Descriptions of Electronic Databases

Instructions are for in-library use. For use outside of the library, indicates that your Coventry OSL card is necessary for access. Click on the green link to go to the database.

Adult Education and Career Center at tutor.com

Work one-to-one with qualified tutors and professional career tutors in a supportive and encouraging environment to write a resume, prepare for a job interview, prepare for the GED or get help with specific subjects. After each session, adults can replay and email the session, or print the transcript.

Career Cruising

Access hundreds of detailed occupation profiles—everything from Actuary to Zookeeper. Each profile includes a job description, information on working conditions, earnings, education and training, a sample career path, links to related occupations, other resources, and multimedia interviews.

ChiltonLibrary.com

Automotive Repair Information for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) People .

Consumer Reports

Expert Product Reviews and Ratings.

Discovering Collection

Discovering Collection offers easy access content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

EbscoHost

Full text magazine articles.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Outside the Library

This includes the Britannica Reference Center, Merriam - Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, and Britannica Kids.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Heritage Quest Outside the Library

Find ancestors and relatives in US Federal Census Records, family and local history books and articles, and Revolutionary War files.

Learning Express Library

LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. LearningExpress Library also includes the Job Search & Workplace Skills Learning Center which will help you: * Craft the resume that will get you hired. * Strengthen your job search, interviewing, and networking skills, and much more!

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Literature Resource Center

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Mango Languages

An online language-learning system that will teach you actual conversational skills. Start learning a new language now!

National Newspaper Index

National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America’s top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Novelist

An easy–to-use Reader’s Advisory for good fiction. This database can be limited to view books for specific age groups such as Adult, Young Adult, and Children’s. Other useful features include award winners listed by type of fiction and Book Discussion Guides.

ReferenceUSA

Provides business and residential information for reference and research.

World Book Online