Research Databases
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African American Heritage Search essential historical records for African-Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank and more. |
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Kids InfoBits Features age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. |
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Ohio History Central An evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory and history. Perfect fo anyone wanting to learn more about Ohio! |
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Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. |
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Science Reference Center For student researcher's needs, this database contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images. |
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Small Business Reference Offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books. |
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What Tree Is It? Identify common trees of Ohio using this database, which walks users through qualities of leaves and fruits and other aspects of trees. |
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What's That Snake? This program includes 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio. |
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What's The Point? A program designed to help users identify flint artifacts. |
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World Book Early Learning Books, educational activities and games, designed for young children. |
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World Book for Kids The site offers simpler navigation, thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps, and dozens of activities tied to national curriculum standards. |
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World Book Hispanica La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente. |
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World Book Online From A to Z, the world of knowledge unfolds. World Book articles are written clearly. They're concise and interesting;packed with facts. |
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World Book Spanish A comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia. Designed for native speakers, bilingual students and ESL/ELL program participants. |
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World Book Student Contains an extensive multimedia collection, including editor-selected websites, and correlations to state standards. |
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World Book Timelines Build and share timelines. Use your own events and images or add content and images from World Book. |