Provides online reference and learning tools for students who read below grade level, are dealing with specific learning problems, or are at risk of falling behind. This user-friendly collection contains all of the resources that students need including encyclopedias, an atlas, historic timelines, a dictionary, news, and other essential learning tools. 21st-Century Explorer is ideal for reluctant readers, ELL and ESL students, and adult literacy students.
21st Century Explorer
ABI Research
ABI Research is a market intelligence company specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
With hundreds of additional full-text titles, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry is a source of major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a source of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Annals of American History
Annals of American History Online explores the rich and varied history of the United States. Provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
Ask-a-Librarian
Connects students, teachers, business people, and researchers to a librarian for help with research and reference challenges. The librarian uses virtual chat and an interactive online environment to share information and resources in real-time.
Black News
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.
Buisness Dateline
Business Dateline provides the full text of major news and feature stories from 550 regional business publications from throughout the United States and Canada. Regional business activities and trends are covered in the file, with particular emphasis on economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, company executives, new products, and competitive intelligence.
Business & Company ASAP
Provides researchers with information on companies, markets, and industries including market trends, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory, and company overviews via business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.
Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center provides access to a wide variety of global business information in a single source. It enables users to research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1,200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Custom Newspapers
A collection of more than 150 English-Language newspapers. It covers domestic and international (mostly UK and Austrialia) news.
EBSCO Primary Search
Primary Search contains full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Americana is international in scope and is known for its detailed coverage of American and Canadian geography and history. It is also strong in biography and scientific and technical subjects.
Encyclopedia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is continuously updated and is regarded as one of the most scholarly of encyclopaedias.
Financial Times
The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Provides extensive news, comment and financial analysis.
General OneFile
General Onefile is a one-stop source for finding news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature, art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Multimedia resources provide quick access factual information as well as broad overviews of general subjects. Contains: America the Beautiful, Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Lands and Peoples, The New Book of Knowledge, and The New Book of Popular Science
Health & Wellness Resource Center
This database provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference Center Academic
Provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles covering patient and consumer health information.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S.federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.
History Reference Center
Features the full text of more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, as well as nearly 60 leading history periodicals; historical documents, biographies of historical figures, historical photos and maps; and hours of historical film and video.
Home Improvement Reference Center
Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from home improvement magazines and videos of popular home repair projects.
Hoover's Company Records
Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover’s Company Records provides easy access to the most thorough and up-to-date business information available. This comprehensive database gives users the whole picture, including: Company overview, Company history, Officers and board members, Competitors, Products and operations, Auditors, Rankings, Related industry information, and Historical financials.
Informe
This electronic resource is the first to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines, not just translations. Other features include a thesaurus and title annotations in both English and Spanish. The bilingual approach also helps non-Spanish speaking staff, students of Spanish and non-native speakers.
Este recurso electrónico es la primera en facilitar la indexación, las imágenes y el texto completo de las populares revistas hispanas; no sólo las traducciones. Otras características incluyen un diccionario de sinónimos y anotaciones de títulos en inglés y español. También, el enfoque bilingüe ayuda al personal que no hablan español, los estudiantes del español o personas cuyo primer idioma no es inglés.
Infotrac Newsstand
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Financial Times (London), The New York Times, The Times (London), USA Today and many others.
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JobNow
JobNow from Brainfuse is an online resource tool for job seekers, which offers: Live interview coaching, Resume/cover letter assistance, an Adult Learning Center that offers test preparation (including the GED and the U.S. Citizen Test), an expert writing lab, study tools, and a unique academic skills center featuring live, online tutors.
Kids Infobits
Kids InfoBits is a database for students in kindergarten through grade 5. It features a kid-friendly graphic interface with full-text content from elementary reference sources and magazines. Kids InfoBits covers geography, current events, the arts and sciences, people, government, history, and more.
Kids Search
Kids Search is EBSCO’s interface designed for students in grades K through 5. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
Learning Express Library
Learning Express Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages.
Lexis Nexis Library Express
Provides full-text documents from business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to primary literature content, including the full-text of poems, short stories, essays, speeches, and plays. Some works may only be available as citations or excerpts. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. The database is international in scope and covers all time periods.
Live Homework Help from Tutor.com
An online tutoring service that connects students in kindergarten through 12th grade, college, and adult learners with expert tutors. Live Homework Help tutors are certified teachers, university professors, graduate school students, college students, and professionals who are experts in their fields.
Merrian-Webster's Dictionary Online
The most complete historical record of the English language and the largest dictionary of the English language.
National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America’s top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
National Newspapers Premier
ProQuest National Newspapers Premier includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other U.S. papers.
Natural Standard
Provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. It contains three sub-databases: Herbs & supplements, condition center, and alternative modalities. For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence.
New Book of Knowledge
The New Book of Knowledge is for middle grade students and includes literary selections, a timeline, projects and experiments, news, homework help and more.
New York State Newspapers
A subset of InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: the Glens Falls Post-Star, the New York Times, the New York Observer, the New York Post, Newsday, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.
New York Times Historical
Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
Newsday
Full-text of the Long Island daily newspaper Newsday from 1985 to present.
NextReads
Sign up for e-newsletters and get great book suggestions by email. They’ll deliver reading lists right to your inbox along with new gems, bestsellers, and related titles. You’ll also be able to check immediately whether the items are available at your library or whether they’ve been checked out.
Novelist
This “readers’ advisor” database has something for everyone. Adults, teens and children will be able to identify books based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles.
Novelist K-8
Helps teens and children identify books they’d like to read based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context is for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online covers all aspects of visual art and contains articles, images, artist biographies and reference resource entries. It includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford’s music reference in one location. Contains the redesigned Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Primary Search
Primary Search contains full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
PROMT
Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports. A large number of industries, activities, and organizations are covered. Cultural and not-for-profit organizations are covered as well.
ProQuest Computing Journals
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
ProQuest Health Management
Combining full-text coverage for more than 550 journals with over 4,500 doctoral dissertations and theses, this database provides reliable information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business and personnel management, ethics, economics, and public-health administration.
ProQuest Professional Education Journals
Search professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues.
ProQuest Research Library
From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. ProQuest Research Library consists of two components: a core list of periodicals; plus 15 supplemental subject-specific modules.
ReferenceUSA
ReferenceUSA is used by consumers, researchers and businesses to find detailed directory information on US businesses, residences, doctors and dentists. It contains information from annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information. Canadian business and residential directory information is also available.
Salem History
Several history databases, including: Milestone Documents in American History, The Sixties in America, The Nineties in America, Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, G reat Events from History: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, and Encyclopedia of American Immigration.
Science in Context
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is a search engine for users in elementary or middle schools. Searchasaurus is a way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for young patrons to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.
Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop, has partnered with Impelsys to convert many Sesame Street books into eBooks. Sesame Workshop now offers content in the most innovative, engaging and user friendly formats appealing to both children and their parents. The online portal offers more than one hundred eBooks with new titles being added on a regular basis. The eBooks feature audio narration, interactivity and animation bringing popular Sesame Street characters to life.
Spanish Reference Center
Spanish Reference Center provides both PlanetaSaber and the Enciclopedia Juvenil. PlanetaSaber features the Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, an encyclopedia in the Spanish language, including over 145,000 encyclopedia articles, more than 10,000 maps, photos, and media pieces, and 8,000 Internet links. Also includes a visual navigator, interactive atlas, and multilanguage dictionary. Enciclopedia Juvenil, for younger ages, helps students sharpen their language skills while they learn new lessons.
Transparent Language Online
Transparent Language Online (formerly BYKI Online) is a language-learning program that provides an effective, fun, and engaging experience for language learners of all levels. Transparent Language Online includes pronunciation, speech, grammar, writing, and vocabulary building lessons. With 80+ languages to choose from, there is something for every learner.
TumbleBooks
An online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
Twayne Authors
A literary resources which includes the full-text of the Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors. Covers hundreds of significant writers around the world.
Twaynes Authors Series
A literary resources which includes the full-text of the Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors. Covers hundreds of significant writers around the world.
World Data Analyst
World Data Analyst offers detailed statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. One create tables, charts, export the information to a spreadsheet for printing and data crunching, and also link to country articles in Encyclopedia Britannica.