Online Resources & Databases at Morrisson-Reeves Library
Featured Resources
AtoZ Databases
AtoZdatabases is the Premier Job Search, Reference & Mailing List Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
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Ancestry Library (formerly AncestryPlus)
Only available in the library. This genealogy service provides full access to Ancestry.com, which features census records dating back to 1790, immigration records, the Social Security Death Index, military records, birth and marriage records and more.
Weiss Financial Ratings
Financial Ratings Series Online, powered by Weiss Ratings and Grey House Publishing, gives you accurate, independent ratings and financial planning tools you need to make informed decisions about your insurance, banking, and investment options.
Legal Forms*
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord-tenant, and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen’s language.
*Library card required. To access this online resource you will need to enter your entire library card number (no spaces).
World Book Online*
World Book is dedicated to providing timely, reliable, and readable educational products that foster a deep desire to learn in students of all ages. World Book Online hosts thousands of articles, as well as hundreds of maps, videos, and other media for an immersive learning experience. Teacher resources, curriculum correlations, learning standards, and other useful tools for educators are included across all databases.
*Library card required. To access this online resource you will need to enter your entire library card number.
Additional Resources
American Heritage Society
Online access to all issues of the American Heritage magazine. This site provides information on 4,000+ historical sites, including easily searchable online access to digital images and descriptions of millions of artifacts housed in the collections of American museums, historical societies, National Parks, and other institutions across the country.
Bookpage
BookPage is a discovery tool for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres. BookPage is editorially independent; only books we highly recommend are featured. Any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.
Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank
The biographical database offers in-depth, original profiles from the Current Biography and World Authors series, the thorough periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors and illustrators. It provides biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.
Chilton Auto Repair Library Online*
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
*Library card required. To access this online resource you will need to enter your entire library card number.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a U.S. government agency that makes sure banks, lenders, and other financial companies treat you fairly.
Browse by money topic to find answers to commonly-asked financial questions. Learn the basics, understand key terms, and find ways to take action when you have an issue.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. The multilingual health databases provide this information in 16 additional languages. See the World Languages subject page for a complete list.
EBSCO LearningExpress Library
Keep your community’s small businesses up-to-date with business news and information and help job seekers find meaningful work with career development resources.
LearningExpress Library Complete supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen, provides 4th to 8th educator resources for skill building, Recursos para hispanohablantes and much more. Learning centers contain practice tests, interactive tutorials, e-books, articles and flashcards.
Explora
Explora
EBSCO Explora is a user-friendly interface for students and public library patrons to access reliable, curated content from magazines and reference books for homework, research, and lifelong learning.
Interface for Elementary Students
Interface for Middle & High School Students
GCFGlobal-Technology
Learn computer and technology skills with these free tutorials.
GCFGlobal-Reading and Math
Whether you want to learn new words, practice your reading skills, or expand your knowledge of fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra, our interactive lessons can help.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov
Provide a standard website for federal agencies to post discretionary funding opportunities and for grantees to find and apply to them.
History Reference Center
History Reference Center
Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research, this database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts
Hoosier State Chronicles
Hoosier State Chronicles
Hoosier State Chronicles is operated by the Indiana State Library and funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. We seek to provide free, online access to high quality digital images of Indiana’s historic newspapers by digitizing our collection, and assisting other organizations in making their collections digitally available.
Indiana Legal Help
Indiana Legal Help
Indiana Legal Help helps people with non-criminal issues, including family, housing, consumer, healthcare, benefits, employment and educational services. Many of the form packages on this website are available in PDF format. You can fill out the documents and print the documents and take the completed forms to the clerk’s office to be filed.
Indiana Memory
Indiana Memory
Indiana Memory is a collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. It is a gateway to Indiana’s history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps and other media. As a portal to the collections, Indiana Memory assists individuals to locate materials relevant to their interests and to better appreciate the connections between those materials.
Indianapolis Legal Aid Society
Indianapolis Legal Aid Society (ILAS) – Legal Aid for All Hoosiers
LEGAL AID FOR ALL HOOSIERS, will provide legal assistance free of charge to all residents of your county. Indianapolis Legal Aid Society specializes in resolving civil legal matters in cases involving the rights of children, mothers, families, disabled persons, and the elderly.
INSPIRE
(Indiana Spectrum of Information Resources.) Funded by the state of Indiana and available anywhere with an Indiana Internet connection. Information available includes magazine and journal articles, pamphlets, images, almanacs, etc. See the INSPIRE database information page for a detailed breakdown of the services provided.
Kelley Blue Book
Since 1926, Kelley Blue Book has been one of the best-known names in the auto industry. Today, KBB.com extends the tradition, with trusted values and a reputation for innovation, including resources to help you research, price and shop for the car you’ve been looking for.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions and wellness issues in language you can understand.
Morrisson-Reeves Geneology Resources and Local History
We offer many resources in our library collection as well as online resources on local history to assist in your genealogy research.
Newspaper Index
Compiled by MRL staff. This index covers articles of local interest, including obituaries, from the local newspapers dating back to 1822. With more than 329,000 entries and expanding daily, this is one of our library’s most valuable resources! This index may be accessed at your convenience from home via our online catalog or at the library.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center
Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Wayne County Civil War Database
Science Reference Center
A research database providing easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet student researchers’ needs, the Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
Talking Book and Braille Library
Welcome to the Indiana Talking Book and Braille Library (TBBL) website. The TBBL provides large print books, braille books, and books on tape to Indiana residents who are unable to read regular print, because of a visual or a physical disability.
Wayne County Civil War Database
Wayne County Civil War Database
Compiled by MRL staff from the Directory and Soldiers’ Register of Wayne County, Indiana. This is a searchable index of the military service for Wayne County individuals who enlisted during the Civil War.
Worldcat.org
WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.