Electronic Databases: Homework Help

Databases available from home and OPL Main and Indian Creek Branch

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Databases by Subject

[Authors, Books and Other Literature]  [Business] [Genealogy] [Health & Medicine]
[History and the World] [HomeworkHelp] [Journals and Professional Resources]
[Magazines and Newspapers] [Quick Reference] [Science] [Spanish Language]

Databases by Name

A-D | E-F | G-J | K-Q | R-T | U-Z

 

America's Newspapers
America's Newspapers provides the electronic editions or record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers, including the Kansas City Star and the Olathe News. Library and home use.

Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Search for biographies of individuals in a wide range of subjects, including business, politics, government, history, science, sports, the arts, and entertainment. The database also allows you to retrieve biographies based on specific sets of criteria such as ethnic background, nationality, and gender. Library and home use.

Daily Life Through History
A resource for information on the daily lives of people through the ages. Library use only.

EBSCO Animals
The library no longer has a subscription to Ebsco Animals.  As an alternative please try, Searchasaurus, World Book Online or the Science Resource Center.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
For students and adults, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, covers an array of topics. The database also contains various images and brief biographies. This database is updated annually Library and home use.

Homework Help(Live)
Live Homework help connects 4th through 12th grade students with real, live tutors online. Receive help in math, science, social studies or English. The online tutors may be accessed on library and home computers.Library and Home use.

Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Library and home use.

Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale)
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Library and home use.

MAS Ultra
Provides full text from publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. The database also includes charts, tables and graphs, book reviews, pamphlets, reference books, photos, maps and flags. Full text backfiles date as far back as January of 1985. This database is designed for high school students. Library and home use.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 150 popular, middle school and junior high magazines. The database also includes biographies, historical essays, primary source documents and an image collection. Backfiles date as far back as 1989. This database is designed for middle school and junior high students. Library and home use.

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, and The Washington Post. Also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including, The Chicago Tribune, and The Kansas City Star. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc Library and home use.

Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is designed for elementary school students. Library and home use.

Science Resource Center
Research science topics with the Science Resource Center, covering thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify correlated to state and national standards.Library and home use.

Searchasaurus
A dinosaur-themed page that provides access to several student-oriented databases. Here students can search the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, the Middle Search Plus, the Primary Search and an image database. This database is designed for elementary and middle school students. Library and home use.

Student Research Center
Search for articles from magazines, newspapers, biographies. encyclopedias, country and state reports, and radio and TV news transcripts. Student Research Center also includes photos, maps, films, videos and primary source documents. Designed for students in junior high and high school. Library and home use.

TOPICsearch
This current events database allows students to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Library and home use.

Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). Library and home use.

World Book Advanced
High school and college students can search encyclopedia articles, primary documents, e-books, and images. Library and home use.

World Book Online
The classic encyclopedia available in an online format. Library and home use.