Homework Help Teens

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale Academic OneFile.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

The African-American History collection covers more than 500 years of African-American history, culture and experience ranging from slave trade to civil rights movements and beyond. Presented through a curated selection of newspaper articles, videos, images, maps, book chapters and more. Topic centers offer a starting point to begin browsing, plus find additional research tools like searchable timelines, sharable slideshows and curriculum overviews designed for educators and researchers.

Service provider: Infobase

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale Books and Authors and Gale Literature.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

Brainfuse HelpNow has several ways to get homework help:

• Live tutoring available all day
• Writing Lab to get feedback within one business day
• SkillSurfer for study resources and test prep
• Send Question to get a response within one business day
• Language Lab for live help learning Spanish
• LEAP to create a customized learning plan
• Flashbulb to create and share flashcards, tests and games
• eParachute to identify potential majors and career paths
• MEET virtual study rooms to collaborate with classmates
• Brainwave videos to record your notes to watch and share

Sign up for your own Learning Account to review past sessions, receive expert feedback, save practice tests and more. Learn more about how to use Brainfuse HelpNow »

Go mobile: After creating your own Learning Account through our Brainfuse website, just log into the Brainfuse app.

Service provider: Brainfuse

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

Britannica Escolar es una enciclopedia en línea en español para estudiantes. Seleccione alguno de los niveles de escolaridad (primaria, secundaria o preparatoria) 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).

Britannica Escolar is an online encyclopedia in Spanish for students. Select one of the levels of schooling (elementary, middle or high school) 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.

Britannic School is an online encyclopedia presented at different 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.

CultureGrams contains 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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale In Context: Middle School and Gale In Context: High School.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

Esta base de datos ya no está disponible. Ahora utilice Gale In Context: Middle School y Gale In Context: High School.

Este recurso fue proporcionado por la Biblioteca del Estado de Kansas (State Library of Kansas), que comenzó a ofrecer nuevas bases de datos el 1 de agosto de 2026.

Access to many of the databases in Explora ends in 2026.*

Explora is 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

*Many of these resources are made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed in August 2026. Explore a variety of new offerings in the Gale General OneFile and ProQuest Research Databases.

Gale Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from over 19,000 scholarly journals, leading U.S. and international newspapers and multimedia resources. Explore areas of study such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science and psychology. Designed for academic research.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale General OneFile provides millions of articles from general-interest magazines, journals, newspapers and reference sources with full-text articles and audio content spanning decades to present day. Explore a variety of topics such as careers, computers and technology, education, health, history, news and current events, personal finances and taxes, and self-help and improvement. Designed for general research.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale Primary Sources features one-stop searching across a selection of digital archive collections. Archives cover a variety of national and global topics through digitized historical artifacts such as books, manuscripts, letters, newspapers, photographs, maps and more. Explore 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.

Gale In Context: High School provides topic overviews, primary sources, news and journal articles, biographies, critical essays and multimedia on thousands of subjects including literature, science, history, humanities and social sciences. Content from reputable sources aligns with national and state curriculum standards. Includes tools for notes, highlights and citations to support papers, projects and presentations.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale OneFile: High School Edition includes magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Issues & Controversies provides 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.

The Kansas City Star Image Edition offers full-page digital replicas of the print version of The Kansas City Star plus select subscriber-only content. 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.

The daily paper is posted once received from the publisher. The Library cannot provide direct access to The Kansas City Star website or mobile app, but much of that content is available in NewsBank's Kansas City Star Collection including expanded Edition coverage. Learn more about digital access to The Kansas City Star »

Service provider: NewsBank

This online resource is no longer available. Try LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Brainfuse JobNow, and Peterson's Test & Career Prep.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

Lightbox offers 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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale Literature (includes Gale Literature Resource Center) and Gale Books and Authors.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

Gale Literature features 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
• New! Gale Literature Resource Center
• LitFinder
• New! Scribner Writer Series
• Something About the Author
• New! Twayne's Author Series

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

Gale Literature Resource Center provides up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews and reviews on writers from all eras.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale In Context: Elementary, Gale In Context: Middle School and Gale In Context: High School.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

MasterFILE Complete provides full-text articles from large collection of popular magazines and journals covering an extensive range of topics for general and specific interests. Also includes reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags and videos from the Associated Press. Articles are assigned a Lexile measure to estimate reading and interest level.

Service provider: EBSCO

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

Gale In Context: Middle School features a variety of non-fiction information in books, images, audio, video, newspapers and primary sources. Images and brief descriptions guide research into subjects like cultures, geography, government, literature, science, social issues, U.S. history, world history and many more, and content aligns with national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 8 in English language arts, social studies and science. Includes tools for notes, highlights and citations to support information and digital literacy skills.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Gale In Context: Middle School.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

NewsBank Hot Topics covers 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

In addition to online resources from Johnson County Library, the State Library of Kansas also provides a variety of digital resources. Many can be accessed with a Johnson County Library card, but some require or work best with a Kansas Library eCard. Kansas residents and other eligible individuals can visit any of our branches to register or renew your Kansas Library eCard »

Explore the online resources below or visit the State Library's overview of resources for Kansans for the most complete and current list of digital offerings in its collection. Depending on the resource, use your Kansas Library eCard to login directly or first login to the State Library's eCard website to access resources organized by audience age and by topic.

Digital Books

Most digital books can be accessed on the websites linked below or on corresponding mobile apps, if available.

Britannica Collective
Non-fiction eBook collection for Pre-K to 12th grade readers covering a range of popular, specialized and curriculum topics. Some Spanish titles available. Titles are always available with no limits.

CloudLibrary
Digital books, available as eBooks and audiobooks. Content for all ages, from popular authors, large publishers and bestsellers. Users can place holds, checkouts are for 21 days with renewal option if no holds and a limit of 10 titles at time.

Comics Plus
Full catalog, juvenile to adult tiles in comics, graphic novels and manga. Titles are always available, checkouts are for 7 days. Explore collections geared toward children (ages three to 14), elementary (Pre-K to 5th grade), middle school (3rd to 8th grade) and high school (6th to 12th grade).

Freading
Access 200,000-plus titles from leading publishers of a vast selection of genres and languages. All titles are always available, checkouts are for 14 days and a limit of 5 titles per week with unused checkouts carrying over for up to four weeks.

Vooks
An exciting reading experience to enjoy storybooks with unique animation, sound and narration. Includes classic and award-winning titles. Titles are always available with no limits. Access through website browser.

Databases

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume 1 and Volume 2
Searchable collection containing real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Nursing and Mental Health in Video
Training resources for medical professionals to understand, assess and manage mental health issues that often present themselves alongside physical conditions.

Nursing Education in Video: Second Edition and Third Edition
Up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills.

Psychological & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

Psychological Experiments Online Guide
Multimedia collection on the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, for students and scholars.

Sage Data Foundations
An all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study.

Sage Knowledge
Access academic and reference resources plus books on government, politics, history and current affairs.

Social Work Online
Pairs recently published social work textbooks with compelling documentaries, clinical demonstration videos and lectures.

Publications and Articles

Use the Journal Finder tool to determine if the State Library of Kansas provides electronic access or owns a print copy, find which other libraries may have print copies, and order copies of articles that can be sent directly to you. Includes journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and other items published more than once per year.

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test & Career Prep provides information and tools to take practice tests, identify scholarships, find colleges and graduate schools, explore careers, create resumes and prep for vocational and U.S. citizenship exams.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series features original scholarly essays on authors from around the world and places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Issues & Controversies and NewsBank Hot Topics.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.

Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series provides in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers and includes influences of literary movements.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale In Context: U.S. History provides information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

Gale In Context: World History provides information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

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

This online resource is no longer available. Try Access World News and NewsBank Hot Topics.

This resource was made available through the State Library of Kansas, whose database collections changed Aug. 1, 2026.