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Research/Media Center

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."– Carl Sagan

Research Resources

Homework and Research Help

Homework and research tools provided by Scott County Library for academic success.

EBSCO

Offers access to current and backdated full text periodical articles using basic and advanced searching supported by Boolean logic. At home access using the following: ID=Jordan PASSWORD=password

ELM (Electronic Library for Minnesota)

Gives Minnesota residents online access to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, eBooks, and information from other reference sources.

GALE

InfoTrac is a mega-database of 16 million records covering over 6,100 journals. The service offers online access to popular magazines, academic journals, and trade press, as well as five newspapers.

PROQUEST

Online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers—many updated—as well as backdated articles to 1986.