Most of these databases are available free to anyone who comes into Mead Library and uses the second floor computers. If you are using a computer inside the Mead Library building, you will get faster service at this page. Some databases are also available through remote access (from home, office, or school computers).

We regret that licensing agreements create some restrictions for customers seeking remote access, but anyone is welcome to visit Mead Library to use these databases. (Remote access to some databases is restricted on the basis of where you live and/or which library issued your library card.)

Hint: To access some of these databases, the Privacy settings of your browser need to be set at LOW. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools/Internet Options. The third tab is Privacy, slide the bar to Low, apply, and click OK.

A comprehensive electronic resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information including access to Technical Service Bulletins and Wiring Diagrams. This database is available only on computers at Mead Public Library.

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. Provided by BadgerLink.

Many professional journals from the American Physical Society are available on computers in Mead Library only.  The journals of the APS embody the mission of the society "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics."

Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more. This online research tool is only available on computers at Mead Public Library.

Auto Repair Reference Center Provided by BadgerLink.

BadgerLink is a statewide service to libraries and schools offering full-text access to a variety of resources including thousands of back-issue magazine and newspaper articles in full text. Also included are pamphlets, biographies, primary historical documents, an image file and other materials for all age groups.

Litfinder offers online access to a wide selection of poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches. Browse or search by keyword.

Click here to access the database from a home, office, or school computer. (Please have your Mead Library card number and PIN available. Your PIN usually is the last four digits of your home phone number.) 

Brainfuse provides online homework help through its unique HelpNow service—a blend of one-to-one homework help, skills-building, test preparation, and writing assistance. And Brainfuse offers services for adults too! Connect to a live tutor online who can help with MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint skills. Online Brainfuse tutors also help with resume and cover letter writing and preparation for the GED or the US Citizenship Test. If you are in Mead Public Library, using a public computer or the WiFi network, access Brainfuse here. If you are not in Mead Library, but have a Mead Public Library card, you may access Brainfuse here.

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. Provided by BadgerLink.

Business Searching Interface

Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis. Provided by BadgerLink.

Consumer Reports is a product of Consumers Union, an expert, independent, nonprofit organization that brings you information and product ratings on thousands of products, including autos.

Credo Reference database gives you access to any of more than 3 million entries, from 380 titles and 62 publishers. Just enter a search term and get reliable information from reference sources. It's like having your own library of reference books online! Click here to access the database from a home, office, or school computer. (Please have your Mead Library card number and PIN available. Your PIN usually is the last four digits of your home phone number.) 

Credo offers video tours showing how to use the databases: keyword searching in Credo; advanced searching in Credo; using "find a book" in Credo; using the Credo Concept Map; and Topic Pages.

Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing excellent content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.

Mead Public Library offers the Gale Virtual Reference Library. These complete books may be read online on your computer screen. Each book generally includes a table of contents, index, and list of illustrations. A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. More information here.

Glassdoor is a comprehensive career resource with information on 70,000+ companies.  Glassdoor includes salary and bonuses and details for specific jobs at specific companies, as well as actual interview questions and hiring process details.  Also included are reviews written by employees that highlight the pro’s and con’s of working for a particular employer.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Provided by BadgerLink.

Salem Press offers reference books about cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, genetics and inherited conditions, infectious diseases and conditions, addictions and substance abuse, psycholog and mental health, and Magill's Medical Guide. You will need a Mead Public Library card to access these books from outside the library. More information here.

This popular product offers wealth of genealogical information including a census search (complete set of Federal census images from 1790-1930, include name indexes for many years), books (20,000 family and local histories), the PERSI index (over 1.6 million genealogy and local history articles), and much more.

Click here to access the database from a home, office, or school computer. (Please have your Mead Library card number and PIN available. Your PIN usually is the last four digits of your home phone number.) 

Offers access to history reference books from Salem Press, including Great Lives from History (ancient to modern, plus African American, Jewish American, Latino), Great Events from History (ancient to modern), GLBT events, modern scandals, great athletes, Defining Documents In American History: the American Revolution (1754-1805) and Exploration & Colonial America (1492-1755),     and survey of American industry and careers. You will need a Mead Public Library card to access these books from outside the library. More information here. 

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. Provided by BadgerLink.

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals. Provided by BadgerLink.

Kids Search. Provided by BadgerLink.

Learning Express offers an interactive online practice tests and tutorials for many exams, including: ACT, ASVAB, GED, GRE, Law Enforcement, LSAT, Postal workers, SAT, US Citizenship. You get immediate scoring, answer explanation, and analysis of your results. Set up a username based on your Mead library card number to guarantee access both inside the library and remotely.

Literary Reference Center includes information and research about authors and their works. It also includes a literary-historical timelines, encyclopedia of literature, dictionary, citation help and research guide.

Click here to access the database from a home, office, or school computer. (Please have your Mead Library card number and PIN available. Your PIN usually is the last four digits of your home phone number.)  

Salem Press offers several critical surveys including graphic novels and poetry. You will need a Mead Public Library card to access these books from outside the library.  More information here.

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE  this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by BadgerLink.

Real-time investment research from Morningstar with many popular features of Morningstar.com®, including research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds. 

This database was purchased by Mead Public Library for Mead Library cardholders. To access this database from a home or office computer, you will need to enter your Mead Library card number here, using the database access link. If you are using a computer inside the Mead Library building, access is available here.

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 710 full-text newspapers, providing more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 684,000 television and radio news transcripts. Provided by BadgerLink.

NoveList is your complete guide to fiction. Can't decide what to read next? Give it a try! Provided by BadgerLink.

NoveList:

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Digital audiobooks and e-books are available to Mead Library customers through Eastern Shores Library System and the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium. To download audiobooks, you must have the free software available from Overdrive. To see a list of audiobooks available for download by Mead Library customers, go to the Mead catalog, and do a general keyword search using the term "overdrive." Or, go to the WPLC digital book website and click on "View all audio Books" and "View all video" to see the titles.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Provided by BadgerLink.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. Provided by BadgerLink.

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Provided by BadgerLink.

ECB VideoLink’s Science Images and Animations is a library of digital images and animations covers topics in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, physical science and environmental science. The media is designed for use in electronic teaching resources or student multimedia projects. Provided by BadgerLink.

Salem Press offers reference books online including applied science, earth science, environmental issues, the solar system, and the encyclopedia of global resources and global warming. You will need a Mead Public Library card to access these books from outside the library.  More information here.

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Provided by BadgerLink.

Searchasaurus. Kids, do a search or select a topic, then learn a lot! Provided by BadgerLink.

Student Research Center

TeachingBooks. Share the spirit of books and reading by bringing authors into your classroom. Provided by BadgerLink.

TumbleBooks is the place to go to hear stories, play games, and more. E-books for e-kids!

For more than seventy-five years Value Line has been synonymous with trust, reliability, objectivity, independence, accurate information and proven performance for investors.

This database was purchased by Mead Public Library for Mead Library cardholders. To access this database from a home or office computer, you will need to enter your Mead Library card number here, using the database access link. If you are using a computer inside the Mead Library building, access is available here. 

WISCAT is a statewide union catalog of library holdings containing over 7 million titles and more than 33 million holdings from over 1,200 contributing Wisconsin libraries, including Mead Public Library. The catalog contains material in all formats, including books, serials, videorecordings, sound recordings and other audiovisual formats.

WorldCat.org is a new product that includes a search box which allows Web users to search the entire database of library materials by keywords. You may then put in geographic information and find out which nearby libraries own the item and link to the library catalog record. 

Dorothy Werner, who died in 1996, left Mead Library a bequest of $100,000 from her estate. The former Dorothy Bowler, she was born in Sheboygan in 1900, the only child of Tim and Mary Ellen Bowler. Her father was an attorney and businessman who purchased stock in The Sheboygan Press. When he died in 1923, his daughter Dorothy was named to the newspaper’s Board of Directors, a spot she held until the newspaper company was sold in 1986.

Mrs. Werner graduated from Holy Name School, Sheboygan High School, and, in 1922, St. Mary of the Woods College in Terre Haute, Ind. In 1924, she married A. Matt Werner, an attorney, and with him had five children: David, Mary, Tim, Pat, and John. In 1951, A. Matt Werner became editor and publisher of The Press. He retired from that position in 1964, but continued on as chairman of the board. He died in 1977.

While raising her children, Mrs. Werner was very active in Catholic lay organizations, community health and educational scholarship programs, including the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, the National Council of Catholic Women, the American Association of University Women, Mental Health Association, American Cancer Society, and Easter Seals. She also stayed involved in the newspaper, maintaining historical files and planning social activities for The Press employees.

The association of Mrs. Werner and her family with The Sheboygan Press prompted the Library Board to apply her generous bequest to the acquisition and distribution of current, accurate information designed to meet the needs of Sheboygan residents using state of the art information technology.