525 Anderson Avenue
Coos Bay, OR 97420
(541) 269-1101
The Library will be closed Monday, January 17th, for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
Designed for colleges and universities, with peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources on the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.
Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook.
Reference, Research, Marketing, Mailing Lists/Sales Leads, and Job-Search Database. Includes 30 million business profiles, over 220 million residents with interests, hobbies and lifestyles information, over 7 million real-time job listings, 2 Million new businesses, over 12 million healthcare professionals, and much more.
Provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Access free study guides and textbooks on all school subjects!
Get unbiased ratings and reviews for 9000+ products and services from Consumer Reports, plus trusted advice and in-depth reporting on what matters most.
Free learning resources for teachers, parents and students from Discovery Education.
Great site for students, teachers and parents to find out more about anything they want to know!
Free DMV Permit Practice Tests. Many different tests to help improve your knowledge and skills!
Homework, writing and math help; study skills; conversion calculator; periodic table; and more.
Contains 25 full-text encyclopedias and reference sets on general and special topics useful for school, college, or general information. Topics include civilizations, mathematics, social issues, mental health, animals, Native Americans, world cultures, World War I and II.
Allows kids to search broad or narrower subjects using pictures and simple search boxes to find age appropriate, full-text content from K-5 level reference sources and magazines.
Provides FREE professionally-designed resume templates and online context-sensitive writing tips. Hosts your resume online, allowing you to share it on Facebook or Twitter. Points to job postings nationwide.
Child-safe websites on school-related topics, recommended by the American Library Association.
From the University of California Berkeley, learn whether or not a particular source is a good fit for your research project.
Provides carefully-compiled and trusted medical reference materials, including health/medical and alternative health journals, general interest publications, pamphlets, health-related videos, reference titles, and directories.
Contains full-text nursing and allied health journals, as well as personal health information resources, for high school and college level students.
Detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.
Expert-created content and resources for every subject and level. Always free.
A test and job skills preparation database that can help with all kinds of standardized high school, college entrance, civil service, and career professional exams as well as computer, job, and grammar, and math skills. Practice tests available include GED, SAT, ACT, ASVAB, Civil Service, Citizenship, Nursing, and much more.
Learn the fundamentals of computers, the internet and popular software applications with Computer Skills Center, a user-friendly e-learning platform from EBSCO LearningExpress that contains nearly 100 self-paced video tutorials.
LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator gives job seekers the tools they need to explore careers, find open positions, apply for jobs and get hired.
Contains an extensive catalog of e-books, audiobooks, and videos that can be downloaded and enjoyed on your home computer, e-reader, tablet, smartphone, or mp3 player.
Mango is an online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills for 37 different languages. It's so easy to use, you'll see incredible results after just one lesson!
Created specifically for middle school students, Gale In Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
An investment research center.
In-library – For users accessing from inside the Coos Bay Public Library.
From home – For users accessing from outside the library building (you will need to enable pop-ups in your browser).
MyHeritage Library Edition™ is one of the largest genealogy databases of its kind in the world. It includes historical documents from over 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources.
Includes access to recent National Geographic articles, books, and images in a kid-friendly interface.
A full-text newspaper database that allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, etc.
Search articles from The World Newspaper from 2004 - today.
Created especially for children and the adults who work with them, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database of reading recommendations which encourages reader success.
An excellent resource for readers. When you can’t remember a title or you’re looking for something new to read, try this!
Covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.
The Oregon School Library Information System is a K-12 website providing access to quality licensed databases within an information literacy framework. It is designed for Oregon students and teachers, maintaining the school library at the heart of student research. OSLIS was established in 1998 and has operated with a variety of partners.
Gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time.
Start your interactive language-learning journey today with the online Rosetta Stone® solution, available in 30 languages.
IN-LIBRARY USE ONLY
Digital copies of The Coos Bay Times and The World Newspaper, covering the years 1906-present. Only accessible from inside the Coos Bay Public Library.
Investment resource featuring 1,700 widely-followed analyst covered companies, 1,700 small and mid-cap companies, full industry reports, unbiased ratings and reports, analytical summary & index, guided selection & opinion, market-driven supplements, and more.
IN-LIBRARY USE ONLY
An online legal research service designed especially for patron use in government law and public libraries. Please contact library staff for assistance in using this service.
Get knowledge and answers not by searching the web, but by asking Wolfram Alpha to do dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.