Reference & Research

Fire Insurance Maps Online (FIMo) provides access to digitized fire insurance maps, including publications by Sanborn, Perris, Hexamer, Whipple, Baist, Bromley, Hopkins, and others. These maps offer detailed historical representations of urban areas, originally created for fire insurance purposes. They document building footprints, construction materials, and street layouts. FIMo is a valuable resource for researchers, historians, genealogists, and property owners seeking to explore the past development and infrastructure of cities. Discover the evolution of St. Louis neighborhoods and buildings through these meticulously detailed maps from a variety of historical mapmakers.

Provides a complete overview of the United States' past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Explore coverage on topics ranging from the arrival of the Vikings in North America to the American Revolution, Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

Provides an overview of world history, from ancient times to today's headlines. Covering the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.

Browse and search the latest editions of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and issues dating back to 1988.

• Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere!
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This resource offers three separate sites for children, young adults, and older patrons. With Britannica Library, it's easy to conduct research, complete school assignments, work on special projects, or explore unique interests.

Whether you're looking for consumer, health, news or employment information, Explora serves as a simple, yet powerful access point for all of our EBSCO databases.

Discover all of our EBSCO databases for teens through Explora. This simple, yet powerful interface supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Discover all of our EBSCO databases for teens through Explora. This simple, yet powerful interface supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

Search, sort, view, and print Company Profiles and Prospect Lists from Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City databases of the Sorkins Directory.

Includes more than 25,000 World Book Encyclopedia articles, edited to suit students from grades 4 through 12 and adults. Also includes more than 1,800 tables, 100 animations and videos, 10,000 pictures, 500 maps. Has teacher's resources, current news, special reports and historical articles.

Reference Solutions, formerly ReferenceUSA, is a collection of helpful business databases. Use U.S. Businesses to search millions of businesses, small and large. U.S. Historical Businesses allows you to search for businesses from 2003 to 2013 to help visualize changes and trends over time. Research lifestyle statistics with U.S. Consumers/Lifestyles. Looking for a phone number? Use the Standard White Pages database to simultaneously search residential phone books.

Search for books, videos, sound recordings, and more by searching library catalogs from around the world. If you find an item that SLPL does not own, you can use WorldCat to place a request for the item. Please note: SLPL can not guarantee that the owning libraries listed in WorldCat can fill your request. Requested items may not be loaned for a variety of reasons. You will be notified if your requested item cannot be obtained.

The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This scholarly collection provides full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. and currently counting 3,834 full-text scholarly publications.

The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable.   

Includes 2008-present day, though it can take up to five days for new editions to be added.

Whether you're looking for consumer, health, news or employment information, Explora serves as a simple, yet powerful access point for all of our EBSCO databases.

Access to issues of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003).

JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, and library school theses, plus over three hundred books per year. This resource delivers full-text articles from over a hundred select publications. Indexing begins in 1984 and full-text articles begin in 1994.

The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable.   

Includes 2008-present day, though it can take up to five days for new editions to be added.

Full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest.

NYTimes.com provides free access to the New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news articles, reviews, blogs, videos, and more. There are two different ways to access NYTimes.com depending on if you are inside or outside the Library. For both onsite or offsite access, you need to sign up for a free account using a valid email address.

Using NYTimes.com in the Library:

1. Click here

2. Enter login information (first-time users will need to create an account) or log in with Facebook or Google

3. Begin reading!

Using NYTimes.com outside the Library:

You must redeem a code to access NYTimes.com remotely. The code lasts for 72 hours. At the end of the 72 hours, you can repeat the process and receive another 72-hour pass.

1. Click here

2. Redeem your code for digital access to the New York Times. (The code will be pre-populated). Select the Redeem button

3. Enter login information (first-time users will need to create an account) or log in with Facebook or Google

4. Get Started! Enjoy your 3 days of unlimited access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes smartphone and tablet apps

Newspaper articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and the full-text from more than 1,000 newspapers in the US and around the world. This product is protected by copyright. For use by individual cardholders only.

Explore this extensive online database of historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the early 2000s. It contains a diverse blend of well-known regional and local newspapers in the US and other countries, including the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Date ranges vary by publication.

NYTimes Cooking is a service of The New York Times. It is a digital cookbook and cooking guide, available on all platforms that helps home cooks of every level discover the world’s best recipes, while also helping them become better, more competent cooks.

To access NYTimes Cooking, you must redeem a code. The code lasts for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours, you can repeat the process and receive another code.

1. Click here or select NYTimes Cooking above
2. Redeem your code for digital access to NYTimes Cooking. (The code will be pre-populated). Select the Redeem button.
3. Log in or create an account. First-time users will need to create an account or login with Facebook, Google, or Apple.
4. Start Cooking! Enjoy your 24 hours access to NYTimes Cooking.

The Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for nearly 550 high-quality education journals.

Access issues of The St. Louis American newspaper from 1949 to 2010. As a leading voice of the St. Louis African American community, The St. Louis American has been in continuous publication since 1928. This valuable digital resource offers insight into the history, culture, and experiences of the African American community in St. Louis.

Access to the St. Louis Business Journal’s daily editorial content, the St. Louis Business Journal Weekly Edition, the Business Journal Book of Lists, and much more.

The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable.   

Includes 2008-present day, though it can take up to five days for new editions to be added.

Searchable, full-page digitized versions of five major U.S. newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Includes 2008-present day, though it can take up to five days for new editions to be added. The most recent 30 days of The New York Times are not available due to a publisher-imposed embargo.