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Academic Search Elite

Contains full text for more than 2,100 journals; nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

This website focuses on Black Freedom and features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Consumer Health Complete

Content covers health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. It includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

Discovery Education

Educational videos, images, audio clips, resource materials, and much more to meet your digital and media needs.

Explora

Students can research topics in a variety of subject areas by source type: magazines, newspapers, reference books, primary sources, biographies, photos, and more.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Over 25,000 full-text records, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images and offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

Gale: Cameron's Collection

Created in collaboration with the Cameron K. Gallagher Foundation, Cameron’s Collection on Gale eBooks provides targeted guidance on sensitive teen issues for students, teachers, and counselors. These titles are available in the library or remotely 24/7, allowing students to access what they need anytime and on their own devices. Helping students cope with everyday stressors and stay in the present moment through mindfulness are the core foundations of this collection.

Gale in Context: Global Issues

International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.

Gale in Context: High School

Broad coverage of diverse topics. It includes biographies, science, history, literature, geography, and more.

Gale E-Books

Over 35 encyclopedias and other reference books covering a wide range of subjects.

Heritage Quest Online

A collection of American genealogical sources. It includes Federal Census data, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank Records, and more.

JSTOR

Full-text back files of over 1000 scholarly journals; there is a gap of 2-5 years between the date of publication and the appearance of JSTOR.

Learning Express Library

Provides practice tests and online courses to help students, recent immigrants, and job seekers. Practice tests include the SAT, ACT, GRE, Civil Service, Citizenship Exam, and TOEFL.

MAS Ultra

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full-text resources for nearly 500 popular high school magazines.

MasterFILE Premier

Provides full-text access to periodicals covering a variety of topics. It includes content from reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection.

The New York Times

This link provides free access to articles from The New York Times newspaper.

The New York Times: Time Machine

This link provides free access to articles from The New York Times newspaper archives from 1851-2002

Newspaper Source

Provides cover-to-cover full text for over 40 U.S. & international newspapers, and selective full text for 389 regional U.S. newspapers. TV & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Science Reference Center

Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals. Topics covered: biology, chemistry, health & medicine, physics, technology, and more.

SIRS Issues Researcher

Delivers the pros and cons of today's complex social issues.

World Book Advanced

World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.

World Book Student

Student includes translations to 100+ languages, a Biography Center, current events, research guides, and seamless integration with Google Classroom and Microsoft OneDrive, Maps, and more.

World Book Timelines

Timelines offer hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the lives of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

Browse features provide visual prompts, and bilingual features allow students to toggle between Spanish and English text. The site includes concise articles, videos, maps and more activities.

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