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Scholarly database offering access to full-text journals, magazines, and other resources for multidisciplinary research.
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Collection of peer-reviewed, full text articles from 17 physics research journals.
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Collection of information on the U.S. Presidency, including documents, media, related historical artifacts, and statistics. A project of UC Santa Barbara.
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Provides neutral and factual information about U.S. government officials, candidates, issues, and elections. Look up political figures' views on key issues and policies, campaign funding sources, voter registration rules, sample ballots for upcoming elections, and more. Whether you're researching for class or want to be an informed voter, Ballotpedia helps you understand American politics at the national, state, and local levels.
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Archival collections and digital images from multiple historical and cultural institutions all over the Chicago area.
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Provides basic information on the people, government, economy, geography, politics, and military for 266 countries and other international entities. Prepared by the CIA for the use U.S. government officials and researchers.
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Explores a single "hot" issue from the news in-depth each week. Topics include social and teen issues, the environment, health, education, science, and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts. Also includes charts, graphs, sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies, and a list of contacts. (Full access to all articles published after 2012.)
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Explore millions of digitized resources from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. This one site gives access to images, documents, videos and more, including primary source sets with teaching guides for educators.
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Search within multiple databases at once, efficiently narrowing results with filters.
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A general knowledge encyclopedia. A trusted source for factual information in print and multimedia resources. Select Elementary, Middle, or High School reading level.
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Teaching and education resources including journal articles, curriculum guides, books, and more. Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
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Large collection of digital reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) covering a wide variety of subject areas.
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Information on important figures including overviews, news, magazines, narrative biographies, and multimedia content.
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Reliable information on multiple subjects and topics, with access to journals, magazines, primary sources, and multimedia content.
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Reliable information offering overviews, news, multimedia content, and opinions on contemporary political and social issues.
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Comprehensive database highlighting connections between scientific disciplines and contemporary issues. Includes articles, biographies, primary sources, multimedia content, and science experiments.
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Offers overview of United States history, with reliable resources including overviews, news and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia content, and biographies on historical events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
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Traces global history from ancient societies to modern conflicts. Includes primary sources, biographies, reference overviews, multimedia content, and articles about the events, people, and topics central to world history.
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Research database 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.
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Consumer health information on topics including medical science, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health from magazines, reference books, medication information, and other documents.
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Delivers complete, fully-reproduced issues of The New York Times (1851-2019), Chicago Tribune (1849-1998), and Chicago Defender (1909-1980). Explore historical events, social and consumer history, economics, literature, technology, and more.
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Full-text database featuring reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents covering both U.S. and world history.
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Collection of digitized reference and rare books, magazine and newspaper articles, maps, government documents, timelines, transcripts of historical speeches, multimedia content, and primary sources covering global history from ancient times to the present day. Information presented inclines toward a westernized/Euro-centric perspective.
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Explore the digitized collections of the largest library in the world, an invaluable resource for primary and secondary source research. Includes digitized maps, legal materials, audio interviews, music recordings, and much more.
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Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Provides evidence-based perspectives from a diverse pool of scholars and critics to ensure multiple viewpoints are represented.
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A reference database of popular magazines, e-books, biographies, and primary source documents covering many subjects, including history, science and health, as well as videos from the Associated Press.
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A trusted Dictionary and Thesaurus publisher. Excellent resource for language information including definitions, synonyms, usage examples, word history, and more
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Health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish. Anywhere, anytime, on any device—for free. Provided by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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This site, provided by the U.S. National Archives, highlights primary source documents from pivotal moments in the course of American history and government. Each document includes contextual background on its creation and impact, photos of the original document, and an easily read transcript of the text.
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International journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology, as well as news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. Access current and past issue
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Current news, investigations, opinions, photos, and videos by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Access the archive, including primary sources, via the TimesMachine. Sign up for a digital subscription using your school Google login. Watch this video tutorial to help you get started.
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Full text articles for hundreds of U.S., regional, and international newspapers, as well as full text television and radio news transcripts.
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Contains descriptions and recommendations for fiction and narrative nonfiction titles, covering all ages and reading levels. Includes reviews, and is searchable by genre, topic, pace, themes, and more.
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This resource is devoted to making the U.S. Supreme Court accessible to everyone. Find searchable audio of court proceedings, easy to understand case summaries and decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions. Oyez also provides detailed information on every Justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building.
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This nonpartisan organization conducts public opinion polling and demographic research, analyzing topics including politics, media habits, religion, race and ethnicity, social trends, and more.
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Presents pro and con arguments of debatable issues with direct sources and citations, as well as further reference information relevant to those issues. Thoroughly researched and compiled by research staff and editors from the Encyclopedia Britannica group.
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Designed for professional educators, a highly specialized collection of 500+ education journals and access to 200+ educational reports.
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A user-friendly general reference tool to support every range of user. Provides access to full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, books, and multimedia content like maps, pictures, and audio/video resources.
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Provides access to biographies, original works, book reviews, criticism, and multimedia on thousands of authors, works, ad poems. Includes over 185,000 full-text poems and contemporary poets giving readings of their favorite works via the Poets on Screen collection.
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Collection of open-access journals collecting original research from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, technology, as well as the related social sciences and humanities.
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This free database is the most heavily used biomedical and life science literature resource in the world. Provided by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Full text access to resources from hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, and reference books, as well as a vast collection of images.
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Provides background and analysis on an extensive range of issues and topics. Editorially-created overview pages provide background for understanding issues. Further analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between.
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Primary sources from U.S. history, each with an overview and critical thinking questions.
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A comprehensive resource designed for teens, providing straightforward information and support without judgment on health-related issues. Both a research tool and a self-help resource.
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Resources on current events, covering social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other topics. Contains full text articles from periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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The U.S. Census Bureau provides facts and figures about America’s population, places, and economy. Find detailed data on topics like education levels, income, technology access, religion, race and ethnicity, businesses, and more across the United States. You can find information for specific states, cities, zip codes, congressional districts, and other locations. The Census Bureau's data search tool enables you to enter your desired parameters and then create maps, charts and graphs.
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Provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, natural hazards, natural resources, impacts of climate and land-use change, and core science systems. Excellent resource for maps, photos, video, and other data on environmental and geographic topics. Provided by the science unit of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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