Britannica Student Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Britannica Student contains relevant information for upper primary and high school students, and features Important People, Big Events, Highlight Material and a children's international news feed.

Britannica Junior Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Britannica Junior is suitable for younger students, with thousands of shorter articles covering subjects for educational learning and fun. Features include an Activity of the Day, Animal of the Day and Featured Spotlights.

This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.

Student Resource Center 3.0

This American database provides reference content for their core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies at a primary school level.

History Resource Center: World

From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals. Search by person, subject, time period or publication as well as keyword.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues such as abortion, religion, drugs in sport and terrorism. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

Student Resource Center 3.0

The Student Resource Center - College Edition provides an expansive collection specifically designed to meet the needs of American secondary students, but with subject headings such as Literature, geography and cultures, history, science and health, and a multimedia gallery there are plenty of resources relevant to New Zealand students.

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.


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