One-stop shop for maps with over 145,000 different maps. Also includes geography quizzes and lesson plans for teachers, and antique maps that can be printed.

Information about all 50 United States and 6 territories. Find maps, flags, photos, and facts about states, counties, and cities. Everything you need for your next report is here.

Learn about the countries of the world. AtoZ World Culture is an excellent resource for student projects and a great companion for international travelers.

Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide.

An index that allows you to search for journal articles from over 12,000 journals including the name of the library that owns the title.

Over a quarter million biographies including complete full text run of Biography Today, Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies. 

Journal articles and reports in education from FirstSearch. 

A collection of the 24 best databases for high school students which including subject specific databases such as science and literature, as well as multi subject databases such as Newspaper Source, and Academic Search Elite. Resources include full text articles, including peer-reviewed articles, e-books, videos and more.

This collection of databases includes Biography Reference Source, History Reference Source, Literary Reference Source, Newspaper Source, and more set at a reading level for Middle School students.

An online reference tool that provides quality content from WorldCat and other quality, respected databases.

Historical documents, journal articles, photographs, maps, videos and encyclopedias covering United States and World history, including biographies of important historical figures.
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Find records of items in Illinois and libraries worldwide.

A unique collection of tutorials, practice tests, and educational courses for all ages. This database includes early math concepts for those in elementary school, up to college entrance exam practice tests. One can expand skills by learning to type, or study up on Excel and Word and learn how they are different then Google Docs and Sheets. This is a full and varied database that includes tutorials, videos, and even flash cards.

An in-depth literary collection perfect for students or the casual researcher.
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Little Pim is part of Mango Languages, an online language learning system, with easy, fast and fun interactive lessons

Contains full text articles for popular middle school magazines, assigned to Lexile reading level indicators. Find biographies, historical essays, reference books, photos, maps, flags and primary source documents. Designed for middle school students.

For readers in Grades K-8, find fiction and narrative nonfiction reading recommendations by book titles, author, genre, series, or key plot points.

Explore fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and find expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. 

Start your research here on position papers and controversial topics. Points of View can be used as a guide to debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills.

Geared towards elementary students, this database provides full-text articles complete with Lexile levels as well as encyclopedic entries, photos, maps and flags to aid kids in learning.

Offers specialized content to support English Language Learners and resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills.

Designed to meet every student's science research needs.
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Offers animated, talking picture books that help kids learn to read. Play games, do puzzles, and much more!
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Access to over 540 online courses with real instructors guiding the learning, including business, accounting, human resources, and office skills.
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Catalog of books, movies, and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Provides information on the history, culture, government, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

The online encyclopedia created by users