Research Databases - Homework Help (grades 6-12)
America The Beautiful Online
Inspired by the America The Beautiful book series published by Childrens Press, an imprint of Grolier Publishing, and developed for online publication by Grolier's technical and engineering staff.
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Biography Reference Bank
Includes 120,000+ biographies from over 60 reference titles, thousands of biographical magazine articles, and over 32,000 printable images.
The Encyclopedia Americana
Provides 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,500 specialists in disciplines covering all academic fields and curriculum topics.
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web.
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Kids Search
Designed especially for children in grades K-8.
Lands and Peoples Online
A collection of 330 articles form the site's central core, or Encyclopedia.
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LearningExpress Library
Access skill building courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that can help you to prepare for many types of exams, including Advanced Placement (AP) tests, SAT, ACT, GED, Civil Service and ASVAB. There is also a series of courses that would help the job seeker, from resume preparation to business writing skills and specific career test prep courses such as those for EMT, nursing or cosmetology.
LitFinder
Access full text poems, stories, speeches, essays and plays.
Mango Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.
Massillon Memory
A gateway to selected resources available in the Local History Collection at the Massillon Public Library.
MasterFILE Premier
Full text, indexing and abstracts for more than 2,050 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
MUZZY Online
MUZZY is an internationally recognized language learning program created for children. It has won numerous awards and has grown to include eight world languages, classroom materials, books, toys and more. Now, with MUZZY Online, children can have immediate access to the same award-winning content and a new, fun format available exclusively through Early Advantage.
The New Book of Knowledge Online
Wonder Questions, facts and figures, projects and experiments, literary selections, and Internet links to carefully evaluated related sites.
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The New Book of Popular Science Online
A collection of over 400 articles form the site's hub, or SciClopedia
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NewsBank
A full text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from 17 Ohio newspapers and 13 national newspapers.
Ohio Career Information System
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A computer-based career information system containing a wealth of educational and occupational data.
Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases
Includes Ohio-based information, Ohio Fundamental Documents, Ohio Newspaper Index, and more.
Ohio Memory
An online scrapbook of Ohio history.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Source for information on social issues. Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to other websites.
Oxford Reference Online
Brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works.
Student Research Center
A tool for students to customize a search of EBSCOhost databases by topic, age level and choice of information resource.
World Book
The World Book Online Reference Center includes encyclopedia and reference articles, photographs, maps, videos, animations and audio clips.
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