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Agriculture: Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.
Business: Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications.
Culinary Arts Collection: Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
Gardening and Horticulture: Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.
Health and Medicine: Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Home Improvement: Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
Hospitality and Tourism: Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Nursing and Allied Health: Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Physical Therapy and Sports: Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
PebbleGo: Use PebbleGo Animals and PebbleGo Biographies to help your young students build confidence in their technology, research, and reading skills. The word highlighting and natural voice audio allows readers and pre-readers to easily follow along with the text as they build vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency skills every step of the way.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Vocation and Careers Collection: Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.
Britannica High School Edition: Generalized information about a variety of subjects.
NewsBank: NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Fine Arts: Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Academic OneFile: Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
Britannica High School Edition: Generalized information about a variety of subjects.
Culturegrams: Provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available, so you can be sure you are offering only the very best, most current information to staff and students. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
News: Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
NewsBank: NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Power Search (Gale): Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
News: Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
Newsbank: NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Popular Magazines: Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Britannica High School Edition: Generalized information about a variety of subjects.
Environmental Studies and Policy: Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
Health and Medicine: Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Information Science: Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Britannica High School Edition: Generalized information about a variety of subjects.
Communications and Mass Media: Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Criminal Justice: Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.
Culturegrams: Provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available, so you can be sure you are offering only the very best, most current information to staff and students. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Digital Commonwealth: Explore historical collections from libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts
Diversity Studies: Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Gender Studies: Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Leadership and Management: Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more.
Military and Intelligence: Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs.
NewsBank: NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Opposing Viewpoints: Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
Pop Culture Studies: Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Psychology: Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
War and Terrorism: Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.
Gender Studies: Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Health and Medicine: Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection: Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
Psychology: Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Britannica Escolar: With two levels—Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school— Escolar offers unique content that is of interest to every student.
Culturegrams: Provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available, so you can be sure you are offering only the very best, most current information to staff and students. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
SIRS Researcher: SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database designed for middle and high school students, university undergraduates, instructors, and librarians. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
Britannica Fundamentals: Britannica Fundamentals is a innovative early learning resource for students in grade levels kindergarten through second grade.
Britannica Library Children: In Britannica Libary Children's select from a variety of content types, including articles, images, videos, dictionary, magazines, Web's Best Sites, Primary Sources & Ebooks, and Year in Review.
Britannica Library Young Adults: Britannica Library Young Adult encourages independent learning with access to multimedia content and the ability to toggle between reading levels.
Pebble Go: PebbleGo is a collection of nonfiction articles specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational text, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas. Our access is to the Pebble Go Animal Library and Biography Library.
Other Sources
AP Environmental Teacher Resource Recommendations: A collection of resources recommend as a result of a survey conducted of AP Environmental Science teachers. The list also includes teacher descriptions of the resources.
Ben's Guide to the US Government: Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government, a service of the Government Publishing Office (GPO), is designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government, which issues the publications and information products disseminated by the GPO’s Federal Depository Library Program. There is a 14+ section called "Masters" that is geared towards high school.
Biography.com: Since the 1960s when Biography premiered as a television show, the Biography name has been synonymous with intriguing life stories. Launched in 1996, Biography.com covers the people you know through stories you don’t. In addition to the fascinating, highly credible profiles we are known for, our daily news operation reports on all facets of pop culture, true crime, and power dynamics. Our scope includes current and historical figures, as well as athletes, actors, musicians, scientists, and innovators from every discipline.
Career Onestop: This resource is the flagship career, training, and job search website for the U.S. Department of Labor. The website serves job seekers, businesses, students, and career advisors with a variety of free online tools, information and resources.
College Scorecard: Search and compare colleges, as well as fields of studies in this site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Densho: Perserving Japanese American stories of the past for the generations of tomorrow.
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available.
DocsTeach: A resource to access primary source documents from the National Archives. This site covers all aspects of United States history.
Earth@Home: Earth@Home is a free educational resource created by the Paleontological Research Institution. Our goal is to provide free and accessible resources for educators, students, and anyone interested in learning about the Earth. This site focuses on earth science, climate, biodiversity, and evolution.
Encyclopedia of American Studies: Brought to you by John Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association this site covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement. With over 800 online, searchable articles and accompanying bibliographies, related websites, illustrations, and supplemental material, the Encyclopedia of American Studies is the leading reference work for American Studies.
Encyclopedia of Life: Hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History this site is a resource for knowledge on the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria.
Encyclopedia of the History of Science: A peer-reviewed, open-access resource brought to you by Carnegie Mellon University this site publishes science and technology peer-reviewed articles.
Innerbody Anatomy Explorer: This site covers the 12 major anatomy systems: Skeletal, Muscular, Cardiovascular, Digestive, Endocrine, Nervous, Respiratory, Immune/Lymphatic, Urinary, Female Reproductive, Male Reproductive, Integumentary.
JSTOR Daily: Where news meets its scholarly match: JSTOR Daily offers analysis of news, tapping into scholarship on JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals.
Khan Academy Teset Prep: This site covers test prep for the PSAT, the SAT, MCAT, LSTAT, and PISA.
LawDepot: Offered through the Boston Public Library this resource provides an extensive library of documents and legal resources with easy-to-use assistance on a wide range of legal needs empowering patrons to create legal documents specific to their personal situation.
MayoClinic: Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world.
National Genealogical Society: While this site will help you with your family history, it also offers a variety of resources on the topic of genealogy.
National Institutes of Health: NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. This is an official website of the Department of Health and Human Services.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): A website from the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA’s mission to better understand our natural world and help protect its precious resources extends beyond national borders to monitor global weather and climate, and work with partners around the world. This site is a resource for weather, climate, ocean and coast, fisheries, satellites, marien and aviation, charting, and sanctuary information.
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Brought to you by the U.S. Bureau of Baor Statistics, this site offers information on potential occupations including salary rates and education needed.
PBS Learning Media: Covering all subjects from science, social studies, mathematics, English language arts, enginnering and technology, health and physical education, the arts, and world languages, this site is a wealth of information in the form of documents, videos and more.
Science.gov: An official website of the U.S. government providing ready access to the massive stores of federally funded scientific research results, without needing to know which agency funded the research. Research results include scientific and technical reports, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, digital data, software, conference presentations and proceedings, and other scientific and technical information that federal agencies publish resulting from their research investments.
Smithsonian Explore Art and Design: a collection of materials on art and design. This site focuses on ancient artifacts to contemporary masterpieces, the Smithsonian’s art collections span cultures and centuries. Along with their art-focused programs and research, their work illustrates how art and design are integral to humanity, enriching us all.
Smithsonian Explore History and Culture: The Smithsonian not only explores U.S. history and culture to better understand what it means to be an American, but also examines, explains, and protects cultural heritage in the U.S. and around the world. Their collections and subject experts illuminate the past and present to help discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge that secures our shared future as a nation and a global community.
Smithsonian Explore Science and Nature: a collection of materials on science and nature. This site focuses on featured collections, stories and research from the Smithsonian including podcast episodes from their Sidedoor podcast.
Smithsonian Innovation and Technology: Since its founding, the Smithsonian has been at the forefront of technological innovation to advance scientific discovery. Their scientists use cutting-edge techniques to track wildlife, monitor pollution, preserve biodiversity, and explore the universe. Their museums investigate and highlight the vital role of invention and innovation in shaping human history from Stone Age tools to the Apollo 11 moon landing to 3D digitization to AI. Use this site to explore it all.
Smithsonian Institute Research Resources: a collection of materials from the libraries, archives, press and collections of the Smithsonian. Also includes open access to more than 5.1 million 2D and 3D images and to datasets from a variety if Smithsonian researchers.
State Health Facts (KFF): As the leading health policy organization, we bring together substantial capabilities in policy research, polling, and journalism in one organization to meet the need for a trusted, independent source of information on national health issues—one with the scope and reach to be a counterweight to health care’s vested interests and a voice for people.
United Nations Global Issues: As the world’s only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. This site is a resource for information on peace and security, human rights, humanitaritan aid, sustainable development and climate, international law, and global issues.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Sights and Sounds: Podcasts and videos provided by the Department of Agriculture. Provides information on food safety, animal health, insects, organics, sustainability and more. Additionally there is a video large collection called "Cooking with Science" and a podcast collection called "Science in your Shopping Cart."
U.S. Presidents (Miller Center): The Miller Center is a nonpartisan institution at the University of Virginia that explores how the U.S. presidency addresses national priorities and engages scholars with leading citizens to help solve major problems.
World Fact Book: The World Factbook provides basic information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 258 world entities. This is a website sponsored by the CIA (Central Intellegiance Agency)