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Arts & Literature
EBSCO - Literary Reference Center
Novels, short stories, poems, plot summaries and synopses, and literary criticism. Research guides, lesson plans, and citation tools support student learning.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis.
NoveList Plus
A popular and extensive tool for reading recommendations for fiction and non-fiction. Includes audiobook recommendations.
Business, Finance & Law
Business Source Premier
Full-text articles to support research in accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, and operations management. Includes access to video from the Associated Press (AP).
EBSCO - Legal Information Reference Center
Resources to assist you in legal matters of all kinds, including business law, financial planning, family law, property and real estate, and rights and disputes. Includes full text reference books from Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
Gale Business Insights: Essentials
Gale Business Insights: Essentials delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills.
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.
Consumer & Auto
Auto Repair Source
Offers a wealth of information to help you diagnose, repair, and maintain cars and vehicles. Includes service and repair procedures, diagrams, recall information, specifications, labor estimates, and parts pricing.
Chilton Library (Online Auto Repair Manuals)
Get the detailed information you need to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs.
Consumer Reports
Buying advice, product ratings, reviews, recommendations, money-saving advice and tips, and videos for products including appliances, electronics, food, and more.
Do It Yourself
EBSCO - Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center
How-tos and creative ideas in arts and crafts, collecting, home and garden, indoor recreation, kids' crafts, model building, needlecrafts and textiles, outdoor recreation, performing arts, science and technology, and scrapbooking and papercrafts.
EBSCO - Home Improvement Reference Center
Detailed, user-friendly how-to information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.
eBooks and eAudiobooks
Hoopla
Access to eBooks, Audiobooks, Movies, Television Episodes, Comic Books, Music, & More with a Park Forest library card.
Media On Demand/Overdrive
Access to eBooks, Audiobooks, Music, & More with a Park Forest library card
Genealogy & Biography
Gale Biography in Context
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.
Health & Wellness
Consumer Health Complete
Full-text articles to support research in aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, and nutrition. Includes teen health topics for teens and parents.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Access full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.
Teen Health & Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support, aligned to state, national, and provincial standards.
Jobs & Careers
Career Transitions
A comprehensive career resource that lets to search for and track jobs, create targeted resumes and cover letters, practice and master interview techniques, explore and identify career paths according to your interests, and find schools and education/training programs.
Kids Educational Resources
Kids Infobits
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Middle Search Plus
Resources to support middle school students, including biographies, magazines, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags. Includes Sports Illustrated Kids, Scholastic News, National Geographic and dozens more. Articles include reading level indicators (Lexile).
Novelist K-8 Plus
Reading recommendations for kids' fiction and nonfiction that you can search by Lexile, subject, and grade level.
World Book - Early World of Learning
An interactive way for young children to explore knowlege and develop reading comprehension.
World Book - Encylopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
An interactive way for young children to explore subjects like Sciene, Art, Geography, and more in Spanish.
World Book Online for Kids
Interactive Education Resource covering topics like Science, History, Math, Arts, etc.
Languages
Mango Languages
A fun-infused way to learn a new language. Mango prepares learners for realistic conversations and strengthens everyday communication skills in over 70 world languages, including English.
Newspapers and Magazines
InfoTrac Newstand
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
Newspaper Source Plus
Full-text newspaper articles and television and radio transcripts. Includes the Associated Press (AP), CNN Wire, PR Wire, UPI (United Press International), Xinhua, The Chicago Citizen, and more.
Practice Exams
DMV Test Practice
Provides official handbooks and a variety of practice tests to help you prepare for the "Rules of the Road" test.
Testing and Education Reference Center
Valuable online tool suitable to all ages for standardized test preparation, researching undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring careers.
Reference & Research
Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Academic Search Premier
Full-text articles to support research in science, engineering, physics, technology, religion, and philosophy. Includes access to video from the Associated Press (AP).
AtoZDatabases
This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on businesses and households within the U.S.
EBSCO - History Reference Center
Full-text articles to support research in history and genealogy and lesson plans to support student learning.
General OneFile
General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines.
MasterFILE Premier
A good place to start for research and homework. Includes full-text articles, reference books, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Resources for students to understand issues, develop criticial thinking skills, and develop persuasive arguments. Includes essays, overviews, articles, and transcripts on, citizens' rights, earth and environmental issues, global issues, health and medicine, and media and communications.
Primary Search
Resources to support elementary school students, including encyclopedias specifically for kids, articles from children's magazines including Highlights and Junior Scholastic, and a large image collection.
Student Resources in Context
Provides stellar support for papers, projects, and presentations that reinforce development of academic skills. It includes an authoritative selection of overviews, primary sources, videos, images, and more.
World Book
Explore all the products from World Book availble to you as Park Forest Public Library Patrons
Science & Technology
Science Reference Center
Full-text articles to support research in applied sciences, biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and energy. Includes the Science Image Collection, a database of high-quality science images from National Geographic, UPI, Getty, NASA, and Nature Picture Library.