Databases from MeL.org and ELPL - In Alphabetical Order
Academic OneFile
What is it? Full text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes full text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Audience? Recommended for Colleges and Universities
Subject? Multiple
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Ancestry Plus
What is it? Research your family history with the most popular genealogy tool available.
Audience? Recommended for High School and higher
Subject? Genealogy and public records
Do I need to login? Available from within the library only, no login required.
ELPL Database
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
What is it? Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Genealogy
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Biography Resource Center
What is it? Information on more than 220,000 people throughout history.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Biography
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter the first five digits of their library card number
ELPL Database
Books and Authors
What is it? Books and authors helps you find great titles and authors with expert picks, reviews, lists and more. Use it when you need a great recommendation for what to read next.
Audience? Middle School and higher.
Subject? Readers Advisory
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Business Insights: EssentialsWhat is it? Enhanced content and features such as the company finder and interactive charting enable users to delve deeper into business data. Business professionals, students, entrepreneurs and general researchers will find company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, SWOT analyses, company histories, chronologies, and periodical articles. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Audience? High School and higher, Professionals, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs
Subject? Business data, statistics, local trends, analysis.
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Automotive Repair
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Computer related product introductions, news and reviews.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? Computers
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? A leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural informationo ncountries across the globe.
Audience? Upper elementary school and higher
Subject? Culture
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? This versatile database is useful for those who want to start a business as well as those who want to take their established business to the next level.
Audience? High School and higher, Professionals, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs
Subject? Business data, statistics, local trends, analysis.
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Books
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Find over 2000 articles, ebooks, transcripts, photos, websites, focused multi-media, maps and reference sources such as almanacs and encyclopedias.
Audience? Upper elementary to High school
Subject?
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows.
Audience? Kindergarten to upper elementary
Subject?
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? This database provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
Audience? Educators, pre-service teachers, and parents.
Subject? Education
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
Audience? Colleges and Universities
Subject? All topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Provides free online access to official Federal Government publications which include Congressional, Presidential and Federal agency materials.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? Government publications
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Search hundreds of E-Book Reference titles with one search!
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? Reference materials
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject?
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? General interest magazines, business and industry journals, newspaper articles, reference books, maps and historical images.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? All topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Full text articles from magazines and reference books on all subjects.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? All topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Medical sources, including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and full-text periodicals.
Audience? Students, patients, health professionals
Subject? Health and Wellness
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Health Reference Center Academic
What is it? Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers, it includes general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
Audience? Students, patients, health professionals
Subject? Health and Wellness
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Heritage Quest Online
What is it? Research your family history with images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790-1930 federal censuses.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? Genealogy, local history
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Informe! en Esanol
What is it? Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Audience? High school and higher
Subject? Spanish language resources
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
InfoTrac Junior Edition What is it? For junior high school students, it includes full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
Audience? Middle school
Subject? All subjects
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
InfoTrac Student Edition
What is it? For high school students, it includes full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
Audience? High School
Subject? All subjects
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Job & Career Accelerator What is it? Job & Career Accelerator is the industry's most comprehensive, online job search system that puts job seekers on the Fast Track to getting hired.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Job hunting
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Kids InfoBits
What is it? For students in Kindergarten through Grade 5, it includes full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
Audience? Kindergarten through upper elementary
Subject? all topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Lansing State JournalWhat is it? Comprehensive coverage (2002-Present) of articles, stories, columns, commentaries, reviews and more for the newspaper from the state capital of Michigan.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? all topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
LearningExpress Library
What is it? Test preparation for the ACT, ASVAB, Civil Service, EMS, Firefighter, GED, GMAT, GRE, Law Enforcement, Praxis/PPST, Real Estate, SAT, U.S. Citizenship and more.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Test prep
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Legal Forms Library
What is it? Copies of actual forms and documents in Word format are provided to help users with their legal needs
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Legal Documents
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
LegalTrac
What is it? Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Legal documents
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Literature Resource Center
What is it? Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and much more.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Literary critisism
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter the first five digits of their library card number
ELPL Database
Mango Language Learning Center What is it? Choose from over 30 languages to study. English courses for ESL learners are also available.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Language learning
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter their library card number
ELPL Database
Making of Modern Michigan What is it? A digital collection of historical information about the state of Michigan.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Michigan's history
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter their library card number
ELPL Database
What is it? Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
Audience? patients and health professionals
Subject? Health and Wellness
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? A database of Michigan artists.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Info on local artists
Do I need to login? No login required
MeL Database
What is it? This digital archive documents state history. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Michigan's history
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? The daily newspaper New York Times 1985-present.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? New York Times articles
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams
Audience? Nursing students, healthcare professionals
Subject? Nursing
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? This catalog of digitized materials includes books, articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? all topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Features contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? Opinions on social issues
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
What is it? For grades K-9, covers full text articles selected from 1000 magazines.
Audience? Kindergarten through high school
Subject? all topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
What is it? Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject?
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Small Business Resource Center
What is it? Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business.
Audience? Small business owners, entrepreneurs
Subject? Small business
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)
What is it? TGIF was designed to systematically inventory published turf research and make the bibliographic information available via a computerized database.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject? Turfgrass
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
Value Line
What is it? Stock analysis, investment research and more.
Audience? High School and higher
Subject?
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter the first five digits of their library card number.
ELPL Database
Value Line Remote Access
What is it? Value Line for our remote access patrons. Patrons will need to enter their entire barcode number to sign in.
Audience?
Subject?
Do I need to login? Users outside the library will need to enter the first five digits of their library card number.
ELPL Database
WorldCat (free version)
What is it? WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Audience? Middle School and higher
Subject? all topics
Do I need to login? Outside of library use driver's license, State ID or ELPL library barcode.
MeL Database
on Mon, 6/17/2013 
