Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Through this service, you can find more than 118,000 articles, updated and revised by Encyclopedia Britannica editors and contributors; over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 215,000 entries--including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus .

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Long a standard in school, academic, and public library collections, the Encyclopedia Americana is now available on the World Wide Web, blending the depth and accuracy of the print edition with the currency expected of an online reference work. Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and curriculum topics. Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can be used either as a stand-alone source of current information on almost any topic or as a guide to the resources of the World Wide Web.

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is published by Grolier Online, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc. Scholastic Library Publishing is a division of Scholastic Inc. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staff.

Grolier Online Passport, created for older students and adults, still provides quick and easy access your encyclopedia databases.

The new GO Atlas is an interactive, educational atlas that can be used to browse through geopolitical maps, as well as to photos of many points of interest. The user may also navigate between map types, moving from geopolitical to thematic, historical, and exploration where these exist, and they may now search maps for specific locations. Longitude and latitude information is also available for all major cities, as is a distance calculator, which provides mileage calculations (as the crow flies).

For Educators. The goal of this feature is to create a centralized area where educators can find professional development resources, as well as resources to help them better utilize Grolier Online in the classroom, library, and media center.

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

The New Book of Knowledge is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., from The New Book of Knowledge database, a 7-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial staff. NBK was engineered by Grolier Interactive.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Searchasaurus is EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools. Complete with erupting volcanoes, dinosaur guide and compass, Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. They will be riveted by the colorful, animated interface as they gather information on a wide range of topics. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for young patrons to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.

EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 750 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 92,700 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

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An online collection of animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games, and teacher resources.

World Book Research Librariestakes users to a another part of the World Book Online Reference Center containing a collection of research libraries. The libraries form a huge collection of original source material and the works of great thinkers and writers. The content of the libraries provides great research support for students using the World Book Online Reference Center. There are libraries in the areas of World History; U. S. History; Social Science; Science and Mathematics; Political Science and Law; Philosophy and Religion; Literature; and Language. Subscribers may have access to all eight libraries, or to various combinations of libraries. Each collection has constant access to its own help file.