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World History Collection
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. ¬†Middle School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answer
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Secondary school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies
Gale eBooks
Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more!
Ebsco eBooks
Over 16,000 e-books, with a focus on nonfiction titles. Easily search for topics.
General One File
A broad collection of news articles, magazines, books, academic journals, images and video. Subjects: Careers; Computers & Technology; Education; Health; History; News & Current Events; Personal Finance & Taxes; Self-Help / Self-Improvement.

Fine Arts & Music Collection
Scholarly journals and magazines in drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Google Arts & Culture
IMSLP: International Music Score Project Library
Petrucci Music Library. Sharing the world's public domain music

LitFinder
Explore world literature and writers throughout history (ancient to current) with a wealth of literary works, including poems, short stories, speeches, and plays — with plot summaries, what the writing means, pictures, and stories about the authors.
Online Books Page
Listing over 3 million free books on the Web. University of Pennsylvania

Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
IEP: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy