VOL Database Subscriptions and Web Resources
We are a part of the Vermont Online Library. You can access databases, Heritage Quest and Universal Class through the Vermont Online Library link above. Additionally, the Library subscribes to many premium data base services below. For ones marked ** you may need your Library Card number.
Business and Finance
- Big Charts
- Business Insights: Essentials **
- General Business File ASAP **
- Small Business Resource Center**
- The Motley Fool
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Thomas Register
The only free platform designed for sourcing components, equipment, MRO products, raw materials and custom manufacturing services.
- US Small Business Administratiion
- Vermont Directory of Foundations Online
Careers & Job Search Resources
- Career Path
- Career Transitions**
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Glassdoor (job search)
Job Searches....Get Hired, Love Your Job
Search jobs from over 20,000 job sites, newspapers and company career pages
- New Hampshire Department of Labor
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Vermont Department of Labor
Welcome to the Vermont Department of Labor website. VDOL's primary focus is to provide services that assist businesses, workers, and job seekers.
DIY, Repairs and Consumer Information
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CNET
CNET features an extensive array of tech product reviews, price comparisons, free software downloads, and "how to" guides.
- Consumer Reports
Education
- A Master's Student's Ultimate Source for Earning a Degree Online
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Annenberg Media Programs
Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools.
- Educator's Reference
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Edutopia
The George Lucas Educational Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by docomenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-bases strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.
- Howard Dean Education Center
- Learn English - Free Printable Books
- Online Guide to Master's-Level Writing Skills
- Professional Collection
Goverment Info and Services
- Federal Courts
- Federal Laws and Court Decisions
- Federal Legislation and other documennts
- Federal Tax Forms
- National Do Not Call Registry
- The White House
- U.S. Census Online
- U.S. Government Made Easy
- U.S. House
- U.S. Senate
- Vermont 211
- Vermont Agency of Human Services Screening Tool
- Vermont Agency of Transportation Road Closure Map
- Vermont Court Forms Made Easy
- Vermont Courts
- Vermont Government
- Vermont Legislature
- Vermont State Tax Forms
- Vermont Statutes Online
Health and Wellness
- Assisted Living Guide
- Assisted Living in Vermont
- DHMC Consumer Health
- Find Assisted Living
- Gale Database Health and Wellness Resource Center
- Health and Wellness Resource Center**
- Health Finder
- Health World Online
- MedlinePlus
- Mesothelioma Cancer Center
- Paying For Assisted Living In Vermont
- Salem Health
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Vermont Environmental Public Health Tracking
State of Vermont information gathered and published concerning how environmental issues can impact human health in Vermont. Vermont is one of 25 states that participate in the CDC National Environmental Health Tracking Program. In the northeast region, all states except Rhode Island are part of this national network and have websites comparable to Vermont Tracking.
History, Geneaology and Biography
- Biography in Context**
- Fold3 History & Genealogy Archives
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Heritage Quest**
You will need a username and password to use this service. Ask at the desk or call the library.
- Salem History
Lifelong Learning
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Big Think
We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world.
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virually all MIT undergraduate and graduate course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Several disclaimers:
- OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
- OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
- Materials may not reflect the entire content of a course.
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Open Yale
Open Yale provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College course to the public via the Internet free of charge. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
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TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design
Riveting talks by remarkable people.
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Universal Class**(free online courses)
The Vermont Department of Libraries offers over 500 online non-credit Continuing Education Courses. You'll need your library card number to enroll.
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VideoLectures.net
VideoLectures.net is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public.
Local Organizations
- Senior Solutions
- SEVCA (Southeastern Vermont Community Action)
- Southern Vermont Council on Aging
- Vermont 2-1-1 (Community Information Services)
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Vermont CHESS Information
A source for information on chess tournaments and clubs in and around Vermont.
- Vermont Directory of Foundations Online
News and Weather
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Access World News - home use
Dover has a subscription to this service, providing you with access to newspapers from all over the world.
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Access World News - library use
Dover has a subscription to this service, providing you with access to newspapers from all over the world.
- Barre Montpelier Times Argus
- BBC News (Britain)
- Bennington Banner
- Boston Globe
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Brattleboro Reformer - library use
We pay for a subscription through NewsBank. You will need your library card number.
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Brattleboro Reformer**- home use
We pay for a subscription through NewsBank. You will need your library card number.
- Burlington Free Press
- CBC News (Canada)
- Google News
- iBrattleboro
- Keene (NH) Sentinel
- Los Angeles Times
- National Weather Service
- New York Times
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News Bank**
The Dover subscription to News Bank includes The Rutland Herald AND Access World News.
- Pollster (Poll results)
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Rutland Herald - library use
We subscribe to this paper through NewsBank. You will need your library card number.
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Rutland Herald** - home use
We subscribe to this paper through NewsBank. You will need your library card number.
- The Current Time
- Town of Springfield
- Vermont Public Radio
- Washington Post
- WCAX TV (Channel 3)
- WFFF TV (Channel 44)
- WNNE - TV (Channel 31)
Science
- Computer Database
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RadioLab
RadioLab is a show about curiosity, and it explores the intersection of science, philosophy and human experience. RadioLab is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which enhances public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
- Science in Context**
- Stellafane (Springfield Telescope Makers)