ABC-CLIO
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ACB-CLIO are history and social studies databases that contain primary sources, images, biographies, articles, essays, court cases, timelines, lesson plans, activities, and quizzes. They include:
American Government
American History
United States Geography
World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society
World Geography
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
World History: The Modern Era
Academic Journals
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Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
Career Preparation
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
College Admissions Test Prep
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
College Students
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
Computer Skills
A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
Core Adult Skills
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
Elementary School Resources
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Explora is EBSCO’s research interface designed specifically for students and educators. The elementary school version highlights relevant, reliable, and age-appropriate content that’s easy and fun for young learners to search and explore.
ERIC
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ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.
Eric en Espanol
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ERIC (Centro de Información de Recursos Educativos) es una base de datos autorizada de literatura y recursos educativos indexados y de texto completo.Patrocinado por el Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación del Departamento de Educación de EE. UU., También es esencial para los investigadores en educación de todo tipo.
Explora Educator Edition
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Ensure student and educator success with EBSCO’s interface for schools and public libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
High School Advanced Resources
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Designed to meet the needs of high school students enrolled in various Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) courses, this database offers a world of knowledge for students who seek to achieve academic excellence.
High School Equivalency Center
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
High School Resource
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History teachers and students will be delighted to hear that they can have free access to two great online resources – the new Churchill Archive for Schools (freely available to all) and the complete Churchill Archive (normally available by subscription, but now free to high schools worldwide following registration).
History Reference Center
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Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
LearningExpress Library
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
MainFile
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This multidisciplinary database encompasses all aspects of academic study and general interest subject areas.
MasterFILE Complete
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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Middle School Resources
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Explora is EBSCO’s research interface designed specifically for students and educators. The middle school version features reliable content and easy-to-use functionality to help high school students conduct research.
Professional Development Collection
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Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers.
Professional Development Collection en Espanol
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Professional Development Collection es una base de datos altamente especializada de información electrónica de texto completo, especialmente para educadores, bibliotecarios profesionales e investigadores de la educación
Referencia Latina
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Esta base de datos en español de texto completo cubre una amplia gama de temas dentro y fuera de la academia. Ofrece contenido de una variedad de fuentes, incluidos libros de referencia, revistas de interés general e informes de salud.
Recursos Para Hispanohablantes
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Recursos para hispanohablantes is a part of LearningExpress Library dedicated to Spanish language speakers offering GED, American citizenship test preparation and other tools.
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Recursos para hispanohablantes es una parte de la Biblioteca LearningExpress dedicada a los hispanohablantes que ofrece GED, preparación para el examen de ciudadanía estadounidense y otras herramientas.
School Center
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A highly-acclaimed eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
Science Reference Center
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Designed to meet every student researcher’s needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
Socrates
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Socrates is a revolutionary learning platform that dynamically adjusts to the individual learning needs of each student across any educational content. Socrates creates individualized learning paths, tracks the progress of each student across thousands of categories at once, and challenges them to meet their maximum potential.
Teacher Resource Center
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A complementary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 220 peer-reviewed journals.
Teaching Books
Boulder City Library has a subscription to TeachingBooks — a website that generates enthusiasm for books and reading in our community.
Find book trailers, movies with authors, audio performances, discussion questions, and more — all great ways to engage with books together!
Student access for the Nevada State Library, Archives, and Public Records:
Username: BCLibrary
Password: BCLibrary
Educator and adult access: Click on the Educator tab and create an account with your work email.
Universal Classes
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Universal Class offers patrons a unique online education experience. With a growing catalog of over 540 courses, Universal Class is committed to providing only the most affordable and highest quality online training. Over 300,000 students around the world have benefited from Universal Class’ unique instructional technologies. With real instructors guiding the learning, engaging video-based lessons, a collaborative learning environment, graded lesson tests, certificates of achievement and Continuing Education Units available for selected courses, students enjoy an engaging and measurable learning experience that helps them master and document their educational goals.
World Book
This is the online version of the popular encyclopedia series. Find information on World Book sites created for kids and adults. The site includes:
Word Book Classroom: Early World of Learning
World Book Kids
World Book For Kids
World Book Student
World Book Info Finder
World Book Advanced
World Book Reference Center
World Book Academic
World Book Encyclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
HelpNow
. Brainfuse HelpNow™ provides differentiated learning solutions for users of diverse needs and background. Students communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph homework problems.
CollegeNow
CollegeNow assists patrons in every step of the college admissions process, making higher education more accessible and attainable for all.