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Our online databases & reference eBooks provide access to thousands of respected magazines, newspapers, and professional journals—plus business and investment, science, history, literature, and genealogy sources. They provide information you can’t find by simply doing a Google search. So whether you need to do business research or a homework assignment, this page should be your first stop.
Most of these databases are also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from your own home or office!
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Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. | |
Provides biographic information on over 340,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across disciplines. | |
Offers an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children?s Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints. | |
Provides biographical information about authors, illustrators, poets, playwrights, journalists, and other writers. | |
Features photos, recipes, customs, lifestyle, and government info for 190 countries--plus a Kids Edition and a States Edition. | |
Provides content from a number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents on life around the world and through the ages. | |
Helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly. | |
Combines more than 1,500 clear, printable full color original maps with current statistical information on more than 200 countries, all 50 states, as well as the world's continents and major regions. | |
Allows elementary and middle school students to search by keyword or topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type, such as magazines, reference books, photos, and flags. | |
Provides access to academic and occupational online practice tests and tutorials such as: ACT, SAT, Civil Service Exams, TOEFL, and more. | |
Presents biographies, literary criticisms, and bibliographies of over 130,000 authors and their works. | |
Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Designed specifically for high school libraries. | |
Contains full-text for 140 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. | |
Focuses on fiction and non-fiction titles popular with young readers at all grade levels. Search for titles or authors, or browse through hundreds of theme oriented book lists for novels of interest. | |
Provides articles, topic overviews, statistics, and primary documents on social issues. | |
Presents information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for research without bias, advertising, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. | |
Offers full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990. | |
Provides children with a specially designed search tool to access magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, and pictures. | |
Allows students to search for specific topics or browse subjects in magazines, newspapers, primary source documents, and images. | |
Provides a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today?s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full-text from more than 4,800 diverse sources. | |
Presents animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources. Includes storybooks, life learning books, and language learning books. | |
Offers a kids' version of the popular encyclopedia. | |
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