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Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Britannica School is an entryway to resources created for children and young adults. Search results include encyclopedia articles, media, websites, and media. Merriam-Webster dictionary as well as Spanish translation are available. A Student Center includes many topics to browse.

Features over 34,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format. Includes 2 & 4 year, graduate and professional schools.

Biographical & bibliographical information & references on more than 120,000 U.S. & international authors.

Nearly 10,000 biographical & critical essays on the lives,works & careers of literary figures from all eras & genres.

Over 1 million historical & current biographies. Search using name, occupation nationality, birth/death dates.

Provides content in the major subject areas for middle and high school students. Offers a wide variety of resources including an archive of primary source documents, topic overviews and literary criticism. Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national & state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards and popular topic picklists.

Middle school students will benefit from an interface that delivers a combination of the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users as well as the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.

The premier online resource covering today’s social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-curricular and supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.

Features authoritative information on topics such as, earth science, life science, space, technology, mathematics, science, history and biology.

Provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from reference titles and journals covering themes, events, individuals, and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Full text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array for primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide geographic and chronological research.

Includes full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more. It offers information on undergraduate and graduate programs and tuition and scholarship assistance, as well as a resume builder and interviewing advice.

Biographical information, overviews, full text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Science Online offers students and researchers a wealth of comprehensive content and a dynamic design that facilitates STEM research and learning.

One-on-one online learning solutions for students and professionals. Work with a live tutor for professional development, training, career help, homework help and peer coaching.

Scholarly articles on authors, genres and literary movements representing the complete contents of Twayne’s United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Full text.

Universal Class offers more than 200 lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units (CEUs– Universal Class is IACET certified for all its courses). All classes are designed and led by professional instructors and engages its learners through videos, written lessons, assignments, quizzes, and tests. Patrons may enroll in up to five courses at a time with six months to complete each course.

Aimed toward an audience of upper-elementary through middle school students.  Simple language, basic facts, and appropriate photographs and images make World Book Student a fine source to introduce students to the organization, presentation, and usefulness of an online encyclopedia.