LRC Databases and Reference eBooks

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Databases


American History (ABC-Clio) - From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution.

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Biography in Context (Gale) - Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 600,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.


EBSCO Databases - Provides access to a variety of full text reference materials and periodicals and includes MAS Complete, Newspaper Source Plus, Advanced Placement Source, Healthsource, Vocational and Career Collection, Read It! (EL) and Professional Development Collection.


Grolier Online (Scholastic Go) - Contains more than 115,000 articles covering every core-curriculum subject. The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.


Issues: Understanding Controversy & Society (ABC-Clio) - Contains information on current controversial issues providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources.


Literature Resource Center (Gale) - Literature database offering a broad and representative range of authors and their works including biographical information on authors and full-text critical and literary analysis.


Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) - Contains information on current controversial issues and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more.


Student Resources in Context (Gale) - General research database containing articles, videos, charts, images and infographics, and more.


World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society (ABC-Clio) - Presents comprehensive information and unique insights into the military conflicts that have defined our world's identity from its beginning to today.

World Geography (ABC-Clio) - Provides authoritative content and online tools to develop global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that shape our world.


World History: Ancient/Medieval (ABC-Clio) - Covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.

World History: Modern (ABC-Clio) - Covers world history from the Renaissance to today.


​Reference eBooks


Capstone Interactive Library - A collection of a limited number of interactive graphic novels on biology and physics topics.


Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale) - A collection of reference books on a wide variety of topics in the arts, humanities and science.

Infobase eBooks - A collection of reference books including career information and physical sciences.


Salem - A collection of reference books containing information on literature, history, environmental science and health.


Sharpe Online (EBSCO) - A general collection of e reference books on a wide variety of topics.