Reference & Research

Get instant access to complete, up-to-date content on virtually any topic. This resource provides extensive coverage in key subject areas, such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, and so much more.

A scholarly resource providing full-text, academic journals covering the major areas of academic research, including:

• biology
• chemistry
• engineering
• geology
• law
• mathematics
• music
• pharmaceutical science
• psychology
• religion and philosophy
• science and technology
• veterinary science
• women's studies
• zoology

American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government & political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.

From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, & stories of our nation’s evolution.

Business Source Elite offers information from business publications as well as tens of thousands of company profiles. Resources include financial data, books, industry and market reports, and company profiles. Areas covered are marketing, management, accounting, banking and finance, and regional business.

This growing body of Open Access content contains a comprehensive collection of vetted, quality articles, journals, and ebooks.

Get the latest information and current trends in high technology with Computer Source. With nearly 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet, Computer Source provides a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles.

Find out what you need to know about all areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.

Early World of Learning offers rich resources designed to develop reading fluency and phonemic awareness in younger learners.

Search across multiple databases at once to make in-depth research easy.

Designed for elementary school researchers with simple search for articles, essays, and primary source documents; easy-to-browse topics, and overviews to help students find a starting point.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos es el nivel de comienzo en Espanol de la enciclopedia web, con miles de articulos, illustracions, y mapas. Facil de utilizar con interfaz bilingue.

Comprehensive information to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities from a global perspective. Content includes topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia.

A guide to research published in the field of education. Search more than a million short descriptions of journal articles and other education-related publications back to 1966.

Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

Designed with students and educators in mind, Explora provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, and homework.

Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.

Abstracts & indexed articles on the environment with topics ranging from global warming to recycling. GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact to the environment.

Health Source: Consumer Edition is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. It provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.

Search across multiple resources for high school student research. Sources include magazine and newspaper articles, eBooks, encyclopedia entries, and images.

Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Source features historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents. Get the most out of history with over 80 hours of historical video and nearly 45,000 images, including maps and historical photos.

Search oral history interviews with more than 2,700 historically significant Black Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science. This primary source collection provides interviews through video with transcripts available.

Jet Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics & other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion & entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014. Articles & cover pages are fully indexed & searchable.

LearningExpress Library helps improve the lives of people every day through a highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep, and more.

• College admissions and placement exams, opens a new window (ACT, SAT, AP, and TOEFL)
• Academic skills-improvement for elementary, opens a new window through college, opens a new window (reading, writing, math, and science)
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• Adult learning, opens a new window (reading, writing, math, science, and more)
• High school equivalency, opens a new window (GED, HiSET, and TASC) test prep
• U.S. citizenship test prep in English, opens a new window and Spanish, opens a new window
• Spanish content, opens a new window available for the GED test and academic skills improvement
• Career occupational certification, opens a new window exam prep
• Learn computer basics, popular software programs, and more in the Computer Skills Center, opens a new window

Maclean's Magazine Archive covers Canadian news, investigative journalism, & topics like economics, culture, technology, & more. It includes over 3,300 issues providing access to years 1905 through 2015. Articles & cover pages are fully indexed & searchable.

MainFile covers a variety of topics, including health, education, technology, and business. It includes full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, and newswires. Additionally, this resource includes full-text reference books and encyclopedias.

MAS Complete is a full-text database for school-related research and reading. It contains full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, an image collection containing photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1921) for key magazines.

Have a paper due about a serious topic? Want to now every fact there is about someone famous? Use MasterFILE Complete to dig up hard to find facts. Covering virtually every subject of general interest, it also includes more than 350 full-text reference books, 82,000 biographies, 90,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags.

Designed for middle school researchers with simple search for articles, essays, and primary source documents; easy-to-browse topics, and overviews to help students find a starting point.

Newspaper Source Plus provides full-text access to major newspapers like USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Christian Science Monitor. Stay informed with News View, a feature that brings you critical news content with ongoing updates throughout the day. Popular sources include AP (Associated Press), CNN Wire, and PR Wire. News Views also includes more than 1.4 million television and radio news transcripts from top sources like CNN, National Public Radio, and PBS.

Access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations by American universities during that time period, the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities.

Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help you assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays and better understand controversial issues.

Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for popular children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries, and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, such as endangered species, famous musicians, fitness, and space exploration.

A highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for teachers, professional librarians, and education researchers. Includes lesson plans, activities, and professional development activities.

Una base de datos de texto completo en español que cubre una amplia gama de temas dentro y fuera del ámbito académico. Ofrece contenido de una variedad de fuentes, incluyendo libros de referencia, revistas de interés general e informes de salud.

Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Search newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources.

A comprehensive, user-friendly research database designed to support students, educators, and families. Offering a rich collection of reliable, age-appropriate content across subjects such as science, history, geography, and current events.

For grades 3 and up.

A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Source contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, & other sources. Topics include:

• biology
• chemistry
• earth and space science
• environmental science
• health and medicine
• history of science
• life science
• physics
• science and society
• science as inquiry
• scientists
• technology
• wildlife

A research database that provides indexing & abstracts for more than 220 peer-reviewed journals relevant to teachers & education professionals. Covers topics such as assessment, curriculum development, instructional technology, literacy standards, pedagogical theory & practice, & administration.

A one-stop resource for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content.

Ulrichsweb has the most comprehensive scope of serials coverage. Find details about titles from scholarly, open access, business, and niche publishers across all subject areas and languages.

This interactive database helps students better understand the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, & economic landscape of the United States, as well as the complexities underlying the challenges facing the nation & individual states.

This user-friendly database is an invaluable online resource that presents comprehensive information & unique insights into the military conflicts that have defined our world's identity from its beginning to today.

World Book Advanced, built for advanced students and adults, contains thousands of articles, primary sources, and online books. Contains up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia reference materials.

Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.

World Geography provides authoritative content & online tools that develop students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, & cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world.

World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.

World History: The Modern Era (covering history from the Renaissance to today) is the latest update of the reference standard of electronic history reference materials for high school & high-level middle school coursework.

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a nationwide historic newspaper digitization project that hosts digitized and full-text searchable newspapers from 1789 - 1963. Also available is a directory of American newspapers published between 1690 - present.

Gale Directory Library is a digital treasure trove collection of premier directories on companies, publishers, associations, and more—sources that are unavailable or difficult to find on the internet.

A vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles.

More than a hundred reference titles in a variety of areas: business and careers, education, fashion, food, film and television, geography, history, law and government, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Find articles, images, audio, and videos on just about any topic. Includes:

• Early World of Learning
• Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta
• World Book Advanced
• World Book Kids
• World Book Student