Digital Library - Research
These digital collections are available anywhere, anytime with a JMRL library card. Find ebooks, audiobooks, streaming video, interactive classes, research databases, and more.
- Provides information on the history, culture, lifestyle, and government of numerous countries. The database includes the world edition, kids edition, and states edition. Contains a photo gallery, a recipe collection, biographies, and customizable data tables.SubjectsHistory, Culture, EncyclopediasType of ContentDatabase
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- Provides access to 4 databases: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law; LGBTQ+ Rights; Civil Rights and Social Justice; and Gun Regulation and Legislation in America. In-house public PC users must select unfiltered access and have a Library of Virginia card. (get one here)SubjectsHistory, African American History, CultureType of ContentGovernment Documents, Database, Legal
- Readers’ Guide Retrospective™: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
- Provides high interest relevant non-fiction newspaper and magazine articles as well as graphs, tables and political cartoons that are easily accessible through both search and browse functions. Includes access to Compton's by Britannica Encyclopedia, a dictionary, and thesaurus.SubjectsBiography, Culture, Encyclopedias, History, Magazines, Newspapers, Science
- Provides access to current, relevant analysis including a variety of international sources, images, statistics, charts, and maps to help students understand and evaluate over 350 complex issues.SubjectsCulture, Encyclopedias
