Research Databases

Grades 6-12: A far better alternative to websites and search engines for students to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests
of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines,
images not found anywhere else online and videos of popular home repair projects.

Information on thousands of authors and their works.

Discover the breadth of Oxford Reference’s publishing by learning more about the titles and experts behind each distinct discipline. Select a panel to begin your research journey.

With today’s overabundance of information, and misinformation, students and researchers alike can be
overwhelmed in identifying what’s trustworthy, what’s up-to-date, and what’s accurate.

Essays on controversial subjects.

Sanborn has been creating maps since 1866—longer than any other company in the United States. We’ve been gathering information and mapping buildings for more than 140 years. Our archives contain over 1.2 million Sanborn maps containing the history of approximately 12,000 American cities and towns.

Science encyclopedias and reference books.

The perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly …

Whether wandering through the woods or the neighborhood, users can use What Tree Is It? to identify their surrounding trees by leaf or fruit. Learn more by exploring trees by name.

The Ohio snake identification guide.

Identifying flint artifacts. 

Explore more than 650 pre-made timelines with over 14,000 individual events, or create your own timelines!