Research Databases for Teens

Home Use Databases:

  • Britannica Middle
    Find fast answers and homework help, explore videos and articles on famous people and places, and discover maps, photos, and illustrations for school projects.
  • Britannica High
    Get quick facts and in-depth information on a wide variety of subjects, start research projects with multiple resources in one place, and find multimedia to use in projects and presentations.
  • Britannica Academic Edition
    World Atlas: Search thousands of maps, flags, articles and statistics in this interactive World Atlas. Compare Countries: A unique geography tool that gives you quick facts and statistics on any two countries side-by-side. World Data Analyst: Comprehensive statistics on every nation of the world. Perform statistical comparisons between countries or explore changes over time.
  • Tutor.com
    Provides help with math, science, social studies or English on a kindergarten through college level.
  • Gale in Context: Middle School (Gale Cengage Learning/Novel NY)
    Contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources, and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.
  • NovelistA readers’ advisory database with full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles. Searches can be made for children’s, young adult and adult levels.
  • Novelist K-8Children’s fiction recommendation resource with read-alikes, discussion guides, reading lists, and more for Elementary and Middle School Students.

Library Use Databases:

  • Britannica Middle
    Find fast answers and homework help, explore videos and articles on famous people and places, and discover maps, photos, and illustrations for school projects.
  • Britannica High
    Get quick facts and in-depth information on a wide variety of subjects, start research projects with multiple resources in one place, and find multimedia to use in projects and presentations.
  • Britannica Academic Edition
    World Atlas: Search thousands of maps, flags, articles and statistics in this interactive World Atlas. Compare Countries: A unique geography tool that gives you quick facts and statistics on any two countries side-by-side. World Data Analyst: Comprehensive statistics on every nation of the world. Perform statistical comparisons between countries or explore changes over time.
  • Tutor.com
    Provides help with math, science, social studies or English on a kindergarten through college level.
  • Gale in Context: Middle School (Gale Cengage Learning/Novel NY)
    Contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources, and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.

We also have an additional listing of other online databases.