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Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
Ancestry Library Edition offers access to over 7 billion names from more than 4,000 genealogical databases. Censuses from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom (U.K.) Ireland, and more than 150 million military records are available.
ArtistWorks for Libraries provides patrons with world-class instruction through self-paced video lessons from Grammy Award–winning music and artistic professionals.
BookFlix (from Scholastic) is a digital literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction titles to reinforce early reading skills and develop real-world knowledge. This cultivates key reading skills, supports reluctant readers and ELL students, and builds fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
The award-winning Britannica Academic edition delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information.
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States with Britannica’s Annals of American History.
ImageQuest includes 3.3 million images from 62 leading collections that aren’t freely available on the Web. Users can search by keyword, collection, image type, and image ratio.
Children, Young Adults, or the Reference Center—allow users to find the most suitable content for school projects or for learning something new.
Business Source Ultimate works for your students like a solid business plan – it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world.
Gale ChiltonLibrary.com provides step-by-step automotive repair procedures for nearly every vehicle make and model. Includes manufacturer recommended maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls, and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs). Enter usaf if prompted.
Consumer Health Complete is designed primarily to support the information needs of patients, cultivate a comprehensive understanding of healthcare topics from overall wellness, mainstream medical treatments to the wide and nuanced world of holistic and integrated medical treatment options.
Consumer Reports offers expert buying advice, ratings, reviews, and product descriptions. Includes consumer reviews and product video clips.
Creativebug is an online art and craft video e-resource which offers thousands of classes taught by industry leading instructors across a variety of topics like sewing, knitting, painting, cake decorating and more! New content is added to the site daily, ensuring endless project inspiration.
EBSCO Audiobooks has over 2,000 audiobooks in different subjects and categories available for download. Login with your EBSCOhost account to start downloading today (software download required).
EBSCO eBooks offers over 3,000 titles in the areas of fiction, history, health & medicine, self-help, business & economics, law, and more.
EBSCO Cricket Media Collection. Short-form fiction and non-fiction e-book collection includes more than 700 titles covering a wide range of subjects designed to build strong literacy skills in young readers from pre-K to 8th grade.
EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection. This core general reference collection of more than 40,000 hand-selected e-books features fiction titles for both adults and juveniles, as well as best-selling and highly-recommended titles from industry leading publishers.
Leverage the power of EBSCO Host and search multiple databases at the same time.
Lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources for educators.
Explora provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.
Search for articles, news and more using a single search box
Fiero Code is a self-paced learn-to-code software for kids ages 8-18. Through hundreds of coding tutorials and dozens of real-world projects, this high-impact educational e-resource prepares the youth in your library community for jobs and provides meaningful life skills such as critical thinking and problem solving.
Fold3 Library Edition allows users to access to US military records, including the stories, photos and personal documents of those who served from the Revolutionary War onward.
Foreign Policy provides a deep-dive on all things global affairs. FP explains the ins and outs of how foreign-policy decisions are being made – and, just as importantly, who is making them.
Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. Freegal offers access to 15 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. Download up to five (5) songs or videos per week. 24 streaming per day limit. No software installation required. Compatible with Windows Media, iTunes, and other popular media players.
Gale Academic OneFile covers technology, medicine, engineering, arts, and literature. Considered a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text scholarly content.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship provides comphrensive access to all aspects of starting and operating a business from accounting, finance, marketing, and personnel management.
Gale Business: Plan Builder offers a successful step-by-step strategy for building a successful business from the bottom up. Intuitive user interface guides the entrepreneur through all major phases of business creation.
Access to thousands of full-text eBooks. Cross-searchable with select periodical databases and Gale Resource Centers.
Gale General OneFile provides a broad collection of news articles, magazines, books, academic journals, images and video that support general interest research and exploration.
Gale Health and Wellness a first-stop resource for all health related questions. Curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries.
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Biography In Context offers access to thousands of both contemporary and historical biographies. Watch videos, listen to audio selections. Access primary resources, magazines and journals.
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
Gale In Context: Middle School considered an indispensable reference resource for grades 6-12 national and state curriculum standards.
Gale In Context: Science offers broad coverage of all scientific disciplines. Includes full-text articles, national and global publications, along with hundreds of experiments.
Legal Forms (from Gale) provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
Miss Humblebee’s Academy is an award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness solution for children ages three to six. The program lays the foundation for a lifetime of learning success, building strength in core subject areas: language and literacy, math, science and social studies, art and music, social and emotional learning, and fitness.
National Geographic Kids provides reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content for children aged 6-14 in the subject areas of science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Includes National Geographic Kids magazine (2009-present), books, downloadable images, and kid-friendly videos. Also features access to National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World which features full-text books, downloadable images, full-color maps, atlases, and videos, as well as National Geographic Traveler magazines (2010-present).
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of healthcare topics.
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence provides scholarly, peer-reviewed content covering current and historical military intelligence and strategy.
Gale's Online Resources is the one-stop gateway to all things Gale. Access books, journals, magazines, newspapers, primary sources, videos, podcasts, tutorials, with frequent new content updates. Enter usaf if prompted.
Global Incident Map provides a fully customizable map that displays critical events happening in real time across the globe. Includes everything from terror acts to kidnappings, and port security red flags to aviation incidents.
rbDigital Great Courses Library Collection offers access to hundreds of courses taught by internationally recognized university faculty members from leading institutions of higher learning across the globe. Download the rbDigital app for immediate access to rbDigital Great Courses Library Collection
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Hiveclass is the Digital Encyclopedia for youth sports training, a platform that makes it easy for families to access high quality, educational videos in various sports and activities. Whether a kid is exploring a new hobby, searching for additional instruction, or looking to increase levels of physical activity, Hiveclass provides various options for all.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center offers detailed how-to instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
Home Improvement Reference Center provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.
From the comfort of home, access the latest in movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics, and TV shows. Stream or download with the Hoopla app. Compatible with iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and Roku.
Interplay Learning offers a complete workforce training program that rapidly prepares learners with job ready skills and certifications to access trades careers, today. Career pathways supported include HVAC, plumbing, electrical, solar and more.
iVOX Books is a children’s book app which uses the latest in storytelling technology to delight and engage curious young minds. Children ages 3-8 can follow along with a story while interacting with its characters and scenes—immersing them in the narrative like never before.
Select from over 30,000 thousand award-winning films and documentaries available from Kanopy. Classic-films, world cinema, popular movies, plus a whole lot more educational and entertainment films to choose from. Access from anywhere, anytime, with any device.
Career exploration and planning resources for the whole family.
DANTES Kuder Journey is specifically designed for the US Military. Airmen who want to make degree or program/school changes must complete an interest inventory (i.e., Kuder Journey). See AFI 36-2670 6.5.4.2.2 for details.
Kuder Galaxy is an online career awareness system for elementary students that makes learning about the world of work fun by igniting the playful spirit of young learners through a series of educational games, activities, and experiences.
For Civilians. Kuder Journey is an intuitive career planning system that empowers postsecondary students and adults to make a successful transition, whether it’s planning for that first position, switching jobs, or taking a career to the next level.
Designed by award-winning career guidance experts, Kuder Navigator is an all-in-one online education and career planning system that helps secondary students visualize their futures — and make the plans to get there.
LearningExpress Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED test prep, and more. Their Computer Skills Center provides access to more than 90 self-paced online tutorials covering many of the most popular software programs (i.e., Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop).
Navigate legal matters of all kinds with reliable “how-to” information and thousands of federal, multi-state and state-specific legal forms.
Libby, (formerly OverDrive Digital Media) offers access to a variety of language learning materials, eBooks, audiobooks, music, and other digital content. Compatible with all devices.
Mango Languages provides access to more than 70 languages. English Language Learning courses, films, along with numerous specialty courses are offered.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (MECAS) is a bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and people of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. It contains hundreds of thousands of records and coverage spanning over a century.
MorningStar Investment Research Center research mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds. Track investments, access daily market news, and snapshot investments. Gain access to fundamental investor research for more than 1500 companies, and over 50,000 domestic and international stocks.
This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazines— every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos. Magazine collection includes National Geographic Archive 1888-1994; National Geographic Current, 1995-Current; National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World; and National Geographic Kids
The Novel Effect app responds to your voice with interactive music and sound effects as you read aloud from popular children’s book to make story time together magical. Choose to read aloud from old fashioned print books or from our selection of in-app eBooks. To create an account, click on the Novel Effect link and enter your email address for the Username. Password will be DAF-XXXX (where XXXX = the first 4 digits of your library account number). Premium Pass must be renewed every 21 days by returning to the Novel Effect link on this site.
NoveList Plus helps readers discover books they want to read and connects them to library collections. Currently, the NoveList Plus database contains information on 500,000+ popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles for all ages.
NoveList Plus K-8 provides a trusted source of information curated specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests.
O'Reilly is a leading e-reference resource for technology and business professionals. Offers access to more than 57,000 eBooks, videos, and tutorials. Technology, digital media & professional development topics all heavily emphasized.
Pass Your Class CLEP and DANTES/DSST study guides in eBook format by Breely Crush Publishing.
OverDrive Digital Media offers access to a variety of language learning materials, eBooks, audiobooks, music, and other digital content. Compatible with all devices.
Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source is an essential reference database for rehabilitation clinicians. It offers full-text sports medicine and rehabilitation journals, books, trade publications and magazines. Topics include orthopedics, physiology, nutrition, sports exercise and physical therapy.
ScienceFlix – (grades 4-10 with STEM Middle/HS focus) – Science for the Next Generation!
Small Engine Repair Reference Center from EBSCO contains over 400 reference books with original photos and illustrations for small engine repair assistance. This collection of full-text content provides detailed, user-friendly repair guides for all types of small engines.
Scholastic Teachables (PreK 6th Grade) offers printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, teacher supports, and skills sheets. Over 25,000 teacher created, vetted printables to support your instruction.
A research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.
TrueFlix – (grades 3-5) Bringing award-winning True Books to Life to help students master Social Studies and Science content knowledge through literacy!
Online tutoring and homework help for U.S. military and their families provided 24/7 at no cost.
Universal Class offers over 500 online courses on a wide range of subjects/levels. Courses are available 24/7, are instructor led, & self-paced. Some courses offer CEUs. Subject areas include: Computers and Technology, Personal Finance, Crafts and Hobbies, Homeschooling, Professional Development and many more.
Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere on any device! Simply register for an account to start using WSJ.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next 90 days.
After 90 days, simply return here and click the link again. Login as an existing user with the same username and password originally created and click the CREATE button at the bottom of the page to enable access for an additional 90 days. Note: Access to your subscription using the WSJ App is not available. Instead, please use the WSJ.com website to access on mobile devices.
Weiss Financial Ratings provides access to financial literacy tools on retirement planning, home and mortgage, insurance strategies, and saving for your children's education.
World Book Online- The premier suite of digital resources for schools and libraries, with content to engage and excite all minds from pre-readers to advanced researchers. The databases are progressive and align users with their appropriate learning level. The built-in tools are accessible, flexible, and easy to use. Use the virtual training guide for support material, promotional items, and free resources. (All ages and reading levels).
Activity Corner- Thousands of cost-effective, hands-on activities with easy, clear instructions, photographs, illustrations, and more can be found on Activity Corner. Search by standard to supplement the curriculum, or explore the site for fun at home! Every activity contains a list of materials for easy reference and can be printed, e-mailed, or saved to your personal computer. (Recommended ages: 3+)
Advanced- In a world of digital news, this resource gives high school students and adults a reliable source to check the facts. The In the Headlines live news feed and world newspapers promote global awareness and international perspective. Primary source documents, biographies, Back in Time articles, and Teaching with Documents all aid in more in-depth and conceptual understanding within the classroom curriculum. (Recommended ages: 12+)
Discover- Make content more accessible to readers of all levels and differentiate instruction in any learning environment with Discover. This site is ideal for struggling readers and English Language Learners and includes a Life Skills 101 section with tips such on topics as applying for jobs, budgeting, arranging housing, health care issues, social skills and more. (Recommended ages: 12+)
Dramatic Learning- Where creativity, imagination and learning meet! Access a robust collection of popular plays with everything needed to put on a production. Educators will love the lesson plans and extended learning pieces that help students become more fluent readers, understand core concepts, and internalize content. (Recommended ages: 8-16)
Early Learning- The perfect tool for pre- and emergent readers to explore independently or learn with an adult. Developed with experts on early childhood education, Early Learning is designed for preschool students with tools and content that reinforces early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, and matching and tracing games, among others. The guided reading program, lesson plans, and curriculum correlations make teaching easier for educators and parents. (Recommended ages: 2-8)
An on-the-go digital library for all ages and reading levels. Get access to engaging sets only available from World Book, including story books, picture books, graphic novels, and chapter books alongside well-known classic titles from famous authors. (All ages and reading levels)
Kids- An ideal learning resource for elementary-aged students designed to build confidence and encourage creativity with image-driven navigation and inquiry-based activities. The site features easy-to-read articles that can be read aloud or translated and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities. Encourage self-direction with our visual navigation in Explore, independent learning with WebQuest and compare and contrast skills with Compare Animals and Compare Places. Additional teaching tools for educators and parents make this a complete solution for early learners. (Recommended ages: 6-10)
Student- World Book’s beloved Encyclopedia comes to life in a digital format, perfect for elementary and middle school learners to access information from trusted sources. A one-stop shop for cross curricular learning, Student includes translations to 100+ languages, a Biography Center, current events, research guides, and seamless integrations with Google Classroom and Microsoft OneDrive. The My Research and Citation Builder features assist learners in organizing and analyzing their findings. (Recommended ages: 8-16)
Timelines- A growing collection of 650+ unique Timelines, spanning the arts, science & technology, society & culture, sports, world history & geography and more. Create, customize, collaborate, and share your timelines, which is great for visual learners to put events into context and for classroom instruction to introduce a subject. (Recommended ages: 8+)
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