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.

Gale InfoTrac -- Gale provides access to full text information on a broad range of topics including general, business, health, and multicultural interests. Age-appropriate publications provide information from current and authoritative journals, magazines, pamphlets, newsletters, and reference books on many topics.

NOTE – This database is password protected if accessed from this website;however, no password is required to use the database from within the Sedalia Public Library. To obtain remote access enter Password: sed + patron id

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.

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.