UAPL Online Reference Databases

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ART Collection

Includes digital documentation of over 100,000 works of art from around the world for all time periods.

BookFlix

Offers an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children's Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints.

Digital Downloads (formerly Mid-Ohio Library Digital Initiative)

Provides best selling audio and print books you can checkout and download to your PC and PDA at home, in the office, or anywhere in the world. Video and music downloads are also available through this resource. (Compatible Devices / Incompatible Devices)

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center (EBSCO)

Provides comprehensive coverage for many popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities. Includes full text for more than 740 magazines and books and hundreds of videos. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; needlework; outdoors & nature; scrapbooking and much more.

Literature Databases

Includes fifteen different literature collections in the areas of poetry, drama, and fiction.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

Presents biographies, literary criticisms, and bibliographies of over 130,000 authors and their works.

Mango Languages

Offers interactive courses in any of twelve languages through a unique method of engaging the user in realistic conversations in the native language.

NoveList K-8 Plus (EBSCOhost)

Focuses on fiction and non-fiction titles popular with young readers at all grade levels. Search for titles or authors, or browse through hundreds of theme oriented book lists for novels of interest.

NoveList Plus (EBSCOhost)

NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. With its intuitive interface and extensive feature content, NoveList Plus will help you to answer the question of what to read next.

OCLC WorldCat

Offers catalog access for locating books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Oxford Art Online

Presenting the most extensive art reference source available, with over 26,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, and tens of thousands of images from Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art and other Oxford art reference works.

Oxford Music Online

Containing multiple music sources in one easily searchable database, Oxford Music Online includes venerable reference works such as The Oxford Companion to Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Oxford Reference Online
This database is accessible only from the library.

Features 100 language and subject dictionaries containing over 1.5 million definitions, facts, figures, and dates. In-Library use only

TumbleBook Library

Presents animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources. Includes storybooks, life learning books, and language learning books.

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

Contains the most extensive listing of movies available on video and a multitude of cross-references within its 9 primary indexes.