Awesome Stories is an amazing collection of on-line materials, primary sources, and even sound and video clips designed to enrich students' understanding of various topics in history. The site is searchable and is organized into broad topics that the user can browse for a more specific listing. Topics range from natural disasters to wars, movies, and even religion and famous trials.

Bridges is an online database of incredible information relating to careers, college majors, and even volunteering activities. You can take an online quiz to give you an idea of what careers may be good for you. This site even helps you choose college majors based on how well you do in subjects at school or based on your outside interests.

offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information.

Contains thousands of full-text poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. Literary criticism can also be found here. you can search by author, title, nationality, or even genre.

Social issues database which gives facts and arguments for both sides of an issue. Great for research papers and/or debate.

Access to Gale reference sources on literary criticism, biographies, history, science, and multimedia. Includes full-text articles from Gale reference books and a number of newspapers and magazines, too. Helpful for almost ANY class! Links to websites that have been evaluated by Gale are also included.

SIRS provides an overview, pro/con, analysis guide and various resources on leading controversial issues. Includes magazines & newspaper articles, web links, editorials, primary sources, government documents, graphics, & reference pieces.

The database includes information on the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Great Athletes, Ancient World, Renaissance, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Lives, Incredibly Wealthy and Notorious Lives. The print versions of these series can be found in the library reference section.

This database includes Masterplots, Critical Survey of Long Fiction, and Critical Survey of Poetry. The print version of this series can be found in the library reference section.

This database includes Genetics and Psychology and Mental Health. The printed versions of the series are available in the library reference section.

This database provides maps, statistics, background information, the political organization, and social customs of 190 countries. The Kids Edition includes reports on 68 countries tailored to the needs of younger students.

Discovery Education Streaming gives access to a rich collection of more than 50,000 video segments from among 5,000 full-length educational videos from Discovery School and other award-winning producers.

Includes Discovering Collection, Business & Company ASAP, Business & Company Resource Center, and Kids InfoBits.

Online encyclopedias including Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People, and America the Beautiful.

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in kindergarten through grade 5. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This is funded by MoreNet.

Online map resources for the classroom. Database provided by the social studies department.

Learning Express Library is designed to help people succeed on the tests they must pass to gain citizenship, improve their testing skills or to further their education or career. Over 300 online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and much more. Test preparation materials span ages from elementary through adult. This testing resource also provides instant scoring and customized feedback.

NewsBank provides the full text of news features and more from Missouri publications such as the Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A selection of other news sources are available.

Engaging author programs and k-12 book resources.

This database provides real-world applications in many curricular areas. Database provided by the social studies department.

The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.

HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework, and assignments. You can browse lessons or complete courses and find help with topics covered in popular textbooks. This is funded by MoreNet.

A variety of reference resources are available from EBSCO including popular and academic periodicals and a variety of research resources. These are funded by MoreNet.

Full text of popular elementary school magazines, including Encyclopedia of Animals and Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia. This is funded by MoreNet.

The world’s largest online family history resource — including historical records such as census records, birth and death certificates, immigration and military records, photos, stories, and family trees. This resource paid for by the social studies department. Home access is not available.

Covers the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. Provided by MORENET.

A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Funded by MoreNet.

A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other source.

Designed for users in elementary or middle schools. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.

Nonfiction Book Collection, magazine and journals, newspapers, and Science Reference Center.