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Premium Content Subscription-Based Databases
Through our affiliation with the North State Cooperative Library System the Lassen Library District offers the following subscription on-line database resources from Gale Cengage Learning.
Note: Access to these databases from outside the Library requires the entry of a Lassen Library card number. From inside the Library access does not require a library card number.
Testing & Education Reference Center
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries; identify scholarships that meet your financial needs; take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
ChiltonLibrary.com
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.
Health Reference Center Academic
Multi-source database providing access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's Health Reference Center.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library. Our subscription provides access to the eBook versions of the following references:
- Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages , 5v, 2004
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia , 2nd ed., 17v, 2003
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law , 2nd ed., 13v, 2004
General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Associations Unlimited
The premier source for associations - locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. Monitor association trends; identify related associations; network and make professional contacts; market to associations, their members and markets.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. Contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Biography Resource Center
Award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for current and historic people from all eras and fields of endeavor, based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
Student Edition (for High School students)
With over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Junior Edition - K12 (for Junior High/Middle School students)
With over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kid's Edition - K12 (for Elementary School students)
This periodical database with almost 125 titles, is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, from publishers such as Cobblestones, Scholastic and Time, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits (for students in Kindergarten to 5th grade)
A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface search method moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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