Reliable Research

Right from your desktop

Presented by Margaret Douglas and Enrique Rivero

Databases: The Advantages

• Reliable – The library’s online databases are compiled by well-established vendors and selected by Thousand Oaks librarians.

• Convenient – The information is literally “at your fingertips” on your computer.

• Current – Electronic databases are updated continuously for up-to-the-minute information.

• Available – Unlike information in books, electronic information is never checked out to someone else.

• Free - The library subscribes to them for you!

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The library’s website: www.toaks.org/library

Research by Topic: click on a link to go to the group of

databases that best suits your research.

• Databases that have this blue icon are available remotely over the Internet.

• To access them you need a Thousand Oaks Library card. All City employees are eligible for a free library card.

Local News Index

• An index of articles related to Thousand Oaks from local newspapers, including obituaries.

• Full text and peer-reviewed articles • Marked items lists• Dictionary• Translations• Citations formatting

Gale General One File: articles from magazines and journals

ReferenceUSA Directory information for the entire USA

• Business listings including owner, officers, sales volume, number of employees

• Residential listings including average income in residential area.

• Maps

NoveList: Find fiction according to your reading preferences

• Read-alikes• Synopsis• Evaluation• Book discussion guides• Lists of prize winning titles

Auto Repair Reference Center

• 1954 – 2009 models• Repair instructions• Diagrams• Bulletins

HeritageQuest OnlineGenealogy

• U.S. Census• Family histories• Local histories• Revolutionary war

World Book Online Reference Center

• All articles from the current 22-volume edition of the World Book Encyclopedia

• Dictionary• Atlas• Multimedia

Most databases can E-mail information directly and provide easy printing.

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AskNow is a reference service staffed by librarians throughout the United States.

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• We hope you have enjoyed this program of the Thousand Oaks Library.

• Instructors:• Margaret Douglas• Enrique Rivero

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