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An easy-to-use interface for elementary students, Explora offers articles, essays, videos, and primary source documents; simple and effective searching; easy-to-browse categories arranged by popular subjects; and topic overviews that provide a starting point for research.

An easy-to-use interface for high school students, Explora offers articles, essays, videos, and primary source documents; simple and effective searching; easy-to-browse categories arranged by popular subjects; and topic overviews that provide a starting point for research.

An easy-to-use interface for middle school students, Explora offers articles, essays, videos, and primary source documents; simple and effective searching; easy-to-browse categories arranged by popular subjects; and topic overviews that provide a starting point for research.

An easy-to-use interface for adult researchers, Explora offers articles, essays, videos, and primary source documents; simple and effective searching, easy-to-browse categories arranged by popular subjects; and topic overviews that provide a starting point for research.

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database contains more than 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia includes images, brief biographies, and information on a variety of subject areas.

Mango is an online language learning system that teaches practical conversation skills for a wide variety of popular languages. With everyday dialog from native speakers, engaging interactive lessons, and a unique intuitive teaching style, Mango increases your ability to use, adapt, and build on what you learn.

This comprehensive database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and more than 107,000 primary source documents.

This database contains full-text articles for more than 150 popular middle school magazines. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.

Niche Academy provides video tutorials for popular library services such as, Libby, Hoopla, and Creativebug, and also includes general tutorials on Gmail, Microsoft Office, Instagram, Google Docs, and other technology resources.

PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas. 

PebbleGo Next is a curricular content hub specifically designed for 3rd-5th grade students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas.

Points of View Reference Center is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database covers more than 290 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments, and writing position papers.

This database contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also provided are the American Heritage^® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.

SRC is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources. Science Reference Center also satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.