ABC-CLIO
Provides rich, interactive content to support the High School History and Social Studies curriculum.
Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive
A primary source database from the Associated Press that includes photographs, sound bites, graphics and
text spanning over 160 years of history.
See Users Guide and Teachers Guide for search tips and teaching strategies
Bookflix
An online literacy resource pairing classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction
eBooks from Scholastic, to engage young children, reinforce early reading skills, and introduce a world of
knowledge and exploration.
See the Bookflix Program Overview for more information.
See Bookflix Community to sign up for training sessions or to receive the Bookflix e-Newsletter.
BrainPOP
Over 600 movies for grades 3-12 designed to spark curiosity. Includes interactive quizzes for assessment
and enrichment materials like experiments and creative activities to supplement the movies.
See Brainpop Educators for lesson plans, video tutorials, and other tips
Brainpop Webinars are also available, or see theBrainpop Newsletter for current, seasonal uses of Bookflix.
Capstone Publishers
Offers nonfiction for beginning, struggling, and reluctant readers in grades preK-8.
Capstone Interactive Library provides a technology-based approach to help preK-grade 8 students practice
reading and learn vocabulary and pronunciation skills.
PebbleGo, designed specifically for emergent readers, enables your K-3 students to research their favorite
animals using a databases created just for them.
CERF
(Curriculum & Education Resource Finder)
A collection of 400,000+ pre-screened websites for K-12 students that align with Common Core Curriculum
Standards. Websites include a variety of media and news sources appropriate for students at every grade
level.
See CERF Features Tour for more information
Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
An acquisition, research and reference service that offers more than 1,400,000 MARC records and more than
300,000 reviews of children’s books – all full-text searchable from 36 review sources.
See CLCD Newsletter for tips and news on additional features
CQ Press
Offers resources covering American politics, federal and state government, American institutions, campaigns
and elections, current events, and world affairs
Ebsco
Numerous databases supporting K12 instruction across all curriculum areas and grade levels, including
comprehensive core collections of full-text resources.
See Ebsco's Customer Success Center for tips on promoting Ebsco resources
See Ebsco's Tutorials for product training.
Facts on File
Subject-specific resources offering in-depth coverage, with extensively hyper-linked full-text records,
citation information, and a wide range of printable teacher resources. Notable resources include Curriculum
Resource Center, Blooms’ Literary Reference Online, and Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center. Please note:
Facts on File and Facts on File News Service (including World News Digest, Issues and Controversies, and
Today’s Science) are once again under the common ownership of Infobase Publishing.
See Resource Center for training and technical information
Flocabulary
Flocabulary creates hip-hop music and curricular materials to teach academic content in grades K-12.
Subscriptions include a Week in Rap video every Friday, summarizing the week's events. More information
their award-winning research-based program can be found at The Word Up Project
Gale Cengage
Subject specific resources, reference collections, and eBooks, plus comprehensive collections targeted for
specific grade levels.
See Gale's Support page for training materials, tip sheets, search widgets, and other support resources,
including a calendar of web-based training.
Maps101
More than 4500 easy-to-print maps, over 200 K-12 lesson plans, daily and weekly current events articles,
videos,up-to-date World and U.S. Reference Atlases, educational quizzes, and games.
Newsbank offers a wealth of national and international news sources, plus curriculum support, enabling
school libraries to provide students and teachers with convenient access to, and user-friendly searching of, unique
news and information comprised of primary sources published around the world.
NoodleTools
Innovative software that guides students through the entire research process, teaching how to search
effectively; assess the quality of results; record, organize and synthesize information; and format a
bibliography in MLA or APA style. See theNoodleTools home page for links to userguides, tutorials, a
Curriculum Collaboration Toolkit.
ProQuest
A growing family of K12 educational resources that support information literacy and instructional needs of
students and teachers across all curriculum areas. The ProQuest family of products includes SIRS, eLibrary,
and Culturegrams.
Training and support: for webinars and self-paced instructional videos.
A variety of Newsletters give tips on using ProQuest resources in instruction.
Rosen Publishing
Provides students with comprehensive, award-winning curricular support and self-help tools on topics
including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
See Librarian/Educator Resources for training, webinars, and lesson plans.
Scholastic Grolier
Authoritative, age-appropriate research and learning resources, with two learning environments, eight
curriculum-aligned databases, and over 500,000 links to academically relevant articles, web sites,
periodicals, and media. Educator support includes lesson plans aligned to standards, debate topics from
Grolier’s acclaimed Pro/Con series, and Teaching This Week’s News.
GO University Online training webinars are available.
Tumblebooks
Includes TumbleBook Library, an online collection of animated books that foster a love of reading in younger
students; and TumbleReadables, a collection of read-along chapter books for Elementary, Middle and High
School students
Turnitin
(iParadigms, LLC)
Web-based solutions to find and prevent student plagiarism. Turnitin is currently introducing Turnitin2,
which integrates plagiarism prevention, paperless grading, and peer reviewing into a single interface.
Current Turnitin and WriteCycle users can access the Turnitin beta2 version beginning August 23, 2010. Log
into your account for more information. See the TurnitIn Help Center for training and help articles
Visual Thesaurus
An interactive dictionary that creates word maps, allowing students to discover meanings and develop better
vocabulary in a visually captivating display. Visual Thesaurus is aligned to the Common Core Curriculum
Statndards, and supports the Common Core's emphasis on vocabulary infused instruction.
World Book
A suite of online reference and research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections,
educator tools, and student activities presented in easy-to-navigate and age appropriate collections.
See World Book Training for tips and web tutorials.