Online Resources
Encyclopedia Britannica
Online encyclopedia with easy to use features and information about a vast range of topics.
Worldbook Encyclopedia
Covering a wide variety of topics, this encyclopedia has a timeline function to show relationships between events.
American FactFinder
Extensive peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Digital Public Library of America
Search all the online collections from public libraries across the country.
Global Newsstream
Search the most recent global news content in over 2,800 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format
Google Translate
Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages
Merriam-Webster's 3rd New Int'l. Dictionary
Online full-text of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus as well as a wealth of language related information.
Niche Academy
An award winning online learning platform that includes quick video tutorials for many of the resources you ll find in the Digital Maine Library.
ProQuest via Digital Maine Library
Through Digital Maine Library, we have access to different ProQuest databases to help you in your research.
Smithsonian Resources
Free databases and collections relating to science, history, arts, and more from the Smithsonian.
Wall Street Journal
A daily business and financial newspaper with high marks for factual reporting. It has a focus upon business and economy but often reports on related topics in politics, arts and world events.
World Fact Book (CIA)
Produced by the CIA, the World Factbook summarizes information about countries and other international entities, such as demographics, geography, communications, government, and economy.
WorldCat
WorldCat.org compiles and organizes the holdings of thousands of libraries globally, making it the world's largest bibliographic database.
OWL MLA Guide
From the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, this MLA Guide has quick, easy to understand directions for formatting your MLA papers.
Zoterobib
While not as accurate as the built-in citation generators in databases, this citation-builder will get you started on the right path, even if you need to double-check it to make sure it is correct.