Online resources
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Gale Literature Resource Center
Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
Provided by NC LIVE 
GreenFILE
A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Greenwood Digital Collection
The full text of many books from all time periods in the United States and Europe.
Provided by NC LIVE
HealthCare.gov
The U.S. government’s site for information about the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Marketplace. Find out if you qualify for lower cost health insurance and enroll right from the site.
Herald-Sun
The Herald Sun Collection – Online archive of Durham’s The Herald-Sun newspaper. Full text edition with news and feature articles from 1995 to current. Full color image edition with news, feature articles, obituaries, ads, and extra sections available from October 2018 to current.
Heritage Quest
Genealogy resource with census data, family records, and local history. Provides access to every extant U.S. federal census, as well as a multitude of family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage, and death records, and more.
Provided by NC LIVE
Hispanic Life in America
Coverage of the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans, 1704 to today, as featured in more than 17,000 publications including 700 Spanish language newspapers and periodicals.
Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection
3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.
Provided by NC LIVE
hoopla
Thousands of popular ebooks, movies, TV shows, music, and e-audiobooks.
Hoover’s Company Records
Information for over 40,000 companies, including company overview, industry information, leadership, and historical financials.
Provided by NC LIVE
IndieFlix
A streaming movie service with award-winning shorts, feature films, and documentaries. Instantly view over 6,500 titles from more than 85 different countries, including the best from film festivals like Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, and more! Also available via the Libby app.
Internal Revenue Service
Tax forms and instructions for current and previous years, as well as info on federal tax related topics.
International Newsstream
Info from hundreds of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and more.
Provided by NC LIVE
Just for Kids Access Video
Kids' shows for homeschoolers, makerspaces, cord cutters, homework help, and more. Includes favorites like Sesame Street, The Electric Company, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, The Berenstain Bears, Franklin, and thousands more. This resource can be accessed anywhere, anytime – it’s fully responsive and mobile friendly, plus thoroughly kid safe and advertisement free.
Provided by NC LIVE
LawHelpNC
Info about your legal rights, the law, the courts, legal forms, and more.
LearningExpress Library
Provides online classes for the SATs, ACTs, and GEDs. It also has practice tests with scoring for all of those plus the ASVAB, high school AP exams, graduate school entrance exams, nursing, real estate, firefighter, cosmetology, police officer and more.
Help and more info for LearningExpress Library
Provided by NC LIVE
Legal Aid of North Carolina
A nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to households whose income falls below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines. Contact the Durham office at 919-688-6396.
Log Into North Carolina (LINC)
Current, historical, and projected (future) data for many different topic areas. Get all state agencies’ data in one place instead of having to go to each agency’s site. Generate reports for multiple topics, multiple geographies, and multiple years.
MasterFILE Premier
Full text for magazines, periodicals, and reference books covering a wide range of subject areas. Also includes an image collection with photos, maps, and flags.
Provided by NC LIVE
MedLine Plus
Quick, reliable health info from the National Library of Medicine, written for the layperson. Includes a medical encyclopedia, dictionary, current news, videos, and a pharmaceutical drug encyclopedia.