Research Databases

An online encyclopedia of everything about the USA.  

Access full texts from scholarly and academic magazines and periodicals covering nearly every area of academic study including computer sciences, language and linguistics, ethnic studies, and many more.

This is a free, national digital library that provides a single point of access to cultural heritage materials from more than 4,000 libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.  Search more than 37 million images, videos, texts, and sounds.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources.

Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.  Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly "how-to" information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.

Designed specifically for public libraries, this database provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents.  It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.

Designed for middle school libraries, this full-text database provides popular magazines and reference books.  Covering subjects such as history, current events, science and sports, it also includes thousands of biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S), international and regional newspapers.  It also offers television and radio transcripts from major networks.

These online research resources are provided by Ohio Libraries to all Ohio residents.

This research database brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.  Titles cover a wide range of humanities, social science, performing arts, and general reference subjects.

Articles from numerous academic encyclopedias of Social Work, the Oxford Classical Dictionary, American History, Climate Science, Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Environmental Science, International Studies, Latin American History, Linguistics, Literature, Religion, Communication, and Politics.

Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.

Designed for elementary school libraries, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.  Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration.

Teachers, librarians and student researchers can use this database to explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.

Access concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects - from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to History.  Each volume provides balanced and complete discussions of the central issues in a given topic.

Ohio tree identification guide

Ohio snake identification guide

Identify flint artifacts.

Resources include encyclopedic content, e-books, multimedia, a vast collection of primary source documents, and a wealth of research tools that allow students ot customize and save their work.