General Reference

Rock's Backpages is the largest archive of music journalism online, featuring almost 50,000 articles on thousands of artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top. 

By answering just a few questions, flint artifacts of Ohio can be identified as a blade, drill, point, or scraper and attributed to a likely era and people. Learn more by exploring the Glossary, Artifacts Index, or articles about Ohio's Prehistoric People.

CultureGrams® is your source for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries of the world. Beyond the facts and figures, find an insider's perspective on the history, daily life, and customs. 

This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.

A comprehensive collection of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.  All assembled by international communities of scholars across all fields of study.

Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer easy-to-read introductions to a diverse range of subject areas. Since the series was launched it has continued to offer new books each year for students and scholars, and the avidly curious, offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work.

Driving-Tests.org is a free study resource to help you prepare for different Bureau of Motor Vehicles exams. You can access driver's license, motorcycle license, and CDL practice questions, and get hints to answers as you work through the practice questions.

This link displays the various EBSCOhost databases that you can access, but that we don't have listed on our website. This includes other academic, professional, medical, and research journals, plus more general reference databases.

The Ohio Web Library is the main access point for many online resources and publication that are provided to Ohioans by their libraries. Visit this page for more resources than you see linked here on our library’s website.