Database Descriptions
ABC-CLIO American History: More than 16,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and court documents, photos, maps, audio/video clips, statistics, and more. Nearly 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures as well as fascinating people from across American society, including Hank Aaron, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Redford, and Jonas Salk
ABC-CLIO American Government: Contains more than 13,000 primary and secondary sources, including 2,500 documents, 4,000 images, 250 maps, and 250 audio/video recordings. Presents more than 2,500 biographies, including portraits of important historical and current government figures such as the Founding Fathers, U.S. presidents, and Supreme Court justices, as well as a continually updated roster of key federal bureaucrats, state governors, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Current events coverage provides trustworthy, unbiased information
ABC-CLIO Issues: This database provides students with authoritative historical context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources. Issues offers the complete historical background and contemporary status of each issue and also provides supporting facts, figures, and timelines
ABC-CLIO World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras: Covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Contains nearly 8,500 primary and secondary sources, including selections from the Code of Hammurabi, the Edict of Milan, and Marcus Aurelius's The Meditations; and more than 1,500 biographies of important figures such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Eleanor of Aquitaine
ABC-CLIO World History: The Modern Era: Covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
LitFinder: Gale’s core repository of full-text literature, LitFinderspans history and geography to deliver an extensive, ever-growing selection of online poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.These works represent more than 80,000 authors, 660 nationalities and virtually every time period.
Literature Resource Center: Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
NoodleTools
Online tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.
NewsBank: Provides access to full-text articles published in 187 newspapers from around the country. This includes obituaries and death notices, and some news magazine coverage.
Gale Databases: A large, cross-searchable collection of full-text periodical databases, including General OneFile, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, the Career Information Center and InfoTrac Newsstand.
Opposing Viewpoints: Collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives include pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews and statistical tables, charts and graphs.
Student Resources in Context: Covers all core subjects from Science to Literature to History, organized into topic portals
Teachingbooks.net: An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books
Teen Health and Wellness: Provides middle and high school students with diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition and mental health information.
ABC-CLIO American Government: Contains more than 13,000 primary and secondary sources, including 2,500 documents, 4,000 images, 250 maps, and 250 audio/video recordings. Presents more than 2,500 biographies, including portraits of important historical and current government figures such as the Founding Fathers, U.S. presidents, and Supreme Court justices, as well as a continually updated roster of key federal bureaucrats, state governors, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Current events coverage provides trustworthy, unbiased information
ABC-CLIO Issues: This database provides students with authoritative historical context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources. Issues offers the complete historical background and contemporary status of each issue and also provides supporting facts, figures, and timelines
ABC-CLIO World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras: Covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Contains nearly 8,500 primary and secondary sources, including selections from the Code of Hammurabi, the Edict of Milan, and Marcus Aurelius's The Meditations; and more than 1,500 biographies of important figures such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Eleanor of Aquitaine
ABC-CLIO World History: The Modern Era: Covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
LitFinder: Gale’s core repository of full-text literature, LitFinderspans history and geography to deliver an extensive, ever-growing selection of online poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.These works represent more than 80,000 authors, 660 nationalities and virtually every time period.
Literature Resource Center: Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
NoodleTools
Online tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.
NewsBank: Provides access to full-text articles published in 187 newspapers from around the country. This includes obituaries and death notices, and some news magazine coverage.
Gale Databases: A large, cross-searchable collection of full-text periodical databases, including General OneFile, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, the Career Information Center and InfoTrac Newsstand.
Opposing Viewpoints: Collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives include pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews and statistical tables, charts and graphs.
Student Resources in Context: Covers all core subjects from Science to Literature to History, organized into topic portals
Teachingbooks.net: An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books
Teen Health and Wellness: Provides middle and high school students with diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition and mental health information.
