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General Encyclopedias

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

Scholastic Go This link opens in a new window Why use this resource?What's included? 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.

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 Gale eBook is a searchable, multidisciplinary collection of encyclopedias and full-text online reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.What's included? Subjects covered include: history, literature, science, math, the arts, and more.

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.

Explora (EBSCO) 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 Online This link opens in a new window
Reference articles on all subjects.

ProQuest Academic This link opens in a new window 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. Why use this resource? ProQuest Student is a large, multi-subject database which is an ideal place to begin research. What's included? ProQuest Central covers all major disciplines, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Includes full text newspapers.  
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.