Databases

Relevant, curriculum-aligned videos for any lesson. Turn any video into an interactive quiz, clip longer videos to the perfect length, and easily share videos with a link.

News-O-Matic is an educational resource for students in grades K through 8. Every weekday, News-O-Matic publishes interactive daily news content that teaches children 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and global awareness. 

Sooth is an ad-free, distraction-free internet search platform designed for students and educators.

NewsGuard Reliability Ratings and AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ help students understand the integrity and bias of news content.

Users have full access to underlying score cards and methodology, and can build credible collections and generate citations within the platform.

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. 

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.

Includes resources such as author interviews, lesson plans, activity guides, book readings, and discussion questions paired with book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance. 

Gale In Context: Elementary (formerly Kids InfoBits), introduces elementary school students to database searching with easy-to-use resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content. 

Gale in Context: Middle School (formerly 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. 

Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.

Using GPS For Success, students can watch, read, and learn about career opportunities, income potential, and education/ training requirements in 16 career clusters outlined nationally as experiencing a shortage of skilled workers entering the workforce. 

This collection includes yearbooks from local schools from 1911 on. Current issues may not be available, according to individual school policy, and years vary for each school.

An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology. 6,000 pages of illustrated life science, Earth science and physical science resources with printable content and activities. 

Full text of The New York Times newspaper, 1985 - present.

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

The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history, including out-of-print local papers such as the Ogdensburg Journal / Advance-News, Massena Observer, Gouverneur Tribune Press, and Potsdam Courier and Freeman. Search by title or browse by county.

Multidisciplinary coverage in over 150 subject areas. Contains 7500+ magazines and major U.S. and international newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, as well as a Career & Technical Education Database for vocational studies, audio and video clips, conference papers and proceedings, dissertations and theses, and historical newspapers.

Multiple sets of interactive ebooks that include timelines, vocabulary words, video clips, primary source materials lesson plans, graphic organizers and assessments, and more. Topics include science, history and social studies,  social and emotional learning, and digital citizenship.

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Current and past issues of the Watertown Daily Times are made available to schools online courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network. 

24/7 unlimited simultaneous access to over 220 illustrated, interactive titles, plus over 800 full text Classics. Great for class activities and multiple users.