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Academic OneFile

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.

AtoZ World Food

Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook.

AtoZdatabases

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.

Business Insights: Global

Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.

Consumer Reports

Get unbiased ratings and reviews for 9000+ products and services from Consumer Reports, plus trusted advice and in-depth reporting on what matters most.

Discovery Education

Free learning resources for teachers, parents and students from Discovery Education.

DKfindout!

Great site for students, teachers and parents to find out more about anything they want to know!

Driving-Tests.org

Free DMV Permit Practice Tests. Many different tests to help improve your knowledge and skills!

Gale eBooks

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.

Gale in Context: Elementary

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.

GotResumeBuilder

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.

Great Websites for Kids

Child-safe websites on school-related topics, recommended by the American Library Association.

Guide to Evaluating Sources

From the University of California Berkeley, learn whether or not a particular source is a good fit for your research project.

Health & Wellness Resource Center

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.

Health and Medicine

Contains full-text nursing and allied health journals, as well as personal health information resources, for high school and college level students.

Khan Academy

Expert-created content and resources for every subject and level. Always free.

Learning Express Library

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.

LearningExpress Computer Skills Center

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.

Legal Information Resource Center

The Legal Information Reference Center is a great starting point for researching your legal issue. Available to all Oregonians this resource provides access to full-text legal reference publications.  A majority of the reference books are provided through Nolo, a respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Library2Go

Contains an extensive catalog of e-books and audiobooks that can be downloaded and enjoyed on your home computer or mobile device.

Mango Languages

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!

Middle School

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.

Morningstar

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).

My Heritage Library Edition

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.

National Geographic Kids

Includes access to recent National Geographic articles, books, and images in a kid-friendly interface.

News

A full-text newspaper database that allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, etc.

Novelist K-8 Plus

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.

NoveList Plus

An excellent resource for readers. When you can’t remember a title or you’re looking for something new to read, try this!

Oregon School Library Information System

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.

Psychology Collection

Gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time.

Rosetta Stone

Start your interactive language-learning journey today with the online Rosetta Stone® solution, available in 30 languages.

The World Digital Newspapers

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.

Value Line

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.

Westlaw Patron Access

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.

Wolfram Alpha

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.