Databases for Students

Academic Search Premier  provides full text articles from scholarly publications covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  

American History Online database from Facts On File explores the nation’s history from the Colonial period to the 21st century.

Biography Reference Bank is an international collection of more than 120,000 biographies and over 32,000 printable images. Search by name, profession, ethnic background, place of birth, and more.  

Britannica School Edition features Encyclopedia Britannica for high school students, Compton's by Britannica for middle school students and Britannica Elementary for elementary school students. The database offers articles, digital images and internet links.    

Business Source Premier with Business Search Interface.  Business Source Premiew with Business Search Interface is a business database which provides full text for more than 36,000 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Consumer Health Complete.  Consumer Health Complete is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. This database includes the information found in Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition, Alt Healthwatch, Clinical Pharmacology, MEDLINE and more.

CultureGrams offers information on the cultures of the world, including history, customs, and lifestyle, including traditional recipes.  CultureGrams States Edition includes facts about the 50 states and Washington DC.  

eLibrary is a general reference tool offering periodical and digital media for every range of user, including elementary students, college-prep, and college-level researchers.  eLibrary contains popular magazines, scholarly journals, reference sources, historical sources, television and radio transcripts, photographs, maps, current newspapers, news wires, children's publications, and classic books.  

LearningExpress Library offers access to skill-building courses on math, reading, and writing, as well as practice tests including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect.  

LitFINDER contains original literary material from around the world including poems, plays, speeches, short stories, essays, and author biographies.  

Literature Resource Center offers students access to literary criticism through full text literary journal articles and critical essays. The database includes author biographies and portraits, links to related websites, and access to Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature.  

MasterFILE Premier provides information on nearly all subject areas from general reference publications.  

Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog is a guide to fiction and nonfiction books for students in grades 5 through 9.

Middle Search Plus provides full text from many magazines covering general topics for late elementary, middle, and junior high students.

National Newspapers Premier provides access to various newspapers from all over the country. Individually, each of these 27 newspapers offers readers coverage of local, area, national, or international events. New York TimesWall Street JournalChristian Science MonitorWashington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal/Constitution, and Chicago Tribune are just some of the newspapers included in this database 

Science Online provides definitions, biographies of scientists, printable diagrams, essays, and a timeline of scientific achievements, discoveries, and natural phenomena.  Also, there are science experiments indexed by grade level and subject.  

Senior High Core Collection is a guide to fiction and nonfiction books for young adults in grades 9 through 12.  Updated continuously.

Student Research Center brings together several EBSCO products (Newspaper Source, MAS Ultra, Health Source Consumer Edition, and TOPICSearch) into a single research interface designed for students in grades 6-12.