Use these librarian-selected tools to access electronic encyclopedias, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, and more.
Automotive
ALLDATA
A resource that provides vehicle manufacturers' diagnostic and repair information, and Original Equipment Manufacturer information.
In-library use only.
Funded by MELSA*
Driving-Tests.org
Offers online test preparation for students preparing for their Minnesota driving tests. Includes practice car and motorcycle tests, Minnesota Driver’s Manual and Minnesota Motorcycle Manual. Includes FAQs to answer questions about visiting local license centers.
Books & Reading
Ebooks Minnesota
Online e-books available to all Minnesotans. Items are always available for checkout without waitlists.
NoveList Plus - your guide to reading
Looking for a good read? This tool helps you find new books based on other books you've enjoyed or topics in which you're interested. Includes nonfiction. Funded by MELSA*
NoveList Plus K-8
Find books (both fiction and nonfiction) that kids and teens will love to read by topic, genre, grade level and Lexile score.
Funded by MELSA*
Business & Finance
Data Axle Reference Solutions
Directory of 80 millions of U.S. businesses and U.S. residents. Additional consumer and financial databases as well.
Funded by MELSA*
EBSCO Business Source Premier
Scholarly journals and trade publications across business-related subject areas.
Funded by ELM*
EBSCO Regional Business News
Provides full-text regional business publications from the United States and Canada. Includes newspapers, radio and TV transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires and videos.
Funded by ELM*
LinkedIn Learning
Easy-to-use video tutorials to help you learn software, technical, creative and business skills. Log in with your Dakota County Library card, create your profile and you are ready to start learning.
Mobile app library ID: dakotacountylibrary
Funded by MELSA*
Value Line
Investment ratings, research, statistics and forecasts for thousands of stocks and mutual funds. Funded by DCL.
Children & Youth
BookFlix
A literacy resource that pairs video storybooks with nonfiction e-books to build a love of reading and learning.
Funded by MELSA*
Britannica School Elementary
Encyclopedia content for elementary grades. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, animal kingdom and geography explorer.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica School High
Encyclopedia content for high school grades. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica School Middle
Encyclopedia content for middle school grades. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
Early World of Learning
An interactive learning environment including engaging games and beginning reading activities.
Funded by DCL*
Explora Kids
Contains elementary school-appropriate magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and images. Funded by ELM.
Explora High
Containshigh school-appropriate magazine, journal and encyclopedia articles. Also includes primary source documents, reference books and multimedia. Funded by ELM.
Gale in Context: High School
Encyclopedia, magazine and journal articles plus primary sources, images, video and more for middle and high school students. Includes the InfoTrac Student Edition database.
Funded by ELM*
Gale in Context: Middle School
A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles. Includes primary source documents, and multimedia.
Funded by ELM*
Middle Search Plus
Popular magazines, biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, and reference books. Included in Explora Kids and Explora Teens databases.
Funded by ELM*
NoveList Plus K-8
Find books (both fiction and nonfiction) that kids and teens will love to read by topic, genre, grade level and Lexile score.
Funded by MELSA*
PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next
Modules include Animals and Biographies for K-3 grades. Information articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports including ad-along audio and word-by-word highlighting. States and American History modules for grades 3-5. Informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports including read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.
Funded by ELM*
TumbleBook Library - eBooks for eKids
TumbleBooks is collection of animated, talking picture books for kids. It also includes puzzles, games, audiobooks, and language learning. Requires Adobe Flash Player.
Funded by DCL*
Consumer Information
Consumer Reports
Provides ratings and reviews, recommendations, and buying advice for thousands of products and services. Includes cars, appliances, electronics and more. Contains articles from the monthly print magazine, the annual Buying Guide issue. Includes additional content found only on the website.
Funded by MELSA*
Consumers' CHECKBOOK
Features consumer information and ratings of services and products in the Twin Cities. Includes ratings for auto repair, banks, health care, phone services, roofers, and much more.
Funded by DCL*
EBSCO MasterFILE Complete
Provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Funded by ELM
Crafts
Craft and Hobby
The largest resource of video-on-demand learning in the craft and hobby space. Learn at your own pace with step-by-step tutorials in 20 creative interests.
Funded by MELSA*
Current Events & Issues
Points of View Reference Source
A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Funded by ELM*
Education & Colleges
EBSCO Academic Search Premier
Pro versus con essays that present many sides of current or controversial issues. Plus magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and more related to those issues.
Funded by ELM*
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Thousands of education-related articles within the professional literature.
Funded by ELM*
Gale in Context: High School
Encyclopedia, magazine and journal articles. Includes primary sources, images, video and the InfoTrac Student Edition database.
Funded by ELM*
HelpNow
Online homework live help.
Funded by MELSA*
Learning Express Computer Skills Center
Interactive training tutorials to develop computer and internet skills. Available through the LearningExpress Library.
Funded by ELM*
Learning Express Jobs and Career Accelerator
Career exploration tools, a resume and cover letter builder, job search, and other materials related to career and job readiness. Available through the LearningExpress Library.
Funded by ELM*
LearningExpressLibrary 3.0
A test prep resource that helps improve their core academic skills. Includes high school equivalency tests, college prep, military exams, occupational certifications, career changes and U.S. citizen preparations.
Funded by ELM*
LinkedIn Learning
Easy-to-use video tutorials to help you learn software, technical, creative and business skills. Log in with your Dakota County Library card, create your profile and you are ready to start learning.
Mobile app library ID: dakotacountylibrary
Funded by MELSA*
Professional Development Collection
Education journals and reports of interest to professional educators, researchers and librarians.
Funded by ELM*
Genealogy
Ancestry Library Edition
Provides extensive genealogy and family history resources. Includes census and immigration records.
In-library use only.
Funded by MELSA*
Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives Plus
A premier database specializing in digital U.S. military records. Includes service files, pension records, and draft cards from the Revolutionary War to modern conflicts. Provides millions of records, including photos, personal stories, and non-military, historical documents.
Funded by DCL*
HeritageQuest
A genealogy database offering U.S. federal census records, local histories, family trees, and unique primary sources. Provides digitized books, vital records, and historical documents.
Funded by DCL*
Historic Map Works Library Edition
Residential genealogical digital collection of full-color historic maps. Includes more than 100,000 land ownership maps detailing the geographic and development of the United States. Compatible with Firefox browser only.
Funded by DCL*
Minnesota Reflections
Collection of images and documents from historical societies, public libraries, special archives, universities, and colleges that depict the history of Minnesota.
*Funded by ELM
General Reference
Britannica Academic Edition
Encyclopedia content plus multimedia, timelines, world data analyst, country comparison and the Britannica blog.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica Fundamentals
Interactive learning modules for pre-kindergarten through grade 2. Includes drawing, reading, games and geographical exploration.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica Library
Encyclopedia content for all ages. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, quotations and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica Library Kids
Encyclopedia content for all ages. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, quotations and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica Original Sources
A compilation of primary source documents, complete books, and authentic images across a variety of subject areas. Includes close reading strategies for connecting with historical texts and primary source documents.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica School Elementary
Encyclopedia content for elementary grades plus multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, animal kingdom and geography explorer.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica School High
Encyclopedia content for high school grades. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
Britannica School Middle
Encyclopedia content for middle school grades. Includes multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, and primary sources.
Funded by ELM*
CountryWatch
News, maps, overviews and detailed reports on each of the recognized countries of the world.
Funded by DCL*
EBSCO Master File Complete
Provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Funded by ELM*
Gale in Context: Middle School
A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles. Includes primary source documents, and multimedia.
Funded by ELM*
MAS Complete
Full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources. Covers many subjects, including history, science and health. It also includes and over a million photos, maps and flags.
Funded by ELM*
Oxford Reference Online
Covers humanities, social sciences, performing arts, science, medicine and history.
Funded by DCL*
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
WorldCat is a catalog of books, videos, recordings, and other materials held in thousands of libraries worldwide.
Funded by ELM*
Health & Medicine
Alt HealthWatch
Provides both indexed and full text articles for 160 complementary, alternative, and holistic health care publications.
Funded by ELM*
Consumer Health Complete
Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Funded by ELM*
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Popular and professionally written information for patients and consumers covering all health-related topics. Included in Consumer Health Complete, Explora Teens and Explora Library databases.
Funded by ELM*
Minnesota Public Health Data Access
Public access to Minnesota data about environmental risk factors and health. Includes interactive charts and figures, maps, custom tables and county profiles across a range of environmental indicators.
Jobs & Careers
JobNow!
Get live job coaching, resume assistance, and more...
Funded by MELSA*
Learning Express Computer Skills Center
Interactive training tutorials to develop computer and internet skills. Available through the LearningExpress Library.
Funded by ELM*
Learning Express Jobs and Career Accelerator
Career exploration tools, a resume and cover letter builder, job search, and other materials related to career and job readiness. Available through the LearningExpress Library.
Funded by ELM*
LearningExpressLibrary 3.0
A test prep resource that helps improve their core academic skills. Includes high school equivalency tests, college prep, military exams, occupational certifications, career changes and U.S. citizen preparations.
Funded by ELM*
LinkedIn Learning
Easy-to-use video tutorials to help you learn software, technical, creative and business skills. Log in with your Dakota County Library card, create your profile and you are ready to start learning.
Mobile app library ID: dakotacountylibrary
Funded by MELSA*
Language & Travel
Mango Languages
Mango is a personalized language-learning system. It teaches conversation skills for many different languages including English.
Funded by DCL*
Ojibwe People's Dictionary
The Ojibwe People's Dictionary was established by faculty and students in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Transparent Language
Transparent Language is a powerful and personalized language-learning system.
Funded by MELSA*
Local Information
Magazines & Newspapers
America's News
Current content and archives from thousands of U.S. news sources.
Funded by MELSA*
EBSCO Academic Search Premier
Thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Includes Explora Library database.
Funded by ELM*
Duluth News-Tribune (via NewsBank)
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, 1995 to the present.
Funded by MELSA*
EBSCO Business Source Premier
Scholarly journals and trade publications across all business-related subject areas.
Funded by ELM*
EBSCO Master File Complete
Provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Funded by ELM*
EBSCO Regional Business News
Provides full-text regional business publications from the United States and Canada. Includes newspapers, radio and TV transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires and videos.
Funded by ELM*
Explora Kids
Contains elementary school-appropriate magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and images. Funded by ELM.
Explora High
Contains high school-appropriate magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles. Also includes primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia. Funded by ELM.
Explora Library
Full text of popular magazine and scholarly journal articles covering all subject areas.
Funded by ELM.
Historical Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922)
Full page images from the Minneapolis Morning Tribune (1909-1922) and indexing and abstracts for 1867-1908. Subscription purchased with funds provided to Minnesota State Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) through the Institute of Museums and Library Services.
Los Angeles Times (1996–current)
Articles from the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest U.S. Newsstream database.
Funded by ELM*
Minnesota News Sources
Provides full-text content of local and regional news from the St. Paul Pioneer Press (1988-present), Star Tribune (1986-present), and Duluth News-Tribune (1995-present).
Funded by MELSA*
New York Times (1999–current)
Articles from the New York Times from 1999 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest U.S. Newsstream database.
Funded by ELM*
Newspaper Source
Includes several Minnesota newspapers such as the Duluth News Tribune, Bemidji Pioneer, and Rochester Post Bulletin.
Funded by ELM*
ProQuest US Newsstream
U.S. news content as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Funded by ELM*
Rochester Post Bulletin
Complete full text, 2006-current.
Funded by MELSA*
St. Paul Pioneer Press (via NewsBank)Complete full text, 1988-current. Image Edition 2018-current.
Funded by MELSA*
USA Today (1997–current)
Articles from USA Today from 1997 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest Global Newsstream database.
Funded by ELM*
Wall Street Journal (1984–current)
Articles from the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest U.S. Newsstream database.
Funded by ELM*
Washington Post (1997–current)
Articles from the Washington Post from 1997 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest U.S. Newsstream database.
Funded by ELM*
Science & Technology
LinkedIn Learning
Easy-to-use video tutorials to help you learn software, technical, creative and business skills. Log in with your Dakota County Library card, create your profile and you are ready to start learning.
Mobile app library ID: dakotacountylibrary
Funded by MELSA*
Science Reference Source
Science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering many science topics for middle and high school students. Included in Explora Teens and Explora Library database.
Funded by ELM*