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The librarians in our John D. Ong are co-pilots of our curriculum, offering instructional sessions and top-level support with our students’ research projects. For longer projects, our students are assigned to work one-on-one with an instructional librarian, who will mentor them on how to locate, evaluate and utilize the resources available to them.

Thanks to our librarians, our students gain the necessary research skills and digital literacy so that they can locate, evaluate and effectively use information. In this digital era, knowledge is infinite, and we teach our students to do more than properly attribute and source — we teach them to be responsible custodians of information, empowering them for academic success.

Catalogs, Databases & Resources

Academic Search Premier
A multi-discipline database that has access to newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Banco De Contenido aulaPlaneta
Spanish-language database with access to articles, images, videos, animations, sounds and interactive media.

Biography Reference Bank
Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.

Britannica Online Academic
The complete encyclopedia as well as related websites, multimedia, periodical articles and more.

Country Reports
This database offers overviews of worldwide countries, including government information.

Creative Bug
This database is your go-to resource for high-quality, on-trend arts and crafts instructional videos.

Digital Theater Plus
This database offers live performances that are accompanied by a range of invaluable educational resources for illustration, explanation and critical reflection.

Digital Video Collection
This database of educational videos includes such subject areas as 19th and 20th century U.S. history turning points, astrology, biology and a wealth of other topics.

EBSCOhost All Research Databases
Provides access to over 20 databases offering periodical abstracts and full-text articles.

Ebook Central
This is an eBook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 80,000 titles.

Explora for Educators
Full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics to support educator professional development. Includes lesson plans, curriculum standards and more.

Explora for High School
Discover full-text articles from thousands of magazines, journals and newspapers.

Gale Ebooks
This is a database of ebooks - encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources - for multidisciplinary research.

GreenFILE
Collection of scholarly, government and general interest titles cover global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Full text for more than 13,000 Open Access items.

JSTOR - Scholarly Journal Archive
This database contains extensive back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s.

L'Encyclopedie Decouverte (French)
Online French language encyclopedia.

Literary Reference Center
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literature Online
Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement your library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included.

New York Times - Current
Access to the New York Times online newspaper from 1981 - Present

NoodleTools
Powerful note-taking software that promotes critical thinking and creativity combined with the most comprehensive and accurate MLA- and APA-style bibliography composer on the Web.

OverDrive
This collection provides access to popular fiction and nonfiction ebooks as well as audiobooks.

Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary is the best source to consult for meaning, pronunciation and etymology of over half a million words in the English language.

Oxford Reference
This is an ebook database containing specialized encyclopedias, almanacs and reference resources for general research.

Oxford Research
Access to full-text academic encyclopedia articles from subject-based encyclopedias covering a range of topics from science and the humanities.

Points of View Reference Center
Presents articles supporting multiple sides of current issues from which users can develop persuasive arguments and essays while developing their analytical thinking skills.

Proquest Historical Newspaper: The New York Times
This database contains the New York Daily News (1851-1857) and the New York Times (1857-2015).

Science Online
Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.

Science in Context
Provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography.

Science Reference Center
Easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.

Transparent Language Online
Log into this interactive language learning platform with more than 100 languages. Includes listening, reading, speaking and writing.

U.S. History in Context
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history and covers the most-studied events, issues and current information.

Very Short Introductions Online (VSIO)
Full-text academic introductions to and historical overviews of topics in the arts & humanities, dictionaries & reference, law, medicine & health, science & mathematics, and social sciences.

Visual Thesaurus
This database is a dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface, which helps improve vocabulary and the understanding of the English language.

World Book - Advanced
A powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.

World History in Context
Features extensive coverage of the 20th century, including the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern Middle East and Latin America.

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