Online Periodicals, Journals, and Databases

Health

  • Healthfinder.gov: Resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,400 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet
  • Kids Health: Award-winning website from a nonprofit organization covers everything a parent needs to know about their child’s physical and mental health
  • Maryville University: “What Every Parent Should Know About Language Acquisition Milestones and Speech Disorders: Everything you should know about the stages of language acquisition, disorders, screening, and treatment
  • Mayo Clinic:  Excellent website provides easy-to-understand information on hundreds of health conditions
  • MedlinePlus:  The National Institutes of Health provides unbiased information on health conditions and issues
  • Memory Care in West Virginia: This guide will cover the cost of memory care in West Virginia, financial assistance options for paying for memory care, free memory care resources in the state, and a directory of memory care facilities in West Virginia
  • NIH Senior Health:  Seniors can find answers to their medical questions in the comfort of their own homes thanks to this new and innovative online resource
  • PubMed: PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books
  • SeniorAdvice: Nursing Homes in West Virginia. Provides an overview of facilities, providers, cost, and financial assistance
  • Senior Housing Net: Assisted Living in West Virginia. This guide includes a comparison of assisted living costs throughout the state and a cost comparison of other long-term care options. It also includes a list of resources to help the aging population.

Genealogy

  • Ancestry.com: This online resource makes it easy to research your heritage, with access to Census records, Military records, Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates and Immigration Records. Access available in Library only.
  • Brown Funeral Home Obituaries: Access obituaries from Brown Funeral Home
  • Early Virginia Newspapers Index: Personal name index to more than 51,000 marriage and obituary notices published primarily in Richmond-area newspapers between 1736 and 1982, with an emphasis on the years 1780 to 1910
  • Ellis Island Records: Register online to access records of Ellis Island
  • Genealogy Bank: Visit the Martinsburg Local History Room to access Genealogy Bank’s 6,100+ historical newspapers, which include letters, speeches, opinion pieces, advertisements, hometown news, photographs, illustrations and more, as well as obituaries, military documents, pamphlets, books and government documents
  • Herald Mail Obituaries: Access the Obituaries from Hagerstown’s Herald-Mail
  • LDS Family Search: Our records span billions of names across hundreds of collections—including birth, marriage, death, probate, land, military, IGI extracted, and more
  • Library of Congress Chronicling America: Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present
  • Social Security Death Index: The Social Security Death Index includes over 92 million U.S. citizen death records. Enjoy free access to the most up-to-date SSDI search for individuals with U.S. Social Security numbers
  • WV Vital Research Records Project: The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view scanned images of the original records

Education

  • Blue Ridge Community and Technical College: Blue Ridge offers quality academic programs that are learner-centered and focus on career entry, university transfer, developmental education, and workforce development
  • Learning Express Library: Contact your library for login information to this Statewide information portal
  • Literacy Volunteers of the Eastern Panhandle: LVEP empowers adults in Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties to reach their full potential as individuals, parents, workers, and citizens, through confidential and free literacy tutoring by trained volunteers
  • OWL Online Writing Lab: The Writing Lab at Purdue offers over 200 free resources including Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language) and Job Search and Professional Writing
  • Petersen’s College Guides: Everything you need to know about getting into the college you want
  • Read Aloud West Virginia: Read Aloud WV offers a variety of programs to help raise a state full of readers
  • Resume Builder for People Experiencing Homelessness: Services exist to bridge the gap created by the intersection of multiple barriers to employment, offering vocational rehabilitation and training to eligible individuals.
  • Signing Savvy: Signing Savvy is a Sign Language resource providing high-resolution ASL videos and much more
  • Universal Class: Use your library card to gain access to over 500 non-credit Continuing Education Classes
  • World Book Online: Play, explore, research, advance – a comprehensive digital resource for grades pre-K through high school (contact the library for current login information)