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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including full text for nearly 2,700 peer-reviewed titles.

Biographies, obituaries, and photographs of thousands of individuals – both living and deceased.

CultureGrams (from ProQuest) is a leading reference resource for reliable cultural information on the countries of the world.

The Education Resource Information Center provides access to education literature and research.

Explora Primary Schools is a trustworthy environment for students and educators in grades K through 5 to look up facts for class projects or homework.

Explora Secondary Schools is an alternative to websites and search engines for students in grades 6-12 to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, the MAS Ultra – School Edition database contains full text for nearly 500 high school magazines and more than 360 full text reference books.

Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias offer long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars.

Points of View Reference Center contains many topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

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.

This psychology database offers full text coverage for nearly 400 journals covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, and more.

An essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. Topics include world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, philosophy, and more.

Topics include biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, scientists, technology, wildlife, and more.

More than 500 full text journals covering all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.

Very Short Introductions provides intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects. Hundreds of titles can be searched at once, opening up new pathways across subjects.

This website will lead you through qualities of leaves and fruits to help you identify common trees of Ohio.

Easily identify snakes found in Ohio.

Identify arrowheads and stone tools found in Ohio.

Engages advanced students and adults with thousands of articles, primary sources, and online books designed to support personalized learning and enhance digital citizenship.

Emergent learners will engage in an interactive and playful environment that encourages reading comprehension and mastery of phonetic skills.

This dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn.

Academic Spanish-language encyclopedia written from a Latin American perspective. Includes timelines, statistics, visual navigation, and multimedia.

Captivates even the most reluctant reader with unique visual engagements, rich multimedia content, and an abundance of educational games, activities, and projects.

A full-featured, beginner-level reference source, Découverte provides users with a database written at basic French reading levels.

World Book Online is a suite of the powerful World Book reference tools.

Contains numerous tools to engage users in 21st-century education and blended-learning practices.

World Book Timelines allows you to discover and map important events with accurate information powered by World Book’s wealth of knowledgeable resources.