These databases provide good resources to get topic ideas or background information on a topic. Click on a database name to search it.
High School students will find magazine articles, biographies, primary source documents, and reference books such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Includes photos, maps, and flags.
Middle and junior high school students will find charts, tables, graphs, full-text reference books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, and book reviews from general readership magazines.
Search hundreds of scholarly, subject-specific reference titles in many topic areas, including the arts, business, education, history, the sciences, technology, literature, and the social sciences. Excellent for in-depth overviews of terms or concepts. Search individual e-books or whole collections.
QuickSearch combines results from many search tools for you to review in one list. Results come from the Wright State catalog and hundreds of library databases including all of our Ebscohost databases, JSTOR, the Web of Science, and others.
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