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General encyclopedia providing information on a variety of topics.
Topic overviews, essays, articles, primary source documents, and videos. Searchable by Lexile and reading level.
EBSCO Funks & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
EBSCO Health Source-Consumer Edition
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
Multidisciplinary collection of more than 600,000 biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning world history and geography
Infobase Health Reference Center
Information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body
Infobase History Research Center
Essays, definitions, diagrams, videos, animations, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, activities, and current news articles about a broad range of scientific disciplines.
Infobase World Geography and Culture
Provides exclusive, extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.
ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher
Background and current analysis necessary for researching more than 300 current leading issues
Covers topics on teen health issues
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
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