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Business

  • Better Business Bureau

    Collects reviews for businesses and mediates disputes between companies and consumers.

    Go to Better Business Bureau >>

  • Business Source Premier

    Access to leading national and international company and industry profiles. Includes SWOT analyses, key employee biographies, company overviews, histories, top competitors, and more. Over 10,000 national and international company profiles; over 2,400 industry profiles.

    User: lib
    Password: hcmpl

    Go to Business Source Premier >>

  • Small Business Reference Center

    Up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management and sales, as well as growing or rescuing a business.

    User: lib
    Password: hcmpl

    Go to Small Business Reference Center >>

Car & Automotive

  • ChiltonLibrary.com

    PASSWORD:  hopkins

    ChiltonLibrary provides access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today, as well as, many new vehicles. This continuously updated resource provides step-by-step repair procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagnostic trouble codes, photos, illustrations, diagrams, and multimedia (videos and animations) to simplify even the most complicated tasks.

    Go to ChiltonLibrary.com >>

  • Fuel Economy Guide

    The official U.S. Government source for fuel economy information. Features updated fuel economy data for new and used passenger vehicles dating back to 1984, allows side-by-side vehicle comparisons, and offers fuel-saving tips.

    Go to Fuel Economy Guide >>

Coding / Computer Programming

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College Prep

  • * Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

    Official site for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

    Go to * Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) >>

  • ACT

    Official site for the SAT, a standardized test used by many colleges as a skills assessment test for incoming undergraduates.

    Go to ACT >>

  • GRE

    Official site for the Graduate Record Exam, a standardized test used by many universities as a skills assessment test for admissions into masters and doctoral degree programs.

    Go to GRE >>

  • Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

    PASSWORD:  hopkins

    Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, PRAXIS, U.S. citizenship, Civil Service, Postal, Medical/Dental/Nursing, Military, Flight and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep.

    Research undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring and preparing for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. (more…)

    Go to Peterson’s Test and Career Prep >>

Computer Basics

  • * Computer Skills Center

    Video courses to teach popular software and computer basics.

    Go to * Computer Skills Center >>

  • GCF LearnFree Technology Basics

    GCF LearnFree’s selection of technology-based classes, including classes on computer basics, typing, email basics, using the Internet, online safety, Windows 10, and more. An account is not required to view tutorials.

    Go to GCF LearnFree Technology Basics >>

  • Mousercize

    FOR BEGINNERS. Practice using your computer mouse and build up some hand-eye coordination. Recommend using the Mousing Around tutorial first.

    Go to Mousercize >>

  • Mousing Around tutorial

    FOR BEGINNERS. A beginner’s guide for how to use a mouse. Ideal for people who have never used a computer before.

    Go to Mousing Around tutorial >>

Driver’s Education

Employment & Job Searching

  • * Indeed.com

    Search for jobs, or post your resume and let employers search for you.

    Go to * Indeed.com >>

  • * Kentucky Career Center

    The main website for the Kentucky Career Center:  http://kcc.ky.gov

    To begin searching for job postings in your area, visit https://focuscareer.ky.gov/careerexplorer/home.

    Go to * Kentucky Career Center >>

  • * Learn to Earn Toolkit

    A free online collection of articles that focus on work skills that employers say are important for new employees to have.

    Go to * Learn to Earn Toolkit >>

  • * LinkedIn

    A job-based social networking site. Build up your professional network by connecting to other people in your field.

    Go to * LinkedIn >>

  • * Snagajob

    Search for job postings and apply online.

    Go to * Snagajob >>

  • Hire Teen

    Since 2009, HireTeen.com has provided information on companies that hire teenagers, helping teens find work at school time as well as during school holidays.

    Go to Hire Teen >>

  • Jobs for Teens HQ

    A website dedicated to helping teens find jobs and navigate the workforce.

    Go to Jobs for Teens HQ >>

  • Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

    PASSWORD:  hopkins

    Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, PRAXIS, U.S. citizenship, Civil Service, Postal, Medical/Dental/Nursing, Military, Flight and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep.

    Research undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring and preparing for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. (more…)

    Go to Peterson’s Test and Career Prep >>

Encyclopedias

  • CIA World Factbook

    The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The site’s Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as flags of the world, a physical map of the world, a political map of the world, a world oceans map, and a standard time zones of the world map.

    Go to CIA World Factbook >>

  • Medline Plus

    Medline Plus offers reliable, up-to-date and easy-to-read consumer health information, featuring news articles, drug information, a medical
    dictionary and encyclopedia, interactive tutorials, surgery videos, and detailed information on hundreds of health and wellness topics.

    Go to Medline Plus >>

  • Wonderopolis

    A wonderfully fun educational website. Each day, Wonderopolis poses an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and explores it in a variety of ways.

    Go to Wonderopolis >>

Health & Medical

  • Credible Mind

     

     

     

    A new mental health platform launched in collaboration with Owensboro Health, the OwensboroHealth Foundation, and RiverValley Behavioral Health.  CredibleMind delivers consumer-friendly evidence-based help on over 200 topics and approaches, such as anxiety, depression, parenting, working from home, and relationships. It features over 10,000 expert-vetted resources (articles, podcasts, apps, videos, and more) and an AI-driven engine that evaluates new resources on an ongoing basis.

    Go to Credible Mind >>

  • Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

    CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

    Go to Centers for Disease Control & Prevention >>

  • Consumer Health Complete

    Designed for the everyday consumer of health care information, Consumer Health Complete provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

     

    Go to Consumer Health Complete >>

  • Dietary Supplement Label Database

    The Dietary Supplement Label Database is an educational and research tool that includes full label derived information from dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S.

    Go to Dietary Supplement Label Database >>

  • Drug Information Portal

    The Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. Information on more than 49,000 drugs is available through this site.

    Go to Drug Information Portal >>

  • HealthReach

    HealthReach provides quality multilingual, multicultural public health information for those working with or providing care to individuals for whom English is not a first language.

    Go to HealthReach >>

  • Hopkins County Health Department

    The official source for Hopkins County health information including COVID-19.

    Go to Hopkins County Health Department >>

  • Household Products Database

    The Household Products Database is a consumer’s guide that provides easy-to-understand information on the potential health effects of more than 2,000 ingredients contained in more than 14,000 common household products used inside and around the home. Information is also available for some  commercial/institutional grade products available to the public.

    Go to Household Products Database >>

  • Medline Plus

    Medline Plus offers reliable, up-to-date and easy-to-read consumer health information, featuring news articles, drug information, a medical
    dictionary and encyclopedia, interactive tutorials, surgery videos, and detailed information on hundreds of health and wellness topics.

    Go to Medline Plus >>

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

    The Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.

    Go to National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine >>

  • NIH Health Information

    Quality health information from the National Institutes of Health. Search for a topic or browse the NIH’s many health-related resources.

    Go to NIH Health Information >>

  • Official Kentucky COVID-19 Information Site

    The official Team Kentucky source for information concerning COVID-19.

    Go to Official Kentucky COVID-19 Information Site >>

  • Pillbox

    Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images, and provides links to drug information and drug labels.

    Go to Pillbox >>

  • PubMed

    PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

    Go to PubMed >>

History & Genealogy

  • ‡ Hopkins County Genealogical Society

    The Hopkins County Genealogical Society’s website recently went down. The link here is to an archived version of their website.

    Go to ‡ Hopkins County Genealogical Society >>

  • ‡ Hopkins County Historical Society

    Go to ‡ Hopkins County Historical Society >>

  • ‡ KY.gov Office of Vital Statistics

    Includes information and forms for obtaining vital records such as birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage/divorce certificates.

    Go to ‡ KY.gov Office of Vital Statistics >>

  • Black Life in America

    Black Life in America contains comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day.  Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, it includes over 400 current and historical Black publications.  An easy-to-use online resource—updated daily—for everyone working toward social justice and racial equity.

    Go to Black Life in America >>

  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives (Library of Congress)

    This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

    Go to Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives (Library of Congress) >>

  • Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress)

    This collection contains interviews with people who participated in the Civil Rights movement. This site also guides researchers to collections in several Library divisions that specifically focus on the Civil Rights movement as well as the broader topic of African American history and culture.

    Go to Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress) >>

  • Civil War Collection (Library of Congress)

    Explore the faces, places and events of the U.S. Civil War through photographs, prints and drawings.

    Go to Civil War Collection (Library of Congress) >>

  • Civil War Maps (Library of Congress)

    Contains over 2,000 maps, charts, atlases, and sketchbooks from the Civil War.

    Go to Civil War Maps (Library of Congress) >>

  • Find a Grave

    Find a Grave lets you search for specific gravestones in cemeteries across the USA.

    Go to Find a Grave >>

  • HeritageHub

    Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1824 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images.

    Go to HeritageHub >>

K-12 Homework Help

  • * School Center

    The School Center resources can help students in elementary, middle and high school prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects. Materials begin with 4th grade.

    Go to * School Center >>

  • Explora for Middle and High School

    Middle and high school students can find historical essays, biographies, maps, images and more to help with school projects and research.

     

    Go to Explora for Middle and High School >>

  • Explora for Primary Schools

    Designed with primary and elementary school students in mind, Explora for Primary Schools is a student interface designed for use in Kindergarten through grade 5 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more.

     

    Go to Explora for Primary Schools >>

  • Khan Academy

    Offers lessons in a variety of subjects, all the way from kindergarten math to college test prep. An account is not needed to view or practice lessons.

    Go to Khan Academy >>

  • Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics

    An online, interactive textbook that makes statistics easier to understand by using colorful, interactive visualizations and animations to explain complicated mathematical concepts.

    Go to Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics >>

  • The Weather Guys

    Interesting facts about weather-related phenomena from two professors in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UW-Madison.

    Go to The Weather Guys >>

  • Wonderopolis

    A wonderfully fun educational website. Each day, Wonderopolis poses an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and explores it in a variety of ways.

    Go to Wonderopolis >>

Online Learning

  • Let’s Learn Kentucky

    Let’s Learn Kentucky, developed and curated by KET, is a resource hub for parents and caregivers navigating the early years, from birth through the time they enter school, a formative time for children’s development.

     

    Go to Let’s Learn Kentucky >>

  • * Adult Learning Center

    The Adult Learning Center offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing and math, prepare for the GED test, or become a U.S. citizen.

    Go to * Adult Learning Center >>

  • * Computer Skills Center

    Video courses to teach popular software and computer basics.

    Go to * Computer Skills Center >>

  • * DuoLingo

    An immersive language-learning site that makes learning another language fun and engaging. Many languages currently available, including English as a second language for non-native speakers.

    Go to * DuoLingo >>

  • * Learn to Earn Toolkit

    A free online collection of articles that focus on work skills that employers say are important for new employees to have.

    Go to * Learn to Earn Toolkit >>

  • ArtistWorks

    ArtistWorks provides players world-class instruction from Grammy Award-winning music professionals. ArtistWorks offers users a guided path of video lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals. All levels of player are welcome! (more…)

    Go to ArtistWorks >>

  • Duolingo

    Free language learning software!

    Go to Duolingo >>

  • Khan Academy

    Offers lessons in a variety of subjects, all the way from kindergarten math to college test prep. An account is not needed to view or practice lessons.

    Go to Khan Academy >>

  • The Great Courses Library Collection

    The Great Courses Library Collection offers engaging and understandable lectures by esteemed professors, professionals, and experts in topics ranging from photography to physics, astronomy to art, history to health, and everything in between, you’re sure to find courses that interest you. Each lesson is about 30 minutes in length—tune in to test out any lesson or course for the first few minutes, or for as long as you want. (more…)

    Go to The Great Courses Library Collection >>

Local Places & News

Research Tools

  • ‡ Kentucky Digital Library

    The Kentucky Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. This site contains historic newspapers, images, maps, books & oral histories for Kentucky.

    Go to ‡ Kentucky Digital Library >>

  • Black Life in America

    Black Life in America contains comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day.  Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, it includes over 400 current and historical Black publications.  An easy-to-use online resource—updated daily—for everyone working toward social justice and racial equity.

    Go to Black Life in America >>

  • Business Source Premier

    Access to leading national and international company and industry profiles. Includes SWOT analyses, key employee biographies, company overviews, histories, top competitors, and more. Over 10,000 national and international company profiles; over 2,400 industry profiles.

    User: lib
    Password: hcmpl

    Go to Business Source Premier >>

  • CIA World Factbook

    The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The site’s Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as flags of the world, a physical map of the world, a political map of the world, a world oceans map, and a standard time zones of the world map.

    Go to CIA World Factbook >>

  • Explora

    Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality. You can search multiple EBSCO databases for information about arts and literature, business and careers, consumer health, current events, geography and culture, and more.

     

    Go to Explora >>

  • Google Books

    Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text, and stored in its digital database.

    Go to Google Books >>

  • Google Scholar

    Google Scholar is a web search engine that specifically searches scholarly literature and academic resources.

    Go to Google Scholar >>

  • Govinfo

    Govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

    Govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

    Go to Govinfo >>

  • Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

    Go to Internet Archive >>

  • Library of Congress Digital Collections

    Provides access to full-text, digitized print materials like newspapers and books, as well as photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, maps and more.

    Go to Library of Congress Digital Collections >>

  • PubMed

    PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

    Go to PubMed >>

  • Rare Book Collections (Library of Congress)

    These digitized rare books represent a few of the most interesting and important items in the Library of Congress’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division collection, including a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, Thomas Jefferson’s copy of The Federalist, medieval manuscripts, books relating to cookery, children’s literature, and many more.

    Go to Rare Book Collections (Library of Congress) >>

  • Selections from the National Film Registry (Library of Congress)

    The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. The majority of movies in this collection are freely available as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.

    Go to Selections from the National Film Registry (Library of Congress) >>

  • Small Business Reference Center

    Up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management and sales, as well as growing or rescuing a business.

    User: lib
    Password: hcmpl

    Go to Small Business Reference Center >>

  • USA.gov

    USA.gov is your online guide to government information and services.

    Go to USA.gov >>

  • Wayback Machine

    The Wayback Machine archives older versions of websites. Just type in an address, pick a date, and browse through the past.

    Go to Wayback Machine >>

Study Guides & Test Prep

  • * Adult Learning Center

    The Adult Learning Center offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing and math, prepare for the GED test, or become a U.S. citizen.

    Go to * Adult Learning Center >>

  • * College Admissions Test Preparation

    Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and eBooks to help prepare for AP, SAT, ACT and TOEFL exams, as well as college essay writing practice.

    Go to * College Admissions Test Preparation >>

  • * College Student Preparation

    Strengthen academic skills and prepare for placement tests and graduate school entrance exams here.

    Go to * College Student Preparation >>

  • * GED Test Prep Center

    Earning a high school equivalency credential can open the door to better income, a more fulfilling job, and a college education. If you are preparing for the GED test, these practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks can help you reach your goal.

    Go to * GED Test Prep Center >>

  • Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

    PASSWORD:  hopkins

    Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, PRAXIS, U.S. citizenship, Civil Service, Postal, Medical/Dental/Nursing, Military, Flight and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep.

    Research undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring and preparing for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. (more…)

    Go to Peterson’s Test and Career Prep >>

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