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Abstracts and full-text articles from more than 4,600 journals including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Curated selection of articles, primary sources and multimedia covering more than 500 years of African-American history, culture and experience ranging from slave trade to civil rights movements and beyond. Offers topic centers to begin browsing and goes in depth through journal and newspaper articles, videos, images, maps, book chapters and more. Includes additional research tools like searchable timelines, sharable slideshows and curriculum overviews designed for educators and researchers.

Service provider: Infobase

Biographies of individuals in a wide range of subjects including business, politics, government, history, science, sports, the arts and entertainment. Includes a curated selection of pertinent magazine articles, video footage, radio broadcasts, photographs and more to provide contextual information on the world's most influential people, past and present.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

A comprehensive resource for the study of literature covering thousands of great writers and their works. Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, this resource includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions, synopses, character analyses, author biographies, print and audio author interviews, timelines, full-length poems, full-reference books and full-length videos of classic plays and films.

Service provider: Infobase

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Brainfuse HelpNow has several ways to get homework help:

• Live tutoring daily 2 - 11 p.m.
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Service provider: Brainfuse

This resource is generously supported by the Flarsheim Charitable Foundation and the R. A. Long Foundation.

Seleccione alguno de los niveles de escolaridad (primaria y secundaria) o busque en las bases de datos para encontrar la información más relevante a sus necesidades. Provee acceso rápido a múltiples recursos como artículos, diccionarios, recursos multimedia, sitios web y mucho más. Todo el contenido de Britannica Escolar es confiable y apropiado para los diferentes niveles de comprensión y aprendizaje.

Este recurso está disponible através de la Biblioteca del Estado de Kansas (State Library of Kansas).

Spanish language database. Select one of the levels of schooling (primary and secondary) or search the databases to find the information most relevant to your needs. It provides quick access to multiple resources such as articles, dictionaries, multimedia resources, websites and much more. All content of Britannica Escolar is reliable and appropriate for different levels of understanding and learning.

Proveedor del servicio / Service Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Online encyclopedia presented at reading levels for elementary, middle and high school. Includes age-appropriate encyclopedia entries, articles from journals and magazines and websites. The Workspace feature allows you to collect your own research materials that you can refer to later.

Service Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Information on history, culture and geography of American states, Canadian provinces, countries and regions of the world. Graphics, charts, videos, printable fact sheets, recipes, interviews, and more are included with each entry. The concise, up-to-date reports can easily be printed, emailed or saved to Google Drive. Each section offers a suggested APA and MLA citation.

Service provider: ProQuest, a Clarivate Company

Database of reading material designed to support learners who are developing English language proficiency and need content on many subjects adapted for reading level. English Language Learner (ELL) articles provide information on the topic and a short comprehension quiz with the answers. Includes nonfiction articles and reference texts about a variety of topics; vocabulary and reading practice quizzes; illustrations, diagrams and maps; audio to listen to articles aloud; translation of articles by an automated program; and research guides and tips on note-taking, academic writing and more.

Read It! was jointly developed by EBSCO and Course Crafters, internationally-known as specialists in developing ELL products, and ELL specialists across the country identified content, features and functionality desired in an online research resource.

La base de datos Read It! ofrece artículos y textos de no ficción adaptados para estudiantes de inglés. Cubre una variedad de temas e incluye pruebas breves de comprensión. Este recurso está solamente en inglés. Este recurso está disponible através de la Biblioteca del Estado de Kansas (State Library of Kansas).

Service Provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

An easy place to browse new topics or search for specific information across a selection of authoritative sources, sourced from numerous EBSCOhost databases.

Find articles and multimedia covering a wide variety of subjects: arts and literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history and social science, science and math. Advanced search options make it easy to limit results to full text, scholarly journals, primary source documents, specific Lexile reading levels and other specifications.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available with support from the State Library of Kansas.

Literary biographies, criticism, primary source material, reviews and overviews. This collection also includes some short stories, plays, speeches and poems. Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres from all time periods and from around the world.

Search across award-winning series that comprise Literature Criticism Online and cover centuries of critiques on authors and their works that span all time periods, types of literature and regions: Children’s Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Something About the Author and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

These Gale Literature resources can also be searched independently:

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Gale Literature Criticism
• LitFinder
• Something About the Author

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

Digital historical documents including books, manuscripts, letters, newspapers, photographs, maps and more ranging across topics of national and global relevance. Explore primary sources across these collections:

• Archives Unbound: Kansas History, Territorial through Civil War Years, 1854-1865
  Kansas history documented through personal narratives, political speeches, songs and more
• Associated Press Collections Online
  Archive of AP coverage of events, people and trends from the mid-19th through 20th centuries
• Indigenous Peoples of North America
  Cultural, political and social history of American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples from the 17th-20th centuries
• The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers
  Records from 1912-1990 on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination and more, plus mid-20th century content from the Southern Regional Office
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources
  Historical legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries on codes from various European countries
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
  Foreign and international legal literature including treatises and monographs
• Political Extremism and Radicalism
  Campaign materials, periodicals and propaganda from U.S. and global fringe political movements during the 19th through early 21st century
• Religions of America
  Materials documenting religious movements that originated in the U.S. and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
  Content and research guides related to the history of slavery including legal issues, Atlantic slave trade, race and the American Civil War, modes of resistance and emancipation
• Women's Studies Archive
  Documents presenting the roles, experiences and achievements of women in 19th and 20th century society
• Women: Transnational Networks (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  North American, European and other regional suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health and other gender and class issues

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

This resource is made available with support from the State Library of Kansas.

Accurate, accessible and authoritative exploration of today's crucial issues and hot topics spanning government, business, society, education and popular culture. Each article is presented in a clear, unbiased manner with a balanced pro/con format, key facts, arguments, history and current context. Ideal for research papers, debate preparation and persuasive writing assignments.

Service provider: Infobase

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Full-page digital replicas of the print version of The Kansas City Star plus select subscriber-only content. The Kansas City Star Image Edition for libraries includes today's issue plus past issues back to 2013.  Tools let you search within a page or issue, clip part of a page to download or print, save articles to your personal folder and more.

Note: The daily paper is posted once received from the publisher. Some online edition content, such as Saturday coverage and "Extra" national news, the publisher makes available only to individual subscribers, not to libraries.

Service provider: NewsBank

Practice tests and study tutorials designed for students elementary through graduate levels and adult learners. Academic and occupational licensing exams are available on the EBSCOlearning platform with immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized results analysis. LearningExpress Library covers a variety of subject areas such as:

• Business Writing Success Skills
• Citizenship
• College Entrance Exams (ACT and SAT)
• Cosmetology
• Elementary School Skills Improvement
• EMS
• Firefighter
• GED
• High School Skills Improvement
• Job and Career Success Skills
• Law Enforcement

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Hundreds of interactive books online for grades K-12. Access online with a computer or mobile device, no downloads required.

Topics cover science, social studies, language arts and more. Engage on every page through a mix of audio narration, videos, slideshows, quizzes, key words, interactive maps, printable activities, supplemental streaming media and weblinks to additional information. Titles for grades 9-12 also incorporate primary sources and historical documents such as letters, diaries, speeches and newspaper articles.

Each title has a suggested reading level (K-10) and interest level (K-12), and some titles also are provided in Spanish. All Lightbox content is based on national curriculum standards.

Service provider: Lightbox Learning

Literary criticism from respected reference works, literary journals and books. Thousands of plot summaries, synopses and overviews along with author biographies and published book reviews. Also included is the full text from thousands of classic books like Moby Dick, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Aeneid and more.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Designed specifically for high school students and includes popular high school magazines including American Heritage, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II and more. Find also biographies, primary source documents, reference books, photos, maps and flags.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Articles from large collection of magazines and journals covering an extensive range of topics. Includes magazines, journals, reference book articles, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags and videos from the Associated Press.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available with support from the State Library of Kansas.

Articles from popular magazines for middle and junior high school research on a wide variety of topics. Also includes biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

The month's major news topics, summarized in just a few sentences with links to the Access World News collection's latest relevant articles, blogs, videos and more. Coverage spans a variety of categories such as global issues, current events and people, business and economics, civics, government and politics, social issues, science, technology and health, sports, arts and literature.

Service provider: NewsBank

Full-text articles from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, magazines, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets and government information.

Service provider: EBSCO

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.

Context and background on key issues of both historical events and breaking news, offering concise summaries of current events and clearly written essays on the top issues of the day. With more than 300,000 original articles and a vast archive covering every major event since its inception, the database is a permanent record of the essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers, news magazines and online news outlets of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and elsewhere in the world.

Service provider: Infobase

This resource is made available through the State Library of Kansas.