General Online Resources

We have assembled a number of quality reference links below, which you can access from anywhere. Some of the materials are provided by MEL. Outside of the library the MEL materials can be accessed using your library card number or driver’s license number.

General Reference

• Encyclopedia Brittanica
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2001
• Encyclopedia of World History, 6th ed. 2001 Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 World Factbook. 2003
• World Almanacs
• American Heritage© Dictionary, 4th ed. 2000 Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 1995
• Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
• Old Farmer’s Almanac
• Religious Resources Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon, Concise Dictionary of Religion

Medical & Legal Reference

• Medline Plus
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Health Reference Center Academic
• Anatomy of the Human Body, Gray, Henry. 1918. 20th ed LegalTrac

E-Books

• Net Library
• Project Gutenberg Online Catalog
• The Harvard Classics. Eliot, Charles W., ed. 1909–17.
• Cambridge History of English & American Lit.(18 vols.). 1907–21
• Early American Fiction

Newspapers

• New York Times 1995–present
• NewsBank Michigan Newspapers
• InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
• Grand Rapids Press

Magazine & Journal Articles

• InfoTrac OneFile
• Computer Database
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• ECO Electronic Collections Online