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News
Alaska Newspapers
Access provided by America's News to Alaskan news sources including the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Juneau Empire, Kodiak Daily Mirror, Peninsula Clarion, and many more.
Alaska Polar and Periodical Index (APPI)
A localized index for Alaskan newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletter articles and the polar regions. Citations only. [Date Range: 1890 - Current]
Anchorage Daily News Collection
Search more than 30 years of Alaska history with The Anchorage Daily News Collection. Coverage from 1985 through current. Explore current and archived issues of The Anchorage Daily News with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online.
Hispanic Life in America
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.
Master File
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
US Major Dailies
US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers:
- The New York Times
- Washington Post
- Los Angeles Times
- Chicago Tribune
- Wall Street Journal
With print and online editions, the titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and global events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8 AM U.S. Eastern time each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1980. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Reference
Chilton Library
Chilton Library provides quick access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today. Coverage includes vehicles from 1940 to current models. This resource includes the Delmar ASE Technician Sample Tests, which provide a high-level assessment of overall readiness to pass an ASE certification exam.
Consumer Health Complete
Health articles for the average person, includes drug index and reports.
Digital Public Library of America
Photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents--shared by America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions--all free and immediately available in digital format.
Ebsco Host
Includes about 30 databases containing citations and full text publications in a variety of subject areas across magazines, newspapers, and journals.
Gale in Context
Includes access to over 150 ebooks, as well as full text of magazines and newspapers, and multimedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Center
Gale Encyclopedia of Law and Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
This resource is no longer available due to cuts to the Alaska State Library budget. If you used this resource and want to request it be continued, please e-mail HERE.
Home Improvement Reference Center
This resource is no longer available due to cuts to the Alaska State Library budget. If you used this resource and want to request it be continued, please e-mail HERE.
Law Depot
LawDepot offers legal forms in minutes with high-quality, easy-to-use, and completely customizable legal documents and templates. Also available through the Libby app.
Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library® provides users with easy-to-use interactive tutorials, e-books and test preparation practice for academic skills improvement in reading, writing, math, social studies and science. The career-related information, test preparation for college admissions, professional career licensing and certification, and high school equivalency are only a few of the many learning tools available.
MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
Medline
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
NoveList
Find fiction books based on interests and author readalikes.
SLED: A to Z Databases
SLED, the Statewide Library Electronic Doorway, is an easy-to-use website that connects people to high quality Alaska information.
World Book Encyclopedia
Full access to the World Book Encyclopedia suite of online learning tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, games, eBooks, maps, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related websites.
World Book Video Tutorials
Collection of video tutorials to help familiarize World Book Encyclopedia users with the resources.
WorldCat
Sources for interlibrary loans.