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Popular Research Tools

Some of our most popular research tools. They offer a good place to start.

Historic Image Collection

Images of Jackson’s past.

The tools to help you grow from idea to business, team to organization.

Business and Nonprofit Resources

Business and investment for entrepreneurs and non-profit groups.

Antiques and Collectibles

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Family History and People

Your source for the stories and data of real lives.

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Resources for the reader

Find your next great read, or dig deeper into the books you already love.

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Help for students at every level

Your source for scholarships, educational resources, and homework help.

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Local and Federal Governmental Resources

Your government

Taking charge of your well being

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Local History and Information

Local History, Jackson County resources

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Resume and job application help

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Newspapers & Magazines

Worldwide news from past to present

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Discover something new

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The detailed information you need to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs.

Here you will find articles, databases, journals, and other sources of answer-getting. Many of these tools have been paid for by the library and are only accessible to visitors that have a library card. You may need to click through links, enter your Jackson District Library card number, or use these sites inside the library.

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Academic OneFile - Search thousands of periodical, news content and journals.
Ancestry Library Edition (In Library use only) - Largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical compilations.
Bookletters - Great resource for finding the latest bestsellers and award winning books. Signup for the book review newsletters here.
Books in Print Professional Edition - Contains over 20 million global titles including books, ebooks, audio books, and multimedia titles.
Britannica School - Elementary A trusted source of articles, media, and reference tools for students and educators at the elementary level. Within each database, teachers have access to lesson plans based on current Common Core standards, and have the ability to search based on standard.
Britannica School - Middle A trusted source of articles, media, and reference tools for students and educators at the middle school level. Within each database, teachers have access to lesson plans based on current Common Core standards, and have the ability to search based on standard.
Britannica School - High A trusted source of articles, media, and reference tools for students and educators at the high school level. Within each database, teachers have access to lesson plans based on current Common Core standards, and have the ability to search based on standard.
Business and Company ASAP - Provides access to leading business and management journals, trade journals, newspapers and directories needed for in-depth research on companies, products, markets,industries, economics and management disciplines.
Business Decision - Enables you to research consumer market data, demographic data, and market segmentation data associated with geographies you customize such as addresses, ZIP Codes, cities, and much more.
Business Insights: Global - Uses case studies, statistical data sources, newsarticles, academic journals and topical reference materials organized by country, company and industry to quickly engage users in the global business environment.

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Chilton's- Reference sources for Do-It-Yourself automotive enthusiasts and professionals.
Computer Database - Comprehensiveinformation about the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Criminal Justice Collection - Full-textcriminal justice articles from hundreds of journals.
Cross Search Databases (InfoTrac) - Search all ofInfoTrac databases at once.

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DemographicNow- is a comprehensive business and residentialreference and research tool. Users can produce comprehensive business and residential lists as well as detailed demographic reports — users can even utilize a unique mapping tool that'visualizes' trends.

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Expanded Academic ASAP - Fulltext articlesof every academic concentration journals in a large database.

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Gale Directory Library - A digital library of dozens of directories from business information to non-profits to government research information.
Gale Legal Forms Library - Provides convenient, authoritative means for understanding common legal procedures through access to "attorney forms".Continuously updated to reflect the latest state laws.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
General BusinessFile ASAP - Broker researchreports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directories.
General OneFile - Magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of topics.
Grolier Online - Includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.
General Reference Center Gold - General interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles.

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Health Reference Center Academic - Health-related research.
Health & WellnessResource Center - Electronic resource center for all levels of health research.
Heritage Quest - Resource site for census data, family records,and local histories.
Historic Map Works - View historicalmaps throughout the U.S.

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Informe - Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool provides indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations.
InfoTrac Junior Edition - Magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
InfoTrac StudentEdition - Quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions.
InfoTrac Newsstand - Collection of full-text newspapers from around the United States and the world.

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Jackson Citizen Patriot (2000-Current via NewsBank) - Provides access toJackson Citizen Patriot articles dating back to 02-13-2000.

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Kids InfoBits - Curriculum-relatedinformation on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.

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Learning Express Library - Practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons-students and adult learners-succeed on the academic or licensing test they must pass.
LegalTrac - All major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles.

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Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) - Order books, audio books, music, movies and other materials delivered to your participating library.
Morningstar Investment Research Center -Designed specifically for individual investors, this database includes research on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETF's). The database also allows you tobuild and test a portfolio and to take interactive workshops and classes to sharpen your investing.

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New York Times - Full text newspaper.
Novelist -Assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes information on more than 150,000 titles, including authors, publication information, subjects, book reviews, discussionguides, and feature articles. Also featured are 1200 theme-oriented booklists, 150 award lists, and links to 1000 fiction related web sites.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context- Helpsstudents research different viewpoints on a wide variety of topics, analyze and organize a broad variety of data, complete writing assignments, prepare for debates, create presentations andmore.

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Prices 4 Antiques - International prices forantiques and collectibles and early American antique furniture.

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Reference USA - 10.5 million businesses with the ability to search bycompany name, type of business, geography, business size and more.

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Something About the Author Online -Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, whichexamines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. Something About the Author Onlineincludes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

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Transparent Language Online - Over 80 different languages available, with 1,500-2,000 words and phrases for every language. Transparent Language Online includes 24 ESL courses for those looking to learn English.
TumbleBook Library - Collection of animated, talking picture bookscreated from existing picture books.
Tumblebookcloud - An online collection of ebooks and read-along chapterbooks, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books! Readers can adjust the text size, line width and spacing, font style and color, and the background color on all books.
Turfgrass Information File - Comprehensive publicly available collection ofturfgrass educational materials in the world.

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WorldCat FirstSearch (OCLC) - Books,journals, videos, music scores and recordings, maps, and other materials in over 10,000 libraries around the world. Also includes about 30 million journal and magazine articles.

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