Online Databases

Ancestry.com -- Ancestry.com provides family history information online through census records; birth, marriage, and death records; military records; court, land, and probate records; immigration records; periodicals and newspapers; and community information.

NOTE – This database can be accessed from Sedalia Public Library only.

Business Searching Interface -- At the EBSCOhost site, scroll down to access Business Searching Interface. Business Searching Interface is designed for business libraries. Business Source Priemier is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides indexing, abstracts and full text back to 1965. Business Source Premier provides comprehansive coverage in marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website; however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.

EBSCOhost -- EBSCOhost provides access to full-text information on a broad range of topics including general, business, health, and multi-cultural interests. Age-appropriate publications provide information from current and authoritative journals, magazines, pamphlets, newsletters, and reference books on many topics. An EBSCOhost search also provides Business Searching Interface; Student Research Center; Searchasaurus; Kids Search; and Novelist databases.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website;however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.

Heritage Quest -- Family history search in complete set of U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790-1930 with information on people and places in over 25,000 family and local histories.

NOTE – This database can be accessed from Sedalia Public Library only.

Kids Search -- At the EBSCOhost site, scroll down to access Kids Search. Kids Search offers a graphic look and feel and can be searched by keyword, topic, or subtopic.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website; however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.

Learn-A-Test -- Learn-A-Test provides hundreds of practice tests and tutorial courses series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Patrons get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individual analysis of the results.

REMOTE ACCESS AVAILABLE – Patrons pre-register a user name and password at Sedalia Public Library then this database can be accessed remotely.

Medline Plus -- A service of the U. S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health. Get answers to your medical questions.

NetLibrary -- eBooks -- Any books in the Sedalia Public Library collection listed as eBooks in the catalog may be remotely accessed by setting up a free account at the library. After the pre-registration, the user name and password will allow patrons to access the eBooks from any computer.

REMOTE ACCESS AVAILABLE – Patrons pre-register a user name and password at Sedalia Public Library then this database can be accessed remotely.

NewsBank -- NewsBank provides the full text of news features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, sports reports, obituaries and more from Missouri publications: Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Springfield News-Leader. Nationwide newspapers are also available: Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Wichita Eagle, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Des Moines Register, Louisville Courier Journal, Tulsa World and Christian Science Monitor.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website; however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.

Novelist -- At the EBSCOhost site, scroll down to access Novelist. Novelist is a readers’ advisory with tools such as “Find a Favorite Author” to locate a list of your favorite author’s titles or titles of authors that write in a similar style with the tool, “Find Similar Books” feature. You can find titles of “read aloud” for nursery schools and Novelist will also tell you the list of titles in series in the reading order with “Find a Series Name” feature.

NOTE – This database can be accessed from Sedalia Public Library or remotely after pre-registration at the library.

Searchasaurus -- At the EBSCOhost site, scroll down to access Searchasaurus. Searchasaurus is designed for elementary and middle school students. Searchasaurus provides access to a dictionary, an encyclopedia, magazine articles, and an image library. Lexile limiters (reading level) are included.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website; however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.

Student Research Center -- At the EBSCOhost site, scroll down to access Student Research Center. The Student Research Center is designed for students in grades 6-12. Students can easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases by selecting magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, film & video in their search. Students can also search the databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website; however, no user name or password is required to use the database at Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter User Name: Sed + patron id and Password: Please call the library to obtain the password for remote access of this database.