Research Resources

Gale

Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. 

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. 

Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. 

Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. 

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. 


Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information.

Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, journals and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams.


Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries.

Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include; sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Both the historian and reporter on the frontline will find useful information in this collection, composed of content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.


Ebsco


Explora
Explora is the top recommend EBSCO database for high school.


This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. 

Literary Reference Center
This database provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works.

MagillOnLiteraturePlus
This is a source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.


TOPICsearch
 contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.


Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines and 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. 


MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.


Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers and full text television & radio news transcripts.


This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

A collection of 20 digital magazines for on-line or offline reading anywhere you have internet access. 



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INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Library. INSPIRE is a collection of academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents.


 

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