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Homework Help
Looking for information to help with homework assignments? The library subscribes to a wide range of excellent resources! You just need to use your DBRL library card to gain access to an amazing amount of great information! Below are our best subscription resources to help with schoolwork.
Authors & Books
Books & Authors
Find a new author or a whole new series tailored to your reading taste. Can limit search to young adults or children.
Literature Resource Center
Critical essays and biographical information on more than 120,000 authors. Can limit search by “target audience” (including children).
LitFINDER
Search for poetry, stories, essays, plays and speeches
NetLibrary
Online collection of 22,500 eBooks and 1,600 downloadable audiobooks through NetLibrary. (To use this service, you will need to Netlibrary at one of the DBRL libraries in Ashland, Columbia or Fulton.)
Novelist
Search for works by a favorite author, readalikes and book discussion guides.
General Research
AccessScience
McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Biography Resource Center
Biographies on more than 340,000 people.
CultureGrams Online
CultureGrams Online offers World, Kids, Canadian Provinces and U.S. States editions in which you'll find maps, statistics, photo galleries, famous people and recipe collections.
Discovering Collection
Search reference works and magazines on a wide range of topics relevant to student research. Can limit search by basic or intermediate reading levels.
Kids InfoBits
For students from Kindergarten through grade 5. Includes more than 100 full-text age-appropriate magazines; dictionary; maps, flags and seals; more than 6,400 searchable images.
InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school studes, this database features full-text titles that support school curriculm; World Almanac; and other full-text general interest titles.
InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students, this database has more than 1,200 titles and nearly 9 million articles.
World Book Online Reference Center
Every article from the print encyclopedia enhanced with state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, and more. Includes Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids and World Book Reference Center.
Magazines & Newspapers
EBSCOHost
Provides full text and images from a wide range of general interest magazines.
InfoTrac
Provides full text and images from a wide range of general interest magazines.
InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school studes, this database features full-text titles that support school curriculm; World Almanac; and other full-text general interest titles.
InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students, this database has more than 1,200 titles and nearly 9 million articles.
NewsBank
Full text articles from over 600 American newspapers, including the Columbia Daily Tribune, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune and New York Times.
SIRS Researcher
General reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
Practice Tests & Exercises
Learning Express Library
Learning Express provides test preparation materials for elementary through adult level. Also includes sections useful for Elementary School, Middle School, and High School Skills Improvement, with diagnostic tests and practice exercises as well as math, reading comprehension, and writing courses.
Printable version