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Beanstack

Beanstack is a platform used by HCPL for reading challenges and book recommendations. You may also download the Beanstack app for Android and iOS.

Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970)

Gale eBooks

Gale eBooks offers a collection of premier reference and handbooks that you can view and search online.

Heritage Quest

HeritageQuest Online provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s.

Indiana Memory

Indiana Memory is a collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.

INSPIRE

INSPIRE is a collection of online academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents.

Issues & Controversies

Issues & Controversies provides students with a unique tool for understanding today’s crucial issues.  Designed to inspire thought-provoking debates, each in-depth article presents both sides of an issue clearly and without bias.  Updated weekly, this resource presents the key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today’s most important issues – an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation and persuasive writing assignments.

Issues & Controversies IN HISTORY

Issues & Controversies in History places students at the center of the great debates and conflicts in U.S. and world history, exploring the issues as the key players saw them, or, in some cases, as historians have interpreted them. It delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverages of a broad range of topics, from slavery, empire, and revolution to race, gender, economy, and disease, all over the globe.

IT Training from Indiana University

New from IU, you can now take high-quality, hands-on courses–absolutely free. Learn something new, strengthen your skills, even earn a digital certification–any time, anywhere.

Louisville Courier-Journal - Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive empowering researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history.

Louisville Courier-Journal (ProQuest)

Coverage: 1999 – current local regional news. This publication’s detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so they have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.  

Mango Languages

Mango Languages is an online language learning resource offering tools to develop fluency in approximately 70 languages.

NewspaperARCHIVE

NewspaperARCHIVE is the world’s best resource for historical and genealogical information. Our unique archive spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news and more.

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Newspapers.com

Niche Academy

We provide tutorials that teach people how to use library e-Resources like eBooks, research databases, and language learning tools.

Overdrive

OverDrive is a free service offered by HCPL that lets you borrow digital content (like ebooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere.

Psychology.org

Explore psychology degree programs, career paths, expert guidance, and other helpful resources.

Rosetta Stone

Salem Health

This comprehensive consumer health collection covers all aspects of human health, from addictions to diseases, nutrition, adolescent and women’s health, psychology, alternative treatments and more. Password: r3m0t3

Salem History

Salem Press’ history titles cover a wide range of topics spanning American and world history, providing thought-provoking coverage of the most important moments and figures throughout history. Password: r3m0t3

Salem Literature

A resource that examines American and international literature, novelists, poets, and short stories, as well as how they relate to their plots and themes. Password: r3m0t3

Salem Science

Salem Science provides a wide variety of resources to help students and researchers explore robotics, computer science, ecology, biology, earth science, the solar system, the environment, applied science, mathematics, and so much more.  Password: r3m0t3

STATS Indiana

STATS Indiana provides easy, one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts and more.

World Book Online / eBooks

eBooks, Educational Games, Student Research and more! Username: harrison Password: harrison

World History Encyclopedia

World History Encyclopedia provides thousands of free history articles, images, maps, videos, timelines and more. Use this website to learn about global history, from ancient times to the first colonies in the Americas and beyond.

World News Digest

Presenting more than eight decades of authoritative news summaries and background articles, World News Digest contains a wealth of material and a dynamic interface that makes it easy to explore the events that shape our world. World News Digest frames events for research and is the place to start any reference project—take a look today.

Writer's Reference Center

Writer’s Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides a wealth of vocabulary-building reference dictionaries, and examines numerous thematic areas.