Databases & Online Resources
The library offers access to databases and online resources on a wide variety of subjects. Some resources are licensed for use in Wyoming or Campbell County libraries only and require a password if you are not accessing them from within a library. To use these resources from home, provide your library card and PIN when they are requested.
A comprehensive source of information in agriculture and life sciences.
Agriculture (Gale OneFile)
Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.
Choose an audience level (children, young adult, or the Reference Center for high school and adult researchers) and then search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and web sites. Switch to Britannica Academic for college level or browse the country comparisons and statistics.
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Computer Science (Gale OneFile)
Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
Environmental Studies (Gale In Context)
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
This collection provides access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Databases include general interest, biography, business, auto repair, archival sources, literary criticism, research for all ages, and more. Many databases funded by the University of Wyoming.
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment with a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. In order to access the classes for free you must always use the link above. (Going straight to Lynda.com will require you to set up a paid account. Entering through the library’s website with your library card gives you free unlimited access!)
This database is designed specifically for public libraries and provides a perfect, general interest database to start your research.
National Geographic Virtual Library
The complete archive of National Geographic magazine – every page of every issue from 1888 to the present – along with a searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
National Science Digital Library
NSDL is the Nation’s online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
A group of databases including ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Biology Journals, ProQuest Computing, and ProQuest Telecommunications, giving access to thousands of important full-text journals, such as Nature Publishing titles and SIAM journals.
Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
Smithsonian Collections Online (Gale)
Search rare 19th and 20th century archives on topics like the evolving modes of flight, World’s Fairs, trade literature and more. Also includes the full archive of Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine presenting unique and comprehensive insight into history, science, nature, the arts, innovation, technology, and world culture.
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) provides access to federal technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975