Databases
Pre-K - 12 Resources
Creation Station
PreK-12
Software that enables staff and students to create digital resources and store them on our district Learning Object Repository
PreK-12
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports on more than 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories with emphasis on culture, history, customs and lifestyles.
PreK-12
This software provides access to all library resources includes mobile app for 24/7 to ebook content, print resources and digital learning tools.
PreK-12
Nebraska state government publications and digitized Nebraska historical resources.
PreK-12
Resource rich digital learning environment that stores learning objects such as video, audio, text, web links, pictures, and lessons that are available for all staff and students for teaching and learning.
PreK-12
Royalty free music library offers a wide variety of music which can be used for presentations, news, podcasts and web.
PreK-12
Content and tools developed especially for students at all levels; serves research needs with extensive multimedia; available in Spanish.
Elementary Resources
PreK-2
Interactive and age appropriate content for our youngest students with emphasis on science and math.
Scholastic Go (Formerly Grolier)
PreK-5
Resources designed for elementary students includes Lexile leveled articles, interactive maps, America the Beautiful series; also available in Spanish.
Tumblebooks
PreK-5
Web-based access to over 1100 digital books, including picture and chapter books in English and Spanish. Educational resources including lesson plans, quizzes and games are available to supplement the books.
Secondary School Resources
6-12
Access to all Gale Databases from a school specific website. For home access contact your teacher librarian for the user name and password.
Biography in Context (Gale)
6-12
Specifically designed for research on people using a combination of online books, periodicals, and multimedia. Students can search by keyword and full text or by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places.
Global Issues in Context (Gale)
6-12
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics and current events.
JSTOR
9-12
Provides thousands of scholarly and academic journals with a focus on international publications, and primary source materials; focuses on the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences and used in the International Baccalaureate Program.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
6-12
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. This module covers more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors using hundreds of thousands of books, articles, and dissertations from 1926 to the present.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
6-12
Features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
Professional Collection (Gale)
9-12
Features more than 250 full-text journals with a focus on educational issues.
Research in Context (Gale)
6-8
Topics in History, Literature, Science, Social Studies suitable for middle school students.
Science in Context (Gale)
6-12
Contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics are discussed through full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files.
Scribner’s Writer’s Series (Gale)
6-12
Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
Student Resources in Context (Gale)
6-12
Comprehensive module covers a wide-range of topics. It features full-text magazines, academic journal, news articles, primary documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
Twayne Author Series (Gale)
6-12
More than 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series; designed for comprehensive research on literary topics.
US History in Context (Gale)
6-12
Most significant people, events, and topics in US history covered via full text magazines, journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
World History in Context (Gale)
6-12
Hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in World History are examined with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
Omaha Public Library Databases
2017 List of Available Databases- Must have active O.P.L. Library Card and Pin. Contact O.P.L. for more information