Electronic Databases
Databases available from home and OPL Main and Indian Creek Branch
Databases by Subject
[Authors, Books and Other Literature] [Business] [Genealogy] [Health & Medicine]
[History and the World] [HomeworkHelp] [Journals and Professional Resources]
[Magazines and Newspapers] [Quick Reference] [Science] [Spanish Language]
Databases by Name
ABI/INFORM Dateline
Covers over 140 local and regional business publications across the U.S. and Canada including Ingram's and the Kansas City Business Journal. Research employment opportunities, track business and industries in a particular location, research marketing trends and products. Library and home use.
ABI/INFORM Global
Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal. Library and home use.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users withthe latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many more. Library and home use.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources, with coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Library and home use.
America's Newspapers
America's Newspapers provides the electronic editions or record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers, including the Kansas City Star and the Olathe News. Library and home use.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices
A collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices searchable by name of the deceased. In addition, the database is searchable by date range, or text contained in the obituary or death notice, such as residence, occupation, hobbies, family members or other personal information. Library and home use.
Powered by the Ancestry.com web site, Ancestry Library Edition provides instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. Library use only.
Biography in Context (Gale)
Search for biographies of individuals in a wide range of subjects, including business, politics, government, history, science, sports, the arts, and entertainment. The database also allows you to retrieve biographies based on specific sets of criteria such as ethnic background, nationality, and gender. Library and home use.
Business and Company ASAP
Provides current information on companies, markets and trends, industries, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory and company overviews. Library and home use.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
A database of business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on Finance, Trade, New Technologies, Trends and more. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images. Library and home use.
Chilton Library
Supplies automotive repair information. Covers the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years. Library and home use.
Computer Database (Gale)
Indexes several hundred computer, telecommunications, and electronics magazines with access to product news and reviews, industry status reports, company profiles, and more. Library and home use.
Educator's Reference Complete
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many reference sources. The content focuses on educational principles, child development, psychology, and best practices in education. Library and home use.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily. Library and home use.
Grzimek’s Animal Life- more than 4,000 species categorized by Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds, Fish, Insects, Mammals and Simple Aquatic Life, including information on evolution, habitat, behavior, range and more. Contains thousands of photos, maps, videos, audio tracks and more. Library and home use.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Access to medical, health, and wellness information through the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and full-text articles from journals, pamphlets and a variety of medical sources. Additionally Internet resources have been selected. Library and home use.
Health Reference Center Academic
Provides access to full-text nursing and allied health journals.Library and home use.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online provides a growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Included are images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1930, plus over 25,000 family and local histories, all full-text and searchable. Library and Home Use.
Informe (Spanish search screen)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Users can search in Spanish and find articles from bilingual publications. Help pages appear in both Spanish and English. Library and home use.
JoCoHistory.net
A collaborative effort to provide greater access to historical materials related to Johnson County, Kansas. A wealth of photos, biographical information, maps, teacher curriculum ideas, and much more.Library and home use.
Junior Edition
This periodical database provides access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database designed for junior high and middle school students. Library and home use.
Kansas City Business Journal
The online version of the Kansas City Business Journal with breaking news and popular news stories from the print. Library and home use.
Kansas City Star plus Kansas Newspapers
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, politics and government, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements excluded. Newspapers in the collection are Kansas City Star, Emporia Gazette, Lawrence Journal-World, Manhattan Mercury, Topeka Capital-Journal, and Wichita Eagle. Library and Home Use.
Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Content is from elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database is designed for K-5 students. Library and home use.
Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Library and home use.
Legal Trac
Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Title selection is based on criteria provided by the American Association of Law Libraries. Library and home use.
Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale)
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Library and home use.
Mango Languages
An online language learning program that focuses on teaching actual conversational skills in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Library and home use.
MEDLINE Plus
MEDLINEplus is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information and is composed of a selective list of authoritative health information sources from The National Institute of Health and other organizations. The core of MEDLINEplus is the health topics, but the site also has drug information, current health news, dictionaries, directories, and a list of other resources. Library and home use.
Mergent Online
Offers in-depth business and financial information for public U.S. and international companies. Research a company's history, financial data, annual reports, current news and more. Also included are in-depth country profiles. Library and home use.
Mitchell on Demand
Automobile repair information made easy to find on computer. Library use only.
Morningstar
Morningstar is a comprehensive online investing database. It provides independent opinion and data on more than 20,000 stocks and mutual funds as well as other screening tools. Users can build and analyze an investing portfolio.Library and home use.
Novelist
Looking for a good book or have you just finished a really good book and want to find something similar? Let Novelist help you make the connections. Novelist also has book discussion guides, reviews and author information perfect for your book group. Library and home use.
Nursing and Allied Health Collections
This collection covers all aspects of the nursing profession from patient care to hospital administration. Library and home use.
Olathe Municipal Code
Code of Regulations for Olathe. Library and home use.
Olathe News
Full-text coverage of the Olathe News from December 2006 to current. Library and home use.
Professional Collection
A customized set of journal and magazine articles. Library and home use.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
This database provides full-text information from leading nursing and related publications. It is designed to meet the needs of researchers, as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions. Library and home use.
ReferenceUSA
Over 12 million business listings with company profiles, over 120 million nationwide telephone listings gathered from telephone white pages, and over 680,000 listings for physicians and dentists nationwide. Library and home use.
Research Library
A general magazine database for searching a variety of popular academic subjects. Library and home use.
Sorkin's Directories
Research science topics with the Science Resource Center, covering thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify correlated to state and national standards. Library use only.
Student Edition
This periodical database provides access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database designed for high school students. Library and home use.
Thomas Register
This database provides access to industrial companies. Seach by company, product, or service. Library and home use.
Value Line
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.Library and home use.
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). Library and home use.
Wall Street Journal
Full-text online from the world's leading financial newspaper. Library and home use.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Library and home use.