Electronic Databases: Homework Help
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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.
Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection offers easy access to school topics covering history, literature, science, social studies, and more. DC provides a selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia. 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.
Junior Edition
This periodical database provides access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database designed for junior high and middle school students. Library and home use.
Junior Reference Collection
Covering history, literature, science, social studies, and more, JRC provides a selection of reference, primary sources, and multimedia content, including audio and video clips and more. This database intended for middle school students. Library and home use.
Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Content is from elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database is designed for K-5 students. 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.
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.
Student Edition
This periodical database provides access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database designed for high school students. Library and home use.
Student Resources in Context
Student Resources in Context provides contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. SRC combines reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Library and home use.
U.S. History in Context
U.S. History in Context is a resource for those seeking contextual information on the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The databases combines reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. 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.
World History in Context
World History in Context is a resource for those seeking contextual information on the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The databases combines reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Library and home use.