tribes and bands from western Oregon, northern California, and southwest Washington. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| The Confederated Tribes of Siletz is a federally recognized confederation of over 30 bands, originating from Northern California to Southern Washington. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Official webpage of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Discover 47,753,149 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. (Website, library card not required.) | |
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The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history. The DTA uses the term transgender to refer to a broad and inclusive range of non-normative gender practices. We treat transgender as a practice rather than an identity category in order to bring together a trans-historical and trans-cultural collection of materials related to trans-ing gender. We collect materials from anywhere in the world with a focus on materials created before the year 2000. (Website, library card not required.) |
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| Multimedia coverage of environmental issues, including health care and climate change. (Formerly GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)) (Library card required.) | |
| Read magazines on electronic devices. (Library card required.) | |
| Gale Ebooks offers encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research in eBook format. (Formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Library card required.) | |
| We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Magazine, journal, and news articles covering a full range of academic and general-interest topics. (Library card required.) | |
| Digitized Oregon newspapers from 1846 -2021 from the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program at the University of Oregon Libraries. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos. (Full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America). (Library card required.) | |
| Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Covers U.S. cases, laws, regulations and legal practice, plus international law. (Library card required.) | |
| The Libby app was built for public library readers to enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from their library. (Library card required.) | |
| Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. (Library card required.) | |
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Stream your favorite old and new concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes and jazz programs. (Library card required.) |
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| NASA | Official website for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, America’s civil space program exploring, discovering, and expanding knowledge for the benefit of humanity. |
| Perform research on people, places, events and other topics of interest. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Science, nature, culture and space content from National Geographic publications for kids ages 6-14. (Library card required) | |
| The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics. It also supports, promotes, and provides access to health information in communities across the United States. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. (Website, library card not required.) | |
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Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our maps. (Website, library card not required.) |
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Full-text news articles from U.S. and international news sources. (Library card required.) |
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| A regional partnership that enhances access and discoverability to local history collections throughout Oregon and Washington via the Digital Public Library of America. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Continuously updated information and opinions covering today’s most debated political and social issues. (Library card required.) | |
| The Oregon Blue Book is the state's official almanac and fact book. Published since 1911, it is produced by the Oregon State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State's Office. It contains listings and descriptions of government agencies and educational institutions. It also features an almanac, maps, facts about Oregon history and elections, as well as information on the arts, media, and other cultural institutions in Oregon. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Explore Oregon's history and culture — from Athapaskan Indians to Zigzag Ranger Station. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| A collection of more than 15,000 open access ebooks that are available for free download. (Website, library card not required.) | |
| Instantly access periodical and reference content in multiple Gale resources from a single starting point while also cross-searching eBooks in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. (Library card required.) | |
| Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadanía en español | |
| The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company. NOTE: The online presentation includes entries from all 50 United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba sugar warehouses, and U.S. whiskey warehouses. Geographic locations may have changed due to boundary moves of counties or cities becoming independent or merging into other cities. (Website, library card not required.) |
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| The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives. (Website, library card not required.) | |
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Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. (Library card required.) |
