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Encyclopedias and general knowledge

Research famous artists, find out where their art is exhibited, and more.

View details on ArtCyclopedia
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The New York Public Library provides access to hundreds of digitized maps.

View details on Atlases of the United States
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This free online encyclopedia provides articles and images on a variety of subjects.

View details on Britannica
Open access

The Census Bureau distributes data it collects via censuses and surveys on its this website.

View details on Census Data
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The DPLA site provides acess to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and more.

View details on Digital Public Library of America
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This database provides online access to popular reference books. Titles included are the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media and the Encyclopedia of Associations.

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View details on Gale Directory Library
Library funded

More than 200 reference titles are now available online. These cover a wide range of topics, including travel to all areas of the world. Make this your new go-to spot for general… more

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View details on Gale eBooks
Library funded

Includes hundreds of eBooks. This is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

View details on Gale eBooks
Library funded

Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of… more

View details on Gale General OneFile
Library funded

Gale In Context: High School provides:

  • A database of 18,000 topic overviews, 29,000 biographies, and over 13,500 pieces of literary criticism
  • 8 million full-text… more
View details on Gale In Context: High School
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Created with the middle-school and high school student in mind, Research in Context combines reference content with videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.… more

View details on Gale In Context: Middle School
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This periodical database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current… more

View details on Gale OneFile: High School Edition
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Full-text coverage of 1000 of the most searched magazines including Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vogue, Business Week and much more.

View details on Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines
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Newspaper and magazine articles from almost all our Gale online resources plus Gale Virtual Reference Library, searchable with one search. Full-text coverage of 1000 of the most searched… more

View details on Gale Power Search
Library funded

This non-profit has an archive of web pages, books and texts, audio recordings and live concerts, videos, television news programs, images, and software programs.

View details on Internet Archive
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Kids InfoBits is designed to serve two distinct groups: children in kindergarten through grade two, and the more research-savvy kids in grades three through fi ve. It contains full-text… more

View details on Kids Infobits
Library funded

Access definitive, authoritative information about the State of Oregon, including significant places, culture, institutions, events, and people.

View details on Oregon Encyclopedia
Open access

The PCL Map Collection includes more than 250,000 maps, a portion of which has been digited for free online access.

View details on Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
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This site is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

View details on Wikipedia
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This search engine answers factual queries by computing the answer from curated data.

View details on Wolfram Alpha
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