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Through a partnership between the Mercer Island School District and King County Library System, all students K-12 enrolled in MISD schools have access to a KCLS e-card. This card allows students access to all KCLS digital materials, including databases, eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, and homework help, which can be access from school or home and from any device.

Encyclopedia BritannicaArticles, images, definitions, and links to trusted sources. Users can select reading level.
The World Book Encyclopedia 2022 provides authoritative content on almost every topic to learners of all ages, from school-age readers (9-18) to adults.
Explora is EBSCO's research interface designed specifically for students and educators. The secondary school version features relevant and reliable content and easy-to-use functionality to help high school students successfully complete their research.
Gale General OneFileMagazines, newspaper, and journal articles on general interest topics and current events.
Gale In Context: Opposing ViewpointsExplore both sides of an issue, pros and cons complete with statistics, and primary sources.
Gale Academic OneFilePeer-reviewed, full-text, scholarly articles all disciplines.

An engaging student experience merges magazines, news, multimedia and more.

EBSCO Host includes current general interest and specialized magazines, and also national and regional newspapers. Full-text articles.
Sirs Discoverer
Search thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are selected from 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications plus links to internet sites.

ProQuest Research LibraryA variety of magazines, journals, and newspapers



eLibrary ProQuesta variety of resources fro K-12: articles, photos, maps, video, transcripts, reference books

Access All Gale Databases and eBooks

Links to subject specific Gale Databases

Academic full text books from various subject areas.

Literature

Read poetry, prose and drama. Works of literary criticism, essays, author biographies, reviews, and interviews.
Full-text database that combines information from major, respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.
Connect with accurate and engaging articles, videos, audio, and images
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews.
The largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary.
Biographical and critical literary essays cover all eras and genres.

Social Studies & History

Explore pre-history to today: articles, maps, charts, and primary documents.
History from ancient times to current era. Study units, history guides, and more!
13th, We the People, Amend, and more!
Cambridge University Search U.S. Statistics from thousands of trusted sources. Download or create custom tables.
Learn about what life is like around the world
Gale eBooks, social justice, history, and more.
Connect with accurate and engaging articles, videos, audio, and images
Newspapers, newswires, blogs, from the Lost Angeles Times, Chicago tribune, and the Wall Street Journal.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Dive into history with this unique, interactive view! Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.

Art

Google Cultural Institute's partnership with over 2000 museums to bring art online to everyone.
Artstor’s ever-growing Public Collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.
Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 51.400 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.
Books and courses for art history through a partnership with a variety of cultural instistutions.
WikiArt.org's primary goal is to make world’s art accessible to anyone and anywhere. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 8 languages.

Science and Health

Today's Science gives a balanced, thorough understanding of the latest developments in the world of science.
The Unites States public health agency provides access to full text articles, podcasts, and public health publications.
MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The PubMed database contains more than 33 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.
This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Find reliable information on fitness, pregnancy, nutrition and much more.

500 trustworthy medical journals and popular health magazines covering an enormous range of health topics.

Controversial Issues

This EBSCO Reference Center offers a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, a wide variety of current issues with balanced coverage across the spectrum of opinion. Login using 400+ Student Number
Infobase resource database of current events. is an online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day .
Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

ProCon

Both sides of the issues on current debate topics. Free access.

Global Issues

Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, Global Issues works to build global awareness.

17 Global Goals developed by the United Nations. Learn more by exploring each of them here.

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Global issues.

Proquest CultureGrams

World Edition

Find information on more than 200 countries around the world and learn about the 50 states. The Kids Edition features more than 80 country reports.

Future Earth is a global network of scientists, researchers, and innovators collaborating for a more sustainable planet. Access projects and Anthropocene Magazine articles.


The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges.

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