Research Databases

Explore over 100,000 royalty-free downloadable maps for schools, academic institutions, and public libraries.

An online encyclopedia of everything about the USA.  

Find information about books and authors.  Search by title, author, or subject.

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.

Use Accelerated Reader Bookfinder to search for books and corresponding AR quizzes.

Find biographies, obituaries, and photographs of thousands of individuals: both living and deceased.

Coursera provides universal access to the world's best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.

Day By Day is a tool that families, caregivers, educators, and librarians can use at home, at the library, on the go, and in the classroom.  With a perpetual calendar featuring songs, activities, book suggestions, and videos, Day By Day offers resources to further develop early literacy skills that help young children prepare for, and to do better in, school.

Spanish-language encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish language learners, this database includes videos, compare and contract features, and a visual dictionary.

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.

Food Literacy Center is a nonprofit focused on preventative health, with skills and tools to share with families to learn and cook together.  The curriculum focuses on food literacy and hands-on cooking with kids.

World Book has partnered with one of the world's largest and most respected Spanish-language publishers to offer online this comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia that includes over 100,000 articles, more than 9,000 images and maps, and nearly 1,000 videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media.

This database provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals focusing on many medical disciplines, many of which are peer-reviewed.

A full-featured, beginner-level reference source, this database is written at basic French reading levels.  This seamlessly integrates with World Book Kids for parallel English-language content.

Access test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams, including the PSAT, SAT, GED replacement, TASC, and other exams.

This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.  It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.

Access more than 6,600 courses on various subjects including software, programming languages, and business topics.

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.

MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the internet, free of charge.  With more than 2,400 courses available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.

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.

This database is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies, providing a full-text source of content pertaining to the topics related to and discussed in disciplines of religion and philosophy.

Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, this database contains full-text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.

This full-text database offers a trusted source of sociology literature, making in an essential tool for sociology and social work researchers, professionals and students.

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.

This database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

Search series fiction for children and adult materials.  A series is two or more books linked by characters, settings, or other common traits.

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.