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African American Heritage
Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation records, Military Draft and Service records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank and More.
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Bartleby
Unlimited access to books and various reference materials, featuring Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style, World Factbook, and much more.
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CollegeNow
Connect with a counselor to get application advice. Get live help identifying and applying for financial aid. Our live experts will help prepare you for your college admissions interview.
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Early World of Learning (World Book)
Early World of Learning comprises six different components: Know It, Read, Play, Watch, Print & Do, and Classics. Content is correlated to Common Core, state, and International Baccalaureate standards.
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HelpNow
HelpNow's features include:
Homework Help Interact with live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests.
Skills-Building Choose your topic to receive real-time help.
Personalized eLearning Tools My File Sharing, My Session Replay, My Tutoring Archive, My Tests Archive, and more!
24-Hour Writing Lab Submit essays and other forms of writing for constructive feedback.
Homework Send Question Submit homework questions for expert guidance.
Adult Learning Center Access a library of rich adult learning content (GED) and live, professional assistance in resume/cover letter writing, U.S. citizenship prep, MS Office Essential Skills Series, and more!
Foreign Language Lab /Spanish-Speaking Support
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Literary Reference Source
Full text of literary journals and literary reference works. Contains plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies and interviews, and the full text of thousands of poems and short stories.
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LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library helps libraries improve the lives of their patrons every day through a highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
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Middle Search Plus
Full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Also includes an image collection of photographs, maps, and flags.
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Nonfiction Classics for Students
Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format.
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O'Reilly for Public Libraries
O’Reilly for Public Libraries give on-demand access to a vast collection of titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), courses, videos, case studies, expert playlists, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 other publishers.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press)
Comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.
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Very Short Introductions
Discover a new topic or subject with these intelligent and serious introductions written by authors who are experts in their field.
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Small Business Source
Nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books of up-to-date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business.
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Science Reference Source
Easy access to science-oriented content, including full text for science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources, designed to meet every student's science research needs.
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Kids InfoBits (Gale)
A content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.
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Fold3
Convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides full-text of Drama for Students, Epics for Students, Literary Movements for Students, Literary Newsmakers for Students, Literary Themes for Students, Nonfiction Classics for Students, Novel for Students, Poetry for Students, Shakespeare for Students, and Short Stories for Students.
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How to Evaluate Websites
A tutorial from the Ohio State University Library that will help you figure out what online information you can believe.
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World Book Kids
A colorful and engaging online learning environment for elementary-aged students.
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Ohio Web Library
An evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more.
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MAS Ultra School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. Also includes an image collection of photographs, maps, and flags.
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Explora
Designed with public library patrons in mind, Explora Public Libraries provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories.
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Points of View Reference Source
Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects.
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The World Factbook (CIA)
Compiled by the CIA, this resource provides economic, demographic, political and vital statistics data along with other useful information on virtually all countries in the world.
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Academic Search Premier
Full text for scholarly and academic magazines and periodicals - covering nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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Novelist Plus
Novelist Plus helps readers of all ages or those who help readers find fiction and non-fiction books they will enjoy.
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Business Leader Profiles for Students
Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry.