Databases

Big Timber Media has supported educational publishers and distributors in providing eBooks to their school-age readers.

BrainPOP hosts over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–12, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, arts and music.

With contributions from Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors and other notable experts, Britannica Academic provides trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else.

Britannica Escolar - Descubra los artculos enciclopdicos, los recursos multimedia y otros materiales de aprendizaje que apoyan la investigacin de los estudiantes y refuerzan la programacin curricular.

ImageQuest includes 3.5 million images from 64 leading collections that aren't freely available on the Web. Users can search by keyword, collection, image type, and image ratio.

Britannica LaunchPacks combines up-to-date, curriculum-aligned content sets with tools that make it easier for teachers to differentiate instruction and for students to understand core K-12 Social Studies topics.

Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias and other resources that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. This unique reference and learning suite also offers high-quality online learning materials that have been developed by teachers and curriculum experts. Designed for all levels of learning from elementary school through high school, Britannica Online School Edition offers students an easy-to-use gateway to the vast resources of Encyclopedia Britannica.

Upper elementary  through high school. Core testing content in  a web-based format. Students take assessments, quizzes, do homework, answer  review questions, etc. in an online environment.

Cultures of 182 countries and territories, maps, statistics, glossary and 50 US states with timelines.

From science to the performing arts, find attention-grabbing content for tomorrow’s lesson. Virtual Field Trips, videos, text, podcasts, interactives, behind‑the-scenes at major organizations, career spotlights, and more. Real-world, high-quality, and vetted.

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education

Introduces elementary school students to database searching with easy-to-use resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.

Gale Research in Context is for student researchers in grades 6-8. Cultures, government, people, U.S. history, sports, world history, geography, literature, science, and social issues relevant to middle school students as well as science experiments.

Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 150 popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.

NewsBank - America's Historical Newspapers - makes it easy for students to search and browse hundreds of U.S. newspapers published from 1690 through the 20th Century, including titles from all 50 present states.

NewsBank - Asian Life in America - Comprehensive coverage of the Asian American experience from the early 18th century to the present day.

NewsBank - Black Life in America - Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day.

NewsBank - Hispanic Life in America - Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century to the present day.

NewsBank - Indigenous Life in America - Comprehensive coverage of the Indigenous experience in America from 1690 to today.

NewsBank - World News (Current) - A comprehensive full-text database with sources from more than 200 countries and all 50 U.S. states.

NoveList K-8, a fiction database, is designed with a right, appealing layout, designed especially for elementary and middle schools. The Working with Kids section of the Browse panel on the homepage provides a single location to access all of the curricular materials such as our Grab and Go Book Lists, BookTalks, Picture Book Extenders and more. Use Novelist 101 to learn more about using this database.

Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 520 high-quality education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others.

Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985).

PubMed comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books

Science videos and articles about: Earth Science - Space Science - Life Science - Health and Human Body -Physical Science - Technology and Engineering.

Swank Motion Pictures’ film streaming platform, Swank K-12 Streaming, offers exclusive access to the largest single library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films available to K-12 schools for instructional support. Featuring over 30,000 movies, Swank’s cloud-hosted streaming platform eliminates common obstacles – such as the lack of DVD players, blocked personal streaming sites and DVD library maintenance. Plus, teachers can easily assign films to students outside the classroom through any Learning Management System.

Resources such as author interviews, book readings, lesson plans, vocabulary lists, and discussion questions paired with book titles.

Tumblebook Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books.

World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is the beginners Spanish language reference tool. The site offers World Book's editorial content, media, and engaging features in Spanish.

World Book Kids is a comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles, videos, educator tools, research guides and more.

World Book Student is an online encyclopedia with articles, tables, maps and multimedia.

Academic OneFile (Gale OneFile): Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.

Academic OneFile Select (Gale OneFile): Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from major news sources.

General OneFile contains millions of full text articles on business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985). 

Gale PowerSearch platform offers comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. Gale has incorporated enhancements, creating PowerSearch 2.0, a platform providing even greater ease -- giving more power to the user.

Gale Business: Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze, and organize a broad variety of data, complete writing assignments, prepare for debates, and create presentations. Included are pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, primary sources, biographies, court cases, full text magazine articles, statistical tables, charts, graphs, podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs, and national and state curriculum standards, correlated to the content. Educators may search and identify material by grade and discipline.

Agriculture (Gale OneFile): With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile): From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.

Computer Science (Gale OneFile): Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 700 journals.

Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile): This InfoTrac collection is comprised of more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines from the award winning InfoTrac product line as well as almost 20 reference titles from Delmar, part of Cengage Learning. The Culinary Arts Collection provides researchers with more than just recipes. It gives them quick access to restaurant reviews, industry information and practical instruction.

Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile): An authoritative resource for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes more than 2.7million articles from 150 journals updated daily.

Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile): With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile): Library resource that provides periodical and journal articles on multiple levels of education from preschool to college.

Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile): This compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find more than 180 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile): A collection of over 800 journals and 6 subject specific Delmar reference titles provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Fine Arts (Gale OneFile): This database quickly places information from over 5 million articles at the finger tips of serious students of the arts. More than 150 of the journals in the Fine Arts and Music Collection are covered in the Wilson Art Index and the Repertoire International de Literature Musicale (RILM) indexes and are available in full-text.

Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile): These resources will inspire and educate those seeking more information on gardening, landscaping or horticulture. The information included in this collection varies from inspirational to instructional.

The Gender Studies Collection provides access to hundreds of thousands of articles with balanced coverage on such topics as gender studies, sexual behavior surveys, family and marital issues, conversion therapy, gay and lesbian rights, homophobia, health aspects and many more.

Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile): Contains full-text nursing and allied health journal articles, and reliable health information. Search in multiple languages by subject, keyword or by specific publication title.

Home Improvement (Gale OneFile): Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting, but with this special collection of more than 250 home improvement-focused titles from InfoTrac, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation.

The Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection provides unparalleled coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field. It is comprised of close to 400industry journals from Gales award-winning InfoTrac product line as well as current and relevant reference content from noted publisher Delmar, part of Cengage Learning. This special collection allows for focused study of all areas of the hospitality industry, including the cultural aspects of travel and leisure activities, the economic impact of tourism and more. The curious traveler also will find a wealth of information, from content on state parks to information on planning a vacation, to full text travel guides from Fodors and Hunter Publishing.

Information Science (Gale OneFile): This collection is updated daily and covers all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, information management, circulation, business information and more. Hundreds of thousands of articles are included from such leading journals.

Informe Academico (Gale OneFile): Meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Acadmico provides quality reference material--not simply translations of English-language materials--on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

The Insurance & Liability Collection connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.

Provide military personnel with access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this library resource contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.

Access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile): Both researcher and practitioner alike will find relevant, authoritative content in this collection, which includes hundreds of thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Users will discover prevent treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting) and more.

Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences, history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Pop Culture Collection provides useful information from over two million articles found in over100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

A strong focus on current events, sports, science and health, 75 percent of this full-text collection from InfoTrac.

Psychology (Gale OneFile): Students, psychologists, counselors, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles. Psychology Collection brings together information found in nearly 500 journals, with a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in PsycINFO. Nearly all topics related to psychology are covered.

Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile): This file indexes over 250 magazines and journals in the areas of religion, philosophy, and related disciplines. There is some full text available and a good balance of popular and scholarly material...certainly of high quality. --Library Journal, November 15, 2008.

With the General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered.

U.S. History (Gale OneFile): This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.

Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile): Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile): A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events. Researchers will gain valuable insight to conflicts and their cause as well as their impact and how they are perceived on a global scale. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

World History (Gale OneFile): This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.