Online Learning Tools
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
AtoZdatabases: Search Jobs, Businesses or Mailing Lists
The premier job search, reference, and mailing list database. The database includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business and executive profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, fining friends, relatives, and more.
Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.
This biographical database offers the in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides full-text articles, images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.
Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
Enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions on the products they are shopping for. Whether a user is looking to find the best deal on an LCD TV, or researching the top-recommended used vehicles, ConsumerReports.org provides ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
AtoZ Food America contains recipes in all course categories (appetizers, soups, salads, breads,
main courses, side dishes, desserts, snacks, and beverages) for six US regions, all 50 states, and
33 ethnic cuisines.
This resource also covers food culture for the above regions, states, and ethnic cuisines
with articles such as Classic Dishes, State Foods, Top Agricultural Products, Special Occasion
Foods, Ethnic and Geographic Influences, Special Ingredients, and Food Trivia.
AtoZ World Food is the only food database that contains traditional recipes for 174 countries
of the world in all course categories: appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main courses, side
dishes, desserts, snacks, and beverages.
This resource also covers food culture for 174 countries of the
world in six categories: National Cuisine, Regional Cuisine, Daily Meals, Dining Etiquette,
Special Occasion Foods, and Food Trivia
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports – delivering the world to you. CultureGrams helps you discover the world with concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
For Kids and Parents: CultureGrams (Kids Edition)
One-stop shopping for your research and entertainment needs. Contains full-text for thousands of popular magazines and academic journals, as well as photographs, reference books and primary source documents. Includes EBSCO’s Masterfile Premier, Academic Search Premier, Computer Source, Legal Information Reference Center, Religion & Philosophy Collection, and Military & Government Collection.
Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory
Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism
Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability
Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations.
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management
Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.
Explore a database of encyclopedias, reference sources, and travel books within the Gale eBooks platform.
Access full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, geography, science and more—all in one place.
Gale In Context: Middle School
Made specifically for middle schoolers, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
Provides grades 9–12 with standards-aligned content to help with papers, projects, and presentations, while empowering critical thinking and information literacy skills.
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Gale In Context: Global Issues
Supports global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Gale OneFile: Informe Academico
Proporciona acceso a una amplia gama de publicaciones y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués, tanto de Latinoamérica como sobre Latinoamérica.
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and writers throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text literary works and over 800,000 poetry citations as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines
Provides access to the most searched magazines focusing on current events, sports, science and health issues.
Gale's largest general-interest periodical resource allows users to find the information they want quickly, with intuitive searching that ensures they tap into quality sources.
Connects students to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. This premier periodical resource provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
You may also want to try one of the topic-specific databases, listed below, from the OneFile collection. There is some overlap between collections, but each has unique resources.
Gale OneFile: Communications & Mass Media
Gale OneFile: Computer Science
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies & Policy
Gale OneFile: Gardening & Horticulture
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
Gale OneFile: Information Science
Gale OneFile: Military & Intelligence
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies
While links to great homework resources can be found throughout this page, the resources below should be of special interest to students:
Biography
This biographical database offers the in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides full-text articles, images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.
Current Events & Issues
Supports global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Made specifically for middle schoolers, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
Provides grades 9–12 with standards-aligned content to help with papers, projects, and presentations, while empowering critical thinking and information literacy skills.
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Gale in Context: Global Issues
Supports global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Point of View Reference Center
A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview, point, counterpoint, and Critical Thinking Guide
Literature & Reading
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and writers throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text literary works and over 800,000 poetry citations as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. ... NoveList K-8 includes picture books, children's "chapter" books, children's and younger teen titles in both fiction and non-fiction.
Find something good to read with this reader’s advisory site. NoveList can help find works of fiction that suit your interests and tastes. Includes reviews, recommended reading lists, discussion guides and more. Has information on more than 155,000 fiction titles.
The TumbleBooks collection includes fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, animated picture books, read-alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), eBooks and audiobooks.
Reference Books & General Periodical Databases
One-stop shopping for your research and entertainment needs. Contains full-text for thousands of popular magazines and academic journals, as well as photographs, reference books and primary source documents. Includes EBSCO’s Masterfile Premier, Academic Search Premier, Computer Source, Legal Information Reference Center, Religion & Philosophy Collection, and Military & Government Collection.
Explore a database of encyclopedias, reference sources, and travel books within the Gale eBooks platform.
Connects students to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. This premier periodical resource provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Gale OneFile HighSchool Edition
Provides access to authoritative, reliable digital content from magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books appropriate for middle- and high-school students and covers a wide range of subjects, including science, history, and literature.
Social Studies
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports – delivering the world to you. CultureGrams helps you discover the world with concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Offers a smorgasbord of information—more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.
Gale OneFile: Gardening & Horticulture
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
Puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
LinkedIn Learning is a great place to learn about a wide variety of topics, such as technology, business/management, and design. This resource offers more 5,000, expert-taught courses, and is free to use with your library card.
This resource includes video tutorials for digital content, such as downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, Novelist Plus, TumbleBook Library, and more..
Find something good to read with this reader’s advisory site. NoveList can help find works of fiction that suit your interests and tastes. Includes reviews, recommended reading lists, discussion guides and more. Has information on more than 155,000 fiction titles.
For Kids and Parents: NoveList K-8
Points of View Reference Center™
A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview, point, counterpoint, and Critical Thinking Guide.
Rosetta Stone is an online language learning system teaching practical conversation skills for a wide variety of popular languages. With everyday dialog from native speakers, engaging interactive lessons, and a unique intuitive teaching style, Rosetta increases your ability to use, adapt and build on what you learn. In no time at all, you’ll be able to navigate all sorts of everyday situations — get directions, order a meal, make new friends — the possibilities are endless!
Provides access to Magill’s Medical Guide, 7th edition; Psychology & Behavioral Health; Milestone Documents in American History; American Presidents; American First Ladies; and Critical Survey of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Search more than 30 years of Seattle area history with The Seattle Times Integrated Collection. With coverage from 1985 – current, the Collection contains full-color newspaper pages, individual full-text articles and content only published online.
Skagit Valley Herald (2005-Current)
Articles from our local daily paper, The Skagit Valley Herald, dating back to late 2005.
Explore and research people, events and issues across Washington State. This resource contains news sources from across the state including: the Bellingham Herald, Chinook Observer, Chronicle, Columbian, Daily Herald, Daily News, Daily Record, Daily World, Kitsap Sun, News Tribune, The Olympian, Seattle Times, Spokesman-Review, Tri-City Herald, Yakima Herald-Republic and more.