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Biographies
Biography In Context
Biographies on more than 325,000 people from throughout history and around the world.
Current Events
CQ Electronic Library - Congressional Quarterly
Useful, expert, and unbiased analysis for researching American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs for students, citizens and professionals.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
An online library of current event topics--facts and arguments for and against each topic.
Academic OneFile - Article Search
Articles and abstracts from scholarly, trade and general-interest periodicals in current events, science, social science, art and the humanities.
General OneFile - Article Search
Search periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multi-media sources on the humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.
General
AtoZ The USA
AtoZ the USA contains more than 115 country-based articles and 115 state articles for each of the 50 US states, five US territories, and the District of Columbia. Library patrons and students will find unmatched coverage of the country’s people, history, economy, geography, symbols, culture, and society.
Elementary in Context (Formerly Kids Infobits)
Thousands of age appropriate articles, eBooks and and images, designed for grades K-6.
Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior is the world’s most extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. Global Road Warrior consists of 175 Country Guides of 119 topics each.
High School in Context (Formerly Student Resources in Context)
Explore information from science, literature and history through reference books, newspaper and journal articles, video and audio files.
Scholastic Teachables
Provides thousands of free printable activity sheets, lesson plans, reading passages, and more. It also has games and puzzles, clip art, and bulletin board ideas. Content is available for PreK - 8th grade. This database is great for parents, teachers, homeschoolers and students.
Literature
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to bibliographical and biographical information, literary criticism, and contextual information covering more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers.
