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Britannica School, a safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for Elementary, Middle, and High School. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.

Gives researchers access to complete, credible, and up-to-date content. Dozens of powerful research platforms to put vetted sources right at the users’ fingertips.

Contains more than 70 years' worth of authoritative, sole-source content. Known for their unprecedented depth of coverage, the subject-specific databases cover a wide range of core-curriculum subject areas, from history, science, literature, and careers to geography, health, issues and controversies, current and archival news, teacher handouts, and more...

Robust Interactive eBooks give students a safe place to explore and create. With leveled informational text, audio narration, text highlighting, and rich media hotspots featuring videos, charts, and maps, each book is a new adventure. Optional content creation tools guide students in creating their own blog, writing an email, creating a wiki page, and more...

A content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.

educational video, game, and activity site for students in kindergarten through third grade. The main page is divided into math, reading and writing, science, social studies, health, and arts and technology.

Play games, watch videos, learn about animals, and places, and get fun facts on the National Geographic Kids

The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institution...

A free research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, or anyone interested in the Empire State’s history. A collaborative project of the NY3R councils, New York Heritage contains historical photos, newspapers, maps, letters, and more from libraries, archives, and cultural organizations all over New York State.

The NYS Historic Newspapers website provides free indexed access to selected historical newspapers from across the state. Created by the Northern New York Library Network on behalf of the Empire State Library Network, the site contains images of newspapers that were scanned, processed by an optical character recognition program, and converted to searchable PDFs, creating an easy way to search. The site uses the user-friendly Chronicling America platform, allowing for advanced searching and browsing capabilities. Currently the site holds over 520 newspapers, with more than seven million pages and counting.

Access information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from your desktop by logging on to NOVELny—the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library. A wide variety of resources − books, magazines, newspapers, research and reference sources and more are available to New York State residents with NO FEES 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Literacy standards which encourage students to be thinkers, explorers, and citizens and outlines the essential steps of inquiry: connect, wonder, investigate, construct, express, and reflect.