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Rockford Register Star
Rockford Star Register Collection – 1999-Current
Explore Freeport history through local news, events and people with Rockford Star Register Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a consumer-oriented health and wellness database from EBSCO. This database is designed to help users research key health and wellness topics and contains full text from leading health journals and magazines. Other resources available through Consumer Health Complete include health reference e-books, evidence-based health reports, medical images and diagrams.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center is a rich full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems.
Explora for Middle and High School
Designed specifically for middle school, Explora Middle School is a full-text database of popular magazines, reference books, and primary sources covering many subjects, including history, science, and health. It also includes over a million photos, maps, and flags.
America’s News
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S., including The Journal-Standard, Rockford Register Star, and USA Today. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Explora for Public Libraries
Explora is EBSCO’s interface for Schools and Public Libraries. For students of all ages, Explora allows users to easily search across a range of sources including newspapers and magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, biographies and more. Current events, arts, biography, business and careers, culture, geography, health, literature and science are just a few of the topics covered.
For teachers, it also includes lesson plans, professional development material and a Curriculum Standards Module.
Illinois State Archives
This is a free site on Illinois history or genealogy. It lists Civil War and other Military Records, Public Domain Land Tract Sales, IL Statewide Marriage Index 1763 – 1900, IL Statewide Death Index Pre-1916, IL Statewide Death Index 1916 – 1950.
Journal Standard Archives
The Journal-Standard Collection – 2021-Current
Explore F history through local news, events and people with The Journal-Standard Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.