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Michigan Electronic Library

MeL LogoMeL provides a core set of over 40 subscription databases for Michigan residents. The $4.3 million worth of electronic resources includes millions of articles from over 45,000 indexed magazines and newspapers, close to 9,000 of which are full text. The ebook collection includes 15,000 full-text non-fiction titles.

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Academic OneFile

 

Recommended for: Colleges and Universities. Mostly full text. Academic OneFile is the premiere source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Wit... More

ArchiveGrid

 

Recommended for: General User. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers can learn about the many items in eac...More

ArticleFirst

 

Recommended for: Colleges and Universities. Index only. OCLC's ArticleFirst contains articles and other items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Michigan residents or Michigan library ...More

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

 

Recommended for: Genealogy. Index only. Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover i...More

Books and Authors

 

Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A database to help you decide what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre, title, author, and series. Includes over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner, and...More

Business and Company Resource Center

 

Recommended for: General user, Professionals. Mostly full text. Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, inv...More

CAMIO® - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

 

Recommended for: General user. CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—is a premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide...More

ChiltonLibrary.com

 

Recommended for: General user. Full text. ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make, and model comb...More

CINAHL Basic

 

Recommended for: General public and health professionals. Limited full text. CINAHL provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, h...More

Computer Database

 

Recommended for: General use. Some full text. Computer Database has over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines and popular computing magazines. Michigan residents or Michigan library acces...More

ECO Electronic Collections Online

 

Recommended for colleges and universities. Some full text. A collection of scholarly journals in the sciences and social sciences. Includes agriculture, library science, anthropology, literature, ...More

Educator's Reference Complete

 

Recommended for: Educators and Parents. Full text. Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference ...More

eLibrary Elementary

 

Recommended for: K-12. All full text. Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.More

ERIC

 

Recommended for: Educators and Parents. Mostly full text. Contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the...More

Expanded Academic ASAP

 

Recommended for: Junior and Community Colleges. Mostly full text. Magazine, newspaper and journal articles appropriate to college and university -level research. All topics. Michigan residents or Mich...More

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

 

Recommended for: General user. All full text. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials ...More

General BusinessFile ASAP

 

Recommended for: General user. All full text. Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination ...More

General OneFile

 

Recommended for general user. Mostly full text. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental i...More

General Reference Center Gold

 

Recommended for: General user. Mostly full text. General Reference Center Gold on InfoTrac Web provides one-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, hi...More

GPO Monthly Catalog

 

Recommended for: General user. Index only. The GPO Monthly Catalog through OCLC includes thousands of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judici...More

Health and Wellness Resource Center

 

Recommended for: Students, Patients, Health Professionals. Mostly full text. Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical j...More

Health Reference Center Academic

 

Recommended for: Students, Patients, Health Professionals. Mostly full text. Provides access to professional and personal health magazines, journals and reference sources. Michigan residents or Michig...More

Heritage of the Printed Book

 

Recommended for: Colleges and Universities. The Hand Press Book Database is a unique and growing catalog of European printing in the early modern era or “hand-press period” (15th century to the 1830...More

HeritageQuest Online

 

Recommended for: Genealogy, local history and biography researchers. Some full text. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images and extensive indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuse...More

History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM)

 

Recommended for: Colleges and universities. HSTM integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia I...More

Informe!

 

Recommended for: Spanish Language Resources. Full text. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Mi...More

InfoTrac Junior Edition

 

Recommended for: Middle and Junior High School. Full text. Over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a var...More

InfoTrac Newstand

 

Recommended for: General user. All full text. A collection of over 1,000 full text newspapers from around the country and the world. Includes the New York Times (1985-current)...More

InfoTrac Student Edition

 

Recommended for: High School. Mostly full text. Over 1,100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this database gives access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and...More

Kids InfoBits

 

Recommended for: K-6. All full text. Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graph...More

LearningExpress Library

 

Recommended for: General user. Interactive online learning platform of academic and licensing/certification practice tests, elementary level testing for math and reading. Includes a section that take...More

LegalTrac

 

Recommended for: General user, professional. Some full text. Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety ...More

MEDLINE

 

Recommended for: Patients and health professionals. Some full text. Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. From the National Library of Medicine. Michigan residents or Michiga...More

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MeLCat

 

Recommended for: General user. A catalog of materials available through Michigan libraries. Patrons of participating libraries can order items from other statewide participating libraries and have the...More

Michigan Authors and Illustrators

 

Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A searcheable database of Michigan authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information. Indicates whether person will do library pre...More

NetLibrary

 

Recommended for: General user. All full text. Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. Consider using a keyword search (in the drop-down menu) rather than the default full-text search. Michigan res...More

New York Times

 

Recommended for: General user. All full text. The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.More

NewsBank Michigan Newspapers

 

Recommended for: General user. Full text of the Detroit News (1/1/1999-Current, Grand Rapids Press (2002-Current), and Lansing State Journal (1/1/1999-Current). Michigan residents or Michigan librar...More

NoveList

 

Recommended for: Readers of fiction (all ages), librarians, and teachers. Helps to find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author, title, series, plots, or even books like the one you ju...More

OAIster

 

Recommended for: General User. This catalog of digitized materials includes books, articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors worldwide. ...More

SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

 

Recommended for: General user and Colleges and universities. Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence. This database provides bibliog...More

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe

 

Recommended for: K-9. All full text. A children's database of articles, books, video, audio on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children and includes reading levels, teacher's help pages, o...More

SIRS Renaissance

 

Recommended for: High school, College and University. Full text. Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing art...More

Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)

 

Recommended for: General user. Some full text. In the 1960s, the Michigan State University (MSU) Library began to collect printed turfgrass materials. In 1968, the personal collection of the late O.J....More

WilsonSelectPlus

 

Recommended for: High School, College. All full text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.More

World Almanacs

 

Recommended for: General user. Contains full text of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids, The World Almanac of the U. S. A., The World Alm...More

WorldCat

 

Recommended for: General user. The world's largest online catalog of books and magazines. Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the item. Michigan residents or Michigan library ac...More

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