Online Research (Databases)

The following databases are available to Hastings Public Library card holders.

Call the library at (402) 461-2346 or e-mail us for your User ID and password.

•  Bloom's Literary Reference Online

  Bloom's Literary Reference Online is a Facts on File database which offers literature reference materials valuable to both high school and college students. Information includes biographies, literary criticisms, articles pertaining to literary topics, and overviews of thousandsFebruary 16, 2010, must have a current library card.)

• Chronicle Career Library

• Choosing an occupation or making a career change is a very challenging task. The average person makes at least three career changes in their life time.

• Chronicle Occupational Briefs present information on more than 2,000 occupational titles, including 650 comprehensive occupational descriptions, ranging from those that require a high school diploma or less, through professional careers. (Password required, must have a current library card.)
  Access Chronicle Career Library remotely from home. | Access Chronicle Career Library from the library.

• EBSCOhost MAS Ultra—Public Library Edition

  EBSCOhost offers full-text magazine articles for over 400 general interest magazines, including Consumer Reports. (Password required, must have a current library card.)

• FACTS.com Facts On File World News Digest

  With FACTS.com, you can get answers to your questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. This database delivers special features including statistics, maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, news makers and events since 1980. (Password required, must have a current library card.)

• Nebraska OverDrive Libraries

  My library, anytime, with Nebraska OverDrive Libraries. With support from the Nebraska Library Commission, HPL now offers audio digital books via Nebraska OverDrive Libraries. Browse a dynamic collection of audio books. Check out and download best-selling titles to your PC, then transfer to a portable device or burn some titles to CD and enjoy anytime, anywhere. (Nebraska OverDrive Libraries is for home use, must have a current library card.) Starting July 17, 2008, on an ongoing basis, a maintenance window will be scheduled on the third Thursday of each month, from 7am – 8 am. Nebraska OverDrive may not be available during the maintenance.

• NetLibrary

  NetLibrary provides users with full-text searching of electronic books. Over 10,000 titles to choose from. NetLibrary provides access to Hastings Public Library's eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week. (Password required, must set up a free personal account at the library.)

• NoveList

  NoveList is a guide to all things fiction—use it to find new authors and titles. NoveList has everything for the fiction reader from author and title read-alikes to series searches. (Password required, must have a current library card.)

• ReferenceUSA (Find an address)

  Searching for the name or address of a person or a business or a list of businesses in a specific industry or in a specific location? ReferenceUSA not only is searchable by name, address, or location but also by yellow page heading or the name of a company executive. Includes links to financial statistics: current stock quotes, Edgar Financial Information, credit ratings, annual reports and much more. (Password is your library card number.)

• SIRS Researcher

  SIRS Researcher provides comprehensive full-text articles provide access to a wide variety of sources. Topics range from family, health and business to economics, world affairs, science and government. (Password required, must have a current library card.)

• Value Line

  Value Line is a source of accurate and independently created research information for investors. Value Line collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 13,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options and other securities. (Password required, must have a current library card.)
  Access Value Line remotely from home. | Access Value Line from the library.

NebraskAccess – The following databases are available to Nebraska residents.

General information about NebraskAccess The Nebraska Library Commission, with funding from the Unicameral, provides the following databases—which can be accessed from home via the Internet—all of which are free to residents of Nebraska.

Hastings Public Library patrons may call the library at (402) 461-2346 or e-mail us to obtain one convenient password for all of the following databases. This password will change twice a year. Nebraska residents may also log in to these databases by using their Nebraska driver's license or Nebraska state ID number.

• Bigchalk / eLibrary

  Formerly Electric Library Offers full-text access to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles; wire service stories; television and radio transcripts; photographs; maps; and reference books.
  Access Bigchalk / eLibrary from the library. | Access Bigchalk / eLibrary from home at NebraskAccess. (Password required.)

• Fiction Connection

  Get book recommendations based on reading preferences and track series information.
  Access Fiction Connection from the library. | Access Fiction Connection from home at NebraskAccess. (Password required.)

• FirstSearch

  Use FirstSearch to access an online database service operated by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). Twelve databases to search including WorldCat, a worldwide library catalog—great for doing your own interlibrary loan searching; ERIC, an index to journal articles and reports in education; and The World Almanac, searchable full-text content from Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. No full text except for WorldAlmanac.
  Access FirstSearch from the library. | Access FirstSearch from home at NebraskAccess. (Password required.)

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  HeritageQuest Online

  Your resource for family and local history. This collection assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. HeritageQuest Online includes over 25,000 family and local history books and the complete US Federal Census 1790-1930.
  Access HeritageQuest Online from the library. | Or Access HeritageQuest Online at NebraskAccess from home. (Password required.)
  The library also offers Ancestry.com—see below—for use at the library. See our Genealogy page for more resources.

• Kiplinger Business Forecasts (Business information & statistics)

  Includes The Kiplinger Letter. This resource provides timely access to business and economic forecasts as well as tips on personal finance.
  Access Kiplinger Business Forecast from home. | Access Kiplinger resources at NebraskAccess from home. (Password required.)

• PatronBooksInPrint.com

  The industry's largest Web-based bibliographic resource. Looking for something new to read? Search bestsellers, read reviews, and more.
  Access PatronBooksInPrint.com from the library. | Access PatronBooksinPrint at NebraskaAccess from home. (Password required.)

• WilsonWeb Biographies & OmniFile Full Text Select

  Biography Reference Bank Select Edition

  Provides comprehensive coverage of over 246,000 people in the news and history-makers, along with images and an improved, user-friendly interface. Database grows by 1,000 or more profiles a year.
  Access WilsonWeb from the library. | Access WilsonWeb at NebraskAccess from home. (Password required.)

  OmniFile Full Text Select

  Wilson OmniFile offers full-text articles from 1994 to the present from a wide range of general interest magazines.
  Access WilsonWeb from the library. | Access WilsonWeb at NebraskAccess from home. (Password required.)

See the NebraskAccess Help page for general browser requirements for NebraskAccess resources.

More databases available at the library

• ALLDATA (Fix your car)

  Find and print trouble codes, technical service bulletins, and specifications for model years 1982–current.
  Access ALLDATA from the library. (This subscription database is for use only at the library.)

• Ancestry.com

  Explore genealogy, family trees, and family history records online, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
  Access Ancestry.com from the library. (This subscription database is for use only at the library.) See our Genealogy page for more resources.

• Foundation Directory Online Professional

• This fully searchable database includes detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation's top funders. The database may be accessed from the Online Research computers at Hastings Public Library.
  Access Foundation Directoty Online Professional from the library. (This subscription database is for use only at the library.) See our Grant Center page for more resources.

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