Resources

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Includes articles and magazines, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and more.

Search all EBSCO articles and topic pages with one easy-to-use interface. Explora combines encyclopedias, magazines, journals, newspapers, biographies, primary sources and more.

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For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.

Genealogy data from U.S. Census records 1790-1930 with over 25,000 original page images of full-text family and local histories, etc.

Explore digitized images, documents, oral histories, videos, and more.  Featured collections include The Mary Wheeler Collection, Paducah postcards, and newspapers and documents from area schools.

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

MyHeritage is the leading global platform for discovering family history.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

A fiction database designed with a bright, appealing layout, designed especially for elementary and middle schools.

TeachingBooks offers resources on children's and young adult books, featuring author interviews, video trailers, audio readings, discussion guides, and more, provided by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

Contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.