Encyclopedias and Research

This resource offers three separate sites for children, young adults, and older patrons. With Britannica Library, it's easy to conduct research, complete school assignments, work on special projects, or explore unique interests.

Discover all of our EBSCO databases for teens through Explora. This simple, yet powerful interface supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Discover all of our EBSCO databases for teens through Explora. This simple, yet powerful interface supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

Full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest.

Newspaper articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and the full-text from more than 1,000 newspapers in the US and around the world. This product is protected by copyright. For use by individual cardholders only.

Includes more than 25,000 World Book Encyclopedia articles, edited to suit students from grades 4 through 12 and adults. Also includes more than 1,800 tables, 100 animations and videos, 10,000 pictures, 500 maps. Has teacher's resources, current news, special reports and historical articles.