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.
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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.
Auto Repair Reference Center
Information on more than 34,000 vehicles from 1945 to present, including drawings, step-by-step photographs, wiring diagrams, automotive specifications, and maintenance schedules.
Business Economics & Theory
Provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.
Business Insights: Global
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
CK-12
Access free study guides and textbooks on all school subjects!
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!
Fact Monster Homework Center
Homework, writing and math help; study skills; conversion calculator; periodic table; and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
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.
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 Reference Center: Academic
Contains full-text nursing and allied health journals, as well as personal health information resources, for high school and college level students.
InfoTrac Newsstand
A full-text newspaper database that allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, etc.
Khan Academy
Expert-created content and resources for every subject and level. Always free.
Kids InfoBits
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.
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.
Library2Go
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 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!
Morningstar
An investment research center.
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In-library – For users accessing from inside the Coos Bay Public Library.
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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.
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!
Nursing & Allied Health Collection
Covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.
Nursing Resource Center
Brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results, multimedia, and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. Designed for nursing students.
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.
Research in Context
Created specifically for middle school students, Research 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.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Small Engine Repair Reference Center provides users with detailed, yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines including routine maintenance and extensive repairs.
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.
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.