Resources

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

With access to billions of birth, marriage, death, census, land and court records from more than 130 countries, FamilySearch can help you discover and make family connections when researching genealogy.

Provides access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

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.

Opposing Viewpoints In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.

Earning a high school equivalency credential can open the door to better income, a more fulfilling job, and a college education.

Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment with indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.&nb

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

LearningExpress Library features online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages.

LISTA indexes more than 580 core journals, over 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. 

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.

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.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

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.

Newspaper database providing access to the Paducah Sun and affiliated newspapers spanning the years 1896–2023.