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Webster County Library

General Research

resources to find information about various topics

A Library Card Number is Required to Access Outside the Library

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Core resource for scholarly information. The database contains more than 2,100 journals and over 1,700 peer-reviewed, full-text journals.

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This interface is designed specifically for general research in a public library. This interface is graphically rich and provides access to a wide range of materials. Includes topic overviews that provide a starting point for research and 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press.

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The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance.


An online encyclopedia with articles and images about a variety of subjects. The listen feature enables you to have the computer read the encyclopedia entries out loud.

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The EBSCO resource collection is a subscription to thousands of journals containing thousands of full-text articles. You can search for articles or pamphlets in a medical database, or elementary school students can find articles written at their reading level using the Primary Search.

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The Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC) is a cooperative program among state agencies in Missouri and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Its purpose is to enhance awareness of and access to public data, especially Census Bureau products. The MCDC data archive includes many national collections as well as Missouri-specific data.