Researching Informative Essays or Speeches

Source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines.

Multi–disciplinary database that provides fulltext articles and abstracts in all subject areas.

Biographical information of people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations. Includes videos.

Ebook encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Access to health information including overviews of diseases and conditions, articles, pamphlets, remedies and much more.

Create maps and reports of the United States using census data and other supplied data from a variety of sources. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

(Gale) Provides resources to popular science topics, detailed experiments from life science to technology.

Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Includes primary sources.

Provides resources that cover all areas and time periods of world history. Includes primary sources, reference and multimedia content.