(Gale In Context) Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking information on the world's most influential people, allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

(EBSCOhost) Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.

    (Gale In Context) Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues with continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

   (Infobase) Classroom Video on Demand is high school level video content spanning the core subject areas, including Business and Economics, Family and Guidance, Health and Nutrition, Literature and Language Arts, Science and Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Archival Films and Newsreels.

(Web) Unsplash.com Free photos gifted by a worldwide community of photographers.

(EBSCOhost)  Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

(GALE, html text only)  The Christian Science Monitor Full text coverage 12/19/1996 to current with two day embargo. Searchable.

(GALE, html text only)  The New York Times Full text coverage 1/1/1985 to current. Searchable.

(GALE, html text only)  Tehran Times (Tehran, Iran) Full text coverage 1/3/2014 to current with two day embargo. Searchable.

(Web)  Pew Research Center   "Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. [They] conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions" ("About", pewresearch.org).

  (Gale)  Twayne's Authors Series is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements.

    (Gale In Context) World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History, with content from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

(Web, CIA Library)  World Factbook   Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. 

(Web, UNESCO)  World Heritage Sites Interactive Map  Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world’s heritage.

(Web)  World101 - From the Council on Foreign Relations.  Understand the issues, forces and actors that shape the contemporary world.

(Web) Google Earth -  An online, interactive globe with a world of possibilities.

    (Gale In Context) U. S. History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. history. Includes reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

(Web) Congress.gov makes federal United States legislative information freely available to the public. Contains legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present, member of Congress profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present, and selected member profiles from the 80th through the 92nd Congresses (1947 to 1972).

(Britannica)  Annals of American History provides access to over 2,000 primary source documents dating back to 1493, includes speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, poems, song verses, and more.

(Web)  Interactive WWI Timeline presented by the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

(Web, University of California)  Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,175,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.

(Web, UC Riverside)   California Digital Newspaper Collection is a remarkable full text, hi-res image database of dozens of late 19th-- and early 20th century newspapers from California towns and cities.

    (Gale via the Peninsula Library System.  Login info here.) Archives Unbound provides primary source material in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, global affairs and colonial studies, and modern history. Broad topic clusters include Black American studies, First Nations studies, Asian studies, British history, Holocaust studies, LGBT studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle East studies, political science, religious studies, and women’s studies. 

   (GALE Literature: Scribner Writer) The Books of the Bible contains discussions of the writings found in the Old and New Testaments. Provides interpretive essays that deal descriptively with the content, purpose, and theological perspective of each book of the Bible. Primary emphasis is on the Bible as literature.

(Web) Open Access Digital Theological Library collections are composed primarily of books and articles. The collections are ecumenical, global, and interreligious and include materials in all languages.

(Web) Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life  "The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research" ("About Pew Research Center," www.pewforum.org/)

(Web) Directory of Open Access Journals (Philosophy, psychology and religion) is "a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material" ("About DOAJ," www.doaj.org/about).

(EBSCOhost)  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 too for education researchers of all kinds.

(EBSCOhost)   Education Research Complete Designed for educators, administrators, and those seeking professional development resources, this bibliographic and full-text database covers scholarly research relating to all areas of education.

(Open access journal)  Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) is a peer-reviewed, independently published, and open access journal devoted to advancing research, theory, and practice in the area of information literacy in education.

(EBSCOhost) Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.

(EBSCOhost) Explora provides access to multiple EBSCOhost databases, but with an easy-to-navigate interface designed for students.

(EBSCOhost) eBook Collection gives access to thousands of ebooks across dozens of disciplines and genres.

(EBSCOhost)  History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents covering both U.S. and world history topics.

(EBSCOhost)  NoveList Plus is a trusted source of expert read-alike fiction recommendations.

General, Multidisciplinary and Issue Studies

   (Gale via the Peninsula Library System.  Login info here.)  Archives Unbound is a great resource for primary source material.  Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.

    (Gale In Context)  U.S. History  is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. history.

    (Gale In Context) World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History.

    (Gale OneFile) Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.

    (Gale In Context) Environmental Studies focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.

(Proquest, Web) Black Freedom Struggle in the United States : A Selection of Primary Sources presents "primary source documents from several of the time periods in American History when the river of the Black Freedom Struggle ran more powerfully, while not losing sight of the fierce, often violent opposition that Black people have faced on the road to freedom" ("About." https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/about/.)