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Academic Search Elite »

Scholarly collection providing full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.

Basic Software Tutorials »

This resource allows individuals to learn about commonly used software applications and operating systems at their own pace and level.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition »

Contains searchable full text for more than 2,450 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition »

Contains searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary Edition

Contains searchable full text for more than 1,300 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics and more.

Business & Company Resource Center »

Source for business, company and industry information. Locate company profiles, periodical articles, financial data, market research as well as up-to-date stock and financial information.

Computer and Internet Basics »

Computer and Internet Basics break down computing fundamentals into easy-to-follow mulitmedia tutorials, allowing patros to learn how to use computers and get online quickly and easily.

Consumer Health Complete

A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.

Discovering Collection »

Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements make it easy for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

ERIC

ERIC provides citations to education literature and resources.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

 

Job & Career Accelerator »

This job and career resource provides an online resume and letter building tool with hundreds of occupation specific examples; a database of job and internship opportunities; over 1,000 occupational profiles; personalized career guidance testing; ability to save work in a job search portfolio; and integrates with practice tests available in LearningExpress Library.

Kansas City Star (1991-current) »

The Star provides coverage of national and local news, business, sports and features. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Kids InfoBits

Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age appropriate, curriculum related magazine and reference content.

MAS Ultra - School Edition

This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Includes biographies, primary source documents, reference books and an image collection.

MasterFILE Premier

Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.

Medline

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical citations on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Middle Search Plus

Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also contains biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, reference books and an image collection.

Newspaper Source

Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Online Practice Tests (LearningExpress Library) »

Over 300 online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and much more. Test preparation materials span ages from elementary through adult. This testing resource also provides instant scoring and customized feedback.Click here for a complete list of tests.

Primary Search

Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.

Professional Development Collection

A comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world that includes full text for nearly 520 high-quality education journals.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1988-current) »

Provides full-text coverage of local St. Louis, state, national and international news, including community events, schools, politics, local companies, state industries and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Science Reference Center

A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content.