High School Resources -
Printer-friendly versionElectronic Resources for High School Students
The library subscribes to many electronic resources for you!
These databases can be used to find full-text articles, quick facts, pictures, and much more. Click on a link below to see what resources are available.
All you need is your St. Charles City-County Library District card.
| Biography, & History | |
| Gale In Context: Biography Search for current and historical biographies for musicians, authors, presidents and more |
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| Business & Careers | |
| Gale Business: Entrepreneurship Key information for small businesses like financing and business planning. |
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LearningExpress Match careers to your interests. 5 million current job postings. Create and store resumes and cover letters. (For at home access click HERE) |
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| Reference USA — Job Search Combines the power of the premier business reference and research tool with the world’s #1 job site, indeed.com. |  |
| Encyclopedias | |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Search for full text articles & images and has the ability to translate articles into over 29 different languages |
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| World Book Advanced Specifically organized for high school and pre-college users,Advanced offers all of the great resources of World Book Studentplus primary source materials, World Newspapers, and thousands of informative articles. |
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| Foreign Languages | |
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BiblioEnfants (For access at home, click HERE) Practice your language skills by reading your favorite childhood books in French.
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| Biblioteca Tumble Practice your language skills by reading your favorite childhood books in Spanish. Bilingual books and Spanish videos are also available. |  |
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Mango Languages Please see our new language learning resource, Rosetta Stone. |
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| Rosetta Stone - Provides online language learning in an immersion environment, accessible anywhere and at any time on mobile and on the web. |  |
| General Resources | |
| Gale eBooks Biographies, history, health, science, art and literature, and specialized reference e-books |
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| Gale General OneFile News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, law, literature and art, politics, science, technology, and many general interest topics |
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| InfoTrac Student Edition Access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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Read It! ELL content covers a wide range of subject areas including science, math, history, culture, civics, literature and life skills. ELL articles are written specifically for English Language Learners. |
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| Literature & The Arts | |
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Includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions, plus author biographies and character analyses, full-length poems, the full text of hundreds of reference books, full-length videos of classic plays and films, and more. |
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| Newspaper, Magazines & Current Events | |
| Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints Find articles, statistics & more on popular debate topics |
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| Masterfile Premier Magazine, newspaper and reference articles, flags, maps and over 285,000 photos |
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| ProQuest ProQuest provides millions of documents from thousands of sources, covering research and subject areas like these: Arts, Business, Health & Medicine, History, Literature & Language, Science & Technology and Social Sciences |
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| Science & Health | |
| Gale Health and Wellness Magazines, journals, pamphlets and reference articles from authoritative medical sources |
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| Science Reference Center Search magazine & reference articles, experiments, biographies, images & videos on various science topics |
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| Test Preparation & Class Review | |
| LearningExpress (For access from home click HERE.) Contains test & study guides for math, reading comprehension, social studies, American history, writing skills and high school entrance exam preparation. Also tutorials on Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. |
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| Tutor.com Get help with your homework, have a paper reviewed or practice for tests. |
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| Find a Good Book to Read | |
| NoveList Plus Fiction and non-fiction titles for adults and teens. Has helpful features to help with series information, read-alikes and other book lists. Links directly to the library catalog |
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| OverDrive for Teens Download eBooks and audionooks to your computer or device with OverDrive. |
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