USAFA Library Guides: Access to Additional Library Resources: Special Interest Resources

Special Interest Resources

Auto Repair Source: access through both sites. Offers a user-friendly search experience and access to help diagnose, repair, and maintain vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).
Gale Chilton Library: access through both sites. Provides step-by-step automotive repair procedures. Includes manufacturer recommended maintenance schedules and recalls.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center: access through both sites. Provides over 400 reference books with photos and illustrations for small engine repair assistance and detailed, user-friendly repair guides.

Business Source Ultimate: access through MWR Libraries. Works like a solid business plan, offers peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship: access through both sites. Access to all aspects of starting and operating a business from accounting, finance, marketing, and personnel management. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
Gale Business Plan Builder: access through both sites. Offers a successful step-by-step strategy for building a successful business. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
Gale Legal Forms: access through both sites. Provides access to state-specific (and multi-state) legal documents, real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
Legal Information Reference Center: access through both sites. An online database designed to assist in legal matters of all kinds. Includes “how-to” information and thousands of legal forms.

MorningStar Investment Research Center: access through both sites. Provides access to information on mutual funds, stocks, investments, daily market news, and snapshot investments.
Weiss Financial Ratings: access through both sites. The source for unbiased, accurate, trusted ratings that you can rely on to make sound informed financial decisions.

Ancestry Library Edition: access through both sites. Offers access to billions of names from more than 4,000 genealogical databases. Censuses from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom (U.K.) Ireland, and more than 150 million military records are available.
Fold3: access through both sites. Collections of original military records dating back to the War of 1812, both World War I and II, up through recent military conflicts.

Consumer Health Complete: access through both sites. Designed primarily to support the information needs of patients, cultivate a comprehensive understanding of healthcare topics from overall wellness, mainstream medical treatments, and integrated medical treatment options. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
Gale Health and Wellness: access through both sites. Includes curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**

Craftsy: access through both sites. An online resource for all creative makers to find everything needed from basic instruction to advanced techniques from quilters/sewers, cake decorators, painters, etc.
Creativebug: access through both sites. An online art and craft video e-resource which offers thousands of classes taught by industry leading instructors across a variety of topics like sewing, knitting, painting, cake decorating and more.
Hobbies and Crafts Source: access through MWR Libraries. Provides detailed instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of hobby enthusiasts.

Home Improvement Source–access through MWR Libraries. Features content from leading home improvement magazines, books, and more.

NoveList Plus: access through both sites. Helps readers of all ages find their next favorite book and develops innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries.
ArtistWorks for Libraries–access through both sites. Part of the OverDrive collection, provides world-class instruction with self-paced videos from award-winning musicians and artists.