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General Encyclopedias

Search these resources to find background information to start learning about your topic.

Britannica School This link opens in a new window

World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window

Scholastic Go This link opens in a new window Grolier Online includes eight different databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

GALE - Databases & eBooks

Middle School (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Best bet for starting research in middle school.
GALE BC Home Page This link opens in a new window
Gale eBooks (Gale eBooks) This link opens in a new window Explore this multidisciplinary collection of encyclopedias and full-text online reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.

Credo

Find Background Information to Start Your Research

CREDO This link opens in a new window Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature.

EBSCO Explora

EBSCO - Explora This link opens in a new window Reference, magazine, newspaper, perspective and peer-reviewed articles on all subjects.

Search keywords to find articles, news, reports and more.

OXFORD - Reference

Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Reference articles on all subjects.

PROQUEST

ProQuest Platform This link opens in a new window Search multiple databases on the ProQuest platform including: Academic Video Online, Coronavirus Research Database, Ebook Central, ProQuest Central Student, ProQuest Professional Education, and Publicly Available Content Database. ProQuest Central Student is a multi-disciplinary database providing abstract & indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals.