Research / Encyclopedias

Academic OneFileAcademic OneFile

Complete source for peer-reviewed scholarly articles across all academic disciplines.

Britannica LibraryEncyclopedia Britannica Library Suite

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies and images.

Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Global IssuesGlobal Issues

International global perspectives on global issues.

Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education CenterNorman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center

The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, created in 2004, is a nonprofit organization established as a public-private partnership between the Library and philanthropist Norman Leventhal.

Opposing ViewpointsOpposing Viewpoints

Continuously updated information and opinions cover hot issues.

Middle SchoolGale in Context Middle School

Created specifically for middle school students, Gale In Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.

Scholastic GoScholastic Go!

Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject, Scholastic GO!® offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills. (Grades 2 and up)