Electronic Resources

The Henry County Library connects to the Internet through the services of MOREnet, the Missouri Research & Education Network. MOREnet, assisted by funding from the Missouri General Assembly, provides patrons of the Henry County Library access to a number of on-line databases, including EBSCOhost, Newsbank, Gale Discoving Collection ,Learning Express Library, Annenberg Media and the Netsmartz Workshop. The Library itself subscribes directly to several additional databases, including Teen Health and Wellness, AncestryLibrary and Heritage Quest.

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost provides access to full-text information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural. Age-appropriate publications, references and interfaces are available for both younger and older students. Information in EBSCOhost is from current and authoritative journals, magazines, pamphlets, newsletters and reference books on a wide variety of topics.

EBSCOhost Web:

• Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985.
• MasterFILE™ Premier. Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
• Newspaper Source™ Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
• Business Source® Premier provides access to a wide variety of business information. Business Source Premier offers full text of over 8,000 periodicals, and includes searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Business Source Premier also includes country economic reports, industry reports and market research reports.
• Regional Business News™ features daily updates, comprehensive full text for regional business publications and full text for more than 50 sources.
• Health Source®: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
• Health Source®: Consumer Edition is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines.
• Alt HealthWatch™ focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
• MAS Ultra: School Edition. Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
• Primary Search® provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
• EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
• The Military and Government Collection™ offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Searchasaurus

Kids Search

Student research Center

Newspapers

Through NewsBank™, Library patrons have access to archives from nearly a dozen major newspapers, including The Kansas City Star, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Springfield News-Leader. Other newspapers available through NewsBank include: The Chicago Tribune; The Christian Science Monitor; The Des Moines Register; The Los Angeles Times; The Louisville Courier Journal; The Tulsa World; The Washington Post; and The Wichita Eagle.

EBSCO's Newspaper Source™ also provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Gale Discovering Collection

The Gale Discovering Collection offers thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements make it easy for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

Learning Express Library

Learning Express Library is designed to help people succeed on the tests they must pass to gain citizenship, improve their testing skills or to further their education or career. Over 300 online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and much more. Test preparation materials span ages from elementary through adult. This testing resource also provides instant scoring and customized feedback.

Annenberg Media

Annenberg Media provides access to professional development materials for educators. The resources are free, and include video-on-demand, live streaming video events, and other materials available for purchase. The site also provides access to the Annenberg Channel, a free satellite channel for schools, libraries, colleges, universities, and other public access channels.

NetSmartz Workshop

The NetSmartz Workshop is an online interactive, educational safety resource that teaches kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet. NetSmartz creates high-impact educational activities that are well received by even the most tech-savvy kids.

Parents, guardians, educators and law enforcement have access to additional resources for learning and teaching about the dangers children may face online. NetSmartz is available to Library patrons and the general public.

Missouri-specific materials are available from http://www.netsmartz.org/education/mo/.

Teen Health and Wellness

Teen Health and Wellness: Real life, Real Answers is a comprehensive database that allows teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related issues important to their well-being, It is both a research/ report tool and a self-help resource. Henry County library patrons may now access this database through the library web page.

The homepage includes several high-interest, topical features that are updated on an ongoing basis.

• In the News - This section highlights current events, news and research in health and wellness.
• Ask Dr. Jan - This section features questions and answers provided by a licensed psychologist. Cast Your Vote - This feature allows you to share your opinion on a topic.
• Did you Know? - This section highlights interesting, little-known fads and statistics about an issue. You can also click to read an article about the topic.
• Last but not least is the section labeled Personal Story - these first-person accounts from teens who share their experiences dealing with health and wellness-retated issues.

The database also features an easy to use Search and Browse, section. You can search for an article, browse by subject or even use the A-Z topic search. After you locate your article it can be easily printed or emailed to your address.

Another handy feature is the Cite This Article button, which will display the article citation in MLA (Modern Language Association) format. Come see what's new for you at the Library.

Teen Health and Wellness: Real life, Real Answers

Genealogy on the Internet

Do you have an interest in family genealogy? Would you like to find out more about your relatives?

The Henry County Library has expanded the Internet Genealogy Resources available to patrons in the Electronic Media Resources Roomto include both Ancestry Library and Heritage Quest Online.

Ancestry Library allows you to search the 1790-1930 Census records, the United Kingdom census records, the Social Security Death Index, Civil War Service Records, World War I Draft Registration Records, Immigrant Passenger Lists and many other databases; new databases are added every month.

With Heritage Quest you can search the Census records from 1790 to 1930, search for information in over 25,000 family and local histories, search the Revolutionary War pension and land bounty records and access the Persi™ (Periodical Source Index) database, a comprehensive subject index covering over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals.

The Internet Access Startup screen, which appears when Firefox is started on one of the EMR Internet Computers, contains direct links to the Ancestry Library and Heritage Quest web sites. They are available only from the Internet computers in the Library's Electronic Media Resources (EMR) Room.

HCL's Genealogy Resources on the Internet Page