Information at your Fingertips
TCPL subscribes to numerous databases for the benefit of our library customers. These electronic sources of information are available to all TCPL cardholders.
How to access Database:
Most of our databases are available to you from home. Click on the button to go to the database of your choice. Your user name is your library barcode number, without spaces, and the password is the last 4 digits of your phone number.
If you have any questions concerning a database, please call 429-0113.
Newspaper and Magazine articles
View Inspire: Indiana’s Online Research Library.
Find full text magazine and newspaper articles or search the holdings of libraries all over the world.
- Test Preparation and More
- General and Academic Magazines & Journals
- Student Research Center
- Biography Resource Center
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
- Career Collection
- National Newspapers
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Access to archives of the many regional newspapers.
- Journal and Courier: Full Text from Nov. 29, 2002 to present with limited coverage back to 1999.
- Indianapolis Star: Full Text from May 1991 to present.
- Many other papers with full text or citations.
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Perfect for travelers, A to Z World Travel provides access to an ever expanding list of city and country travel guides. Included in the database are hotel accommodation suggestions, restaurant highlights, maps, travel warnings, weather reports, and currency information.
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Automotive and Do-It-Yourself
Business & Legal
The Coalition for Court Access provides a site where you can get forms, help finding a lawyer, and instructions for representing yourself in court.
Available remotely.
Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
Available remotely
Online access to Value Line‘s leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Updated weekly.
Available remotely.
The Morningstar Investment Research Center is an online investment database with information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds.
Available remotely.
Here is Your Indiana Government is a joint publication of the Indiana Bar Foundation and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the book is to encourage Hoosiers to better know their government and how to take part in public affairs. Additionally educators and students are encouraged to use this as a comprehensive resource to aid in the teaching and learning of state and local government. Readers will find specific icons throughout the publication indicating the topic’s connection to Indiana’s social studies academic standards.
Literature
Over one hundred picture books are animated and read-aloud for you and your child. Follow-along word illumination, games and puzzles, audio book classics, and read-along large-type, regular, and easy reader books are all available for entertainment and learning. Access Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, and Russian language books for language learning and exploring.
Available remotely.
Science and Education
View Ancestry Library Edition With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
Available at library only.
HeritageQuest is a resource for census data, family records, and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical and local history serials, and more. An ongoing project (new content is added regularly), HeritageQuest Online will grow to encompass the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Freedman’s Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index, and additional materials.
Available remotely.
This service offers study materials and practice exams for dozens of common standardized tests. Available tests include the SAT, GED, ASVAB, and more. There are also tools for many career entry exams, such as accounting, law enforcement, nursing, and real estate. Includes a resume building and computer skills tutorials.
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Scholastic Teachables—worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! Formerly known as Scholastic Printables, we offer printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade.
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Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. It also offers several options for English as a second language and American Sign Language.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning that allows users to quickly find the valuable career information they need, whether it’s industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice. The material draws from a range of authoritative sources, including Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance.
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab has a comprehensive writing guide. Learn how to write papers, format citations, prepare job applications, and more. Includes guides for MLA, APA, and Chicago style.
Chicago Manual of Style Completely searchable and easy to use, The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. Now offering the full contents of the 16th and 15th editions, it is the must-have reference for everyone who works with words.
Available at Library only
Learn Your Future. Free Online Learning.
Learn and develop the skills needed to advance in work and life.
Develop skills you can apply right away, with e-learning courses designed by Google product experts. Learn at your own pace and get Google product certified.
Frequently Asked Questions
For narrowing down search results further, try using the “limit or refine search” options. You might choose to see articles published within a certain time frame. Do you want only the newest articles, or do you want to see something historical? If you are doing research for a class, your instructor may want only academic or ‘peer reviewed’ articles. There is a check box to show only those.
If you really need to get your hands on an article that’s available only as a citation, you can request it using Interlibrary Loan. Just be aware that it can take a week or two for it to arrive, and that some libraries charge fees for scanning or copying.