American Indian Histories & Cultures

Material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Primary resources include maps, journals, photographs, newspapers, and artwork - all digitized.

America West

A digitized collection of primary sources which includes over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works, such as pamphlets, leaflets, and city directories, about the American West.

Britannica School Middle School

News articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

InfoTrac Newsstand

An innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers.

National Geographic Kids

Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings students aged 6-14 the world in a way they've never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Research Context

Topic pages covering today's most-studied subjects provide an overview and introduction to researchers by way of clearly-organized and authoritative content curated by expert editors. Research in Context contains books, images, biographies, audio, video, magazines, newspapers, creative works, primary sources, and more.

Teaching Books

Resource for teachers! Take a Tour Video.TeachingBooks.net is a K–12 resource connecting cross curricular literacy materials to the titles used in classrooms and libraries, including resources to support ELL students and STEAM instruction

Britannica E-STAX

Full-text eBook Collections. Early Reader, Earth Science, Life Science. English Language Learners.

Britannica Learning Zone

Engaging online tool. Learn letters, words, numbers. sounds, time, geography, and more!

Britannica School Middle

Learn about people, places, & things. Search animal groups, use an atlas, explore countries, hobbies, & so much more!

Kids Info Bits

Kid InfoBits features a visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic free search and full-text age appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

National Geographic Kids

Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they've never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

SIRS Discoverer

Full-text eBooks. Magazine, news, reference book articles. Images, websites, interactive learning games.