Online ResourcesThe Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) is a consortium of over 300 Kentucky libraries and institutions, including colleges and universities, public libraries, K12 schools, hospitals, the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA), and more. As a member of KYVL our patrons have access to over 60 research and educational databases. Below you can find the link to access KYVL, if you want to access these databases from outside the library please contact your branch for instructions. If you need a library card, please check out our get a library card page!
If you are looking for quality information, you are in the right place. We offer dozens of research databases and information sources to help you learn what you need to know. You will need a physical library card or a digital patron card number to access our databases.
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Use your library barcode and PIN to access this and all of our library databases. If you don’t have a card with us, consider signing up for a Digital Only account.
BSCOhost – Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, full-text database designed for academic institutions.
The database contains indexing for 8,176 publications, with full-text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library.
This database contains more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports related to agriculture.
Alt-PressWatch includes full-text newspapers and magazines from alternative, independent presses, providing an unmatched, multidisciplinary resource for researchers seeking an alternative to mainstream media perspectives.
The magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press provide in-depth coverage of a broad range of subjects, including:
Government
Public Policy
Culture
Local, National and International Issues
Religion
And More
Are you related to a famous historical figure? Does royal blood run in your family? Research your family tree at the library!
The world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to in-library users, whether on our public computers or your own device via our public Wi-Fi. Answers await everyone — professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian – inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Unlock the story of your family with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps and more.
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You can only access Ancestry Library Edition while at the library.
Access the website on our public computers or on your own device while connected to our public Wi-Fi.
All information obtained on the website can be downloaded onto removable storage devices such as a flash or external hard drive. The website also has a feature that allows you to send documents to your email address.
This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
The mission of the Boone County Historical Society is to develop awareness and promote an appreciation for the history of Boone County.
The Boone County Historical Society publishes a bi-monthly newsletter. They also have meetings, which can be found on the website.
Boone County Public Library’s History and Genealogy Resources
Boone County Public Library has the most comprehensive collection of Boone County historical information.
The Local History Librarian collects all available information on the history of Boone County and its families. As a result, Boone County Public Library has the most comprehensive collection of Boone County historical information.
Combines Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, plus magazines and periodicals, an atlas, biographies, eBooks and other tools.
Britannica Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the insightful Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, periodicals and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research—all from one resource.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna is a Spanish language reference center for more advanced users. It features articles, images, a dictionary, an atlas and timelines.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
For native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish. Includes Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
Britannica Fundamentals is an early learning product for students in grade levels kindergarten through second grade. Formerly the Learning Zone, the updated platform has improved the utilization of Britannica School by providing content designed and written specifically for early learners.
Welcome to the Britannica Library!
To start, users can choose one of three encyclopedias. Digital resources include current magazines, thousands of up-to-date articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools and recommended websites. Instantly define words with Merriam-Webster’s pop-up Dictionary & Thesaurus.
Content in Britannica Library is updated daily by an editorial team with new and revised articles and multimedia — at least 1,200 pieces of content per month — to keep users informed and engaged. Users can create an account and sign in to save their content and resources.
Access academic resources for elementary through high school students with this easy-to-navigate service. The content of Britannica School is reliable, age-appropriate, updated continuously and closely correlated to all curriculum standards.
Select an article and adjust its complexity with a single click while maintaining the age-appropriate look and clean format — ideal for classes of students at multiple reading levels! Read-aloud functionality and a font size changer are just a few of the features specifically helpful for students with special needs. It also offers tools such as writing how-tos and step-by-step guides on researching.
Business Source Premier offers both indexing and abstracts for 350 scholarly business journals, dating back to the first published issue in 1965. This database covers full-text journals in all disciplines of business. This includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
A center for historical information specifically about Campbell County, Kentucky. The volunteer-run society has published 25 books, which are available for purchase.
The office in the Alexandria Courthouse contains a library with microfilm and microfiche, books, magazines, an 1883 atlas of Campbell, Boone and Kenton Counties, veteran’s information and a museum room with artifacts.
Visiting hours are as follows:
Tuesdays: 10 am – 5 pm
Thursdays: 10 am – 2 pm
Saturdays: 10 am – 2 pm
Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries and high schools offering technical courses.
The database includes over 600 titles. Both students and instructors can access the database to research virtually any technical topic, including:
Computing science
Healthcare
Building trades
Auto mechanics
Sales and retail
Accounting
Graphic design
Photography
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982
Over 250,000 records
Abstracts for over 250 journals, including over 450 author-supplied abstracts
Indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, videos, educational software packages and audiovisual material
Internal subject thesaurus with over 7,000 terms—2,000 unique to CINAHL
The Cincinnati Enquirer is a daily newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio. USA Today is an American daily newspaper and news broadcast company.
Campbell County Public Library patrons can request access to digital versions of The Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today with their library accounts.
Located in the Cincinnati Museum Center, this library is a collection of historical information about Cincinnati and the region. Since 1831, they have been collecting and preserving materials relating to the Greater Cincinnati area, the state of Ohio and the Old Northwest Territory.
The library is free and open to the public from noon-4 pm on Thursdays and Fridays by appointment only.
Today, it houses one of the most significant regional history collections in the United States with thousands of books, pamphlets, maps, manuscripts, photographs and films.
A database of pre-1940 photographs, postcards and slides depicting local landmarks, events and people from Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky.
A great place to browse old photos of the Greater Cincinnati area.
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This database is for consumers, not doctors, so the information is easy-to-find and understand. Materials include videos, articles, magazines, drug and herb information, a medical dictionary, recent news and more.
This full-text database covers topics such as:
Aging
Cancer
Diabetes
Drugs & Alcohol
Fitness
Nutrition & Dietetics
Access product reports from the most trusted name in reviews, Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports offers in-depth reviews for cars, appliances, electronics and more.
When confronted with critical decisions about the products and services that matter most, consumers are bombarded with an onslaught of marketing, advertising, opinions and options. That’s why for over 80 years, Consumer Reports has empowered consumers with the knowledge they need to make better and more informed choices—and has battled in the public and private sectors for safer products and fair market practices.
ConsumerSafety.org strives to make information about recalls and safety-related news about drugs, medical devices, food and consumer products accessible to everyone in a transparent, easily understandable way.
ConsumerSafety.org uses a variety of sources to collect data about recent recalls, news stories and dangerous products. They build on that data by adding their own research and content; they make the resulting safety information available for free.
The Digital Public Library of America connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
DigitalLearn.org is an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant-funded project to create an online hub for digital literacy support and training. The site launched in June 2013 and is intended to build upon and foster the work of libraries and community organizations as they work to increase digital literacy across the nation.
Topics include lessons in how to be safe online, job skills, how to use computers and mobile devices and more.
Included in DigitalLearn.org is a collection of self-directed tutorials to increase digital literacy, and a community for sharing resources, tools and best practices.
This foundation is responsible for the preservation of homes and other buildings in the East Row Historic District of Newport, KY.
The foundation sponsors tours of the homes and also educates people about preservation and restoration of older buildings.
This eBook collection supports a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all subject areas taught in elementary and middle schools. It’s an effective way to provide educators with full-text eBooks to support their curricula.
Agriculture
American history
Anthropology
Education
Geography
History of the Americas
Language
Literature
Recreation
Science
Technology
Educate Station is a one-stop destination for young learners. The site encourages hands-on learning through materials organized by age/grade level and subject.
Educate Station provides free educational resources, such as:
Week-by-week learning plans
Worksheets
Hands-on learning activities
More to come soon!
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. The database contains more than one million records and links to more than 260,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research
Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topics to give students research ideas
Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency
Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
Lexile® Measures to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
Explora Educator’s Edition provides access to lesson plans, curriculum standards and other professional development resources for educators
Free family history, family tree and genealogy records from around the world.
The most complete and useful web resource about famous quotes! Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors for free.
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to cannabis. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Opposing Viewpoints is a rich resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science and more.
The GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
Topics include:
Microsoft Office
Email
Reading
Math
GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. This includes well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from climate change to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Composed of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
Health Source helps you find authoritative information on health-related questions. This database is perfect for people looking for common health information!
This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, women’s health, and more. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines including:
American Fitness
Better Nutrition
Harvard Health Letter
Men’s Health
Muscle & Fitness
Prevention
Vegetarian Times
The major center of Northern Kentucky historical and genealogical sources. You can search NKY historical records online or see more physical items at Kenton County Public Library’s main library in downtown Covington.
Kentucky Dept. for Libraries & Archives (KDLA) houses the public records of Kentucky, or those created by state and local government agencies.
These records include deed books, marriage records, will books, circuit and appellate court case files, census and military records, and records from many state agencies, including the Governor’s Office.
Kentucky Digital Library works to provide the public with many sources to expand research, knowledge and interest. This resource makes it easy to view primary and secondary sources relating to Kentucky history. It houses collections from universities, real estate listings, newspapers, maps, images and more.
The Kentucky Heritage Council is charged with identifying, preserving and protecting the historic resources of Kentucky.
The Heritage Council has successfully encouraged the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in all contexts and advocated that historic preservation should be a key public policy initiative to:
Encourage economic development
Provide affordable housing
Revitalize downtowns and neighborhoods
Provide life-long learning opportunities
Enhance Kentucky’s quality of life
Kentucky Historical Society collects, preserves, conserves, interprets and shares information, memories and materials from Kentucky’s past.
Here’s what they have to offer:
Museum collections housing more than 106,000 artifacts
Oral history collection containing around 35,000 oral history interviews
Libraries and special collections housing more than 90,000 published works, 16,000 reels of microfilm, 200,000 historic photographs, 1,900 cubic feet of manuscripts and 2,000 maps
Kynect is Kentucky’s health insurance marketplace.
By using kynect, you may receive payment assistance, special discounts or tax credits to help cover the costs of coverage for you, your family or your employees.
Kynect has expanded its mission to be your one-stop-shop for a whole range of benefits and resources, all designed to keep your family safe, healthy and happy. Find out all that kynect can help you do by answering a few quick questions. As always, kynect is a program of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Kynect will allow you to compare and select insurance plans and find out if you qualify for programs like Medicaid or the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Whatever your goal, LearningExpress will help you succeed. Each of its Learning Centers offer the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work or in life.
Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.
Online exercises for:
Math
Reading
GED Prep
U.S. Citizen Training
SAT Prep
ACT Prep
PSAT/NMSQT Prep
And More!
The Adult Core Skills Center helps adults achieve their personal, education and career goals by offering resources to help them improve their basic skills in reading, writing and math. The center also has materials to help adults prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam.
Are you preparing for a professional exam? Are you curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? Choose the Career Preparation Center and begin your path to a bright future.
Getting into college is an important step to building a strong future. First, you must do well on your college admission tests and write a personal essay that highlights your special talents. Use this center to get the resources you need to achieve your college preparation goals.
The College Center provides valuable resources that help college students strengthen their academic skills, prepare for placement tests and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.
Video courses are the fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer. Use the videos and materials in the Computer Skills Center to learn the basics of computers, from searching the internet to using popular software programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design and more.
Earning a high school equivalency credential can open the door to better income, a more fulfilling job and a college education. If you are preparing for the GED test, the GED Test Prep Center’s practice tests, interactive tutorials and eBooks will help you reach your goal.
Supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies. This LearningExpress Library Center provides tools educators can use to help students in grades 4-8 build skills in math, English language arts, and social studies and prepare for high school entrance exams. Students may also use these resources independently.
This LearningExpress Library Center provides resources to help you build classroom and homework skills in math, English language arts, social studies, science and technology.
Whether you’re looking to find a new job in your current field or pursue a career in an exciting new industry, Job & Career Accelerator has the powerful tools and expert guidance to help you through every step of the process to succeed in today’s job market. Don’t wait. Get started now!
Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadanía en español. Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.
This center provides learning tools as well as career and citizenship resources to help busy adults improve their basic skills, earn a GED® credential or become a U.S. citizen.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 core journals and more than 80 selective journals. Coverage in this free research database extends as far back as the mid-1960s. LISTA also includes author profiles and a robust thesaurus.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra – School Edition contains nearly 500 popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). The database also contains pamphlets, reference books and lots of images.
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for thousands of general reference magazines and publications. It covers a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
MasterFILE Premier contains PDF backfiles as far back as 1922 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
This authoritative database provides full text, cover-to-cover indexing for journals indexed in MEDLINE. These top journals cover a wide range of subjects within the biomedical and health fields containing information needed by doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. After accessing the resource through the library, you can create a free EBSCO account to save documents, create search alerts and use other features.
Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and more than 1.2 million relevant photos, maps and flags.
Designed for middle schoolers, this database contains full text for popular middle school magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays. In addition, it includes primary source documents, reference books and a vast image collection.
The Newport Historic Preservation Office answers questions about restoring buildings and neighborhoods in Newport, Kentucky. The office has a collection of books available for use. Staff can look up particular topics of interest to you and put together a packet that suits your needs.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Newspapers Include:
USA Today
The Washington Post
The Times (London)
Toronto Star
Browse this collection of images and texts on the history of Northern Kentucky, including some visual histories for Boone, Campbell, Kenton and other NKY counties.
Other Northern Kentucky counties pictured include:
Bracken
Carroll
Gallatin
Grant
Mason
Owen
Pendleton
Trimble
If you are a fiction fan, try to find your next great read using NoveList. NoveList is an easy to search database of fiction titles. Using the titles and authors you like, NoveList searches for the right titles for you.
EBSCO Open Dissertations is a multi-disciplinary database with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
The database now includes content from American Doctoral Dissertations.
Preservation Kentucky is the Commonwealth’s statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization. They are a membership-based organization devoted to preserving buildings, structures and sites in every region and town in the state.
Preservation Kentucky is committed to preserving vestiges of all Kentuckians’ past – from shotgun houses in Louisville to African-American rural communities across the state to roadside architecture, such as the Parkette Drive-In in Lexington, to important prehistoric archaeological sites.
Primary Search covers a wide range of general interest topics for children. The database includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
All full-text articles, many available in color PDF, are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles) to provide educators with an estimate of the result’s reading difficulty and the approximate grade-level reading ability required for comprehension.
An essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals.
In addition, EBSCO has PDF backfiles for many key journals back to the 1960s and 1970s, including British Journal of Psychology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Genetic Psychology, Journal of Psychology, Journal of Social Psychology and others.
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s History and Genealogy Department is one of the best genealogy research collections in the country. You can access these materials by visiting the History and Genealogy Department at the Main Library in downtown Cincinnati.
Regional Business News provides comprehensive coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Content is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US and more. Key resources include newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires, with full-text content coverage spanning more than 30 years.
Senior Planet from AARP equips older adults with training and resources to navigate the digital world. The library offers monthly technology trainings through a partnership with Senior Planet.
Senior Planet is more than the latest gadgets, apps, and websites. They are a nonprofit organization that brings older adults together. Senior Planet’s free classes, articles, videos, and activities help seniors learn new skills, save money, exercise, make new friends, and so much more. Here’s what you can explore daily with Senior Planet:
Online classes
Original articles for older adults
Social media platform Senior Planet Community – exclusive to seniors
Technology Help Hotline and Virtual Tech Appointments
Additional resources, like tech tip videos, how to use Zoom, and more!
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books.
It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.
With hundreds of full-text scholarly journals and coverage spanning over 100 years, Sociological Collection provides an indispensable source of content pertaining to sociology and its related areas of study.
Full-text titles covered in the database include:
Addiction Research & Theory
American Journal of Family Therapy
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal
Feminist Studies
Journal of Social Work Education
Social Work
Sociological Research
Theory Into Practice
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books is here to help you succeed.
This database provides coverage on key education topics such as:
Assessment
Continuing Education
Current Pedagogical Research
Curriculum Development
Instructional Media
Language Arts
Literacy Standards
Science & Mathematics
And more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
Teen Book Cloud is an online database of eBooks and educator resources perfect for middle or high schoolers. It offers over 1,000 titles in a variety of formats including eBooks, graphic novels, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources and audiobooks.
The collection is available online around the clock. No downloads, no waiting! If you can access the internet, you can be reading, watching or listening to fantastic content.
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Access story books that are created by adding animation and narration to existing picture books. The electronic picture books can be read by children or to them.
The TumbleBooks Library also includes:
eBooks for early readers and advanced readers
Graphic novels
Non-fiction titles
Videos from National Geographic
Titles in Spanish and French
Puzzles and games
And more!
Universal Class is the place to continue your education online and fulfill all your lifelong learning goals. There are over 500 courses that are accessible 24/7 online.
Universal Class is completely free with your library card. Courses include lessons, videos, exams, assignments and discussion boards. All courses are self-paced. You can also earn a certificate documenting your continuing education units (CEUs), contact hours and course completion.
A valid Campbell County Public Library card is required to create a Universal Class account. Visit the link above to get started. The first time you visit Universal Class, you’ll be prompted to create a free account.
Invest smarter. Whether you’re a beginning investor or a veteran looking for high-impact ideas, Value Line can position you for financial success quickly and easily.
The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. Value Line gathers the latest data from expert analysis to provide you with the power to evaluate investments with confidence. Make smarter, more profitable decisions with Value Line.
Business Source Premier offers both indexing and abstracts for 350 scholarly business journals, dating back to the first published issue in 1965. This database covers full-text journals in all disciplines of business. This includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
Regional Business News provides comprehensive coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Content is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US and more. Key resources include newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires, with full-text content coverage spanning more than 30 years.
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books.
It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.
Invest smarter. Whether you’re a beginning investor or a veteran looking for high-impact ideas, Value Line can position you for financial success quickly and easily.
The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. Value Line gathers the latest data from expert analysis to provide you with the power to evaluate investments with confidence. Make smarter, more profitable decisions with Value Line.
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This database is for consumers, not doctors, so the information is easy-to-find and understand. Materials include videos, articles, magazines, drug and herb information, a medical dictionary, recent news and more.
This full-text database covers topics such as:
Aging
Cancer
Diabetes
Drugs & Alcohol
Fitness
Nutrition & Dietetics
Access product reports from the most trusted name in reviews, Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports offers in-depth reviews for cars, appliances, electronics and more.
When confronted with critical decisions about the products and services that matter most, consumers are bombarded with an onslaught of marketing, advertising, opinions and options. That’s why for over 80 years, Consumer Reports has empowered consumers with the knowledge they need to make better and more informed choices—and has battled in the public and private sectors for safer products and fair market practices.
ConsumerSafety.org strives to make information about recalls and safety-related news about drugs, medical devices, food and consumer products accessible to everyone in a transparent, easily understandable way.
ConsumerSafety.org uses a variety of sources to collect data about recent recalls, news stories and dangerous products. They build on that data by adding their own research and content; they make the resulting safety information available for free.
GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. This includes well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from climate change to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Composed of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
Health Source helps you find authoritative information on health-related questions. This database is perfect for people looking for common health information!
This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, women’s health, and more. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines including:
American Fitness
Better Nutrition
Harvard Health Letter
Men’s Health
Muscle & Fitness
Prevention
Vegetarian Times
Kentucky Dept. for Libraries & Archives (KDLA) houses the public records of Kentucky, or those created by state and local government agencies.
These records include deed books, marriage records, will books, circuit and appellate court case files, census and military records, and records from many state agencies, including the Governor’s Office.
Invest smarter. Whether you’re a beginning investor or a veteran looking for high-impact ideas, Value Line can position you for financial success quickly and easily.
The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. Value Line gathers the latest data from expert analysis to provide you with the power to evaluate investments with confidence. Make smarter, more profitable decisions with Value Line.
BSCOhost – Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, full-text database designed for academic institutions.
The database contains indexing for 8,176 publications, with full-text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library.
This database contains more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports related to agriculture.
This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
Combines Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, plus magazines and periodicals, an atlas, biographies, eBooks and other tools.
Britannica Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the insightful Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, periodicals and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research—all from one resource.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna is a Spanish language reference center for more advanced users. It features articles, images, a dictionary, an atlas and timelines.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
For native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish. Includes Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school.
Create a free personal account to save, organize and add notes to your favorite content and multimedia resources.
Welcome to the Britannica Library!
To start, users can choose one of three encyclopedias. Digital resources include current magazines, thousands of up-to-date articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools and recommended websites. Instantly define words with Merriam-Webster’s pop-up Dictionary & Thesaurus.
Content in Britannica Library is updated daily by an editorial team with new and revised articles and multimedia — at least 1,200 pieces of content per month — to keep users informed and engaged. Users can create an account and sign in to save their content and resources.
Access academic resources for elementary through high school students with this easy-to-navigate service. The content of Britannica School is reliable, age-appropriate, updated continuously and closely correlated to all curriculum standards.
Select an article and adjust its complexity with a single click while maintaining the age-appropriate look and clean format — ideal for classes of students at multiple reading levels! Read-aloud functionality and a font size changer are just a few of the features specifically helpful for students with special needs. It also offers tools such as writing how-tos and step-by-step guides on researching.
Business Source Premier offers both indexing and abstracts for 350 scholarly business journals, dating back to the first published issue in 1965. This database covers full-text journals in all disciplines of business. This includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries and high schools offering technical courses.
The database includes over 600 titles. Both students and instructors can access the database to research virtually any technical topic, including:
Computing science
Healthcare
Building trades
Auto mechanics
Sales and retail
Accounting
Graphic design
Photography
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982
Over 250,000 records
Abstracts for over 250 journals, including over 450 author-supplied abstracts
Indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, videos, educational software packages and audiovisual material
Internal subject thesaurus with over 7,000 terms—2,000 unique to CINAHL
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This database is for consumers, not doctors, so the information is easy-to-find and understand. Materials include videos, articles, magazines, drug and herb information, a medical dictionary, recent news and more.
This full-text database covers topics such as:
Aging
Cancer
Diabetes
Drugs & Alcohol
Fitness
Nutrition & Dietetics
The Digital Public Library of America connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
DigitalLearn.org is an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant-funded project to create an online hub for digital literacy support and training. The site launched in June 2013 and is intended to build upon and foster the work of libraries and community organizations as they work to increase digital literacy across the nation.
Topics include lessons in how to be safe online, job skills, how to use computers and mobile devices and more.
Included in DigitalLearn.org is a collection of self-directed tutorials to increase digital literacy, and a community for sharing resources, tools and best practices.
This eBook collection supports a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all subject areas taught in elementary and middle schools. It’s an effective way to provide educators with full-text eBooks to support their curricula.
Agriculture
American history
Anthropology
Education
Geography
History of the Americas
Language
Literature
Recreation
Science
Technology
Educate Station is a one-stop destination for young learners. The site encourages hands-on learning through materials organized by age/grade level and subject.
Educate Station provides free educational resources, such as:
Week-by-week learning plans
Worksheets
Hands-on learning activities
More to come soon!
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. The database contains more than one million records and links to more than 260,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research
Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topics to give students research ideas
Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency
Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
Lexile® Measures to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
Explora Educator’s Edition provides access to lesson plans, curriculum standards and other professional development resources for educators
The most complete and useful web resource about famous quotes! Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors for free.
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to cannabis. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Opposing Viewpoints is a rich resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science and more.
The GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
Topics include:
Microsoft Office
Email
Reading
Math
Kentucky Dept. for Libraries & Archives (KDLA) houses the public records of Kentucky, or those created by state and local government agencies.
These records include deed books, marriage records, will books, circuit and appellate court case files, census and military records, and records from many state agencies, including the Governor’s Office.
Whatever your goal, LearningExpress will help you succeed. Each of its Learning Centers offer the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work or in life.
Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.
Online exercises for:
Math
Reading
GED Prep
U.S. Citizen Training
SAT Prep
ACT Prep
PSAT/NMSQT Prep
And More!
Are you preparing for a professional exam? Are you curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? Choose the Career Preparation Center and begin your path to a bright future.
Getting into college is an important step to building a strong future. First, you must do well on your college admission tests and write a personal essay that highlights your special talents. Use this center to get the resources you need to achieve your college preparation goals.
The College Center provides valuable resources that help college students strengthen their academic skills, prepare for placement tests and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.
Video courses are the fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer. Use the videos and materials in the Computer Skills Center to learn the basics of computers, from searching the internet to using popular software programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design and more.
Supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies. This LearningExpress Library Center provides tools educators can use to help students in grades 4-8 build skills in math, English language arts, and social studies and prepare for high school entrance exams. Students may also use these resources independently.
This LearningExpress Library Center provides resources to help you build classroom and homework skills in math, English language arts, social studies, science and technology.
Whether you’re looking to find a new job in your current field or pursue a career in an exciting new industry, Job & Career Accelerator has the powerful tools and expert guidance to help you through every step of the process to succeed in today’s job market. Don’t wait. Get started now!
Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadanía en español. Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.
This center provides learning tools as well as career and citizenship resources to help busy adults improve their basic skills, earn a GED® credential or become a U.S. citizen.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 core journals and more than 80 selective journals. Coverage in this free research database extends as far back as the mid-1960s. LISTA also includes author profiles and a robust thesaurus.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra – School Edition contains nearly 500 popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.
All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). The database also contains pamphlets, reference books and lots of images.
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for thousands of general reference magazines and publications. It covers a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
MasterFILE Premier contains PDF backfiles as far back as 1922 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more.
Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and more than 1.2 million relevant photos, maps and flags.
Designed for middle schoolers, this database contains full text for popular middle school magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays. In addition, it includes primary source documents, reference books and a vast image collection.
EBSCO Open Dissertations is a multi-disciplinary database with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
The database now includes content from American Doctoral Dissertations.
Primary Search covers a wide range of general interest topics for children. The database includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
All full-text articles, many available in color PDF, are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles) to provide educators with an estimate of the result’s reading difficulty and the approximate grade-level reading ability required for comprehension.
An essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals.
In addition, EBSCO has PDF backfiles for many key journals back to the 1960s and 1970s, including British Journal of Psychology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Genetic Psychology, Journal of Psychology, Journal of Social Psychology and others.
Senior Planet from AARP equips older adults with training and resources to navigate the digital world. The library offers monthly technology trainings through a partnership with Senior Planet.
Senior Planet is more than the latest gadgets, apps, and websites. They are a nonprofit organization that brings older adults together. Senior Planet’s free classes, articles, videos, and activities help seniors learn new skills, save money, exercise, make new friends, and so much more. Here’s what you can explore daily with Senior Planet:
Online classes
Original articles for older adults
Social media platform Senior Planet Community – exclusive to seniors
Technology Help Hotline and Virtual Tech Appointments
Additional resources, like tech tip videos, how to use Zoom, and more!
With hundreds of full-text scholarly journals and coverage spanning over 100 years, Sociological Collection provides an indispensable source of content pertaining to sociology and its related areas of study.
Full-text titles covered in the database include:
Addiction Research & Theory
American Journal of Family Therapy
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal
Feminist Studies
Journal of Social Work Education
Social Work
Sociological Research
Theory Into Practice
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books is here to help you succeed.
This database provides coverage on key education topics such as:
Assessment
Continuing Education
Current Pedagogical Research
Curriculum Development
Instructional Media
Language Arts
Literacy Standards
Science & Mathematics
And more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
Teen Book Cloud is an online database of eBooks and educator resources perfect for middle or high schoolers. It offers over 1,000 titles in a variety of formats including eBooks, graphic novels, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources and audiobooks.
The collection is available online around the clock. No downloads, no waiting! If you can access the internet, you can be reading, watching or listening to fantastic content.
Access story books that are created by adding animation and narration to existing picture books. The electronic picture books can be read by children or to them.
The TumbleBooks Library also includes:
eBooks for early readers and advanced readers
Graphic novels
Non-fiction titles
Videos from National Geographic
Titles in Spanish and French
Puzzles and games
And more!
Universal Class is the place to continue your education online and fulfill all your lifelong learning goals. There are over 500 courses that are accessible 24/7 online.
Universal Class is completely free with your library card. Courses include lessons, videos, exams, assignments and discussion boards. All courses are self-paced. You can also earn a certificate documenting your continuing education units (CEUs), contact hours and course completion.
A valid Campbell County Public Library card is required to create a Universal Class account. Visit the link above to get started. The first time you visit Universal Class, you’ll be prompted to create a free account.
Are you related to a famous historical figure? Does royal blood run in your family? Research your family tree at the library!
The world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to in-library users, whether on our public computers or your own device via our public Wi-Fi. Answers await everyone — professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian – inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Unlock the story of your family with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps and more.
Start Researching:
You can only access Ancestry Library Edition while at the library.
Access the website on our public computers or on your own device while connected to our public Wi-Fi.
All information obtained on the website can be downloaded onto removable storage devices such as a flash or external hard drive. The website also has a feature that allows you to send documents to your email address.
The mission of the Boone County Historical Society is to develop awareness and promote an appreciation for the history of Boone County.
The Boone County Historical Society publishes a bi-monthly newsletter. They also have meetings, which can be found on the website.
Boone County Public Library’s History and Genealogy Resources
Boone County Public Library has the most comprehensive collection of Boone County historical information.
The Local History Librarian collects all available information on the history of Boone County and its families. As a result, Boone County Public Library has the most comprehensive collection of Boone County historical information.
A center for historical information specifically about Campbell County, Kentucky. The volunteer-run society has published 25 books, which are available for purchase.
The office in the Alexandria Courthouse contains a library with microfilm and microfiche, books, magazines, an 1883 atlas of Campbell, Boone and Kenton Counties, veteran’s information and a museum room with artifacts.
Visiting hours are as follows:
Tuesdays: 10 am – 5 pm
Thursdays: 10 am – 2 pm
Saturdays: 10 am – 2 pm
Located in the Cincinnati Museum Center, this library is a collection of historical information about Cincinnati and the region. Since 1831, they have been collecting and preserving materials relating to the Greater Cincinnati area, the state of Ohio and the Old Northwest Territory.
The library is free and open to the public from noon-4 pm on Thursdays and Fridays by appointment only.
Today, it houses one of the most significant regional history collections in the United States with thousands of books, pamphlets, maps, manuscripts, photographs and films.
A database of pre-1940 photographs, postcards and slides depicting local landmarks, events and people from Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky.
A great place to browse old photos of the Greater Cincinnati area.
This foundation is responsible for the preservation of homes and other buildings in the East Row Historic District of Newport, KY.
The foundation sponsors tours of the homes and also educates people about preservation and restoration of older buildings.
Free family history, family tree and genealogy records from around the world.
The major center of Northern Kentucky historical and genealogical sources. You can search NKY historical records online or see more physical items at Kenton County Public Library’s main library in downtown Covington.
The Kentucky Heritage Council is charged with identifying, preserving and protecting the historic resources of Kentucky.
The Heritage Council has successfully encouraged the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in all contexts and advocated that historic preservation should be a key public policy initiative to:
Encourage economic development
Provide affordable housing
Revitalize downtowns and neighborhoods
Provide life-long learning opportunities
Enhance Kentucky’s quality of life
Kentucky Historical Society collects, preserves, conserves, interprets and shares information, memories and materials from Kentucky’s past.
Here’s what they have to offer:
Museum collections housing more than 106,000 artifacts
Oral history collection containing around 35,000 oral history interviews
Libraries and special collections housing more than 90,000 published works, 16,000 reels of microfilm, 200,000 historic photographs, 1,900 cubic feet of manuscripts and 2,000 maps
The Newport Historic Preservation Office answers questions about restoring buildings and neighborhoods in Newport, Kentucky. The office has a collection of books available for use. Staff can look up particular topics of interest to you and put together a packet that suits your needs.
Browse this collection of images and texts on the history of Northern Kentucky, including some visual histories for Boone, Campbell, Kenton and other NKY counties.
Other Northern Kentucky counties pictured include:
Bracken
Carroll
Gallatin
Grant
Mason
Owen
Pendleton
Trimble
Preservation Kentucky is the Commonwealth’s statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization. They are a membership-based organization devoted to preserving buildings, structures and sites in every region and town in the state.
Preservation Kentucky is committed to preserving vestiges of all Kentuckians’ past – from shotgun houses in Louisville to African-American rural communities across the state to roadside architecture, such as the Parkette Drive-In in Lexington, to important prehistoric archaeological sites.
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s History and Genealogy Department is one of the best genealogy research collections in the country. You can access these materials by visiting the History and Genealogy Department at the Main Library in downtown Cincinnati.
This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982
Over 250,000 records
Abstracts for over 250 journals, including over 450 author-supplied abstracts
Indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, videos, educational software packages and audiovisual material
Internal subject thesaurus with over 7,000 terms—2,000 unique to CINAHL
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This database is for consumers, not doctors, so the information is easy-to-find and understand. Materials include videos, articles, magazines, drug and herb information, a medical dictionary, recent news and more.
This full-text database covers topics such as:
Aging
Cancer
Diabetes
Drugs & Alcohol
Fitness
Nutrition & Dietetics
Health Source helps you find authoritative information on health-related questions. This database is perfect for people looking for common health information!
This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, women’s health, and more. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines including:
American Fitness
Better Nutrition
Harvard Health Letter
Men’s Health
Muscle & Fitness
Prevention
Vegetarian Times
Kynect is Kentucky’s health insurance marketplace.
By using kynect, you may receive payment assistance, special discounts or tax credits to help cover the costs of coverage for you, your family or your employees.
Kynect has expanded its mission to be your one-stop-shop for a whole range of benefits and resources, all designed to keep your family safe, healthy and happy. Find out all that kynect can help you do by answering a few quick questions. As always, kynect is a program of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Kynect will allow you to compare and select insurance plans and find out if you qualify for programs like Medicaid or the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program.
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for thousands of general reference magazines and publications. It covers a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
MasterFILE Premier contains PDF backfiles as far back as 1922 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
This authoritative database provides full text, cover-to-cover indexing for journals indexed in MEDLINE. These top journals cover a wide range of subjects within the biomedical and health fields containing information needed by doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. After accessing the resource through the library, you can create a free EBSCO account to save documents, create search alerts and use other features.
An essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals.
In addition, EBSCO has PDF backfiles for many key journals back to the 1960s and 1970s, including British Journal of Psychology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Genetic Psychology, Journal of Psychology, Journal of Social Psychology and others.
Alt-PressWatch includes full-text newspapers and magazines from alternative, independent presses, providing an unmatched, multidisciplinary resource for researchers seeking an alternative to mainstream media perspectives.
The magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press provide in-depth coverage of a broad range of subjects, including:
Government
Public Policy
Culture
Local, National and International Issues
Religion
And More
The Cincinnati Enquirer is a daily newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio. USA Today is an American daily newspaper and news broadcast company.
Campbell County Public Library patrons can request access to digital versions of The Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today with their library accounts.
GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. This includes well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from climate change to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Composed of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for thousands of general reference magazines and publications. It covers a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
MasterFILE Premier contains PDF backfiles as far back as 1922 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Newspapers Include:
USA Today
The Washington Post
The Times (London)
Toronto Star
Regional Business News provides comprehensive coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Content is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US and more. Key resources include newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires, with full-text content coverage spanning more than 30 years.
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Access academic resources for elementary through high school students with this easy-to-navigate service. The content of Britannica School is reliable, age-appropriate, updated continuously and closely correlated to all curriculum standards.
Select an article and adjust its complexity with a single click while maintaining the age-appropriate look and clean format — ideal for classes of students at multiple reading levels! Read-aloud functionality and a font size changer are just a few of the features specifically helpful for students with special needs. It also offers tools such as writing how-tos and step-by-step guides on researching.
DigitalLearn.org is an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant-funded project to create an online hub for digital literacy support and training. The site launched in June 2013 and is intended to build upon and foster the work of libraries and community organizations as they work to increase digital literacy across the nation.
Topics include lessons in how to be safe online, job skills, how to use computers and mobile devices and more.
Included in DigitalLearn.org is a collection of self-directed tutorials to increase digital literacy, and a community for sharing resources, tools and best practices.
Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research
Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topics to give students research ideas
Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency
Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
Lexile® Measures to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
The GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
Topics include:
Microsoft Office
Email
Reading
Math
The Adult Core Skills Center helps adults achieve their personal, education and career goals by offering resources to help them improve their basic skills in reading, writing and math. The center also has materials to help adults prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam.
Senior Planet from AARP equips older adults with training and resources to navigate the digital world. The library offers monthly technology trainings through a partnership with Senior Planet.
Senior Planet is more than the latest gadgets, apps, and websites. They are a nonprofit organization that brings older adults together. Senior Planet’s free classes, articles, videos, and activities help seniors learn new skills, save money, exercise, make new friends, and so much more. Here’s what you can explore daily with Senior Planet:
Online classes
Original articles for older adults
Social media platform Senior Planet Community – exclusive to seniors
Technology Help Hotline and Virtual Tech Appointments
Additional resources, like tech tip videos, how to use Zoom, and more!
Universal Class is the place to continue your education online and fulfill all your lifelong learning goals. There are over 500 courses that are accessible 24/7 online.
Universal Class is completely free with your library card. Courses include lessons, videos, exams, assignments and discussion boards. All courses are self-paced. You can also earn a certificate documenting your continuing education units (CEUs), contact hours and course completion.
A valid Campbell County Public Library card is required to create a Universal Class account. Visit the link above to get started. The first time you visit Universal Class, you’ll be prompted to create a free account.
