Upper Grades
Digital Resources for Students in
Grades 9-12
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"Sora provides the quickest and easiest way to read digital books. NYCDOE students can log in using their DOE credentials and instantly access hundreds of e-books and audiobooks on virtually any device. New York City Department of Education's digital collection is available 24/7! "
Website:
https://soraapp.com/welcome/login/310229
"Classicly is an e-book publishing portal, which offers digitized versions of books from the public domain content. Our mission is to transform the most popular works of legendary authors of yesteryears to modern reading rooms that can be read by anyone online as well as downloaded in Kindle, PDF, and MP3 audiobook formats."
Website:
https://www.classicly.com/collections
Research Databases
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MyLibraryNYC's Digital Resources
This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Great resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate users.
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians. Ideal resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate research on American Indian history.
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Provides biographical information on 650,000+ people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.
Bisonnette on Fashion: A Visual Dictionary
Timeline of fashion history from the 18th to the 20th century, from Kent State University Museum.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.
Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres.
Provides access to over 30 databases with citations, abstracts and selected full-text. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete and other subject-specific resources.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
Explora is EBSCO's research interface designed specifically for students and educators.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.
Searchable full-text of 1000 plus newspapers, both national and international.
A searchable, digitized archive (from the first date of publication to the last three to five years) of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.
Covers history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Features peer-reviewed essays, reference sources, primary documents, media, newspapers, and magazines.
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams, including the PSAT, SAT, GED replacement, TASC, test, and other exams.
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided.
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
National Geographic Virtual Library
Full content from National Geographic Magazine, from 1888 to the present. Search covers, articles, images, maps, and advertisements, or browse by issue.
National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 11,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond, with a special focus on full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers. The collection includes a broad range of dates, mostly covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text.
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest.
Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
Coverage of the most-studied U.S. history topics including from the arrival of Vikings in North America, American Revolution, Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror through a web-like experience that supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. (Noted for access to primary source documents.)
World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, animations, maps and more.
From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.
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